Guns N\u2019 Roses guitarist Slash and Emmy-winning composer Bear McCreary (\u201cThe Walking Dead,\u201d \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power\u201d) collaborated on the theme song for Deathstalker. Watch the music video below.<\/p>\n
The reverential reboot of the Roger Corman-produced 1983 sword and sorcery cult classic is in theaters today via Shout Studios.<\/p>\n
The theme song features original Deathstalker II composer Chuck Cirino, singer Brendan McCreary, Dethklok drummer Gene Hoglan, bassist Pete Griffin, and guitarist Omer Ben-Zvi.<\/p>\n
Slash, who also executive produced the film, explains. \u201cWe wanted to do a remake of the Deathstalker theme, and I\u2019m good friends with Bear McCreary, so I called him, and it turns out he\u2019s a big Deathstalker fan and a fan of Chuck Cirino, the original composer for the original song. So we thought, \u2018Let\u2019s remake the song. We\u2019ll get a live band and we\u2019ll do it like that.\u2019 So we went into a studio, Bear and I and some musicians and Chuck, and we did a great version of the original theme song. It was just a blast to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent every weekend in high school watching cult movies with my buddies,\u201d adds McCreary. \u201cThe night we watched Deathstalker II, I was immediately struck by the catchy melodies in Chuck Cirino\u2019s score. I picked up a little Casio keyboard I had lying around and played along. After I moved to Los Angeles to pursue my own dreams of scoring films, Chuck and I became good friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cYears later, my friend Slash told me he was developing a new feature film version of Deathstalker, and I knew right away that my worlds were about to collide! I was thrilled to collaborate with Slash, Chuck, and my brother, vocalist and lyricist Brendan McCreary, on a new song inspired by Chuck\u2019s iconic Deathstalker II theme to match director Steven Kostanski\u2019s lovingly bloody vision.\u201d<\/p>\n
In Deathstaker, the Kingdom of Abraxeon is under siege by the Dreadites, heralds of the long-dead sorcerer Nekromemnon. When Deathstalker recovers a cursed amulet from a corpse-strewn battlefield, he\u2019s marked by dark magick and hunted by monstrous assassins. To survive, he must break the curse and face the rising evil.<\/p>\n
Written and directed by\u00a0Steven Kostanski (Psycho Goreman, The Void), it stars\u00a0Daniel Bernhardt, Christina Orjalo, Paul Lazenby, Nicholas Rice, and Patton Oswalt.<\/p>\n