Control Resonant carries an original score and a set of commissioned songs, and Remedy released enough of both before launch to give the audio side a shape. The score is written by Petri Alanko, the composer behind the studio's previous paranatural work, and the marketing trailers have leaned on two named pieces of music written specifically for this game and, later in the campaign, on two licensed tracks from outside acts. The soundtrack itself is bundled with one of the editions. For a wider summary of the game, see the Overview.
Score and Composer
Petri Alanko composes the score. He has worked with Remedy Entertainment across several projects and returns for the sequel, keeping the studio's long-running sonic identity in the same hands rather than passing it to a new voice.
The first piece of the score released on its own is "Obsessive Compulsive Order", the music that runs under the announcement trailer. Remedy published it as a standalone track on June 18, 2026, credited to Alanko, which is the studio's usual pattern of letting individual cues out ahead of a full soundtrack release. As of September 27, 2026, Remedy had not published a track list for the complete score, although the Original Soundtrack is included with the Digital Deluxe Edition.
Commissioned and Licensed Songs
Four separate pieces of licensed and commissioned music appeared in the marketing published before release. The first two were written or arranged for the game; the other two are existing tracks licensed from outside acts.
Track | Credit | Where It Appeared |
|---|---|---|
Obsessive Compulsive Order | Petri Alanko | Announcement trailer, December 2025; released as a standalone track on June 18, 2026. |
Manalan Mailla | Performed by Vilma Jää; written by Teemu Brunila, Jurek, and Vilma Jää | Paranatural Manhattan trailer, premiered at Summer Game Fest on June 5, 2026; available on major streaming services. |
Omen | The Prodigy | Altered State trailer, premiered at gamescom Opening Night Live on August 25, 2026. Licensed rather than written for the game. |
My Favourite Game | The Cardigans | Launch trailer, published on September 17, 2026, one week before release. Licensed rather than written for the game. |
"Manalan Mailla" is the more unusual of the two. Vilma Jää is a Finnish ethno-pop artist, and the song draws on the Ingrian ensemble runonlaulu tradition: heterophonic choral parts, and lyrics built on alliteration and repetition rather than rhyme. Pairing a Finnish folk-rooted vocal with a trailer about a paranaturally warped Manhattan is a deliberate contrast, and it fits the studio's habit of using a strong vocal track as the spine of a reveal.
"Omen" was the first outlier. It is not original to the game and not a Remedy commission: it is an existing electronic track licensed for the Altered State trailer, which cuts the borough's combat and traversal to its rhythm rather than to the score. Its use marked the first time the marketing leaned on a track from an outside act instead of on music written for the project. The launch trailer, published on September 17, 2026, one week before release, followed the same pattern: it runs 84 seconds and is cut to "My Favourite Game" by The Cardigans. Both licensed tracks sit alongside the score rather than inside it. Remedy has not said whether "Omen" appears in the game itself, as opposed to the trailer, and the launch trailer announcement, the accompanying press release and the video description all present "My Favourite Game" as the trailer's track without saying anything about in-game use.
Upperhand, the Opening Credits Song
Finnish cello-metal band Apocalyptica contributed a new song, "Upperhand", which accompanies the game's opening credits, with Katrine from Kalandra on vocals. It was released on streaming services on September 24, 2026, the day the game launched. Apocalyptica founder Eicca Toppinen said the first version "was written as intro music for the game's opening sequence" and was later expanded into a full song with lyrics.
Zoe's Mixtape
Zoe's Mixtape is a set of six original songs written for the game with the production company Fried Music and the publisher Nordic Music Partners, released on streaming services on September 22, 2026. In the story, Dylan's Bureau handler Zoe, a keen music lover, shares some of her favourite tracks with him at key moments, and each song is tied to a particular moment in their journey. "Manalan Mailla", which debuted with the Paranatural Manhattan trailer in June, was the first single from the set.
Track | Featured Artist | Written By | Produced By |
|---|---|---|---|
Say What | No featured artist | Jurek Reunamäki, Teemu Brunila, Lucas Kihlman | Jurek |
No Chains Can Last Forever | No featured artist | Jussi Tiainen, Jean Castel, Antti Riihimäki | RZY and Jean Castel |
A World I'm Ready to Live and Die For | Costee and Frida Amundsen | Teemu Javanainen, Jussi Tiainen, Frida Amundsen | Heviteemu |
Manalan Mailla | Vilma Jää | Vilma Jää, Teemu Brunila, Jurek Reunamäki | Jurek |
Fight for Control (We Go To War) | Heviteemu | Teemu Javanainen, Teemu Brunila | Heviteemu |
Another World | Frida Amundsen and Sakima | Joona Pietikäinen, Isaac Sakima, Frida Amundsen | Skywalk |
Voice and Localisation
The game supports fifteen languages, eight of them with a full dub: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish (Spain), Japanese, Portuguese (Brazil), and Simplified Chinese. Korean, Spanish (Latin America), Traditional Chinese, Polish, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian are text and interface only. Remedy has described Resonant as the most localised game the studio has made, with Chinese and Brazilian Portuguese audio both new for a Remedy title.
Four English cast members were billed on a cast panel at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25, 2026: Sean Durrie as Dylan Faden, Courtney Hope as Jesse Faden, Frankie Kevich as Zoe De Vera, and Matthew Porretta as Dr. Casper Darling. A development diary published on September 10, 2026 added three further roles: Antonia Bernath as Emily Pope, Ronan Summers as Simon Arish, and Derek Hagen as Frederick Langston.
One structural choice affects how much dialogue there is. Dylan does not carry the constant internal narration that the first game's protagonist did; he is written to express himself out loud, in conversation, which pushes more of the performance into two-hander scenes with characters like Zoe rather than into voice-over.
Diegetic Audio and Collectibles
Audio logs appear as collectible material scattered through the Manhattan zones, in the tradition of the Bureau's recorded case files. They sit alongside the other side content. Remedy has not published how many exist or how they are grouped; this page will add that from the released game.
Console Audio Features
Remedy's September 15, 2026 rundown of the PlayStation 5 version confirmed 3D Audio support through a compatible headset. The same rundown described the DualSense adaptive triggers giving different levels of resistance per combat ability, which is a haptic feature rather than an audio one but sits in the same feature set, and a hands-on report of the review build noted that Zoe De Vera's radio chatter plays through the DualSense controller's speaker during relevant tasks. On the accessibility side, Remedy's own options write-up confirms separate volume sliders, a Hyperacusis Filter for players sensitive to certain sounds, adjustable subtitle size and backgrounds, and speaker names on subtitles; the full options set is on Assist Mode.
Soundtrack as a Product
The original soundtrack is one of the bundled items in the Digital Deluxe Edition rather than a separate purchase. Since launch, Steam has also sold a Digital Deluxe Upgrade for Standard Edition owners that adds the same bundle items, the Original Soundtrack among them. The other bundle items in that tier are a digital artbook, a starter resource bundle, an Artifact called the Untapped Artifact (Wallet), and an AWE Mission Outfit. The storefront listings note that the outfit, the Wallet and the Starter Resource Bundle unlock at the end of the first act rather than at the start of a playthrough. Edition contents are laid out in full on the Editions and Pre-Orders page.
Chinese Dub
Simplified Chinese is one of the eight languages that ship with full voice acting, and it is a first for the studio. The dub was introduced at ChinaJoy 2026 in a dedicated trailer published on the studio’s Chinese video channel on August 1, 2026, which was the first public airing of any Chinese-language performance from the game.
This is the first game from the studio to ship with Mandarin voice acting at all, so the whole Chinese-language performance is new work rather than a re-record. As of September 27, 2026, Remedy had not published the individual Chinese cast credits in a form that can be verified against an official source, so they are left off this page until it does.
Brazilian Portuguese audio is the other new dub language for a game from this studio. The remaining seven supported languages ship as text and interface only; the full split is on Platforms and Release.
Unconfirmed Details
The following were not covered by first-party material before release and have not yet been checked against the released game:
A track list for the complete score, or a standalone or physical soundtrack release. Zoe's Mixtape and "Upperhand" are out on streaming services.
Any adaptive or dynamic music system in combat, and how the score reacts to the Aberrant's form changes.
An audio description track. Subtitle sizing, speaker names, separate volume sliders and a Hyperacusis Filter are confirmed.
Whether the eight dubbed languages all use full performance capture or voice-only sessions.
This page will be updated as the studio publishes more of the score and confirms the remaining audio details.