Rik Schaffer

Rik Schaffer is an American composer, musician, and sound designer. He's known as one of the top sound designers in the video game industry. He formed Womb Music in 1996 after being in the music industry as a member of several acts such as Tomorrow's Child and Engines of Aggression. He often works with his partner Margaret Tang.

Rik has also composed original soundtracks for video games, gaining recognition particularly for his work on The Elder Scrolls Online and Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines.

Discography Studio albums Tomorrow's Child (glam rock band active between 1988-1996, lead guitarist) Rocky Coast, Rough Sea (Dream Circle, 1996)

Engines of Aggression (industrial metal band active between 1993-2001 , lead guitarist) .

Speak EP (Priority, 1993) Illusion Is Real single (Priority, 1993) Inhuman Nature (Priority, 1994) Engines of Aggression EP (self-released, 2001)

Womb (solo grunge project, vocals by Todd Miller except for As Lonely As I Am done by Jamie Alexander 1996 )

Instrumental versions of Clean, Selfless Doubt and As Lonely As I Am (retitled Poinsettia) are present on the soundtrack of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (as well as an edit version of the instrumental Golden Arms And Silver Charms retitled Innocence Once Lost).

It was reissued on Spotify in 2025 with a slightly altered tracklist (As Lonely As I Am has been dropped, while two outtakes has been added) as Bella+ .

Nectar (solo prog rock project, vocals by Stephen Shareaux of Kik Tracee except for We Just Disagree done by Dean Ortega).

Afterglow (Dream Circle, 1997)

An instrumental version of We Just Disagree (retitled as All That Could Ever Be) is present on the soundtrack of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

The last track Black Sheep is misspelled as "Back Sheep." on the cd jewel case.

Rik Schaffer (solo instrumental alternative rock project)

Fruit of the Poison Tree (self-released, 20 October 2025)

Innocence Once Lost is the same edited track originally from Bella, while Another Bite of the Eternal and Evening in Koreatown are reworked versions of The Bite is Eternal and Chinatown Theme (from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines) respectively.

Video game original scores Source: 2001 and following expansions) Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon (2002) The Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian (2002) Dark Age of Camelot Shrouded Isles (2002) Dark Age of Camelot: Trials of Atlantis (2003) Run Like Hell (2003) – Womb/Ambient Music Spawn: Armageddon (2003) X-Men Legends (2004) Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines (2004) Fantastic Four (2005) X-Men: The Official Game (2006) Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005) – Womb/Ambient Music Over the Hedge (2006) – Womb/Ambient Music The Shield: The Game (2007) Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer (2007) The Elder Scrolls Online (multi-artists soundtrack, 2014, Volume 1 and Volume 2 albums released in 2016 and 2017 respectively). Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 (2025, multi-artists soundtrack)

Video game Editorial and Sound Design Source: Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex (2001) Crash Nitro Kart (2003) Call of Duty (2003) Call of Duty: United Offensive (2004) X-Men Legends (2004) Doom 3 (2004) Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (2004) MTX Mototrax (2004) Shark Tale (2004) Shrek 2 (2004) Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004) Madagascar: Operation Penguin (2005) Ultimate Spider-Man (2005) Gun (2005) Tony Hawk's American Wasteland (2005) Quake 4 (2005) Rise and Fall: Civilizations at War (2006) Gothic 3 (2006) Over the Hedge (2006) Over the Hedge: Hammy Goes Nuts! (2006) Bee Movie Game (2007) Shrek the Third (2007) Shrek's Carnival Craze (2007) Spider-Man 3 (2007) Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (2007) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (2007) Spider-Man: Friend or Foe (2007) Call of Duty: World at War (2008) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) Kung Fu Panda (2008) Transformers Animated: The Game (2008) Wolfenstein Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) – Sound & Casting Director Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) Updated (2009) X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Dreamkiller (2009) – Casting & Voice Director Alpha Protocol (2010) X-Men: Destiny (2011) Rage (2011) Doom (2016) DreamWorks Dragons: Dawn of New Riders (2019) – Sound Coordinator DreamWorks Spirit Lucky's Big Adventure (2021) Doom Eternal (2020) Transformers: Battlegrounds (2020) Evil Dead: The Game (2022) Jumanji: Wild Adventures (2023) Justice League: Cosmic Chaos (2023)