Iron Man

Iron Man: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album to the 2008 film of the same name. It was released on May 6, 2008. It is composed by Ramin Djawadi.


Composer Ramin Djawadi, an Iron Man fan who still has issues of the comic from the late 1970s, has also been into heavy metal music since the early 1990s. While he normally composes after watching an assembly cut, Djawadi began work after seeing the teaser trailer. Favreau clearly envisioned a focus on "heavy" guitar in the score, and Djawadi composed the music on that instrument before arranging it for orchestra. The composer said Downey's performance inspired the several Iron Man themes (for his different moods), as well as Stark's playboy leitmotif. Djawadi's favorite of the Iron Man themes is the "kickass" because of its "rhythmic pattern that is a hook on its own. Very much like a machine." The other themes are "not so much character based but rather plot based that carry you through the movie". Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave contributed additional guitar work to the film's soundtrack.



RECEPTION

AllMusic awarded the soundtrack three stars out of five stating that composer Djawadi "treats the superhero with a predictably heavy hand, resulting in a soundtrack that takes the slow-build menace of Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard's work on Christopher Nolan's Batman franchise and dials an industrial army that utilizes crushing percussion, huge strings, and a symphony of distorted guitars that echo Metallica's concerts with the San Francisco Symphony (S&M) minus the vocals."