Dark Universe soundtrack album from Epic Universe by Danny Elfman now streaming
The soundtrack for Dark Universe, composed by Danny Elfman, is now streaming on music platforms as a digital album as of Aug. 21, 2025.
The album features music from the Dark Universe world inside Universal Epic Universe, the new theme park at Universal Orlando. Though the soundtrack has been available on vinyl inside the park since May, this release marks the album’s digital debut.
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You can now listen on Spotify or Apple Music. The run time for the Dark Universe album is 40 minutes.
The Dark Universe album includes background music from within the land’s streets, shops, and restaurants, as well as score from the actual attractions.
Track listing:
- Dark Universe Fanfare
- Monstertreffen
- Open the Doors!
- Victoria’s Monster
- Experimental Trials
- Pretorius Scientific Oddities
- Henry’s Legacy
- Frankenstein Manor
- Monsters Unchained
- The Burning Blade
- The Curse of the Werewolf
- Enter the Guild of the Mystics
- Darkmoor by Night
- Das Stakehaus
- Nothing Stays Buried in Darkmoor
- Darkmoor by Day
Three tracks of music from Celestial Park, another Epic Universe world, recently released on streaming too; the full Celestial Park album will drop in 2026.
In other Dark Universe news, we spoke exclusively with creative talent behind the Epic Universe world about possibilities of Halloween in Darkmoor and an expansion to Dark Universe.
Danny Elfman talks Dark Universe album
Music for the Dark Universe album was written by film composer Danny Elfman, known for his affinity for the macabre (as well as for such famous Hollywood scores like “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” and “The Simpsons”).
Danny Elfman shared on his Instagram about his work on the Dark Universe album:
A decade or so ago when we released the 25th anniversary box set for the Music of the Films of Tim Burton, it contained a book with many interviews. In that book, director Guillermo Del Toro described me quite accurately as “a monster kid” from the generation, much like Del Toro and Burton themselves, that quite literally grew up on monsters. They were my life. I eagerly awaited the release of the magazine “Famous Monsters of Filmland” each month and cherished every page as if it were sacred text. And since I spent every weekend of my childhood at the neighborhood movie theater which played more or less every monster film made, I had plenty of fuel to keep that infatuation going.
Danny Elfman, Instagram
Years later when I became a film composer, I frequently turned to those movies for musical inspiration. The classic “Bride of Frankenstein” was definitely my favorite, but movies like “The Wolfman,” “The Creature from the Black Lagoon,” “The Thing From Another World,” and the many sci-fi films I grew up on were right up there as well.
When I got the call from Universal to work on the music to their new Dark Universe, I was, to say the least, more than up for it.
It was such a treat working on this project. Not only did I get to work with a great bunch of enthusiastic creative people, but I got to travel back to my own childhood and revisit my original inspirations. And while the attractions are all unique and original, they use characters that I have loved my whole life, such as the Universal Film Legends: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman and The Mummy, who show up at different times throughout the park experience. I felt both honored and energized to have been chosen for this wonderful project. I hope you, the listener, feel that I did it justice.
Beyond the Dark Universe album, elsewhere in the theme park world, Danny Elfman also composed for the music for Mystic Manor at Hong Kong Disneyland:
The lore of Darkmoor
Within Dark Universe at Epic Universe, guests visit Darkmoor, a present-day village scarred by generations of monstrous legends. As Dr. Victoria Frankenstein seeks to redefine her family name, another experiment goes awry and guests are along for the ride. Attractions in Dark Universe include Monsters Unchained: The Frankenstein Experiment (an indoor thrill ride) and Curse of the Werewolf (an outdoor spinning roller coaster).
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Stay tuned to Attractions Magazine for daily coverage of theme park news, trip reports from parks around the world, and exclusive interviews. For even more Epic Universe, dive into our 64-page Epic Universe souvenir magazine, now available, with touring tips, hidden details inside the park, and construction timelapse photos over time.
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