Stream 'Batman v Superman' Soundtrack Before You See the Movie

Batman and Superman have always inspired great music, whether it be Neil Hefti’s classic 1966 da-na-na-na-na Batman TV theme or John Williams’s soaring Superman main title from 1978. Heck, even Prince, Seal, and U2 have gotten in on the action with varying success.

Now, Hans Zimmer, a veteran of the Christopher Nolan Dark Knight movies as well as Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel, and Junkie XL have teamed up to score Snyder’s upcoming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and the results are streaming online for fans to sample. Take a listen to see how it ranks with the others. (Don’t worry about spoilers: the song titles don’t appear to divulge any plot points not already revealed in the trailers.)

In an interview with Consequence of Sound, Zimmer says he didn’t want to repurpose his Dark Knight music, so he enlisted Junkie XL — a.k.a. Tom Holkenborg, a frequent Zimmer collaborator whose C.V. includes Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel remixes — to help come up with a new theme for the Caped Crusader.

But while Bats has new cues, you might recognize some of Zimmer’s bombastic Man of Steel motifs, since Batman v Superman is technically a sequel. Or, as Zimmer describes it to Consequence of Sound, the film “is a development. It’s just getting larger and asking bigger questions.”

For his part, Junkie XL tells the site that their score reflects the massive scope of the two-and-a-half-hour movie, from “how simple the Clark Kent theme is on a small piano, [to] how grand certain scenes with Batman and Superman are together… [to] how crazy it becomes with Lex Luthor, and how banshee tribal it gets with Wonder Woman. It travels through all these musical areas.”

Batman v Superman will be traveling to theaters everywhere on March 25.