D&D is putting out a 50th anniversary double vinyl album by whoever made the DC Super Hero Girls Soundtrack

Sometimes you just know when somebody is low-key genius. When you have a feeling that there's so much potential locked away in somebody—and all you need to do is unlock it. That must be why Wizards of the Coast tapped composer Michael Gatt to orchestrate a Forgotten Realms-themed music album for the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons.

You know, the same Michael Gatt whose current claim to fame is the song "Princess Pumpkin Pants" from the DC Super Hero Girls Soundtrack. I'm not hating. Make that DC money, Michael.

The new album is going to be 12 tracks across two vinyl records. Vinyl averages about 25 minutes of music per side. So that's going to put somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 minutes of a sweeping Sword Coast soundtrack under the record needle and into your tabletop D&D game.

I'm not going to underestimate the power of music in tabletop roleplaying. I am only able to be a Dungeon Master for players that all live 2,500 miles away. But I make sure to drop ambient jams, battle music, and other bard-worthy tavern mixes into our D&D Slack channel. To be fair to Michael Gatt, he's also got musical credits for Justice League: Warworld, and Batman: The Long Halloween – Part One & Two. My mans is on a come up.

The double album, called Dungeons & Dragons – Bardic Inspiration: A Musical Journey Through the Forgotten Realms, arrives Fall 2024 in vinyl, Dolby Atmos, and digital formats. So if you're not able to lay down cash for wax, we can start a listening party on Spotify instead.

Michael Gatt will bring "unexpected instruments, otherworldly textures, and a spellbinding 40-person choir to the record." See, now they've got my attention. This isn't going to be like that wild—though wildly awesome—Spelljammer soundtrack, Spelljams, that we got for Spelljammer's 5e release in 2020. As much as I love that Spelljams album, it's a wacky journey worthy of D&D's wacky sailing-ships-in-space setting. I will forever be grateful to that album for introducing me to Magic Sword and Black Marble.

But this Forgotten Realms soundtrack is to be a much more thematically cohesive project. For now, please enjoy all 38 seconds of Michael Gatt's biggest hit, "Princess Pumpkin Pants." And we'll see if the person at Wizards of the Coast and/or Hasbro that headhunted this guy for such a prestigious project is either promoted or punted by the album's launch this Fall.