March saw an explosion of awesome new trailer music be released! This was the busiest month this year, with albums from Position Music, Hidden Citizens, Immediate Music...you get the general idea, so let's dive into it! As always, let me know if I missed any albums in the comments.

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Full-Length Albums

One of many albums released this past month under Position Music,is an epic hybrid rock album composed by Cliff Lin. The compositions don't get very grandiose, but the album is sure to please diehard fans of the subgenre.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Hell Fighter

Rakasha is one of two albums that was released by Jo Blankenburg in March. This album features longer, airy pieces perfect for studying or meditating, totalling to about 1.5 hours worth of music. Uyanga Bold sings on three of the pieces. Check your expectations at the door! The album has some really emotive moments and Uyanga's soulful vocals are the icing on the cake.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Flower of Life, Merkaba (but almost any track could go here)

After the success of their EP Budapest last year, IMAscore has released Reaching for the Horizon. The album features all five tracks from the EP (remastered and, in one case, remixed) and nine additional heroic and emotive tracks. Adrian Gucze, Andreas Kubler, Apollon de Moura, Eric Krause, Florian Wunsch, Jascha Heidicke and Sebastian Kubler all provided pieces for this album.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Army of Strings, One Planet (again, almost any track could go here)

This album by Philip G. Anderson is all about emotive strings and ambient surroundings, which perfectly matches the theme of the album. Give this a listen if you want some relaxing music that isn't quite as extensive as Rakasha.

Tracks to Watch Out For: From River to Ocean, Overcast, Evergreen

Different from Immediate's previous releases,was created with a smaller, intimate orchestra and is filled with emotive, beautiful pieces. Yoav Goren, Eric Tannery, Ryan Hanfil, Hiro Goto, Bartosch McCarthy, Tristan Seewer, Josué Vergara, Andrea Grant, Mateo Pascual Pascual and Justin Suttles all contributed to this album and, even if it may not contain thees that trailer music is known for, this album still has some solid pieces that are sure to please fans of Audiomachine's

Tracks to Watch Out For: Bruma, Despero, Segra, Valencia, Luxat and Frost

If you're looking for a Disney-esque album, Wonderment is the one to check out. This album features quirky pieces amidst more standard heroic ones composed by Rohan Stevenson, Amadeo Lopez, Richard Wilkonsin, Lee Miller and Caroline Gleave (among others). Though the album may not be as grandiose as, say, Worlds of Wonder, it still nails the vibe it goes for.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Life of Wonder, Wonderful Dimension, Fantasy Flight, I Believe in Magic and Enlightened Soul

Tracks to Watch Out For: This Is Our Time, Don't Look Down, Here We Stand

Released under Fearless Motivation Instrumentals,is an album with "Epic Background Music." The compositions are fairly standard, so this album would probably work best for (unsurprisingly) listening in the background, but it has its moments.

Tracks to Watch Out For: You Better Run

Composed as a soundtrack for the film of the same name (created by Marcus), this album is essentially an extended version of everyone's favorite song, though it does contain some other emotive music and a cover of Runrig'sthat make it more than just a regular soundtrack.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Seven Days Ago, An Toll Dubh, The Highlands

This album is part of a trilogy of albums released over the past few years by Melvin Tsui. With this album, the hero's journey has ended, but not without some old fashioned epic music to help send him back home!

Tracks to Watch Out For: Rebirth, Freedom to Live

is an album filled to the brim with dark, epic orchestral and it's one of the best albums released this month. Almost every composition (composed by Brandon Campbell) nails the subgenre. Buckle up for a twisted adventure through the wastelands of the apocalypse!

Tracks to Watch Out For: Every track except perhaps Testing Fate and Depths of Evil

If you were a fan of Becoming from Really Slow Motion's Miraculum album, this is the album for you. Each composition works to energize and uplift you, but fear not! There are still touches of epic hybrid in some of the other compositions as well. Max Cameron, Joseph Sporck and Benjamin MacDougall all contributed pieces to this album,

Tracks to Watch Out For: Stratus, Age of Heroes, Invictus, Honor of the Pure, Prometheus Dawn, Valor

Composed by Alexandros Nikolaidis, Citadel is actually far from the adventurous orchestral album it claims to be. From the first compoistion onward, your ears are greeted with hard hitting synths and epic hybrid. Though the clash of genre and cover can be misleading, this album does have its highlights.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Raised by Wolves, Coming Home, Warp Rider, ThunderBird

Rise Up is an epic vocal (lyriced) album, featuring such composers as Jason Tarver, Tom Greenwood, Amy Collins, Todd Burn, Chirs Dececio, Charlotte Matthews and Duy Vo. Though lyrics can be a bit standard at times, the orchestration tends to make up for it and it is still worth a listen.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Alive, This Beautiful Life, In the Dark, The Silence, Inner Strength

A bit of an old-school, less grandiose approach to trailer music is probably the best way to describe Guy-Roger Duvert's second trailer music album. The compositions range from more sound-designy to experimental, so this album may not be for everyone, but it does have its surprises, such as the tribal chanting in

Tracks to Watch Out For: Primal, Who is Your Companion, Fragmentation, Choices and Consequences, Downfall

A darker La Belle Epoque of sorts, Gothic Storm's second main album from March uses a smaller orchestra to give a musical representation for going insane. The tracks themselves accomplish this to varying degrees, with some being more sound-designy and others being perfect for a Victorian-era setting. Chrisoph Allerstorfer, Gabriel Brosteanu, Michael Holt, Ros Stephen, Ed Watkins, Amadeo Lopez and Mateja Kojadinovic all composed pieces for this album.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Pictures, Downward Spiral, Disintegration, A Fractured Mind

Composed by Gabriel Oberg, Weightless is another sparse background music album and, as such, it probably works best for its intended use as an underscore. Yet, the pieces are still fairly interesting, with the use of vocals and strings adding to the overall vibe.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Continents

Overdrive is another epic rock hybrid album that was released this month, but its much more grandiose than Nuclear Winter's, with two tracks even featuring epic choir to go along with the composition. Cody Johnson, Max Cameron, Bernard Perry and John Pregler all contributed to this album.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Nemesis, Lightspeed Overdrive, Fallen Angel, Supersonic, Tomahawk

Composed by Lisa van Hal, this album is a very trailer-oriented release, featuring compositions that start off hopeful and build up the drama before reaching the climactic end. While the theme does wear a little thin on some compositions, the album is solid and worth the listen.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Epiphany, Innocence, Dawn, Awakening, Final Act, Divine

At long last, J.T. Peterson (known for his pice "The Trailer") has released an epic and beautiful orchestral album. Recorded live at Air Studios, this album has some great pieces, even if they do occasionally cheat you out of a great build!

Tracks to Watch Out For: Many, but specifically Honor and Gold, Black Rose

Three years in the making, Tom Player's return to trailer music is...pretty awesome! This album has all the deliciously dark orchestra you have been craving for and is another of the top albums released this month. Of course, there are some tracks that are emotive and beautiful and all lend themselves very well to creating an immersive listening experience.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Bascially all, but particularly Soul Searcher and AXIS

Tracks to Watch Our For: Emotions, Overcome, Heart, Freedom, Safari

Two albums called Petrichor were released this month, but they are both very different. While JT focuses on epic orchestral, this album is more about the piano and creating a softer epic sound with it. It's a cool album reminiscent of Audiomachine's Tree of Life.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Many, but specifically Fear No Man and Human Legacy

Though technically released to the industry last year, Trailer Rebel has decided to releaseto the public. Many composers contributed to this album: Cesc Vila, Iganacio Nunes, Valentin Boomes, Fran Soto, Vivien Chebbah, Alexander Dimitrijevic, Mateo Pascual, Miguel Palafox and Tomás Kunstman. The result is a good old fashioned romp through some old-timey epic emotive stuff. If you liked Epic Soul Factory'srelease, you may like this. Celica Soldream provides the vocals for Lif-E.

Tracks to Watch Out For: Radiant, Lif-E, Dragin Flight, Deivos, Quantic Universe and Rite of Passage

Singles

An epic orchestral piece by Phil Rey, featuring backing vocals by Felicia Farerre.An emotive, beautiful piano and string piece.A heroic and adventuorous piece with many cool twists and turns!

An emotive piano piece by relative newcomer Jan Rossa.

Another emotive piano piece released the same day as Floating Away.

A cool epic piece featuring vocals. Though a bit messy, it's a promising start for this artist's solo career.

One of the better singles released by UNSECRET this past month, this epic vocal piece features Krigarè on lyrics.