Fifth Season Music & Lakeshore Records will release a soundtrack album for the Apple TV+ limited series Chief of War. The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Hans Zimmer (Inception, The Dark Knight, The Lion King, Gladiator, Dune, Interstellar) & James Everingham (Apollo: Missions to the Moon, The Real Right Stuff) for Bleeding Fingers Music. The soundtrack will be released digitally tomorrow, August 1 and will be available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Also listen to the composers’ main title track below. Chief of War is created by Jason Momoa & Thomas Pa‘a Sibbett and stars Momoa himself, Luciane Buchanan, Temuera Morrison, Kaina Makua, Cliff Curtis, Te Ao o Hinepehinga, Brandon Finn, Moses Goods, Siua Ikale‘o, Mainei Kinimaka, James Udom,Te Kohe Tuhaka and Benjamin Hoetjes. The 9-part historical drama based on true events is set amidst the backdrop of the islands of Hawai‘i and tells the story of warrior Ka‘iana as he tries to unify the islands before Western colonization in the late 18th century.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (July 27, 2025)
Premiering tomorrow, July 28, is the Hulu original series The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball created by Ben Bocquelet and starring Alkaio Thiele, Hero Hunter, Kinza Syed Khan, Teresa Gallagher and Dan Russell. Xav Clarke (Wolfboy and the Everything Factory, Elliott from Earth, The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe) is composing the show’s original music. The sequel to The Amazing World of Gumball produced by Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe follows Gumball Watterson, his brother Darwin, his sister Anais, and the other quirky residents of Elmore on new adventures and will be available to stream in the U.S. exclusively on Hulu.
Premiering in the U.S. on Tuesday, July 29, is the British TV series Dope Girls developed by Polly Stenham & Alex Warren and starring Julianne Nicholson, Eilidh Fisher, Eliza Scanlen, Umi Myers, Geraldine James, Rory Fleck Bryne, Dustin Demri-Burns, Sebastian Croft, Michael Duke, Ian Bonar, Laura Checkley, Harry Cadby, Priya Kansara, Will Keen, Nabhaan Rizwan and Jordan Kouame. The show’s original music is composed by the experimental vocalist & electronic artist collective NYX. Madison Gate Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the artists’ score earlier this year when the drama premiered in the UK on BBC One. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the series, which is making its domestic debut on Hulu.
Apple TV+’s ‘Chief of War’ to Feature Music by Hans Zimmer & James Everingham
Hans Zimmer (Inception, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, The Lion King, Dune, Interstellar) has composed the main title theme for the upcoming Apple TV+ limited series Chief of War. The composer has also teamed up with James Everingham (Apollo: Missions to the Moon, The Real Right Stuff) (for Bleeding Fingers Music) to score the show created by Jason Momoa & Thomas Pa‘a Sibbett (Braven, he Last Manhunt) and starring Momoa himself, Luciane Buchanan, Temuera Morrison, Cliff Curtis, Kaina Makua, Te Ao o Hinepehinga, Moses Goods, Brandon Finn, Siua Ikale‘o, James Udom, Mainei Kinimaka, Te Kohe Tuhaka and Benjamin Hoetjes. The 9-part historical drama based on true events is set amidst the backdrop of the islands of Hawai‘i and follows warrior Ka‘iana as he tries to unify the islands before Western colonization in the late 18th century.