Academy Award-winning composer Steven Price, who previously worked with Ayer on Fury, composed the score for Suicide Squad. Suicide Squad: Original Motion Picture Score was announced for a release date of August 8, 2016. A soundtrack album for the film, titled Suicide Squad: The Album, was announced in June 2016, and released on August 5, 2016. The album's first single, "Heathens" by Twenty One Pilots, was released on June 20, 2016. A music video for the song, set in a prison and featuring footage from the film, was released on June 21. "Sucker for Pain" was released as the second single on June 24. The album's third single, "Purple Lamborghini" by Skrillex and Rick Ross, was released on July 22. "Gangsta" by Kehlani, "Standing in the Rain" by Action Bronson, Mark Ronson and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, "Medieval Warfare" by Grimes, and "Bohemian Rhapsody", covered by Panic! at the Disco, were released as four promotional singles on August 2, August 3, and 4, 2016, respectively, with "Medieval Warfare" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" being released on the same day.


Suicide Squad: The Album is the soundtrack album to the film of the same name. The album was released on August 5, 2016 by Atlantic Records and Warner Bros. Records. A separate film score album, composed by Steven Price, was released on August 8, 2016 by WaterTower Music. The digital edition of the film score album contains eight bonus tracks.