In June 2018, it was reported that Benjamin Wallfisch would compose the score for Hellboy.[1] Wallfisch noted that the film "has this extraordinary kind of punk attitude" and wanted to create a true terrifying sound which was aggressive and heavy.[2] To make it sound from the underworld, he experimented it with EDMsynth sounds combined with punk rock guitars and a heavy low-end orchestra which was mixed in a way that sounded similar to a radio mix of an EDM track, he considered it a "strong, powerful and impactful [...] produced sound".[3] The music in Hellboy considered to be the opposite of Wallfisch's score for Shazam!, released during the same time, which combined live orchestral recording. Wallfisch considered the film to be different from Guillermo del Toro's first two Hellboy films, being more aggressive and had horror elements which he had to encapsulate that, including Harbour's performance reflecting it.[4][5]
Track listing
No.
Title
Writer(s)
Artist(s)
Length
1.
"Big Red"
5:29
2.
"Psychic Migraine"
3:58
3.
"Gruagach"
1:52
4.
"You Call Us Monsters"
3:26
5.
"Baba Yaga"
3:29
6.
"A New Eden"
5:48
7.
"Destroyer of All Things"
4:33
8.
"Cathedral Fight"
7:32
9.
"Anung Un Rama"
2:16
10.
"This Isn't You"
4:34
11.
"Hellboy"
1:27
12.
"Rock Me Like a Hurricane" (Spanish Version)
Rudolf Schenker, Herman Rarebell and Klaus Meine
Unprotected Innocence (Micki Milosevic and Steph Honde)
4:14
Total length:
48:38
Reception
Zanobard Reviews gave a 3/10 rating to the album, saying "Hellboy is a bizarre score, being an odd mishmash of orchestra and EDM which succeeds only in making the album a pretty generic, dull and sometimes genuinely painful listening experience."[6] James Southall of Movie Wave, however, gave a positive review saying, "Wallfisch puts his foot to the floor and never lets it up – and while I don't like metal music at all, those who do will be in for a treat – and I can at least sit back and admire the effort that's been put into it."[7] A reviewer based at Film Music Central wrote "The score isn't perfect by any means. Some of the action tracks are either too "[Hans] Zimmer like" (too bombastic for my taste) or too generic to me truly memorable. But the tracks that are good, are really good."[8] Kyle Anderson of Nerdist News wrote "composer Benjamin Wallfisch offers up a mix of rock, electronic, and orchestra for a driving, hard-edged score to one of the hardest-edged heroes."[9] Tim Grierson of Screen International called it a "clattering hard-rock soundtrack".[10]
Additional music
The list of songs featured in the film, but not included in the soundtrack:[11]
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