Euphoria Season 3: HBO Adds Hans Zimmer to Music Team with Labrinth

Hans Zimmer to Join Labrinth as Composer for Euphoria Season 3

As HBO's Euphoria moves into its third season, it is set for a significant sonic evolution. Academy Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer, known for composing many high-profile films such as Inception, Dune, and Interstellar, is going to be involved with the series music. Zimmer will be collaborating with Labrinth, who scored the first two seasons and returns for this season.

Zimmer's involvement in Euphoria provides a clue to the direction of the music in the series. Having Zimmer work with them fortifies the sonic landscape; more cinematic depth will bestow more emotional weight on the series and provide more dramatic context for the action.

Just as Labrinth did with Seasons 1 and 2, implying a transition to Zimmer being less commercial cinema artist, so too started to define Euphoria's sound. The music, with influences from electronic, gospel, and orchestral, helped shock the audience with new textures, themes, and powers that draws on years of musical experience that earned him a nomination from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Reportedly, series creator Sam Levinson wrote much of Season 3 while listening to Zimmer's scores, particularly from Interstellar and True Romance. Now that has shifted from influence to collaboration. Zimmer said he is thrilled to be involved with the piece, while Labrinth referred to the pairing as a dream, saying it was special to work with one of his biggest musical influences.
The new season is already in production, and while there is no set release date yet, HBO hopes to premiere the show in 2026.

On July 23, 2025, Euphoria's official Instagram account posted a bold post that included an image announcing the joining forces of Hans Zimmer and Labrinth to score Season 3. The image features both composers, which is another bold and cinematic musical direction the show is taking. This score is a major creative deal for the HBO series. Hans Zimmer is known for dynamic film compositions. Labrinth is known for rockering emotional sound. Fans wasted no time expressing excitement and calling this one of their most anticipated pieces about the new season.

 

 

 

 

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A New Musical Direction for the HBO Drama

With Zimmer and Labrinth both on board, we expect a much richer and more nuanced soundtrack in Euphoria Season 3. It is a bold collaboration that brings together two very different but equally influential musical voices, Zimmer's sweeping orchestral scores with Labrinth's exploratory and audacious genre melding.

Music has consistently been at the center of Euphoria. From intimate character moments to stylized partying scenes, Labrinth's work has shaped how audiences experience the show. With Zimmer on the team, we expect to see this expand further and possibly earn Euphoria Season 3 a more cinematic flavor.

Fans and industry observers are already describing this as one of the most ambitious moves for a television series in recent memory. Its unusual for a television drama series to bring in a composer of Zimmer's stature and this illustrates that HBO wants to deliver something extraordinary for Season 3. 

HBO has yet to release specifics on plot points or if it has the full cast lined up, but it is likely that most of the show's key actors will return. With its musical direction and all of the creative decorations, Expectation for Euphoria Season 3 to be one of the biggest television events next year.

Inside the Music Lab: What Truly Sets Season 3 Apart

While the report of Hans Zimmer joining Labrinth is already out, what a lot of outlets have missed is just how deep the duo has gotten with each other--more than just composer handoff. Reportedly, they are working, in part, in co-writing sessions, involving them together developing themes and motifs side by side. Instead of layering Zimmer's orchestral cues overtop of Labrinth's tracks, the two composers are co-creating hybrid pieces, bringing their own sound to the collective musical stylistic identity, which is not common in TV. 

Moreover, the sound-design elements are made bespoke for each specific character. Rumor has it that Rue's moments are being scored with Zimmer's ambient strings enveloping Labrinth's experimental electronic sounds for emotional intimacy.

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