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Knuckles: Music from the Paramount+ Original Series is the soundtrack album to the 2024 television miniseries, Knuckles. The album features the original score composed by Tom Howe as well as two original songs, "Frickin' Human Race" performed by Asa Taccone , and "The Flames of Disaster" performed by Taccone, Julian Barratt , and Michael Bolton .
Paramount Pictures and Sega Sammy Group announced in 2021 Knuckles, a television series starring Knuckles the Echidna that serves as a spin-off to Paramount's Sonic the Hedgehog films. Idris Elba was set to reprise his role as the voice of Knuckles from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022). [2] Sonic film producer Toby Ascher served as showrunner. [3]
According to Nilsen, Sega commissioned a new soundtrack for the American release as the marketing department felt it needed a "more musically rich and complex" soundtrack. Nilsen also wrote a theme song, "Sonic Boom", which became one of the franchise's most iconic tracks. [21]
The series is set between Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) and includes easter eggs to set-up the events and narrative of the latter. [17] [6] The series also explores the ramifications of the events in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, particularly G.U.N. (Guardian Units of Nations) gaining access to Sonic and Knuckles' quills and rings.
Knuckles (voiced by Travis Willingham) is a red echidna and the nature-loving muscle of Team Sonic, whose redesign for Sonic Boom is the most drastic of any Sega character altered for the series; Knuckles is considerably taller than most versions of the character, appears more muscular and wears sports tape around his hands as opposed to spiked ...
The film also features the song "Neon" from Japanese rock band One Ok Rock, who previously contributed to the soundtrack for the 2022 game Sonic Frontiers. [6] "It's a Sonic Christmas", the song performed by Ruwanga Samath and featured in the promotional short film of the same name, was released on digital platforms on December 13, 2024.
As a part of promotions, an original song, "Boom" by X Ambassadors, appears on the soundtrack, the single was released on January 24, 2020, by Atlantic Records. [5] "Speed Me Up" by American musicians Wiz Khalifa, Lil Yachty, Ty Dolla Sign, and Sueco the Child received over 15 million streams, [6] along with 1.8 billion views for the "Speed Me Up" TikTok challenge.
Knuckles the Echidna forms a resistance movement with Tails, the Chaotix, Amy Rose, Silver the Hedgehog, Rouge the Bat and a survivor of Eggman's attack who is only referred to as "The Rookie". Knuckles discovers Sonic's whereabouts and the Rookie steals a space shuttle, breaks into the Death Egg and rescues Sonic.