Original score from the 2026 action thriller feature film directed by Sandra Sciberras, starring Radha Mitchell, Tim Roth and Ioan Gruffudd, produced by Monster Pictures Studios, Filmbarr and Sandy Pictures, released by Well Go (USA) and Amazon Prime.

THE STORY: A retired sniper in hiding on an Australian ranch must reunite her elite kill squad when a vengeful warlord threatens her daughter.

THE SCORE: “I was pulled onto Seven Snipers two weeks after my daughter was born, and the timing shaped everything. I was learning what binds a parent to a new child, scoring a film about a mother fighting for her teenage one. I channeled that new connection straight into the work and let it run underneath a story about a bond tested by violence. Running on no sleep, I had no room to overthink. Every choice had to be made fast and committed to. Working it out in the moment between me, the director (Sandra Sciberras), and the producer (Tristan Barr), required a workflow that pushed the score into a sharper, more instinctive place than I’d ever gone before. Seven Snipers follows a retired sniper hiding out on an Australian ranch, forced to reunite her elite kill squad when a vengeful warlord comes for her daughter. The film lives in the dirt and the weeds, and in held breaths while reading the wind before a shot. I built the score around that grit and intensity. Tones that sit low and wait. Textures that tighten right before the trigger pulls. I wanted to treat the idea of wind, distance, and patience to function as characters through the music. I worked alongside Hayley Rosenthal again, who brought a fresh, unsentimental voice to the bond between a mother and her daughter, and pulled from my guitar-playing father (Tom “The Suit” Forst) and recordings of my two-week-old crying as source material to further inspire the parent-child bond.” – Mike Forst

THE COMPOSER: Mike Forst is an award-winning composer and sound designer based in Los Angeles. He is best known for his work on the Student Academy Award-winning film Skin, the multi-award-winning film Sonder, and his extensive work on pioneering first-of-their-kind products through interactive music and sound. Mike began his career at an audio-post house, primarily working on video games. He contributed to AAA titles like Insomniac Games’ Sunset Overdrive, Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2, and Microsoft’s Crimson Dragon. After working on a wide range of projects and clients, he carved out a unique niche combining game-sound interactivity with emerging technologies, becoming a leading expert in User Experience (UX) Sound Design. Over the years he has worked at several tech startups and with major companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta. In 2018, Mike joined Amazon’s Lab126 as their sound lead for their first consumer robot, Astro. At Amazon, he collaborated with diverse teams, including engineers, producers, marketing, animation, and top executives including Amazon’s founder Jeff Bezos. Mike left Amazon as a full-time employee in 2023 to focus on his primary passion: creating unique music for compelling narratives. Mike began playing piano at age 5 and formed original bands at 12, always seeking innovation and disrupting the norm in his music. He’s collaborated with top musicians and diverse artistic disciplines like modern dance and art installations. Recently, he released “Hypnagogia,” a concept album inspired by pandemic-induced auditory dreams.

MMS26659 SEVEN SNIPERS (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Music Composed by MIKE FORST
Release date: June 5, 2026