Epic Themes II is the follow-up to Silva Screen’s 2015 Epic Themes album. This 16 track (1 hr, 10 min, 47 sec) digital album collection features the best recent epic themes from films, games and 3 exclusive, specially commissioned tracks from up and coming composers Evan Jolly and Rick Clark - ‘Breaking Through’, ‘Striding Forward’ and ‘This Earth’...

Opening with Hans Zimmer and Junkie XL’s high octane theme from the DC character cross-over movie Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the album also includes Jablonsky’s sweeping and evocative ‘My Name Is Lincoln’ from The Island, Daft Punk’s explosive, minimal ‘Outlands’ from Tron: Legacy, Hans Zimmer’s electronically morphed tribal drums in “Mombasa” from Inception and concludes with the lustrous 10 minute City of Prague Philharmonic’s version (arrangement by Evan Jolly) of ‘Light of the Seven’ from Game Of Thrones.

If you're a fan of epic themes then this album showcases some of the most memorably pieces of music from the last few years. Daft Punk's 'Outlands' is always a pleasure to hear. It was also interesting to discover three new pieces of music, all of which fit well here with the more well known pieces.

It's the perfect album to dip in and out of; put on in the background while you engage in some fast-paced First Person Shooter action, but for me it's flagged up a few albums which I'm going to have to seek out.

Track listing:

01. Is She With You? (from Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice) - Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL
02. Hero's Theme (from Justice League) - Danny Elfman
03. My Name Is Lincoln (from The Island) - Steve Jablonsky
04. Main Theme (from Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty) - Harry Gregson-Williams
05. Outlands (from Tron: Legacy) - Daft Punk (Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo; Thomas Bangalter)
06. It's Our Fight (from Transformers: Dark of the Moon) - Steve Jablonsky
07. Breaking Through - Evan Jolly, Rick Clark
08. Mombasa (from Inception) - Hans Zimmer
09. Warcraft (from Warcraft) - Ramin Djawadi
10. Iron Man 3 (from Iron Man 3) - Brian Tyler
11. Striding Forward - Evan Jolly, Rick Clark
12. Waking Up (from Oblivion) - M83 (Anthony Gonzalez / Joseph Trapanese)
13. Gravity (from Gravity) - Steven Price
14. This Earth - Evan Jolly, Rick Clark
15. Theme (from Battlefield 1942) - Joel Eriksson
16. Light of the Seven (from Game Of Thrones) - Ramin Djawadi

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Darren Rea