WaterTower Music is excited to announce the release of the soundtrack to the New Line Cinema action adventure Black Adam, starring Dwayne Johnson. The first-ever feature film to explore the story of the uncompromising DC antihero comes to the big screen under the direction of Jaume Collet-Serra (“Jungle Cruise”). Earlier this month, prior to this full soundtrack release, WaterTower Music released two of Balfe’s themes from this film, the Black Adam Theme and The Justice Society Theme. 

“It was exciting to get into the Black Adam theme, and I really wanted to capture his essence as the DC comic book world’s anti-hero,” explained the composer. He went on to note that “this movie is a reintroduction to to the legacy of the Justice Society and I am excited for the public to reacquaint themselves!”

Balfe further elaborated as to his overall musical and philisophical approach to Black Adam:

“My goal was to get the emotion and darkness of the main characters back story across to the audience, whilst simultaneously intertwining the old themes and familiarities of the DC comic book world and introducing a new class of superheroes.” He further noted “One way to bring in the feeling of an ancient world together was to collaborate with traditional instruments from Latin America, India, Africa and the Middle East. A particular highlight for me was a percussion session I did where we enlisted several musicians playing various  traditional instruments together to achieve this specific sound. Further, we had a large brass section across the score to give the weight and power of the main character’s past, which I balanced out with high tempo, more melodic sounds to give the audience that more familiar heroic feel. We also experimented a lot with choir on this project which was able to contribute a unique and classical sound that ties in nicely with Black Adam’s story.”

TRACK LIST

1. Teth-Adam 
2. Kahndaq
3. The Awakening
4. The Revolution Starts
5. Introducing the JSA
6. Shaza-Superman
7. Our Only Hope
8. Change Your Name
9. What Kind of Magic?
10. Is It the Champion?
11. Your Enemies
12. Black Adam Spotted
13. Not Interested
14. Just Say Shazam
15. Ancient Palace
16. Little Man
17. Time to Go
18. Release Him
19. Father & Son
20. Black Adam Theme
21. Fly Bikes
22. Nanobots
23. Through the Wall
24. 23lbs of Eternium 
25. Is This the End?
26. It Was Him
27. Lake Baikal 
28. Capes and Corpses
29. Hawkman’s Fate
30. The JSA Fights Back
31. A Bad Plan Is a Good Plan
32. Dr. Fate
33. Prison Break
34. Wet Rocks
35. Not a Hero
36. The Doctor’s Destiny
37. Slave Champion
38. Legions of Hell
39. The Man in Black
40. Adam’s Journey
41. The Justice Society Theme
42. Black Adam Theme (iZNiiK Remix)
43. The Justice Society Theme (iZNiiK Remix)

Will you be checking out the soundrack for Black Adam?

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