Conan the Barbarian - 03 - Riddle Of Steel/Riders Of Doom

[@ZeMalta]

I love how they made an entire movie just to accompany such an incredible soundtrack.

[@Andrew-eq1jw]

Agreed the first time I watched it was like the music was taking over to the point where I was paying more attention to it than what I was watching.

[@XiangYu94]

Cool fact: the director was buddies with the composer, and told him the general plot / essence of the scenes so that he could tailor the sound *exactly* to the vision of the director. The result is a soundtrack that is still considered a masterpiece in 2020 😦

[@dusk6159]

What a great and especially lasting classic, one of the best soundtracks of all time, always great to rehear it. Especially in a wise mod for Medieval II, Bellum Crucis, that has it (in battle, sieges with it are just a marvelous experience) and highlighted it at that. Very wise. Fitting perfectly with such a film and poster too. Big fantasy movies, brutes and all that jazz most of the times are bad (even Arnold), but Conan, Arnold, the film etc are just a great work and deserved classic. Thanks to the all-time work of the famous Basil too.

[@dusk6159]

@@Andrew-eq1jw Exactly

[@stevem9191]

@@XiangYu94 and nowadays they use filler songs from other movies, and then recreate similar sounds .... hence why so many movies sound like the same soundtrack lol

[@matthewdunham1689]

Conan: "Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad.Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That's what's important! Valor pleases you, Crom... so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then the HELL with you!"

[@yungshirley9468]

wrong song

[@blackjohnny0]

This music is like life - sometimes sad, sometimes ferocious and cruel, sometimes beautiful and epic.

[@georgeesquivel2517]

I like the way u word it 👍

[@victor_.]

but life is boring 99% of the time

[@speakstheobvious5769]

@@victor_. That's only because in the past 50 years we developed time to be bored.

[@NotEnoughSound]

alomst like ... a human made it

[@phillip_iv_planetking6354]

I have lived everything you stated.

[@joshuaashmore]

HOW IN THE HELL DO PEOPLE NOT LIKE THIS EPIC ASS MUSIC!!! ONE OF THE BEST ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS OF ALL TIME, AND ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES AS WELL.

[@SvenStadt]

No movie and music grated against my nerves. No redeeming value whatsoever.

[@alexandernorman5337]

The movie was about men being MEN (some of them bad but still MEN) and so it doesn't jive with SJW sentiments.

[@SvenStadt]

Cuz at the scene where he is getting tortured, and they have an exchange about the Riddle of Steel, it completely ruined the direction of the movie. Lots of distracting pieces of dialogue like that ruined the movie. It started off confusing as well, with his father teaching him philosophy, but then it became a revenge story??? I never understood why they took it that direction.

[@Vejita12]

De gustibus non est disputandum? ;)

[@zenithquasar9623]

I love the Lord of the Rings soundtrack, and I feel like it is heavily inspired by this score!

[@JoahnnesPaulus]

Sino es la mejor banda sonora de la historia,esta entre las mejores 5,no tengan duda

[@OldManRogers]

What is best in life? To have the 'Riders of Doom' kick in when you're charging down someone atop your rhinoceros in Age of Conan!

[@johnnylalonde7542]

There's something magical about this soundtrack.

[@nvi5ion622]

...like they were tapping into a (sacrifice of a) long gone age.

[@DAGOBLOOD619]

There will never be anyone who could bring it the way Arnold did. He will always be the one and only CONAN!

[@FoneArc]

BIGERICK CALIFORNIA -- And he's coming back in the Legend of Conan.

[@GDEE6]

FoneArc I've been waiting for it since the day it was announced! there hasn't been much news about it lately.

[@helenasvachova444]

I think Arnold is a living archetype.

[@snipingflute4346]

It looks like they are bringing up the Terminator again in 2019. www.imdb.com/title/tt6450804/ Makes me wonder if Conan the Barbarian will get a reboot if they start touching on movies Arnold Schwarzenegger did.

[@donskiver]

I would *love* to see king Conan finally get made with Arnold playing Conan, of course. Then the trilogy will finally be complete.

[@sairusgt1]

this will never be topped, a very catchy soundtrack that captures the time and culture of conan

[@kaizerman249]

People who grew up when it first came out, you guys are lucky! I love these kinds of movies, Conan, Rambo, Predator, Commando, Terminator, etc, if manliness had a scent, you'll smell it on the screen

[@antonioaguilar8295]

00:00 Calm before the storm. 01:41 Epic tension. 02:12 y 2:52 Epic chorus. 03:34 Ecstasy!! 04:24 Battle drums. 05:10 Final chorus.

[@ultracarterzilla6939]

5:18

[@gtd9536]

I think you mean: Epic Calm before the storm. Epic tension. Epic y Epic chorus Epic Ecstasy Epic Battle drums Epic Final chorus Just epic-ness.

[@zenzeleluckymtshali8433]

IN THE FIGHT NOT MY WAR AS A COWARD YES NO HEART AI ROBOT WHEN BONTSHISI..IM HUNGRY U KNOW THAT WHEN

[@Grandslam245]

​@@zenzeleluckymtshali8433what dafuq are you on about

[@thunderwolf2576]

Probably wasn't supposed to watch this film as a kid but it really is a great film and I truly do love it. Opened a whole world of fantasy and mythology for my young mind.

[@ataulhaadi35]

My father took when I was 6 to see this after school. I returned a changed boy.

[@welling1]

Yep, I recall watching this without my parents knowing with my older step brother who rented it on VHS.

[@yujirohanma5199]

3:35 shit goes CRAZY!! If that part doesn't get your blood flowing, you don't have a pulse

[@Aybo1000]

How I PR 🤣

[@dolria1]

Non other movie equivalent to this majestic masterpiece score. Its number 1 for me, the storytelling, score, choreography, everything was just perfect. The greatest movie of all times, hands down.

[@UncleDavey]

Quite simply one of the most underrated soundtracks of all time.

[@yyyihad]

Conan the Barbarian is one of the most underrated soundtracks IN YOUR VILLAGE.

[@rada222]

overall great movie and even better soundtrack, thanks to Mr Basil Poledouris and I think he should have a monument in every country in the world for that:P

[@Brittanicus-y3v]

"When a country loses its manliness in war, watches its religions fail, lies vulnerable to the money robbers, then the hordes of barbarians will enter its borders. When will they come? From where will they arrive?" - Robert E. Howard.

[@kofola9145]

"Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds."

[@jayinri6658]

When 3:32 happens, I literally feel blood rush over w/ goosebumps all over my body like a fire

[@BboyDschafar]

Good. You learn the riddle of steel.

[@trhlajz]

IMHO, the (whole) Conan soundtrack is the BEST epic orchestral symphony written from the times of Karl Orff (& his Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi) - and Basil Poledouris stays immortal through this masterpiece. O:-)

[@mikebennet7697]

But in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield. And we who found it are just men. Not gods, not giants...just men.

[@R3SerialDreams]

3:04 "Before we go, we want you to step into one more world for Nintendo GameCube."

[@antonymartin4861]

I think everyone in the world should listen to this instrumental atleast once😎

[@Aldiraider]

Real Men should.

[@aaronpinder7071]

Rest in peace James Earl Jones.

[@resonanttotality8322]

"But this. this you can trust."

[@jaynyce1980]

I hear this song and instantly see Arnold kicking everyone’s butt!! 10000 years later it’ll still be that way.

[@laboulenoire7123]

2:04 oh my god...

[@bagnon]

Fire and wind come from the sky... ...from the gods of the sky, but Crom is your god. Crom lives in the earth. Once giants lived in the earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos... ...they fooled Crom and took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered and the earth shook. Fire and wind struck down the giants and threw their bodies in the water. But in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel... ...and left it on the battlefield. And we who found it... ...are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn it, little Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one, no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts. This you can trust.

[@lornbaker1083]

Steel is always honest as long as it is forged right. That is the answer to the riddle

[@brucecoe1250]

All of Arnold's powerlifting buddies were in the film, a wonderful cast.

[@neo_wolf7992]

This is a top 5 movie score imo, simply incredible, the whole thing.

[@mydogskips2]

What are your other four?

[@neo_wolf7992]

@@mydogskips2 Ben Hur, The Lord of the Rings, E.T and The Mission.

[@shieldwarden2534]

I love how you can pretty much see the movie by just listening to the soundtrack.

[@dwijon]

not enough people know about this score.

[@boxtank5288]

For those complaining about the weird placement of the track Riders of Doom, it's supposed to be the theme of Tulsa Doom's Army and when you first hear that you feel a sense of dread, or at least are supposed to, you knew how it was going to go, people were going to die and they were going to die in very bloody ways. With the first time it's heard in the film it uses only the more dread filled elements, which makes sense because for Conan this would be terrifying and slightly traumatic as this raid not only kills his village but ends with his father eaten by dogs and his mother decapitated after she had wavered in Tulsa Doom's presence. The second time this is heard, this track has more triumphant elements to fit the fact that it's a big bloody fight only this time the casualties will be solely Doom's forces. In both cases people die and it maintains it's status as an excellent track.

[@ericgrumbles447]

I disagree. The first time you hear this track, the circle begins. The last time you hear it, the circle completes itself. Everyone Conan loves is killed in font of him and his life, his purpose begins. At the end, his purpose is finally clear and he kills everyone Thulsa Doom ever cared about thus balancing the equation. This music is about the glorious subjectivity of the righteous use of violence. The first time it underscores a genocide perpetrated by those who believed themselves to be justified, the second, it equally powerfully underscores what's perceived as justice and divine retribution through the eyes of the viewer as Conan's proxy. To me it speaks volumes about the inseparable link between human existence and violence and how the subjective nature of self-righteousness threatens to turn us all into someone else's nemesis lest we forget to consider our actions and their consequences.

[@The1Mustache3]

Best soundtrack ever.

[@a2z.........]

great music for great movie

[@RedKing64]

I'll add this one to my Raiding Villages playlist...

[@patrickdumas224]

I remember when I was 13, I wrote a screenplay for an Alien invasion movie and I had a scene written to where the main human characters and a few of the alien characters that were the good guys prepare for a battle against the alien empire that invaded the small town where we were filming. I came across this and I thought this would do very well. But we couldn't film it cause it was kind of impossible to do it the way we would, so we left the battle sequence out of the final cut of the film we made. But the way homemade filmmaking is now this days, it could be done in an HD way. Plus different shots would have to be digitally mixed with a few others.

[@infiniteflame2374]

They don't write them like this anymore fantastic!

[@jkillah999]

Crom is pleased

[@georgeesquivel2517]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MegaUMK3]

3:13 Nothing gets better than this part

[@chazzwozzio]

It never fails to make my hair atand

[@noeditbookreviews]

Haha, that part is my ringtone!

[@michaelmarino1420]

3:35 When you charge a roach with a chancla in hand.

[@EdgardoCervantesP]

ha ha ha. specially one with wings. that gives you claim to the jeweled crown of Acquilonia.

[@XiangYu94]

By 4:47 you are duel-wielding the chanclas

[@tommiemajor3849]

When i hear this music i imagine someone saying "let this be our final battle!"

[@mrnobodytheuser2950]

This was one of my go to movies whenever we went to the video shop.What a Movie and what a sound track

[@damiandraven699]

"To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women..." ... ... ...yes, yes you did 😂😂😂

[@NuBombTurk55]

the 2:11 mark....pure epic!

[@BizuthWarrior]

Best OST evar.

[@ryanbarker5217]

i feel like conquering a small village now. who's with me?

[@massimoe.nicolin6067]

Not worthy with this music. You'd best conquer the world.

[@XiangYu94]

Ya just a small village tho, or else we might catch COVID

[@Realmasterorder]

The Whole Soundtrack is Amazing and Genious its up there with the Top themes ever made for Any movie

[@demonessmoon6653]

Some classics deserve respect.

[@LnrdRckstn]

I . . . I want to die a glorious death to this music.

[@5TailFox]

Right. But I'd rather be the Valkyrie they summon, at their most desperate moment. Who ensures victory by cleaving entire enemy battalions in 2, with one swing/thrust of my Lightning Spear. Finally rallying my troops with the phrase "C'mon, you fuckin' Humps!! You wanna live forever?!" And when they start winning, I disappear to watch the show from the hilltop, with my sisters.

[@underfire987]

i would like to have a final victory in the end though and not my son enslaved D:

[@gomukuma]

+Shawnee Longbow there are no Valkyries on Crom's mountain! Only Crom, mist and we fallen warriors who wait for the great war at the end of days!

[@commando414]

Let it carry you to Sovngarde.

[@davidlouis1068]

Unto Valhalla !

[@ultracarterzilla6939]

2:11, 2:52, 3:13, 3:22, 3:34, 4:30, 5:09, 5:18

[@seezee8442]

The hairs stand up all over my body listening to this soundtrack.

[@AlexanderJoneshttps]

One of my favourite songs and films

[@milanstojanovic6449]

This film is very good .

[@yyyihad]

3:35. Basil Poledouris: What? I can't use Carmina Burana on this film? Hold my beer.

[@danixiafeatherhawk4136]

the old memories comes back

[@philipmcauley6558]

class music and a class movie.....

[@mijbril8330]

Every now & then the Sydney Symphony (SSO) & the Sydney Philharmonic Choir will play/sing the score to a movie while the movie itself plays on the big screen, in particular they did this for the Lord of the Rings movies. I wish they'd do the same for Conan the Barbarian!!!! I keep getting asked by the SSO to renew my subscription & I keep telling them, put a Basil Poledouris event on, in particular Conan the Barbarian & I'll renew my subscription. This music is simply genius.

[@resonanttotality8322]

Those trumpets and that gong intro...

[@mikeharrigan5535]

This music makes me think of kotal Kahn from Mortal Kombat as he’s like the Conan the barbarian in the mortal kombat franchise

[@StrigoiVampire]

Conan's Father: Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in the earth. Once, giants lived in the Earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered. And the Earth shook. Fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters, but in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield. We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts. [Points to sword] Conan's Father: This you can trust.

[@kevinrivera6695]

Crom laughs at the 2011 remake 😂😂😂😂😂

[@RikerLovesWorf]

"...THIS you can trust."

[@rubenhero9937]

No hay nada más que decir, esta canción es una obra maestra.

[@masterdoan]

This is the Ultimate Warrior Theme

[@EvilMaleficus]

Masterpiece.

[@turtleguns9173]

When you pick up a sword and see something off in the distance...

[@ChoppedGlockShogun]

Each warm up, Basil has reminds me. Though, the bones of a champion grows stiff, there is no need to go quietly into that dark night. Fill your hands, draw your swords. Every foe shall be given steel. To live was to die, anyway.

[@DEPTHCHARGE117]

Crom count the dead

[@balkcsiaboot3297]

Such powerful music. I cannot believe they cancelled Conan 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@OreriyoSan]

Best ost of all time!!

[@TedStickles84]

CROMMMMMM

[@jackdaniels2905]

Crom laughs at your 4 winds.

[@LegacyKingYuna-ck4gl]

Hail the king....King Conan!!!

[@MrKajithecat]

You guys remember when they used this track for the Zelda Twilight Princess teaser at E3 I think? Hype.

[@DanielGonzalez-wj9by]

It's actually a slightly different arrangement that he did exclusively for Nintendo his daughter is the one who sings in the beginning

[@Crazycartoonist8679]

And majoras mask ocarina of time and wind waker

[@xCratuss]

They used for all the main zelda trailers at e3

[@CinemaRescored]

Not enough people know of Basil Poledouris :(

[@Bujuvaidya912]

Yes,and in my country I think I am the only one who knows Jim

[@mikshin9825]

Spread the word, man . Do your duty!

[@namelessjedi2242]

Damn, this is just the best ever.

[@TheFanboy19]

Conan's Father: Fire and wind come from the sky, from the gods of the sky. But Crom is your god, Crom and he lives in the earth. Once, giants lived in the Earth, Conan. And in the darkness of chaos, they fooled Crom, and they took from him the enigma of steel. Crom was angered. And the Earth shook. Fire and wind struck down these giants, and they threw their bodies into the waters, but in their rage, the gods forgot the secret of steel and left it on the battlefield. We who found it are just men. Not gods. Not giants. Just men. The secret of steel has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Conan. You must learn its discipline. For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts.

[@elionildenunescanal9019]

Epic

[@roeykushsaar]

Pure magic

[@LegacyKingYuna-ck4gl]

King Conan!!!!!!!

[@draconyx1956]

Most badass music ever

[@vincentwilson7679]

OH! THIS IS SO BRILLIANT NEVER GET TIRED LISTENING TO IT, AND WHICH ORCHESTRA DID POLEDOURIS USE CAN ANYBODY HELP

[@ottohalmen]

He used The Orchestra and Chorus of Santa Cecilia & The Radio Symphony Of Rome, according to our friend Wikipedia. :) As a bit of a follow-up to the above question, does anyone know where it was recorded (i.e which soundstage/concert hall)?

[@zachfoxtrot9747]

They used...each other.

[@tolive4life08]

So epic

[@19zach75]

This is the sound of savage battle

[@SGTRIP-dh7fz]

Thanks saurenteku, best quality I've heard yet for this soundtrack.

[@Timorfeys]

3:33 that's the moment !

[@ghoulunathics]

2:05 onwards damn this reminds me so much of some WoW soundtrack.

[@Appocalachia2020]

What is steel compared to the flesh that wields it?

[@neslihankurum4852]

Super

[@samidelfino5202]

GRANDE.! OTTIMO LAVORO.! è UN PIACERE ASCOLTARLO COSì.!

[@tonymitchell3744]

I remember when they use this music in the trailer for Gladiator I was hooked on the movie and I haven't even seen it yet just because of this music

[@elionildenunescanal9019]

Great Epic

[@gastonsposito2429]

La mejor banda de sonido de todos los tiempos!!! 👏👏👏

[@CinemaRescored]

They should use this for the teaser trailer of an _Ocarina of Time_ movie.

[@justinratcliffe947]

FUCK YEAH!!!!

[@xxdomoxxkunxx]

Why? Conan is on another world from the cartoonish Zelda series

[@CinemaRescored]

@@xxdomoxxkunxx Apparently, you didn't know that Poledouris and his daughter Zoë made a version of this for the official _Ocarina of Time_ trailer back in 1998. That's why a (remastered and reorchestrated) version for a possible movie trailer could be an excellent homage to the game - as well as a nice tribute to Poledouris himself.

[@tomasburian6550]

If you want more epicness and possibly even a great influence for this music, listen to the soundtrack to El Cid.

[@mrtecnhimuyo]

first like 5 minutes with not much dialogue made it epic and you know what's going down

[@darththreepio7004]

The Riddle... of Steel.

[@AlternicityBlogspot]

4:47 Victory lap.

[@CrazyMetalZombie]

I just visualize the war dogs ripping the dad to shreds at the end of this track lol