Chris Rickwood and Lennie Moore split composing duties on this Pacific Theater shooter score and the result sounds like two people trying to out-somber each other in the best way. Rising Storm opens with orchestral brass that carries real weight, not Hollywood bombast but the heavy, tired kind.
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Rickwood's "Mount Suribachi" uses taiko-influenced percussion under restrained strings, while Moore's "Killing Field" goes full tension with dissonant brass swells that sit in your chest. "Sakura, Sakura" threads in traditional Japanese melody with genuine respect.
The whole soundtrack avoids glorification and leans into the grim reality of island-hopping warfare. If you think military shooters deserve scores with actual emotional intelligence, this delivers.