Zack Snyder's Justice League (soundtrack)

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All music is composed by Tom Holkenborg, except where noted

Zack Snyder's Justice League (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Soundtrack album by
ReleasedMarch 18, 2021 (2021-03-18)
Recorded2020–2021
Genre
Length234:09
Label WaterTower
Producer Tom Holkenborg
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No.TitleComposer(s)Length
1."Song to the Siren" (Tim Buckley cover, performed by Rose Betts)
3:17
2."A Hunter Gathers" 7:57
3."Migratory" 0:57
4."Things Fall Apart" 1:04
5."Wonder Woman Defending / And What Rough Beast"
  • Hans Zimmer
  • Mark Andrew Wherry
  • Melissa Muik
  • Robert Badami
  • Steve Mazzaro
  • Holkenborg
7:20
6."World Ending Fire" 9:23
7."Middle Mass" 1:18
8."Long Division" 1:13
9."No Paradise, No Fall" 4:11
10."The Center Will Not Hold, Twenty Centuries of Stony Sleep"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
8:56
11."As Above, So Below" 2:28
12."No Dog, No Master" 8:14
13."Take This Kingdom by Force" 1:44
14."A Splinter from the Thorn That Pricked You"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
1:09
15."Cyborg Becoming / Human All Too Human" 10:35
16."The Path Chooses You" 2:12
17."Aquaman Returning / Carry Your Own Water" 8:22
18."The Provenance of Something Gathered" 1:14
19."We Do This Together" 12:57
20."The Will to Power" 5:20
21."Smoke Become Fire" 1:39
22."I Teach You, the Overman"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
4:19
23."A Glimmer at the Door of the Living" 1:01
24."How We Achieve Ourselves" 1:43
25."The Sun Forever Rising" 1:31
26."Underworld"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
5:49
27."Superman Rising, Pt. 1 / A Book of Hours"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
2:40
28."Beyond Good and Evil" 4:24
29."Monument Builder" 2:29
30."Monument Destroyer" 6:08
31."Urgrund"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
1:49
32."So Begins the End" 4:49
33."The House of Belonging"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
2:37
34."Earthling"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
3:24
35."Flight Is Our Nature" 1:54
36."Indivisible" 2:33
37."And the Lion-Earth Did Roar, Pt. 1" 5:22
38."And the Lion-Earth Did Roar, Pt. 2" 5:32
39."Superman Rising, Pt. 2 / Immovable"
  • Zimmer
  • Holkenborg
1:55
40."At the Speed of Force" 4:20
41."My Broken Boy" 2:16
42."That Terrible Strength" 1:51
43."An Eternal Reoccurrence of Change" 1:45
44."We Slay Ourselves" 5:52
45."Your Own House Turned to Ashes"
3:16
46."All of You Undisturbed Cities"
  • Zimmer
  • Wherry
  • Muik
  • Badami
  • Holkenborg
6:15
47."The Art of Preserving Fire" 1:27
48."The Crew at Warpower" 6:49
49."The Foundation Theme" (from Zack Snyder's Justice League) 2:08
50."Batman, a Duty to Fight / To See" 5:30
51."Batman, an Invocation to Heal / To Be Seen" 8:36
52."Wonder Woman, a Call to Stand / A World Awakened"
  • Zimmer
  • Wherry
  • Muik
  • Badami
  • Mazzaro
  • Holkenborg
5:10
53."Flash, the Space to Win / Our Legacy Is Now" 11:14
54."Hallelujah" (Leonard Cohen cover, performed by Allison Crowe)Cohen6:11
Total length:234:09

Music appearing in the film and not included on the soundtrack: [12] [17]

#TitlePerformer(s)
1"Vísur Vatnsenda-Rósu"Yong Aus Galeson
2"Distant Sky" Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
3"There Is a Kingdom"

Reception

Holkenberg's score received mixed reviews from critics. Nadine Smith of Pitchfork noted Holkenberg's ability to create a distinctive soundtrack, otherwise describing the soundtrack as "aggressively long, ambitiously overstuffed, and deeply polarizing", but praised both the film and the soundtrack as director Zack Snyder and Holkenborg's unfiltered vision. Certain tracks such as "At the Speed of Force" were deemed the most memorable, and some pieces contributed to the impact of their respective scenes in the film. [18] Fans enjoyed the revamped themes for several characters, including the "Ancient Lamentation" motif associated with Wonder Woman and the Amazons, [19] though others called the motif "overused" and "annoying" and turned it into an internet meme. [20] Christian Clemmenson of Filmtracks did not enjoy the soundtrack. He felt the soundtrack had no narrative and was too derivative of Hans Zimmer's work on previous DCEU films. [21] Conversely, James Southall of Movie Wave awarded the soundtrack four out of five stars, considering it "the finest music of [Holkenborg's] career so far". [22]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Pitchfork 6.5/10 [18]
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