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1For those occasions when the trailer becomes inspirational enough to sell you the film it's advertising, there's always some fantastic music composed for these things!
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3* [[https://youtu.be/GB_3X570NYk Prelude]], by Pusher Music. Not only is it used in the trailer for the ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'', it just gives you that "Last Stand" kind of feeling in general. Love or hate [=TF3=], that trailer music was just epic.
4* Not originally composed for the trailer, but the use of "Welcome Home" by Music/CoheedAndCambria for the [[https://youtu.be/OnoJecu9e7c 9 Official Trailer]] is enough to give you goosebumps so hard it HURTS.
5* On the subject of using the instrumentals of rock songs, the trailer for the remake of ''Clash of the Titans'' makes [[https://youtu.be/q6CJenNMsb4 suitably epic use]] of [[https://youtu.be/xIr6Ell_q2k the instrumental version of "The Bird and the Worm"]] by The Used. The trailer was much, much better than the actual movie.
6* Quite a few things, such as ''Series/TopGear'', enjoy using the awesome, climactic theme music from ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', the song "In a Heartbeat" by John Murphy. As the name would suggest, the song has a tempo similar to a heart beating or a clock ticking ominously down.
7* [[http://www.twostepsfromhell.com/index-home.php Two Steps From Hell]] is an odd little outfit that specializes in composing music for movie trailers. ''Absolutely spectacular'' music for movie trailers, which frequently is magnitudes better than the film's final score. They've supplied music for plenty of movie, TV and video game trailers including ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', ''Film/{{Inception}}'', ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', ''WesternAnimation/WallE'', ''Film/{{Hugo}}'', ''Film/{{Thor}}'', ''Film/StarTrek2009'', ''Film/XMen1'', ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', ''Series/DoctorWho'', and ''Series/GameOfThrones''. They also have a reputation as some of the best songs to work out to.
8** Two Steps from Hell have released one album, ''Invincible'', to the public, and are planning on two more releases. ''Invincible'' is available on iTunes and Amazon mp3. [[https://youtu.be/jjZACyYKGJ8 And here's the title song.]]
9** Highlights from their ''Nemesis'' album include "[[https://youtu.be/k-9r37G_KK0 Tristan]]," "[[https://youtu.be/ZE1xr5sPQHw Clash of Empires]]," "[[https://youtu.be/S7ULDyZP9r4 Atlantis]]," "[[https://youtu.be/zgmsFEpJswc Moving Mountains]]," and the haunting "[[https://youtu.be/uthIutGGFWc Enigmatic Soul]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/bfZXUuzL8aY Hunter's Moon]]".
10** "[[https://youtu.be/pKv_wua6kFE Dragon Rider]]" is nice and up-tempo, "[[https://youtu.be/BQMpRWuT6hk Flameheart]]" is like a OneWingedAngel moment for the good guys, "[[https://youtu.be/WFs0Je3jNO8 Starvation]]" is...just listen.
11** Gems from their ''Legend'' album include "[[https://youtu.be/LRLdhFVzqt4 Heart of Courage]]" (used in the 2012 Olympics, no less), "[[https://youtu.be/clZDnXeJxY4 Hypnotica]]", and "[[https://youtu.be/37IoRc_5nWM Smell of Victory]]."
12*** The "[[https://youtu.be/YP1QHVNHMAE Freedom Fighters]]" track from the 2009 film ''Film/StarTrek2009'''s movie trailer is JustForFun/MadeOfWin. And if it counts, the dialogue selections for the trailer just add to its kickass: "Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved eight hundred lives. Including yours. I dare you to do better. ''Enlist. In Starfleet.''"
13*** "[[https://youtu.be/zpZkvMIm4co Down With The Enterprise]]" is a close second.
14*** "[[https://youtu.be/x5Q_TSNk-p4 Protectors of the Earth]]" is quite possibly the most unspeakably '''epic''' piece of music ever created. It's been extremely popular, used in promotion for Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Inkheart, Mass Effect 3 and the Olympics.
15** "[[https://youtu.be/FLDySOopM1A Merchant Prince]]" is a sign of things to come from the ''Nemesis II'' album, which can't get here soon enough.
16** Let's just say that their music is the only good thing about the trailers for the ''Twilight'' movies.
17** "[[https://youtu.be/HPe4G9BiIc4 Black Blade]]", "[[https://youtu.be/bqNRIM2pdaQ Ocean Princess]]'' and "[[https://youtu.be/-PqGc3qiXIs Master of Shadows]]".
18*** "[[https://youtu.be/dxNwZ0_xvP8 He Who Brings the Night]]", "[[https://youtu.be/v9ehcpw_DpE Free Fall]]", and possibly the greatest song they have ever composed: "[[https://youtu.be/zIZCYNWpgso To Glory]]!"
19** [[https://youtu.be/nhloM9UwOcg Glory & Honor]].
20** [[https://youtu.be/SWOLBXrYGnM Legions of Faith]].
21** [[https://youtu.be/XoHSoKkMPcA The Vendetta Conspiracy]].
22** One of the best would have to be [[https://youtu.be/pbAt34gxdB0 Magika]]. The strings and the vocals are just awesome!
23** [[https://youtu.be/qaxcXunYGS0 Chopperhead]]. Two minutes and five seconds of thundering drums, [[AutobotsRockOut raging electric guitars]], and [[OminousLatinChanting screaming choir.]]
24** [[https://youtu.be/Kam708mZAQ8 ASAP]]. This song was used in the trailer for Series 1 of ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''.
25** In addition to their epic repertoire, Two Steps from Hell has quite a few songs that lean towards the swoonily romantic; see [[https://youtu.be/lzkwFzXkvZg Undying Love]], [[https://youtu.be/X8oU2YI6xgw Frozen Moment]], [[https://youtu.be/4ctj97FAylQ Love & Loss]] (featured in ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn]]'' Trailer, and in ''The Walking Dead'' as well), and [[https://youtu.be/nnC8maoTSeA Goodbye for Now]].
26** [[https://youtu.be/6O6Q1OiF6LI United We Stand, Divided We Fall]].
27** [[https://youtu.be/O-jrFcobLQM The Last Stand]].
28** [[https://youtu.be/nkogNDpk0lg Jump!]], a beautiful 4 minute rock fest which could be used in parkour chase scenes.
29** [[https://youtu.be/H25iM7eRiIQ False King]].
30** The trailer for ''Aquaman'' includes a song from the ''Battlecry'' album, [[https://youtu.be/yPHeW7MLBbw "None Shall Live"]]. This song also has a vocal version, [[https://youtu.be/bpxtuUQ28UM "Children of the Sun"]], which amplifies the awesomeness of this song.
31* X-Ray Dog:
32** Their most famous piece, [[https://youtu.be/yQi96M_zvyM Gothic Power]] is good, but it's their less well known pieces that tend to be the most amazing. Listing all the examples from 48 albums and counting of epic would be impossible. However, to make a start, [[https://youtu.be/6ccE9UF_gac Freeflight]] is one minute and ten seconds of pure joy.
33** Or perhaps something like [[https://youtu.be/9O0nNg--nKg Titans]], the music used in the ''Film/{{Ultramarines}}'' trailer.
34** X-Ray Dog's work on the [[https://youtu.be/Uv3khr9cMYQ PoTC: At World's End trailer]] is one the best examples of trailer music blending in perfectly with the images and sound effects. Check out the 1:55 mark, where the sword fighting matches up perfectly with the music.
35** Also worth noting is the instrumental version of "[[https://youtu.be/z-eXX38yWZE Dethroned]]", which you may remember from the ''Film/KingKong2005'' trailer.
36** [[http://youtu.be/u8b48dX86q0 Act of Courage]] is beautiful as well.
37* Immediate Music - for starters, [[https://youtu.be/bHPYOcgde98 Lacrimosa]].
38** Another awesome piece from Immediate Music is [[https://youtu.be/DZDP4kkWj4w Proud Nation]].
39** [[https://youtu.be/VnOf4JfA1AQ Arcana]] by Immediate Music. 3 minutes and 8 seconds of eargasmic choir and orchestra.
40** [[https://youtu.be/DXHioYWZBRo Requiem Rave]] by Immediate Music. [[EtherealChoir Ethereal chanting]] coupled with fast paced electronic beats? '''Yes.'''
41** Immediate Music has two subset groups, Globus and Immediate. They have released albums to the public. They mostly consist of remixes of songs by Immediate Music...that completely kick the ass of the originals. Examples including [[https://youtu.be/yC2czkdUJBQ Preliator]] and [[https://youtu.be/Mj5OI_JuB0U An Epic Age]]. Immediate also has a 2nd album, but its songs are not on Youtube yet.
42** [[https://youtu.be/NCe1J8cy-SE Crusade]]. Sublime. There is a better-known choral version too.
43** [[https://youtu.be/yE6oYO2wJXI Sanctus Immortale]]. Whatever this theme is playing over can't be good...except for the listener. There also exists a [[https://youtu.be/cQ2upmBV13c vocal]] version.
44* [[https://youtu.be/roc64guxoOY Master of Shadows]], the ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' trailer music.
45* The absolutely gorgeous [[https://youtu.be/lOJqicM6x84 "Mind Heist"]] from the [[https://youtu.be/66TuSJo4dZM Inception trailer]] made quite an impact on the number of people who saw the film, if youtube comments are anything to judge by. "BRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMM" indeed.
46** [[https://youtu.be/YmdlJ8foxBA This]] one too.
47** "Mind Heist" is one of the best themes for trailers, making ANY movie seem epic.
48* ''Film/TheSocialNetwork's [[https://youtu.be/53OUHupfqws trailer]] has Scala's[[note]]a Belgian girls choir[[/note]] version of Radiohead's "Creep,".
49* While ''Film/TheLastAirbender'' may have been...painful, the trailer music was '''awesome'''. Particularly [[https://youtu.be/oFGayzJ36H0 "Lonely]] [[https://youtu.be/-egQ79OrYCs Dusk"]] (the pure music clip hits the epic part at about 1:50).
50* The alien invasion film ''Battle: Los Angeles'', has [[http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2069535001/ some strangely enthralling music for the trailer]].
51* [[https://youtu.be/BddKolhFl3A Absolute Anthropoid]] by Pfeifer Broz Music used in the ''Deathly Hallows'' trailer. And the [[https://youtu.be/0VQBL2Q4dg0 accelerated version]]. Both of them are very short and unspeakably epic.
52* The trailer for Creator/DavidFincher's version of ''Film/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo2011'' features [[https://youtu.be/fkP3urtYCkc an abridged cover of Led Zeppelin's "Immigrant Song"]] and manages to be unbelievably awesome in just a minute and a half.
53* The use of "The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning" by Music/TheSmashingPumpkins in the ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' promo. What a perfect way to recycle a song from the great soundtrack of [[Film/BatmanAndRobin a horrible Batman movie]].
54* More contemporary orchestral pieces that have been used in trailers to emphasize how awesome the film is.
55** [[https://youtu.be/dlZOuo2cezI Richard Harvey's "Reach for the Stars"]].
56** [[https://youtu.be/code6X_Ta5Q Joel McNeely's "Iron Will suite"]]. You will know when the awesomeness appears when the track "The Race Begins" appears.
57* [[https://youtu.be/505M0CQqCik World Collapsing]] from the ''Film/SnowWhiteAndTheHuntsman'' trailer. Epicness ensues.
58* [[https://youtu.be/j2IfFUdy8Uw Judge and Jury]] by Audiomachine for the ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' trailer is epic, as well as scary. It helps that for the trailers they added the siren from ''Film/{{Alien}}''.
59* [[https://youtu.be/PBdWUMqGZKU Something to Fight For]] by Sencit Music from the ''Film/IronMan3'' trailer. Just...listen to it.
60* [[https://youtu.be/oi_xfOXJ19o Dawn of the Titans]] from the ''Film/{{Lincoln}}'' trailer. Gotta love that choir.
61* Scala's version of Music/{{Metallica}}'s "[[https://youtu.be/kTvN4pExX7g Nothing Else Matters]]", which is attached to the trailer for ''Film/ZeroDarkThirty'', gives the trailer, and by extension the story, a haunting feeling.
62* Snow Patrol's "What If The Storm Ends" in the trailer for ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013''.
63* ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' had an incredible theme called [[https://youtu.be/L7tje63-7XU Icarus]] written by Superhuman for one of its trailers.
64* For ''[[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2]]'', an instrumental of Music/LesFriction's [[https://youtu.be/5MJd0RTOW1Y "Louder Than Words"]] was used, particularly the part starting at 3:44. The song was also used in ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'' trailers.
65* [[https://youtu.be/w_kP-dLDAgQ Theatrical Trailer 2]] for ''TheHungerGamesCatchingFire''. Starts off with a lead-in of just soft piano and string instruments that give a feeling of "hope" which is one of the movie's main themes. Then slowly explodes into a quickening pace of instruments all colliding together, probably one of the most breath-taking trailers from the past decade.
66* Audiomachine
67** [[https://youtu.be/580_F9F75NU "New Beginning"]] from the ''Film/{{Noah}}'' trailer.
68** [[https://youtu.be/I4n9VRQ9Hd0 "The Origin of Species (Magnus)"]] from the ''Film/RogueOne'' trailer, also becomes a BootstrappedLeitmotif for Director Krennic due to its prominent uses for his entrance in Rogue One Panel and MOKO Rogue One Expo.
69* Really Slow Motion's [[https://youtu.be/QLrZh8PKS4I Gender]] fits right in with the tone of ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', as does Ninja Tracks' [[https://youtu.be/KHHHyNCWttc "Pretender"]].
70* The trailer for ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' makes good use of a new goth-style and positively ''eerie'' redux of Music/{{Beyonce}}'s [[https://youtu.be/z4nJX8snP4s haunting "Crazy in Love"]].
71* The trailers for ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' include an awesome cover of "No Strings On Me" [[DarkReprise that manages to make the song sound terrifying.]] There's also [[https://youtu.be/8IqTwoxQJqE Wreckage]], the music for the rest of the trailer, which captured the darker, more intense mood nicely.
72* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''[='=] trailer is bolstered and complemented by [[http://youtu.be/dF-gEn6JVXo "Rise of the Avenger" by Brand X Music]] from the trailer to Part One.
73* The ''Film/SinCity'' trailer had [[https://youtu.be/n8qlOH0jGeE "Cells"]] by The Servant. It's so closely connected to the movie that it's often referred to as [[IAmNotShazam "The Sin City Theme".]]
74* Audio Network's [[https://youtu.be/V1zsZk8SL6Q "Rising Mercury"]], a song so ridiculously tense and awesome it's been used in trailers for MANY films, and so fucking epic even Music/IronMaiden used it as their 2012-2014 tour [[https://youtu.be/DntA6gBJzxI intro]], set to clips of icebergs falling. It's so epic that here are even reports of fans ''reciting the chant'' at concerts.
75* Trailers for ''Film/MissionImpossibleRogueNation'' gave us a [[DarkReprise menacing version]] of "Ready or Not" by the defunct hip-hop group The Fugees and Music/LedZeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love".
76* ''Film/{{Deadpool 2016}}'' had Music/{{DMX}}'s "X Gon Give It To Ya" as its trailer theme. In the movie itself, it plays right before the FinalBattle as Deadpool, Colossus, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead do their TeamPowerWalk.
77* ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'': The trailer's music, [[https://youtu.be/2PiiGIQCrcY "Sharks Don't Sleep"]] by Dean Valentine, really brought the bleakness on what's going to happen in the film.
78* The trailer for the Netflix movie ''Film/{{Mute}}'' has [[https://youtu.be/pHDx7KX9J9s “Pilgrimage”]] by Twelve Titans Music, which matches the {{Cyberpunk}} feel so well that it might actually be more enjoyable than the movie itself.
79* The trailer for ''Film/{{Logan}}'' has “[[https://youtu.be/vt1Pwfnh5pc Hurt]]” by Music/JohnnyCash, the perfect combination of a TearJerker song with a TearJerker movie.
80* [[https://youtu.be/Lhv_yFMuwxs Zack Hemsey's "Vengeance"]] is a perfect song for movies like ''Film/JackRyanShadowRecruit'' and ''Hunter Killer''.
81* The trailers for ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'' are set to "[[https://youtu.be/o0aoh363PI4 Friction]]" by Music/ImagineDragons and "[[https://youtu.be/9518QrtUYV8 Run for Your Life]]" by the Seige, the former of which uses MickeyMousing to the tune of the ''Mission: Impossible'' theme.

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