{"id":24579,"date":"2026-02-11T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/?p=24579"},"modified":"2026-02-11T16:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:03:54","slug":"akira-yamaoka-scores-return-to-silent-hill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/?p=24579","title":{"rendered":"Akira Yamaoka Scores Return to Silent Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Akira Yamaoka has returned as composer for the latest feature in the series, \u201cReturn to Silent Hill\u201d. The film is based on Konami\u2019s classic horror video game, Silent Hill 2, and features Jeremy Irvine as James Sunderland.<br>Akira also scored the original video game and has said about his musical process for the film, \u201cI took a different approach with Return to Silent Hill: not completing emotions, not resolving things- even at the climax- and keeping a slight distance, rather than having the music \u2018embrace\u2019 the scene.\u201d Return to Silent Hill is playing in theaters now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akira Yamaoka has returned as composer for the latest feature in the series, \u201cReturn to Silent Hill\u201d. The film is based on Konami\u2019s classic horror video game, Silent Hill 2, and features Jeremy Irvine as James Sunderland.Akira also scored the original video game and has said about his musical process for the film, \u201cI took&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/?p=24579\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Akira Yamaoka Scores Return to Silent Hill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24581,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions\/24581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundtrk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}