News culture Peter Jackson didn’t dare, but the Rings of Power series did: this metal song is an absolute banger
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The second season of Rings of Power concluded with an eighth and final episode that put an end to the villain Sauron’s forging of the Rings of Power and revealed the Stranger’s identity. Although the series, criticized in many ways by Amazon Studios, stands out from the previous adaptations in a certain point. Even Peter Jackson didn’t dare to do it in his two trilogies. The metal song “Rings of Power” is an absolute blast!
The Peter Jackson-directed “Lord of the Rings” trilogy was notable not only for its ability to adapt deemed-unsuitable source material, meticulous production, sophisticated imagery and a breathtaking story – the music alone was worth the detour. Between 2001 and 2003, composer Howard Shore delivered some of the 7th Art’s most memorable soundtracks. It’s not for nothing that “The Fellowship of the Ring” won the Oscar for best original score, just like “The Return of the King” two years later. The final film in the saga even won the award for best original song.
21 years later, it is the Rings of Power series’ turn to stand out musically with a style never before seen in Middle-earth. The seventh episode of the second season, entitled “Doomed to Die”, ends with a metal sound that perfectly fits the atmosphere of the end of the world that darkens the universe imagined by JRR Tolkien. Bear McCreary – the composer of this new adaptation – collaborates with Swedish progressive metal band Meshuggah’s vocalist Jens Kidman on the end credits. “The Last Ballad of Damrod” tells the story of the troll Damrod, who joins the forces of Adar in the attack on Eregion and ultimately perishes under the attacks of the elven people.
A third season for “The Rings of Power”?
The end of the second season of Rings of Power inevitably brings with it THE question that is on the viewers’ tongues. Will there be a third season for the $1 billion “Lord of the Rings” series produced by Amazon Studios? Before the first episodes of the first season aired, the streaming platform announced that 5 seasons were plannedbut Amazon prefers to confirm the start of production of the new part as soon as the previous one has been broadcast in full on Prime Video. However, the executive producer took the lead by promising good news to our “soon” colleagues RadioTimes.com during a recent interview.
I can’t say more about the third season yet, but I think there will be good news soon. – Charlotte Brändström (Executive Producer)
