Members of HEALTH, Periphery and Ice Nine Kills soundtrack the game Crimson Moon

Members of HEALTH, Periphery and Ice Nine Kills have contributed to the soundtrack of Crimson Moon, a new role-playing game from indie studio ProbablyMonsters, NME reported on August 4. Metal YouTuber Jared Dines is also part of the project. Ice Nine Kills guitarist Ricky Armellino, Periphery's Misha Mansoor and HEALTH worked alongside composers Chris Wilson and Steve Pardo on four original tracks written for the game's boss fights.

Crimson Moon is a gothic, high-renaissance action-adventure RPG in which players take on human-angel hybrids called Nephilim, fighting through the besieged city of Gildenarch alone or in co-op before facing three district bosses and a final world boss. NME describes the project, due out September 1 on PC, Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5, as a blood-soaked power fantasy.

"The game is an epic action RPG that brings gothic and classical elements together with heavy metal, and making these tracks was a blast," Armellino said in a statement.

The soundtrack work adds to a busy year for the three metal acts, whose boss-fight tracks arrive alongside the rest of the game on September 1.

Crimson Moon director David Lesperance said the studio built the game to be approachable and priced it with a wide audience in mind, pointing to its co-op support, gothic art design and metal-heavy score. Solo players get a full single-player run, while the official game description says co-op turns every encounter into "a shared onslaught of power and resilience."