The Lord Of The Rings finally gets an appropriately metal soundtrack cover
Bradley Hall is known for his metal content on YouTube, but this is his most painstaking endeavor yet
Believe it or not, we are fast approaching the Second Age of live-action LOTR adaptations. With a name as clumsy as the Orcish tongue, The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power is set to premiere on Prime Video in September—and with financing from an all-seeing, all-hearing megalomaniac hellbent on eternal life, to boot. Can’t get much more authentic than that…
Well, damn. We stand humbled and corrected. Bradley Hall, a YouTuber who has already garnered a sizable following for his various heavy metal-related content, recently unveiled his most intricate and painstaking project yet: A metal reworking of Howard Shore’s entire soundtrack to Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring. And not just the theatrical version, either—this is the 3-and-a-half hour Extended Edition, for Eru Ilúvatar’s sake.
According to Hall, the project is the “culmination of months of pandemic-induced boredom/frustration/madness.” “The music itself was very easy; cinematic music in general is usually not very demanding technically,” he explains in the video description. “It was however incredibly monotonous, dull and time-consuming; which is a challenge in itself!”