After watching “The Dark Knight” last week, it was the score that definitely set the mood and tone for the movie perfectly. Not surprisingly, Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard were the orchestrators of each masterpiece in the OST. Both of them realized that creating a heroic theme that a viewer could hum would ignore the complexity and darkness of the characters. So that theme is only audible early on in the film, and it created what Zimmer described as a “red herring”, a kind of musical foreshadowing. “The Dark Knight Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” was officially released 13 days ago.

Honestly, a few of the tracks were a bit redundant, probably because they are all pretty lengthy to begin with. It was an OK soundtrack for me, nothing superb like what Zimmer and Howard could really do. But for the movie, it was perfect. The OST probably could have had shorter tracks for the audience to have had a better listening experience. In any case, above is the official artwork for the special edition OST, and according to sources, the score will come in 4 different versions. The first is a 1-disc standard CD; the second is a 2 LP set of 180 gram vinyl; the third would be a special edition digi-pack; and the fourth would be the Collector’s Edition. The track names all come from lines in the movie. Click below for the download link.  Enjoy!

Tracks:
1. Why So Serious – 9:14
2. I’m not a Hero – 6:35
3. Harvey Two-Face – 6:16
4. Aggressive Expansion – 4:36
5. Always a Catch – 1:40
6. Blood on my Hands – 2:16
7. A Little Push – 2:43
8. Like a Dog Chasing Cars – 5:03
9. I am the Batman – 2:00
10. And I Thought my Jokes were Bad – 2:29
11. Agent of Chaos – 6:55
12. Introduce a Little Anarchy – 3:42
13. Watch the World Burn – 3:48
14. A Dark Knight – 16:15

Artist: Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard
Title: The Dark Knight (OST)
Time: 01:13:32
Size: 106.12MB
Website: Hans Zimmer
Torrent: Rapidshare