Jeff Williams went so absurdly hard on this first RWBY volume that the show almost couldn't keep up. The score tracks carry this electric rock energy mixed with orchestral punches that hit way harder than you'd expect from an early web series.
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"Players and Pieces" builds through this frantic action layering that just keeps escalating, while the Emerald Forest scores settle into something more atmospheric and tense. The Ruby Rose episode score opens with that iconic guitar riff that basically defines the whole franchise going forward.
Those quiet Beacon Academy moments though. Williams and his daughter Casey Lee Williams basically created an entire sonic identity from scratch here. If you watched RWBY for the fights, you stayed for how ridiculously good this score sounds behind them.