Chronicles of Empire (books) trailer music

[Brian G Turner]

I listen to a lot of film soundtrack and film trailer music, and some of it especially helps inspire my thinking on the Chronicles of Empire series.

However, there's a track for each book in the main arc that I often listen to, and imagine I'm watching a trailer.

This helps me imagine scenes, dialogue - and especially the emotional impact I'm aiming for in that book.

Some are full tracks, but others I listen to a specific excerpt. Here they are, just in case you're interested.


1. Gathering - Freedom Fighters by Two Steps from Hell

(Full track)

2. Awakening - Journey to the Line by Hans Zimmer

Start at 2:51 and finish at 5:05.

3. Founding - Invictus by The Immediate

(Full track)

4. Crusaders - Aesir by Two Steps from Hell

(Start at 0:33 and finish at 3:06)

5. Battlelords - We Will Rock You by VonLichten + Queen

(Full track)

6. Empire - Titan Dune by Two Steps from Hell

(Full track)

 

[Boaz]

Brilliant.

As an adult, I read in silence. It is the only thing I do in silence. I eat, drive, work, and play with some music or video playing in the background. But I read Dragonflight, in 1981, while listening to Styx's Paradise Theatre. I was fourteen years old and had just seen Styx perform at the Kansas Coliseum two weeks previously. I did not know one Styx song going in to the concert. So while reading Anne McCaffrey's original story, I played my cassette of PT over and over and over. Lessa and F'lar's relationship, fighting thread, dragons hatching, Fax's scheming, and the actual dragonflights are all set to Styx. I'll never do it again, but I do have fond memories.