So when it comes down to it, it's about purpose built tracks, the luxury is that Two Steps From Hell, Immediate Music, Thomas Bergeson, etc have became so big that they can afford to just make music for listening purchase, rather than for trailer purposing. Their tracks now in some cases conclude, and arent about driving visuals bigger and bigger. So they've become now more about the song and album than it's original purpose. So basically 'Epic music' has now become a mainstream choice for listeners, ten years ago it just wasn't the case. It's become more of a type of music, than the original purpose. That's why you are hearing TSFH less in trailers because the music no longer sits with them. Two steps from Hell, Thomas Bergerson and many others are leaning away from that purpose built reasoning as they're now selling CDs and a community has now taken interest in this type of music. Visuals are purposefully driven then by the audio like a music video and made to climax not to conclude, feeling open ended, driving you to the movie. As the trailer continues it then becomes dependent on the audio, and syncs the audio used. Trailers start off in most cases open and timed to establish the image, this is slow and creates setting and mood. Such as some of the Batman v Superman Trailers, etc. I say in most cases because there ARE examples where music has been made for the trailers. Trailer music comes before the picture edit, whereas Film Scores come after the edit. This is because trailers in most cases use a track which is precreated for the purpose of marketing, whereas music in films is composed to the timings of the film. Answer (1 of 2): A up to date list is always available at their website The list of trailers featuring the music composed by 'Two steps from hell' i saw, and can personally confirm is as follows: Star Trek trailer Twilight Twilight:New Moon Twilight: Eclipse A Christma. Studying trailer music the one thing that Trailer Editors say is the longest thing it takes them is finding the music. Trailer music in most cases is not about creating to picture.

I often use it when i want to be creative. What are your guys opinions on such genres? Should it just stay in movies, can they be stand alone.

Or theatrical music in general (i just listen to tsfh almost exclusively in this case).

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