Includes FREE MP3
version
of this album.
or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
Sell Us Your Item
For up to a $2.40 Gift Card
Trade in
More Buying Choices
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
Sorry, this item is not available in
Image not available for
Color:
Image not available

To view this video download Flash Player

 

The Dark Knight Rises: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

Hans ZimmerAudio CD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (135 customer reviews)

Price: $9.99 & FREE Shipping on orders over $25. Details
  Special Offers Available
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
 : Includes FREE MP3 version of this album.
   Provided by Amazon Digital Services, Inc. Terms and Conditions. Does not apply to gift orders.
Only 19 left in stock (more on the way).
Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.
Want it Thursday, June 20? Choose One-Day Shipping at checkout. Details
Complete your purchase to save the MP3 version to Cloud Player.

Formats

Amazon Price New from Used from
MP3 Music, 15 Songs, 2012 $9.49  
Audio CD, Soundtrack, 2012 $9.99  
Vinyl, Soundtrack, 2012 $24.98  
"Man of Steel" Soundtrack
Academy Award, Grammy, and Golden Globe-winning composer Hans Zimmer composed the soundtrack to the highly anticipated Superman film Man of Steel, joining forces for the first time with director Zack Snyder. Learn more

Listen to Samples and Buy MP3s

Songs from this album are available to purchase as MP3s. Click on "Buy MP3" or view the MP3 Album.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

Samples
Song Title Time Price
listen  1. A Storm Is Coming0:36$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  2. On Thin Ice 2:54$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  3. Gotham's Reckoning 4:07$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  4. Mind If I Cut In? 3:27$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  5. Underground Army 3:11$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  6. Born in Darkness 1:56$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  7. The Fire Rises 5:33$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  8. Nothing Out There 2:51$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen  9. Despair 3:14$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen10. Fear Will Find You 3:08$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen11. Why Do We Fall? 2:02$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen12. Death By Exile0:23$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen13. Imagine the Fire 7:25$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen14. Necessary Evil 3:16$0.99  Buy MP3 
listen15. Rise 7:15$0.99  Buy MP3 


Amazon's Hans Zimmer Store

Music

Image of album by Hans Zimmer

Photos

Image of Hans Zimmer

Biography

German-born composer Hans Zimmer is recognized as one of Hollywood’s most innovative musical talents‚ having first enjoyed success in the world of pop music as a member of The Buggles. The group’s single Video Killed the Radio Star became a worldwide hit and helped usher in a new era of global entertainment as the first music video to be aired on MTV.

Zimmer entered the ... Read more in Amazon's Hans Zimmer Store

Visit Amazon's Hans Zimmer Store
for 123 albums, 9 photos, and 21 full streaming songs.

Special Offers and Product Promotions

  • Buy a CD or a vinyl record, get a $1 Amazon MP3 Credit. Limit one promotional credit per customer. Here's how (restrictions apply)
  • Includes FREE MP3 version of this album Here's how (restrictions apply)

Frequently Bought Together

The Dark Knight Rises: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack + The Dark Knight + Batman Begins: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Price for all three: $26.42

Buy the selected items together


Product Details

  • Audio CD (July 17, 2012)
  • Original Release Date: 2012
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: Soundtrack
  • Label: WaterTower Music
  • ASIN: B008645YEE
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (135 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,639 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

*** Enhanced CD - unlocks 3 additional tracks! 2 are exclusive to the CD:
Bombers Over Ibiza (JunkieXL remix)
No Stone Unturned (exclusive)
Risen From Darkness (exclusive)***

The Dark Knight Rises Score Composed by Oscar, Grammy, Golden Globe Award Winner Hans Zimmer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
121 of 135 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Let me begin by stating, I'm a massive Zimmer fan, and this is not entirely his fault but the music from TDKR is in definite need of a deluxe complete score release.... and a proper studio remastering!! (Big time!)

This CD doesn't present the music nowhere near as good as it should - TDK is far superior in the arrangement and editing of tracks, mixing and producing etc... HZ has confirmed in an LA Times article (see below) that there are 4 suites totalling 21 tracks available for download, but only onto an IPHONE or IPAD, this is not acceptable!

I had to return this CD as it was that bad, I really wanted to switch it off mid way (the music was fine, but it was the presentation... and sound mix... that absoutely killed it for me)

This music HZ speaks of is confirmed by him stating - "This shows more of the process," Zimmer said. "I wanted to divide the two worlds up. It's a bad paradigm, but the suites are like the novel of this thing. The CD is like the screenplay. The CD follows the screenplay precisely. The suites are so much more based on all the more detailed conversations Chris and I were having."

[...]

LETS DEMAND THESE 4 SUITES 21 tracks and all the other DOWNLOADABLE music gets released on CD!

This is a shocking way to finish a classic trilogy like this! Zimmer's music is fine, but it's very obvious that the studio rushed to get this CD out. No care has been taken as how the music was arranged on the CD, it feels like it's been slapped together. As another reviewer stated, there are also excessive gain levels, compression and a loss of dynamics... on many tracks, especially 'Imagine the Fire' and 'Rise' etc... - The richness and depth (especially in the mid range are completely lacking. It sounds CHEAP!....
... Read more ›
Was this review helpful to you?
145 of 164 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars CD was mastered with excessive gain levels July 22, 2012
By zilch0
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I love Hans Zimmer's work and although the music itself, in this album, is not his best, in my opinion, it's still enjoyable - at least in those tracks where the recordings were not mastered with excessive volume levels.

Unfortunately, several tracks suffer severe clipping - where the maximum possible gain (volume) that can be recorded in a 16-bit file is reached, causing a severe loss of detail and an overall loss of dynamics throughout the entire track.

The following tracks were mastered with excessive gain: 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 15.

That's 9 out of 15, or nearly two thirds of the CD, ruined by poor mastering.

So now we have to wait a couple of years (if ever) for someone to come along and remaster these recordings with reasonable gain levels.
Was this review helpful to you?
15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I don't go to many movies, after all I am legally blind so if I want to `hear' a movie, I usually wait for the DVD release. But after the Aurora shootings, I don't know. I think I wanted to reaffirm my right to go freely, anywhere in this country, and not fear for my life or safety. So, I made it a point to take a cab and walk into that theater in Lake Oswego. It felt good, and I actually got a seat about five rows back from the screen, so I could actually see most of the film. I also felt somehow proud to, at least in my mind, confront the stigma this film had and has for a lot of people all because of one deranged monster in Aurora. Another good thing that came out of this is I was reviewing a catalog of books being offered for review and one of those books was published by The University Of Colorado Press, so I made it a point to write the editor and offer to review the book (you'll have to wait for the book review) and it was good to talk to someone who could still keep the beautiful things in the front of their mind after the tragic event.

First thing that I noticed, almost naturally given my limited vision and my back ground as a musician and eclectic fan of many forms and genre of music was the sweep and drama in the sound track. Like the previous Dark Knight film, this one was scored by the Academy- Award® winning composer Hans Zimmer. He teamed writer/director Christopher Nolan to create the music for the final installment of his Dark Knight Trilogy.

From the opening track, "A Storm Is Coming" it is apparent that this is no ordinary soundtrack. This isn't just pretty, sanitized sound to fill in the silent or transitory spaces in the action. As a musician, I could hear that Zimmer wasn't playing it safe.
... Read more ›
Was this review helpful to you?
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars He Rises August 27, 2012
Format:MP3 Music
The Dark Knight Rises is director Christopher Nolan's eagerly-awaited final installment in the Batman trilogy he initiated with Batman Begins in 2005, and continued with The Dark Knight in 2008. Set seven years after the conclusion of the second film, The Dark Knight Rises finds the billionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) living in seclusion, having allowed his crime-fighting alter-ego Batman to take the blame for the crimes committed by the former DA Harvey Dent, including the murder of Wayne's soul-mate, Rachel. However, Wayne's self-imposed isolation is threatened by two very different interlopers into Gotham City: the formidable masked terrorist Bane (Tom Hardy), who seems to be masterminding a plan to undermine the very fabric of contemporary society, and sophisticated cat burglar Selina Kyle (Anne Hathaway), who breaks into Wayne Manor to steal a necklace, but comes away with much more. To combat the rising threat, Wayne is forced to become Batman once more, but is he strong enough - mentally, and physically - to face the challenge? The film has an all-star supporting cast, including Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Gary Oldman, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard, and has become one of the most popular and successful box-office hits of 2012, ending Nolan's vision on an undisputed high note, but cleverly paving the way for future installments by different directors.

Returning for the third time is composer Hans Zimmer, now having firmly supplanted David Julyan as Nolan's composer-of-choice.
... Read more ›
Comment | 
Was this review helpful to you?
Most Recent Customer Reviews
3.0 out of 5 stars Mixed Opinions
I'm not an audiophile, but this album does sound a bit small and tinny. Also, unlike the previous soundtrack albums for the other two Dark Knight movies, James Newton Howard did... Read more
Published 17 days ago by JB
5.0 out of 5 stars Evoking
Great music from a great movie. Listening to the CD evokes scenes from the movie in my mind as I listen. Read more
Published 21 days ago by Andrew
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Hans Zimmer
Film Score fans always seem to be divided when it comes to Hans Zimmer. The self proclaimed "purists" think of him as the anti-Christ while others, like myself, feel he is... Read more
Published 21 days ago by Thomas R. Tinneny
5.0 out of 5 stars love the soundtrack
Dark Knight Rises is one of my favorite movies of all time along with the rest of the Batman/Dark Knight trilogy. Love the score on this as well as the other movies. Very good job.
Published 24 days ago by kiss army general
4.0 out of 5 stars great for dramatic music
I bought this for my dad who loves dramatic soundtrack music. You can't do any better for this than the Batman soundtracks, with their sweeping and monumental music of spectacle. Read more
Published 1 month ago by D. Chismar
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT soundtrack.
I find movie scores very useful for relaxing or background music for studying. Hans Zimmer knocks it out of the park again with this one!
Published 1 month ago by Joshua M. Forsman
3.0 out of 5 stars Intense CD
The music is intense and I like it but it sounds better in the context of the movie. It is hard to listen to as a stand alone CD soundtrack.
Published 1 month ago by wahoonut
5.0 out of 5 stars Adore this soundtrack
I adore this soundtrack. I have The Dark Knight as well which was awesome, but this one is even better.
Published 1 month ago by Lauren Greaves
5.0 out of 5 stars the new standard for action movies music
Truly amazing, I get the chills when I listen to this....amazing, this is the best action movie soundtrack ever, yet it did not get one single award, not one!!! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Fernando L. Arzola
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent original themes
I am a fan of movie soundtracks and villian themes in particular and this one stands out for having two unique themes that I really like. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Andrew J Hodges
Search Customer Reviews
Only search this product's reviews

Forums

Search Customer Discussions
Search all Amazon discussions

Topic From this Discussion
The Dark Knight Rises soundtrack track listing
Seems short for a 2hr 45min movie. Wouldn't surprise me if they come out with a special edition 2 disc-er when the blu-ray/dvd hits like the last film. And just like TDK, I'll be buying both of them. Can't wait. Half my anticipation with seeing the new Batman film is hearing the amazing score... Read more
Jun 13, 2012 by P. O'Rourke |  See all 15 posts
watermusic download problems
completely agree and disappointed... water tower and warner bros sucks!!! and their customer service too!! this is a fraud!!!! bought my cd of the dark knight and couldn't download bonus content. wb and water tower sucks!!!
Sep 9, 2012 by Alex |  See all 2 posts
any news on vinyl release?
No word yet, but it'll probably get one.
Jun 17, 2012 by Joseph E. Valencia |  See all 5 posts
will will there be a Dark knight rises colectors edtion soundtrack like...
no if there already releaseing bonus tracks 3 on itunes and 2 additional on the cd with input code......
Jul 14, 2012 by J. Sheer |  See all 5 posts
Aurora CO track Be the first to reply
Listen to the entire 'The Dark Knight Rises' soundtrack here Be the first to reply
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 



Listmania!


So You'd Like to...


Create a guide

What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?



Look for Similar Items by Category