Hades in Concert Ballads of the Underworld video now available on YouTube featuring music from both games

Game Music Festival and Supergiant Games have uploaded the complete Ballads of the Underworld concert featuring music from Hades and Hades II on YouTube. 

The concert recording is available in 4K and it features a recording from The Game Music Festival in London's Royal Festival Hall on June 27, 2026. It features Darren Korb, Ashley Barrett, Judy Alice Lee (voice of Melinoë), Erin Yvette (voice of Scylla), and Colin Ryan (voice of Apollo) with orchestral accompaniment by the London Mozart Players conducted by Austin Wintory. 

If you haven't gotten Hades II yet, read my 10/10 review of Hades II here and my full comparison feature covering how Hades II scales across every platform here. You can also read my interview with Darren Korb and Greg Kasavin going into the music and much more here. Hades II is now available on PC (Steam, Epic), Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PS5, and Xbox Series. Hades is now available on Nintendo Switch, PS5, PS4, Xbox, and PC platforms.

The full concert video with more details from Supergiant Games and Game Music Festival can be found below:

Supergiant Games:

If you've enjoyed the music of Hades and Hades II, you do not want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime performance featuring live orchestral arrangements of all your favorite songs from both games, and more! This is a 4K recording of the one-time-only concert that took place at The Game Music Festival in London's Royal Festival Hall on June 27, 2026. It features Supergiant's composer Darren Korb and vocalist Ashley Barrett, with special guests Judy Alice Lee (voice of Melinoë), Erin Yvette (voice of Scylla), and Colin Ryan (voice of Apollo), all with orchestral accompaniment by the London Mozart Players conducted by Austin Wintory. Our thanks to Game Music Festival for making everything possible!

Game Music Festival:

Game Music Festival and Supergiant Games has today released Ballads of the Underworld, a full concert film celebrating the music of Hades and Hades II, free to watch on YouTube.

The release marks the sixth anniversary of Hades and follows the concert’s premiere at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 27 June 2026. Produced officially in collaboration with Supergiant Games, Ballads of the Underworld brought the vocal music of Hades and Hades II to one of London’s most prestigious concert venues, with new arrangements created especially for Game Music Festival and premiered live by a world-class ensemble of performers.

The performance features original vocalists Darren Korb and Ashley Barrett, alongside Judy Alice Lee, Erin Yvette and Colin Ryan, with the London Mozart Players led by Grammy-nominated and BAFTA-winning conductor Austin Wintory. Together, they bring to life the soulful laments, hymns and siren songs that have accompanied Zagreus and Melinoë on their perilous expeditions.

“The music of Hades has such a strong identity and such a devoted audience,” says Mateusz Pawlak, Founder of Game Music Festival. “We’re so happy to be able to give this performance a life beyond the concert hall and make it available to everyone. It was an incredible privilege to work with such a brilliant group of vocalists, musicians and creatives and to capture the performance for audiences around the world.”

Ballads of the Underworld is the second of two major Game Music Festival collaborations from 2026 to receive a high-quality audio-visual recording release. In June, GMF produced The Infernal Symphony, the official Diablo 30th Anniversary concert, in partnership with Blizzard Entertainment.

Presented at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 6 June 2026, The Infernal Symphony celebrated three decades of Diablo with new arrangements created especially by Game Music Festival and premiered live by the London Mozart Players and Hertfordshire Chorus. The concert was guided by maestro Marek Wroniszewski, with arrangements by Ignacy Wojciechowski, with very special guests including Diablo lead composer Ted Reedy and music director Derek Duke attending and hosting panels.

The performance also brought original Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred soloists to the stage, with vocalists and instrumentalists including Uyanga Bold, Asja Kadric, Rosa Fragorapti and Callum Armstrong. Their live contributions, alongside the orchestra, chorus, arrangers, engineers and production teams, have now been captured in the official soundtrack, allowing audiences to experience the concert beyond the Royal Festival Hall.

The official soundtrack, Diablo: The Infernal Symphony (Official 30th Anniversary Live Concert), was released on 27 August 2026 and is now available on all major digital streaming platforms as a permanent addition to the Blizzard Music catalogue:
https://lnk.to/InfernalSymphony

With both full concerts now available, Game Music Festival is extending the life of its live productions beyond the concert hall - creating lasting audio-visual records of official franchise celebrations, as well as new opportunities for audiences to connect with the music and the people who made it.

“A concert is only one way of connecting people with game music,” Pawlak continues. “The most exciting projects happen when the music becomes the starting point for something bigger - a live performance, a film, a record, a conversation or a completely new kind of audience experience. Our job is to find the right format for the music and the people who made it.”

These releases demonstrate the breadth of Game Music Festival’s work. Alongside producing official concerts with major game creators and publishers, GMF develops filmed performances, new live arrangements, composer and creator conversations, masterclasses, panels, soundtrack releases, physical music projects and collaborations with orchestras, cultural institutions and music partners.

Founded in 2018, Game Music Festival exists to champion video-game music as an art form deserving of the same stage and respect as film scores and classical music. Its productions have brought together world-class venues, performers, composers, arrangers, orchestras, developers, publishers and audiences from around the world.