Conan The Barbarian (1982) Anvil of Crom Opening Theme

Introduction to the classic "Conan: The Barbarian" (1982) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

[@hagebunshin]

"Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And onto this, Conan, destined to wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high adventure!"

[@jaybhugghins9828]

DRUMMING INTENSIFIES!

[@alexscott730]

Sons of Arius...Not Aryas....✌

[@FallenRingbearer]

RIP Mako 😔

[@SnappingTurtle801]

I miss seeing Mako in movies. 😥

[@alexfernandes9606]

Bravoooo!

[@ucanquoteme7404]

The most hard-core metal fantasy movie made. It's a scientific fact that watching this opening while working out, you'll bench press 30% more weight

[@Johnlindsey289]

A classic

[@alnu8355]

It's true, my work outs always have more weight when this or the Kitchen Orgy Scene is playing. Especially when it drops the Anvil of Krom...

[@efraim3364]

answer the riddle of steel afterwards to unlock the secret level

[@loti54]

Train Haaaaarder

[@armandalbert2419]

You are not lying!😂

[@MrKajithecat]

Total father and son movie.Thanks dad for putting this on when Mom was out of town.

[@croci17]

My father recorded me this movie back in the '90 on a VHS, but he cut off the sex scenes with the witch and Valeria, for I was only a child. As I was 20 I went back to watch that tape, and I noticed something was "missing"; After having dowloaded the full version I realized whats it was😂

[@jeanpaulgartier3404]

@@croci17 great dad

[@Artfulscience1]

Absolutely! Lol. I think my dad showed this to me when I was like 6

[@chrisabreedapartnyhc5337]

My mom wouldn’t let me watch it either but my Dad always let me pop the VHS tape in and watch from start to finish

[@HxPure-7Love-]

It really is

[@mcd3379]

Before CGI, before Marvel, before Disney took over every franchise, there was a movie called "Conan the Barbarian" where men were men and movies inspired beyond all imagination.

[@matthewjenkins4559]

And before Anime

[@doublep1980]

@@matthewjenkins4559 Wtf are you talking about? Anime existed long before this movie came out. Also, fun fact: Marvel Comics published the ''Savage Sword of Conan'' comics back in the 70's who were so successful and made Conan more popular then before. Without the success of these comics, this movie wouldn't have been made.

[@Necromonger69]

@@doublep1980 I read those comics, but the point is Disney didn't fu**ing put their slimy hands on it yes we are aware of Marvel publishing Conan. Thanks for the info.

[@KingMakedonce1989]

Cant say it better

[@chrisfowler-us9qt]

Anime exsited before the 80s?

[@spartanhawk7637]

This is probably among the greatest movie openings of all time. No dialogue, only a quick word by the narrator and watching a sword get forged to a song that makes you feel like you could wrestle a bear.

[@Billswiftgti]

Basil Poledouris was built different

[@CamaradeJuk]

A song inspired by a russian composer 😁, Basil Podelouris was a great admirer of Prokofiev

[@Franz_Klaus]

Apocalypse now 1☝️conan 👏👏

[@Muschelschubs3r]

@@CamaradeJuk And Carl Orff. Orff practically jumps out of the sound system screaming^^

[@guypierson5754]

That's not a sword being forged but yeah I get the idea

[@yoyoyonasa]

How to make an intro legendary : 1 - a damn manly chronicler voice on an epic speech of high adventure 2 - a forever legendary music that will best the best orchestras for centuries 3 - a yet, still simple black blackgroung on how it shows that the making quality of the sword will forge the adventurer a lone wolf ... Rip the 80s and 90s. I am born in the 80s and will be proud to h 1:26 ave known these gems

[@Johnlindsey289]

Born 82 here and my birth year rocked for sci-fi and fantasy

[@friedrichjunzt]

Born in the right time, thank the Gods! 😊

[@bladerunner2920]

I'm Korean. I've seen this movie over 20 times. I salute John Milius and Basil Poledouris. Best opening music!

[@Billswiftgti]

I'm Greek and have the same name as the late Basil. Unbeatable soundrack.

[@SpecialOrder935]

Only 20

[@senzosanjuro1769]

20x times 😅 I don't remember but at least over than 10x . I like Korean movies and I've found this movie : 'Musa - The Warrior and the Princess of the Desert' by Kim Seong Su and I thought it's like a kind of Korean Conan 👌

[@senzosanjuro1769]

@@Billswiftgti Unbeatable = without a doubt 👌

[@AS-fl8uh]

Yes!

[@Varotek]

I played this song with my battery Phone at 5%, now it shows -20% and still running.

[@gundammon]

Crom laughs at dead batteries. He laughs from his mountain.

[@FallenRingbearer]

The Riddle of Nickel-Cadmium

[@chuckleshelicopterwigwamjo7315]

@@FallenRingbearer *Lithium Ion

[@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer]

"This you can trust".

[@jez6208]

Crom is pleased with you my child!

[@gabrielna5968]

This mighty opening with such a magnificent music is what true cinema really looks like

[@adamguthrie8522]

This is my childhood, along with Star Wars, Star Trek and Godzilla. Bring on King Conan. Let Arnold shine one last, greatest time. Let him wear the jeweled crown of Aquilonia upon a troubled brow!

[@powerbonger]

I need to see this happen during my lifetime

[@theistrix8675]

Nah, that was another story

[@JS-fd2xk]

I want to see it but at the same time not because I’m worried what they would to the movie by adopting it for a "modern" audience. We saw enough of our heroes die on the big screen (Luke, Terminator) let Conan, sit on the high mountains and laugh with Crome.

[@FCm-tq2ho]

ET

[@carlosrolandogonzalezmacha599]

The most epic intro of any movie ever made...

[@ShawnBoryca]

Good but not great the openings to Once Upon a Time in the West, Big Jake, the terminator and Patton were better

[@Adamantios-Alian]

@@ShawnBoryca Crom laughs at your four movies!!!!

[@Johnlindsey289]

What about Star Wars clasic trilogy or Lord of the Rings trilogy?

[@Adamantios-Alian]

@@Johnlindsey289 Lotr was epic but lacked the depth.

[@thematrixwillfindyou]

@@ShawnBorycaare you joking ? Even terminator opening wasn’t as cool as this , despite having the great music and the other elements , Conan is deeper and much more powerful , but stay with your movies

[@mcutrim72]

What is best in life: Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear this Basil Poledouris masterpiece daily!

[@matthewmatt5285]

Lamentations of their women : )

[@robertlehnert4148]

RIP James Earl Jones

[@iqbalayub]

The man lives 91+yrs old....

[@robertlehnert4148]

@@iqbalayub He died September 9, 2024. Headline news all over the world.

[@ChristianDengler-q4g]

​@@robertlehnert4148true legends never really die

[@robertlehnert4148]

@@ChristianDengler-q4g CROM APPROVES!

[@an8dr2a]

This is not a Movie this is An Epic Poem

[@Artfulscience1]

Thanks to this movie, I now know what is best in life 🤣👏🏻

[@royceturia1562]

😂😂😂

[@juliuswilliams5022]

‼️

[@quigonkenny]

The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair?

[@Frank_Costanzas_Lawyer]

@@quigonkenny Right...er, WRONG!

[@LandseerNorth]

In the early 80's as an escape artist, I used to escape from a Strait jacket to this music. My Rottweiler was named Anvil of Crom. He was the best dog I ever had.

[@Sabbathman1979]

Just before I started listening to heavy metal back in September 1989, I had watched Conan The Barbarian for the first time. Days of high adventure had begun. 🗡️🎸✨

[@darrengreeson2103]

Greatest movie theme of all time.

[@markjoyous3525]

this is the most masculine shit ive ever heard.

[@ArniesTech]

On the day my future child will be born (no matter if son or daughter) I will play this banger through the hospital speakers 🙏💪🏻

[@Warcrimeenthusiast]

I had this playing on my ipod with speakers when my son was born. Wife hated it the Doctor had a blast. Now my son lives a life of High Adventure Commanding an Abrams

[@КнижныйСыч]

This is a total masterpiece!

[@justindiehl7703]

Crom laughs at your first comment!!

[@KeuMoua]

There is a conan in each one of us... A true warrior and a man with a lot of love...

[@matthewmatt5285]

MOST of us~

[@darkjack164]

steel will grow brittle, and you're flesh will age, but it's you're will, and you're conviction that prevail, and stand the test of time

[@markopiirainen2651]

One of the best themes ever made 💪

[@fabianosartorio3717]

Agree. The best movie soundtrack

[@larryschulten9356]

I play this while swinging around my bowie knife in the living room as my wife throws plastic snakes at me and i battle them in the darkness.

[@DanCooper404]

Samesies

[@jhangada]

😮

[@mrvn000]

There must be a place in Heaven for the musician Who wrote this.

[@leesponenberg5907]

That was Basil Poledouris

[@Fonsiloco]

One of the best intros to a movie 🔥🔥🔥

[@DEATH111183]

whenever i do "Manly things" like fixing my motor bike. or working out. or even just cutting wood. i play this theme on my mp3 with damn good speakers.... and feel like i'm conquering the world

[@Concerned_Robot]

the legend lives on in Conan Exiles!

[@steven2345]

My uncle went to see this with my grandpa. Wish I was there

[@MrTanuki11]

I wish I could watch this intro for the first time again. I was like 7 or 8, my dad had no filter as to what movies I could watch lol so there I was...in awe at the drums and melted steel...I think I carried a sword for like a year from then on

[@mojothemigo]

They got a great actress to play the mother as she really looks like Arnold. Far more beautiful of course, but very strong Germanic face like him

[@M0butu]

I don't know, she looks kinda North Italian. 😅 A bit like Claudia Cardinale.

[@paulatreides0777]

@@M0butuyep Italian

[@juancarloscahuanavelasquez7325]

Recuerdo haber ido al cine a mis 9 añitos a ver el héroe que seguía en comics, ¡¡CONAN EL BARBARO!!, mi madre me tapaba los ojos para no ver las partes feas, pero la pelicula me destapo más el interes por los comics y obvimanete por el cimerio, gracias hasta el cielo madre por llevarme al cine a ver esta extraordinaria pelicula.

[@amsfountain8792]

My hamster heard the song , now is a lion.

[@fireplasies5647]

I don't know whether it is the best movie or not but certainly one of the most iconic movie.

[@trippjohnson7393]

One of the best fantasy films ever.

[@jaybhugghins9828]

I watched this with my dad at like 5 and I got mad when he covered my eyes and now I'm happy he did

[@tylerb5764]

It is I, AKU!!! Who can tell you of his saga

[@alyriatutoring5697]

Thank god someone who made this connection. Samurai Jack like VERBATIM has taken from this movie lol, in so many instances. Especially the 3 Archers episode

[@megacyberplus2855]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@jediknight7204]

Perfection in an epic music theme, masterpiece from one of the best composer ever. (RIP Basil Poledouris the LEGEND)

[@rbihon]

my cat listened to this now he is a saber tooth tiger

[@vedymin1]

Turns into the Battle Cat 🐸

[@laniakea777]

I don't know about you but this stirs my soul.

[@ksauerrr]

Basil Poledouris and his musical genious made this movie great and timeless.

[@Perun944]

Great soundtrack.

[@TheBrazilianUser]

It was the favorite song in my youth. I used to watch the sea on cold rainy winter days and play this song

[@Sabbathman1979]

The beginning of all things heavy metal in my life. 🏔️❄️💪⚔️🔥

[@benchessher-mw9nz]

me an my dad right here!!! conan,predator,commando,raw deal,...good ol days...rock on!!!

[@NihilistGhost]

Best movie, best actor ,best soundtrack, best scriptwriter...

[@mikecotto1167]

What a perfect scene of the films main weapon being forged to this music. Makes you just want to obliterate everything that opposes you.

[@Mrblancnoir]

THE LEGEND OF CONAN! I hope it is done in the wonderful style of this movie. Old school Hollywood.

[@komarithsoth422]

Something that can’t destroy us must turns us again strong

[@jamescurran9086]

I did read somewhere that originally they wanted Ennio Morricone for the Conan soundtrack, it didn’t happen, but later he did the soundtracks to Red Sonja and Hundra . 👍🇬🇧

[@stereoplayers]

Dino de Laurentiis, the producer, originally wanted the movie to have a pop music soundtrack like the movie Chariots of Fire. Milius told him no, that Conan needed an orchestral, almost operatic, score. Milius won in the end.

[@nigellubman716]

Best music, best cast, best movie ever made.

[@shamusteakiawa]

The music in this movie is so epic and fits the theme so well.

[@jackson1030]

The blacksmith and his model wife. Ah yes, a tale as old as time.

[@attaque71]

The fact that the sword was casted and not forged troubles me a little. No wonder it broke off.

[@M0butu]

must have been bronze. probably that's the point of the riddle of steel? how to make it. 😅

[@spaceenemiesnovel]

In the 80's I had this C64 game called Barbarians. It has the same theme song.

[@vaderboy121]

by crom this is good move

[@Siddharth_dif_n_dif_Co.427]

Thanks for making this video shot.

[@drazenbabic2149]

Epic, best wishes from BBB, Zagreb, Croatia

[@vladvlog9677]

This intro alone made men out of boys.

[@mrforss9756]

One of te best movie itro 👍👍👍

[@Usmc0341]

You haven’t watched this movie, until you’ve heard this opening on a 14 speaker Bose surround sound setup. The bass will shake the walls

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

You haven't watched the movie until you've read the original Klingon subtitles.

[@stereoplayers]

At least 14 French horns were used in the opening music. Also, this was the last major Hollywood movie to be recorded in mono. Rafaela de Laurentiis, producer Dino's daughter, balked at the extra money for it to be recorded in stereo. From then on, about every movie made was recorded in stereo.

[@joelp6197]

My housecat was in the room when this was on and turned into a Lion.

[@kedriankirian737]

Amo tanto essa música me emociono tanto lembro de tudo q já suportei nesta vida sofrida cada batalha cada perda cada vitória vou tentar arranjar a partitura e pagar um violinista pra executar está melodia no meu aniversário de 50 anos mto massa

[@dannilo2695]

CROM! THIS IS THE BEST IN THE LIFE!

[@luisarturoorduna2098]

Nah, "besht in life ish hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper". Cohen the barbarian.

[@BlueOx2277]

Anvil of Crom was playing when my son was born

[@malafakka8530]

I guess he will go on to conquer the world then.

[@krisgoldsmith476]

You knew you were in for something special at 3 seconds in.

[@ЕгорРябенко-к4г]

Hard times strengthen spirit, body and character in every human.

[@thunderwolf2576]

Definitely one if not my most favorite opening of a film

[@ChaitanyaTambolkar]

What a great intro ! ! !

[@megalois75]

Simplemente, ÉPICO!!!

[@archstanton6310]

Needs to be back in the cinema.

[@alitanicholas9579]

Back when movies were wholesome, and the only narrative that was pushed was good against evil.

[@donttellmewhattodo7750]

I will be laid to rest at the end of my life to this orchestral masterpiece, The Anvil of Crom 🗡️

[@stephanweber515]

Man braucht Feuer und Eis ,um ein scharfes Schwert zu schmieden.

[@emanuelebrighi9192]

I've make my dog listen to this. Now he is my owner

[@leslieblouir1364]

Greatest movie ever made excellent sound track.

[@seanfoltz7645]

Basil Poledouris made this movie as much as anything else with the music - he was one of the great and underrate composers of the 80s and 90s. More to educate than criticize - iron and steel swords were never poured into molds like that - that was exclusive to bronze weapons - back then they started out with iron ore, hammering it into a billet, with the folding process being to hammer out the impurities and get carbon into it from the forge to turn it into steel, thus eventually turning the raw iron ore into the steel which could then be made into the weapon. This was all done by experience as they had no real way to judge just how much carbon was in the steel, meaning that quality was all over the place with steel that had too high and low a carbon content, hence the reason why even steel weapons were prone to breaking and shattering back then. LOL, gotta do a Forged in Fire moment - Conan's dad did an uneven quench on that sword - that's why it shatters later in the movie.

[@stereoplayers]

But, then again, it was probably done 'for dramatic purposes'; you see the sword being made, its birth.

[@electronicgrandpa7974]

"He will not cry, so I cry for him"

[@ohnen818]

This is my wake up alarm.

[@Tony-e1d6m]

Love my dad Watching this on teater front row when i was 8 years old.watched as if i m conan 😂

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Arnold's greatest role.

[@eRNINOYOLÉ-b7y]

Goosebumps 🔥

[@DanCooper404]

You cast bronze; you FORGE steel.

[@valnuke]

the melted iron flowing at the start is pure genius

[@malafakka8530]

If you are interested, I have a video series on the movie on my channel. The first two analyse this scene. Skip the first 3 minutes of the first video (it's just an introduction).

[@valnuke]

@@malafakka8530interesting... I'll watch it. thanks man

[@rickyramal5243]

Absolutely amazing

[@markopiirainen2651]

Aliarvostettu elokuva, aliarvostettu soundtrack. Hieno biisi 🙂

[@jmpp7644]

All of the sudden I have this urge to crush my enemies, see them driven before me , and to hear the lamentations of their women.

[@Johnlindsey289]

This movie, Excalibur, lord of the rings trilogy and more define fantasy

[@juanbautistaTarazonafuentes]

Conan el barbaro es una de mis peliculas de mi infansia que bien hola soy juan de san cristobal venzuela asta luego ❤😊

[@NeilPackard]

There you have it, the power and talent.❤

[@Rhuarc1]

The answer to the enigma of steel is in this scene. You just need to understand what you are seeing.

[@timkaase6945]

I play this theme before I start a role playing game night (yes, I have the Conan RPG first edition, authorized by the Robert E. Howard estate)

[@petewinter7759]

RIP - Mako !

[@hyena61]

James Earl Jones ... One of the greatest talents ever ! RIP Mr Jones ... you will be dearly missed. 😪 ❤

[@pk1645]

Stay strong and keep Crom…

[@projektkobra2247]

This is the only music that makes Chuck Norris cry.

[@reouven1963]

Incredible intro movie perhaps the best

[@josepg.2479]

One of the best film music ever done, despite The Academy forgot it.

[@oscarumana8525]

Nadiuska.....ese mujeron!!!!! Lastima que quisieron abusar de ella, no lo consiguieron y la humillaron por no dejarse... .