This album was replaced by a different version on Apr 18th, 2026
Change log:
Artwork upgraded: Replaced the existing 1500×1500 cover/embedded art with higher-resolution 3000×3000 artwork. This updates both the page presentation and the embedded file art.
Publisher corrected: Fixed the album-page publisher presentation by removing Warframe from the publisher field and standardizing the company-side publisher/rights-holder to Digital Extremes/Digital Extremes Ltd.
Platforms corrected: Removed Steam from the platform list and added the missing mobile platforms iOS and Android to match the game’s supported release platforms for this update.
Metadata completed and standardized: Cleaned up the embedded tags by correcting Composer to Matthew Chalmers only, normalizing Artist Name/Album Artist to Matthew Chalmers, filling in Genre as Video Game; Soundtrack, adding an album-level Comment, and standardizing release fields such as barcode, copyright, publisher, media type, advisory flag, year, and totals.
Track credits restored: Added the missing track-level Performer credits where applicable, preserved the official producer order Erich Preston; Matthew Chalmers, and corrected “Drip” to include the missing Matthew Chalmers vocal credit and its lyricist credit.
New album description: Added a full album description based on the official soundtrack release and update context; the previous entry had no description.
This album was edited on Apr 18th, 2026
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| Alternative Titles: Warframe: The Shadowgrapher Warframe | Alternative Titles: |
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| Description: | Description: Warframe: The Shadowgrapher (Official Soundtrack) begins at the first wound in every Tenno life: “The Awakening.” Update 42 returned to Warframe’s opening quest and remade it with new music, renewed atmosphere, rerecorded Lotus dialogue, and a journey once again from the decrepit Orokin tower into night, rain, Grineer fire, and the first movement. That placement matters. Before the soundtrack descends into the Vesper Relay, it returns to its origin, to the moment a silent body becomes a warrior and a lost consciousness is called back into purpose. From there, the album crosses the threshold into The Shadowgrapher proper, where the ruined Vesper Relay — destroyed years earlier during Operation: Eyes of Blight — no longer stands as refuge, but as a scar around Venus, a dead station reopened as a haunted frame. Inside it waits Follie, the merry, macabre Shadowgrapher: a gifted calligrapher trapped within a canvas, unable to escape as she labors to restore unfinished stories from within the painting that has darkened the Origin System. That is why “Drip” stands at the center of the album. The update’s world is built on Paint, blood, ink, and seepage: the Tenno enter a Shadowgraph Portal, search the relay for blank canvases, gather Paint from dark pools, lose the easy freedom of Void movement while carrying it, and pour that burden back into the unfinished works one load at a time. Even the mode’s cruelest mutations are written in that same language: walls of ink sealing passages, tentacles dragging at movement, facsimiles of Follie draining life and energy, balloon-mines bursting overhead, doors swallowed by mire. Here, ink is not decoration. It is memory, prison, weapon, obstacle, and scripture. “Drip” is the sound of that substance becoming law inside the relay: the slow spread of a story that cannot remain contained inside its frame. “Stained Vespers” turns from the act of seepage to the place that bears it. Vesper Relay was once a Tenno gathering place; now every corridor is marked by aftermath — rust, black tendrils, inked footprints, pale-lit canvases, and rooms where even the air seems to wait for the next revelation. The title binds the track to that station’s altered identity. Vesper is no longer merely the name of a relay; it is a relay written over. That stain extends beyond architecture into memory itself through Aspirant Zorba, who keeps the letters of his master Kozai but cannot read the ancient Hexis script until enough Atramentum is recovered from within Follie’s Shadowgraph. In the lore of this update, truth is not found clean and whole. It must be drawn out of blackness by a deeper black still. “Stained Vespers” sits exactly there: in the relay’s long afterimage, where ruin becomes text and ink becomes the only means of reading what catastrophe left behind. Then comes “Dreadnaught,” the moment when the canvas ceases to be a mystery and becomes an ordeal. Every delivery of Paint brings the Tenno closer to extraction, but it also awakens Follie as an invincible hunter whose aura wounds and drains, whose presence bends the relay into an increasingly hostile domain. Clones appear. Enemies swell. Ink hardens into barriers. Facsimiles stand like icons of a broken saint. Mines hover. Mires lock doors shut. The player is no longer merely investigating a tragic history; they are now surviving within it while trying to finish the works that Follie herself could not complete. In that sequence, the four tracks lock together with unusual precision: awakening into memory, dripping into contamination, staining into revelation, and dread into pursuit. The soundtrack does not sit beside the update as accompaniment. It moves through the same arc the player does — from first consciousness to haunted inquiry to the terrible beauty of truth dragged out of ink. Album credits and production Compositions by: Matthew Chalmers Music production and supervision: Erich Preston, Matthew Chalmers Lyrics: Matthew Chalmers Featuring performances by: Francesca Hauser, Matthew Chalmers, John Kennelly, Luan Phung, Krista Shipperbottom Special thanks: The team at Digital Extremes Release format: Digital EP Release date: 2026-03-25 Game/Update: Warframe — Update 42: The Shadowgrapher Official track list with key track-level credits 01 The Awakening — composed by Matthew Chalmers; produced by Erich Preston, Matthew Chalmers; vocals by Francesca Hauser 02 Drip — composed by Matthew Chalmers; produced by Erich Preston, Matthew Chalmers; lyrics by Matthew Chalmers; vocals by Francesca Hauser, Matthew Chalmers 03 Stained Vespers — composed by Matthew Chalmers; produced by Erich Preston, Matthew Chalmers 04 Dreadnaught — composed by Matthew Chalmers; produced by Erich Preston, Matthew Chalmers; additional guitars by John Kennelly, Luan Phung; vocals by Krista Shipperbottom Rights and release metadata Barcode: 823000140329 Copyright: ℗ 2026 Digital Extremes Ltd.; © 2026 Digital Extremes Ltd. Publisher/Rights holder: Digital Extremes Ltd. Label styling: Digital Extremes Somachord tie-in: “The Awakening” is awarded through the remastered Awakening quest, while “Drip,” “Stained Vespers,” and “Dreadnaught” are available as Somachords through Aspirant Zorba in the relay. |
| Platforms: PS4 PS5 Steam Switch Switch 2 Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S | Platforms: Android iOS PS4 PS5 Switch Switch 2 Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S |
| Publishers: Digital Extremes Warframe | Publishers: Digital Extremes |
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| Platforms: PS4 PS5 Switch Switch 2 Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S | Platforms: PS4 PS5 Steam Switch Switch 2 Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X/S |