The composers for the series have included Yoko Shimomura, Noriko Matsueda, Koji Hayama, Hayato Matsuo, Hidenori Iwasaki, and Garry Schyman.
A box set of music from across the series is currently planned, but has not yet been formally announced or given a release date.
Shimomura, a veteran of over a dozen games, was already at the time busy composing the soundtrack for Super Mario RPG but found herself unable to refuse to work on Front Mission after being asked by Sakaguchi to co-compose the music.
[1] The album was well received by critics such as Daniel Kalabakov of RPGFan, who claimed that it was his favorite Super Nintendo Entertainment System-era Square soundtrack, primarily due to the mixture of techno and jazz.
Patrick Gann of RPGFan described the album as a good sampler for the full soundtrack, and claimed that it had slightly better sound quality.
[5] Dave of Square Enix Music Online agreed with these praises, though he felt that the large amount of overlap between the promotional disc and the full soundtrack made its purchase not worthwhile.
An album of music from the game, titled Front Mission 2 Original Soundtrack, was released by DigiCube on September 21, 1997.
[6] Kero Hazel of Square Enix Music Online felt similarly about the album.
[9] An album of music from the game, titled Front Mission 3 Original Soundtrack, was released by DigiCube on September 22, 1999.
The soundtrack also incorporates "South American"-style elements, with the use of pan flutes and tribal percussion.
[12] Track list The soundtrack of Front Mission 5: Scars of the War, the sixth game of the main series and the ninth game overall, was composed by Hidenori Iwasaki and Kenichiro Fukui, with one track each provided by Hayato Matsuo, Yasuhiro Yamanaka and Masayoshi Soken.
The music differed from that of the previous game in its inclusion of tracks that were solely electronic, rather than a mixture of techno and orchestral.
The music from the game was released on an album was titled Front Mission 5 ~Scars of the War~ Original Soundtrack.
Its soundtrack was composed by Nobuo Uematsu and Yasunori Mitsuda, with additional tracks provided by Junya Nakano and Masashi Hamauzu.
The music from the game was released on an album titled Front Mission Series: Gun Hazard Original Sound Track.
Arai was a "mainstream dance musician", who had previously composed the soundtrack for Sega Touring Car Championship.
The album was poorly received by Chris Greening of Square Enix Music Online, who called it a largely unsuccessful experiment due to its "repetitiveness and inappropriateness".
[19] Greg Kasavin of GameSpot, in his review of the game, called the soundtrack "a bunch of dizzying techno that doesn't suit the onscreen grandeur".
The arranged music covered every prior game with the exception of Gun Hazard, and was arranged by Iwasaki from the compositions of Iwasaki, Hayato Matsuo, Yoko Shimomura, Noriko Matsueda, Ryo Yamazaki, and Riow Arai.
[21] Chris Greening of Square Enix Music Online gave the album a poor review, calling it "a mediocre effort".
[22] Ben Schweitzer of RPGFan, however, was less harsh in his review of the album, calling it "a positive look at the entire series" and saying that the majority of it was good, though the original tracks were not particularly strong.
[23] The music is more traditionally orchestral than previous Front Mission soundtracks, and was recorded with a live orchestra.