Conan the Barbarian: The Anvil of Crom

[laughs] I love it.

But back to the soundtrack, particularly the epic track titled The Anvil of Crom, composed by Basil Poledouris.

At five years old, that track really spoke to me.

It was booming, demanding, and powerful, but also had a sweeping beauty and a slight melancholic hopefulness to it.

Conan the Barbarian is one of my all-time favorite films, and the score only makes it that much more beloved for me.

Before mounting his bike, Kaneda, the movie's hero of sorts, selects a CD in the jukebox of the bar he's been waiting in.

Triggering the first entry point of Genoyama Shiro Gumi's music.

The track, also called Kaneda, is a blistering polyrhythmic workout juxtaposing the Balinese jegog, a tuned percussion instrument constructed from a number of bamboo trunks with reverberating drum machine claps and snares.