Ian Hultquist Ramps Up The Dread With ‘The Walking Dead: Dead City’ Season 2 Soundtrack!

October 24, 2025

Soundtracks, Scores and More Staff

Ian Hultquist (Assassination Nation) returns as series composer of AMC Networks’ “The Walking Dead: Dead City” and we’re thrilled to share the track, “Rats In A Maze (feat. Sofia degli Alessandri)” from the soundtrack!  Listen below and get more album details.  Hultquist ups the level of atmospheric dread for season two with a foundation of dark synth work, heavily distorted bass and booming drums that evoke an increasingly chaotic post-apocalyptic Manhattan. The series, starring Lauren Cohan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is streaming now on AMC+.

Notes Hultquist: Season two of Dead City is bigger and badder than the first, which meant writing a score that could follow suit. It was a great opportunity to expand our characters’ themes from season one, as well as writing some new ones. More distortion, more drums and more chaos all come into play as our story takes off. There are some incredible action pieces that take place throughout the season, which really gave me an opportunity to push my writing on the score for the show to new heights. One of my favorites is the 8-minute-long action sequence “Attack on the Hudson River.” We’ve also got a new theme for our big bad character of the season, Bruegel. It’s a mix of dark, fuzzed-out bass mixed with propulsive drum beats & melting piano notes. I’m really proud of my work on this season of Dead City, and am over the moon to be able to release the soundtrack for fans of the show to enjoy!”

The Popular AMC Networks Series, Starring Lauren Cohan & Jeffrey Dean Morgan is Streaming Now on AMC+

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Track List

01. Rats in a Maze feat. Sofia degli Alessandri
02. Lightning Bugs
03. Big Ass Walker
04. Step Up to the Walker Corral
05. Attack on the Hudson River
06. A Blue Cloth & A Byrd’s Gun
07. A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Boathouse
08. Happy Hunting
09. Higher the Risk, Higher the Yield
10. Does This Suit Make Me Look Dead?
11. Tis the Reason For the Treason
12. Bloodshirts
13. The Gallows
14. Burn the Witch
15. You Made Me What I Am
16. The Bear
17. 45th & 6th
18. Don’t Look Down
19. Head Wound Hallucinations
20. Too Much a Coward
21. A Light in the Dark
22. A Fiery Feast
23. Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Methane
24. Live Long Enough to Become a Walker
25. Ventilator
26. Not Interested in Going Back

ABOUT IAN HULTQUIST

Ian Hultquist is an American Composer & Producer currently based in London, United Kingdom. Over the past decade plus, he has made a name for himself composing the scores for numerous films, documentaries and TV shows. Ian started his career in music as a founding member of the band Passion Pit, which started in Boston, MA where he was earning a degree in Film Scoring at Berklee College of Music. He spent many years touring around the world with the band & building up his Production and Arranging skills. He also created remixes for Artists such as Portugal the Man, Imagine Dragons, and Tegan & Sara. 

In 2014 he, along with his wife & fellow composer Sofia degli Alessandri-Hultquist (aka Drum & Lace), relocated to Los Angeles in order to fully dedicate himself to working in music for film. Since then, he has created music on a global scale composing on over 50 film titles, and over 20 television shows. He has written scores for some of the most renowned filmmakers working in the medium today, such as Sam Levinson (Assassination Nation), Erin Lee Carr (How to Fix a Drug Scandal, At the Heart of Gold), Alena Smith (Dickinson) & Karen Maine (Yes God Yes, Rosaline). In 2016 Ian formed Little Twig Records, an imprint label focused on releasing soundtracks for Film & TV, and in 2020, Ian was the sole-composer named on the 40 Under 40 list for Doc NYC. Ian has composed Scores for projects for every major streaming platform, as well as major studios such as 20th Century (Rosaline) and New Line Cinema (Turtles All the Way Down). 

He most recently composed the scores for Unknown Number: The High School Cat Fish (Netflix, dir. Skye Borgman), All of You (Apple TV, dir. Will Bridges), and is currently starting on Season 3 of The Walking Dead: Dead City (AMC, AMC+). 

Watch the trailer for The Walking Dead: Dead City, Season 2:

The Walking Dead: Dead City follows the popular Maggie (Cohan) and Negan (Morgan) characters traveling into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan, long ago cut off from the mainland. The crumbling city is filled with the dead and denizens who have made New York City their own world full of anarchy, danger, beauty, and terror.

In season two, in the growing war for control of Manhattan, Maggie and Negan find themselves trapped on opposite sides. As their paths intertwine, they come to see that the way out for both is more complicated and harrowing than they ever imagined.