Russell Brower

Emmy Award winning American music composer

Russell Brower is an American music composer and three-time Emmy Award-winning^[1]^[2]^[3] sound designer who has created sounds for Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Batman: The Animated Series, and video game music for games including Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising, World of Warcraft, StarCraft II, Diablo III and Arena of Valor. He was previously the Director of Audio/Video for Blizzard Entertainment, the sound designer/editor at Warner Bros. Animation and DiC Entertainment, the Audio Director at NovaLogic, and the Principal Media Designer and Music Director at Walt Disney Imagineering.^[4]

"Invincible", from his score for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, made its first appearance in the Classic FM Hall of Fame Top 300 in April 2014 at no 52. It was Brower's first appearance in the Hall of Fame.^[5]

On July 21, 2017, he announced that his position as the Sr. Audio Director/Composer at Blizzard Entertainment was eliminated.^[6] At the time he left he stated he may contribute as a freelance composer,^[7] but since then has referred to Blizzard's environment as toxic in response to the lawsuit alleging a "frat boy" culture with sexual harassment at Blizzard.^[8]

Work

Arena of Valor: The Return of Volkath (2019)
Delta Force: Black Hawk Down (2003)
Diablo III^[9] (2012)
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls (2014)
Dota 2: The International 2019 Music Pack (2019)
Hearthstone (2014)
Joint Operations: Typhoon Rising (2004)
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty (2010)
StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm (2013)
World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (2007)
World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King^[10] (2008)
World of Warcraft: Cataclysm (2010)
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (2012)
World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor (2014)
World of Warcraft: Legion (2016)

References

^ "Challenger (1990) - Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries of a Special". Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
^ "Batman (1996) - Outstanding Sound Editing - Special Class". IMDb. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
^ "Back to the Future (1992) - Outstanding Film Sound Editing". IMDb. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
^ Nestor, Emer (11 December 2015). "The Art of Video Game Music: Russell Brower". Final Note Magazine. Archived from the original on 11 September 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
^ "World of Warcraft". halloffame.classicfm.com. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.
^ "Post by Russell Brower". Facebook. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
^ "Post by Russell Brower". Facebook. 21 July 2017. Retrieved 21 July 2017.
^ "Post by Russell Brower". Facebook. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 13 March 2024.
^ PC Gamer US (1 August 2008). "Diablo III Preview". GamesRadar. Archived from the original on 16 June 2011. Retrieved 2 August 2008.
^ "Blizzard's Russell Brower". ComputerAndVideoGames. Archived from the original on 27 March 2011. Retrieved 27 March 2011.