Abstract

One of the most profound developments in strategies of scoring films since the introduction of sound to cinema emerged in the 1970s, when the perennial reliance on the creation of a new, freshly composed, ‘classical’ film score began to be challenged by a preference for utilizing already existing (popular) musical sources. this chapter looks at the use of Heavy Metal in contemporary films, showing how It is, that music's ability to provide “a demonic presence” that has made it such a suitable partner for the horror movie.

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