Audio Track Returns to NG26 – Jesper Kyd Headlines Day One!
After last year’s successful audio focus at NG25 Spring, Nordic Game brings back the Audio Track for NG26 Spring, kicking off Tuesday 26 May – the first day of the conference.
Flagship Session: Kyd Meets Ombler on Main Stage
This year’s first headline: Jesper Kyd, the Danish legend behind Hitman, Warhammer 40,000: Darktide, Assassin’s Creed, and Borderlands, in an exclusive NG Conversation with Mat Ombler, Head of Music & Gaming Partnerships at Laced Records. Mat and Jesper will take the main stage at NG26 to discuss Kyd’s musical journey, creative process, and scoring the cinematic grimdark of Warhammer 40,000: Darktide.
Kyd’s Iconic Sound Legacy
Kyd’s scores – from Budapest Orchestra-backed stealth noir in Hitman: Blood Money to synth-driven chaos in Darktide – have defined generations of games. His work is raw, cinematic, and instantly recognizable.
Bonus: Ombler’s Cult of the Lamb Metal Deep-Dive
In addition to the NG26 Audio Track program, Mat Ombler will present a standalone talk on Laced Records’ Cult of the Lamb metal EP, featuring Trivium, Polyphia, and Killswitch Engage – proof that game music can cross into real-world culture.
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Both sessions are not to be missed! Register now at nordicgame.com/register.
About Jesper Kyd
BAFTA award-winning Danish composer Jesper Kyd is renowned for his experimental approach to crafting unique soundtracks and creating iconic music for visual media such as the internationally acclaimed dark fantasy film TUMBBAD (Prime Video) and blockbuster video game franchises including ASSASSIN’S CREED (“Pioneer of the Assassin’s Creed musical universe” – Ubisoft), BORDERLANDS, DARKSIDERS, HITMAN, STATE OF DECAY and WARHAMMER. Constantly pushing musical boundaries and transcending genre expectations, Kyd’s latest projects include STATE OF DECAY 3, RAID: CALL OF THE ARBITER (animated series), WARHAMMER 40,000: DARKTIDE, DUNE: SPICE WARS, and several film productions currently in development.
Kyd has received top honors for his music from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Critics Choice Film Awards, Hollywood Music in Media Awards, Game Audio Network Guild as well as nominations from Billboard, CNN, MTV Video Music Awards and Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences. He was also honored with the Nile Rodgers Global Creators Award at Canadian Music Week for his innovative and unique body of work, joining the esteemed ranks of entertainment industry luminaries Spike Lee and Tony Visconti.
As the musical mentor of the ASSASSIN’S CREED and HITMAN series, Kyd’s music is regularly performed in concerts and festivals by orchestras worldwide including The National Symphony at The Kennedy Center, Danish National Symphony, Krakow Film Music Festival, Tenerife International Film Music Festival, WDR Symphony, Prague Composers Summit, ‘Symphony of the Shadows’ at Game Music Festival, Video Games Live, Game On! Symphonic Concerts, Assassin’s Creed Symphony World Tour (including US premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, home to the Academy Awards ceremony), as well as the original commission – “From The Depths of History” Overture – composed and arranged for the Assassin’s Creed Symphonic Adventure World Tour which Kyd debuted at the world premiere in Paris and the Royal Festival Hall in London.
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