{"id":406809,"date":"2026-07-21T17:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406809\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:57:11","slug":"composer-bear-mccreary-heads-to-san-diego-comic-con-before-west-coast-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406809\/","title":{"rendered":"Composer Bear McCreary Heads to San Diego Comic-Con Before West Coast Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-150962 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BearMcCreary-Ekleipsis-Tour-2026-3x4-APPROVED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"492\"  \/>Bear McCreary is returning to San Diego Comic-Con this year to pull back the curtain on the art of creating beautiful fictional worlds through music.<\/p>\n<p>The Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning composer behind God of War, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Battlestar Galactica, Outlander, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, and more will host the \u201cBear McCreary: Musical World-Building\u201d panel on Thursday, July 23 from 11:45am-12:45pm in Room 6BCF. He\u2019ll be joined by game director Ariel Lawrence (God of War Laufey), director Jeff Wadlow (Kick-Ass 2), drummer Gene Hoglan, and singer Raya Yarbrough for a discussion on creativity, collaboration, and bringing fictional universes to life through music.<\/p>\n<p>The panel also comes just ahead of the July 31 release of McCreary\u2019s new hard rock concept album, The Singularity: Ekleipsis, which features an all-star lineup of collaborators including Slash, Duff McKagan, Chad Smith, Patrick Stump, Claudio Sanchez, Joe Duplantier, Steve Vai, and more.<\/p>\n<p>McCreary will also hit the road this September for a West Coast tour, with tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/bearmccreary.com\/thesingularity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on sale now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bear McCreary is returning to San Diego Comic-Con this year to pull back the curtain on the art&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[100,157341,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-406809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-news","tag-panels","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}