As a huge fan of game music out of South Korea, Tree of Savior has always been on my radar. I loved the Tree of Savior Original Soundtrack Vol.1 release from years ago (wow, 2016!), and had wondered if Vol.2 would ever see the light of day. It seems in line with the times that the team decided to make small digital releases available over the course of 2020 and 2021, and we’re going to dig into these in no particular order. As mentioned in the review of Vol.1, the music is headed up by soundTeMP alum Sevin (S.F.A), with contributions from soundTeMP themselves and several other artists out of South Korea. The result is all around as fantastic as the original soundtrack release.

This volume opens with “Opening Po10 EDM mix,” a cool EDM vocal track by S.F.A with English vocals. This is followed by the rocking’ Hollywood western-flavored “Badge and Gun,” some serious shredding in “Striker,” and powerful choir and piano in “The Sacred Kind.” You get the sense here that these collections are somewhat eclectic in their presentation, just as Vol. 1 was, but the theme this time around is definitely a cool spin on the classic Hollywood western sound. S.F.A gets spooky with “Draconis Bellum” and goes goth rock in “Man Rapido,” while Questrosound serves up the uplifting and triumphant “End of the World.” There’s dark ambiance in “End of the Day,” some more “western” twang in “Sand in the Wind” with ethereal female vocals, Korean rap in “Somebody call me an outlaw,” English rap in “We are outlaw,” and a beautiful vocal ballad closer in “Heaven on Earth.”

In all, the June 2020 collections serves up 16 excellent tracks around this western theme that I think is a lot of fun to explore. Enjoy the album on YouTube and Steam!