System of a Down’s Serj Tankian delivers haunting new song from Game of Thrones Season 8 - Noise11.com
Serj Tankian of System Of A Down - Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Serj Tankian of System Of A Down - Photo by Ros O'Gorman

System of a Down’s Serj Tankian delivers haunting new song from Game of Thrones Season 8

by Paul Cashmere on May 21, 2019

in News

Former System of a Down singer and guitarist Serj Tankian has teamed with film score composer Ramin Djawadi for ‘The Rains of Castamere’ from the Game of Thrones Season 8 soundtrack.

Djawadi has scored all eight seasons of Game of Thrones as well as the two seasons of Westworld, the TV series Person of Interest and the 2008 ‘Iron Man’ movie. He has also worked on ‘Batman Begins’, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl’ and ‘Ned Kelly’.

Tankian appeared in the 2017 live performance of Game of Thrones Live Concert Experience performing this arrangement.

The Game of Thrones Season 8 soundtrack is available now through iTunes

1. Main Title
2. The Rains of Castamere performed by Ramin Djawadi & Serj Tankian
3. Arrival at Winterfell
4. Flight of Dragons
5. Heir to the Throne
6. Jenny of Oldstones
7. A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
8. The Battle of Winterfell
9. The Dead are Already Here
10. Battle for the Skies
11. The Long Night Pt. 1
12. The Long Night Pt. 2
13. The Night King
14. Dead Before the Dawn
15. Not Today
16. Farewell
17. Outside the Gates
18. The Bells
19. The Last War
20. Into the Fire
21. For Cersei
22. Believe
23. Stay a Thousand Years
24. Nothing Else Matters
25. Master of War
26. Be with Me
27. The Iron Throne
28. Break the Wheel
29. You Have a Choice
30. The White Book
31. The Last of the Starks
32. A Song of Ice and Fire

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