Will Grega is a composer who specializes in electronic tension, creating sonic worlds where victims, perpetrators, detectives, and survivors all leave their mark. The result is music that is unsettling, cinematic, and unflinchingly human.

 

Raised by a police detective, Grega grew up in the atmosphere of investigations and case files. While most kids were at the playground, he practiced forensic techniques from The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook and absorbed the psychology of crime from an early age. His fascination turned personal in the 1980s, when he was present at the scene of an infamous New York City murder—an experience later chronicled in New York Magazine and now resurfacing in the true crime world. That moment, as much as his upbringing, fixed crime as the defining lens of his art.

 

Grega’s approach to composition is forensic in itself. Each track is a case study—layered with consequence. His hybrid of electronic textures rejects formula, instead pursuing the unpredictability of real crime: quiet dread building to violence, fragile beauty colliding with chaos. “I try to capture the longing, pain, and regret behind the story,” he explains. “Haunting yet epic is the territory I mine.”

 

Influenced by Mac Quayle’s Mr. Robot style noir atmospheres, and the uncompromising genius of legends like Ennio Morricone, Grega writes with the same refusal to play it safe. His work is not designed to comfort but to unsettle—an aesthetic equally at home in crime documentaries, scripted dramas, and true crime media.

 

His life outside the studio only sharpens that edge. Trained as a boxer and shaped by years in Los Angeles and New York underground, Grega understands rhythm, confrontation, and the atmospheres of cities where menace abounds. Encounters with larger-than-life figures, like actor Sterling Hayden, reinforced his pursuit of truth in art: uncompromising, raw, and unvarnished.

 

Will Grega composes not for the genre of crime, but for the reality of it. His tracks are stories in themselves—dark, immersive, and impossible to ignore.