[2] The score has a non-traditional structure and minimalism, created using three huge distorted notes played on a century-old harmonium with the chords hanging in the air at unexpected times.

It also features a snare drum patter appearing in momentarily, which intend to attack the viewer, and pastoral music to frame the European countryside.

For the lighter sequences, he wrote a cello theme that used the base element, which created the warmth and beauty with the same motif, so as to infiltrate all the other pieces.

[5][10] Hauschka used a pump organ-typed old harmonium owned by his great-grandmother for the score, which he ran through a stack of distorted Marshall amplifier and boosted the bass, for the opening motif, so that it nearly sounded like a modular synthesizer.

[3][12] At the same time, a cue called "Paul" was played completely through harmonium, which Hauschka had inserted microphones to amplify the mechanical sounds very closely.

While sending an audio clip to Berger, the director praised it as equivalent to Led Zeppelin's music.

[14] The album featured a 180-gram smoke colored vinyl disc pressed in two sides of the LP record and packaged in a heavyweight sleeve with leather laminate finish, and had attached 4-page booklet regarding the film's music.

[15][16] Gissane Sophia of Marvelous Geeks Media wrote: "The original score is dark, unnervingly heartbreaking at times, and yet, simultaneously effortless to listen to it.

With All Quiet on the Western Front, Volker Bertelmann comes perilously close to being a part of that 1% and breaking that cardinal rule.