Hollywood Records releases the 
original soundtrack from Marvel Animation’s “Marvel Zombies” available now on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and other digital platforms. The soundtrack features an original score by five-time Emmy® Award-winning, Oscar® and GRAMMY®-nominated composer Laura Karpman (“Captain America: Brave New World”), and GRAMMY®-winning composer Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum (“Regarding Susan Sontag”).
Notes Karpman and Kroll-Rosenbaum: “We loved writing the music for ‘Marvel Zombies’ The soundtrack is a scare fest from start to finish, featuring some of the wildest music we’ve ever written for the MCU. With driving electronics and large orchestra, courtesy of Vienna Synchron Stage, we quote some of your favorite themes from the movies, but they are always altered to fit the undead. Enjoy our wacky take on ‘Marvel Zombies’!”
After the Avengers are overtaken by a zombie plague, a desperate group of survivors discover the key to bringing an end to the super-powered undead, racing across a dystopian landscape and risking life and limb to save their world.
Directed by Bryan Andrews, the original animated series airing now on Disney+ features a voice cast including Awkwafina, David Harbour, Simu Liu, Elizabeth Olsen, Randall Park, Florence Pugh, Paul Rudd, Wyatt Russell, Hailee Steinfeld, Tessa Thompson, Dominique Thorne, Iman Vellani, and Todd Williams.
Listen to all your favorite music from Marvel on the official Marvel Music Playlist HERE.
Track List:
- Honor Me
- Sorry
- Zombies
- Up to You
- Night Traveler
- To the Light
- Nothing Left
- Ambush
- Norse Aggression
- Transmitter
- Helping Hand
- Little Bear
- Road Trip
- We Survive
- Almost There
- Fall Out
- Leave Them
- Epic
- Zombie Food
- Defend
- Inside Out
- Everyone Who Suffered
- Alone
- Take the Stage
ABOUT LAURA KARPMAN
Oscar® and GRAMMY®-nominated, five-time Emmy® award-winning composer LAURA KARPMAN creates powerful, imaginative scores that push the boundaries of storytelling. Her bold, incandescent work spans film, television, theater, interactive media and live performance, reflecting an audaciously creative, prodigious spirit. Karpman collaborates with some of the most renowned filmmakers of our time, including J.J. Abrams, Kevin Feige, Steven Spielberg, Cord Jefferson, Nia DaCosta, Alex Gibney, Misha Green, Rory Kennedy, Kasi Lemmons, Laura Nix and Sam Pollard.
The last two years have been especially prolific for Karpman, including the release of the top-grossing “Captain America: Brave New World.” Other acclaimed projects include “American Fiction” (Amazon MGM), written/directed/produced by Cord Jefferson, which garnered five Oscar® nominations including Best Picture, and for which Karpman received her first Oscar nomination for Original Score as well as a Grammy® nomination for Best Score Soundtrack; “The Marvels” (Marvel Studios); “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed” (Max) for which she was Emmy® nominated; “What If…?” now in its third season (Marvel Television for Disney+); and “Ms. Marvel” (Marvel Television for Disney+).
Karpman wrote the original music for the recent Max series “Duster,” created by J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan. Other upcoming projects include the animated mini-event series “Marvel Zombies,” which she scored with Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, coming to Disney+ on September 24; the series “Down Cemetery Road,” starring Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson for Apple, premiering October 29; the themes for the acclaimed documentary “Ask E. Jean,” which just debuted at the Telluride Film Festival; and a musical based on Dorothy Arzner’s groundbreaking MGM film, “Dance Girl Dance.”
Her opera, “Balls,” chronicling Billie Jean King’s epic 1973 “Battle of the Sexes”’ tennis match, will be performed by the London Philharmonic conducted by Marin Alsop on November 20 at Royal Festival Hall.
Karpman’s scores span HBO’s acclaimed hit “Lovecraft Country;” the Oscar®-winning documentary short films “The Only Girl in the Orchestra;” “Walk Run Cha-Cha” and the docuseries “Why We Hate.” Karpman was Emmy® nominated for “Ms. Marvel” and “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed,” and won an HMMA award for “The Marvels.” For her “American Fiction” score, to date she has received Academy Award®, GRAMMY, SCL, NAACP Image Award, and HMMA nominations, as well as inclusion in the 2024 BAFTA Longlist.
Other accolades include a 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from “She Rocks:” a Critics’ Choice Award for her song “Jump” (from the film “Step”), co-written with frequent collaborators Raphael Saadiq and Taura Stinson, sung by Cynthia Erivo. Her animated work includes “Sitara,” directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, executive produced by Darla Anderson and Gloria Steinem; her Annie-nominated score for “Monkey’s Tale” and three seasons of “What If…?” for Marvel Television. Her celebrated scores for interactive media and blockbuster video games include “Guardians of Middle Earth,” “Everquest 2,” “Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom” and “Kung Fu Panda 2.”
Across concert halls, Karpman is renowned for her Grammy® Award-winning album “Ask Your Mama,” a multimedia opera based on the iconic cycle of poems by Langston Hughes. For this Carnegie Hall commission, Karpman collaborated with The Roots, soprano Jessye Norman, performer De’Andre Aziza, and jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon. Other notable works include “All American,” commissioned and performed by The Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl; “Brass Ceiling,” commissioned and recorded by the U.S. Army Band; “And Still We Dream,” commissioned by Lyric Opera of Kansas City, honoring 100 years of suffrage; “Wilde Tales,” commissioned by Glimmerglass Festival, and a pandemic opera for Opera Theatre of St. Louis with libretto by Taura Stinson & Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum.
Karpman is a fierce champion for DEI in Hollywood. After founding the Alliance for Women Film Composers, she was elected the first female Governor in the Music Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. During her two consecutive three-year terms, she implemented sweeping change, facilitating the admission of dozens of underrepresented voices, co-founded the Academy Women’s Initiative, co-chaired the LGBTQ+ Affinity Group, helped to create the Code of Conduct, and updated the bylaws with more inclusive, representative language. Her leadership in creating opportunity and advocating for inclusion is unparalleled.
Karpman serves as a mentor and is on the Advisory Board for the Chanel/Tribeca Through Her Lens Program. She received a doctorate from The Juilliard School, where she studied with 20th-century icon Milton Babbitt.
She lives and works in Los Angeles with her wife, composer Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum, their son and two unruly dogs.
ABOUT NORA KROLL-ROSENBAUM
Juilliard-trained GRAMMY Award®-winning composer Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum (born New York City) collaborates with adventurous musicians and radical filmmakers on music for film, television and the concert hall. Her film and television scores include Catherine Hardwicke’s Don’t Look Deeper, Prisoner’s Daughter, and Tell It Like A Woman, Bird Karma for DreamWorks Animation, Champaign ILL for Sony, Grand-Daddy Day Care, Delicious Little Devil, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Universal, Saoirse Ronan’s Stockholm Pennsylvania, Lena Dunham’s Lenny, and Half The Picture premiering at Sundance, Powerless and The Cinema Travelers premiering at Cannes, and Nancy Kates’ Regarding Susan Sontag for HBO, among others. She co-scored Marvel’s What If and Zombies with her wife, composer Laura Karpman, and recently conducted Karpman’s score for The Marvels at Abbey Road. She has received commissions from the London Symphony Chorus, San Francisco Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Young People’s Chorus of New York City, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and fellowships from the Sundance Institute, where she has served as an advisor.
