Panos Cosmatos explains why he found a natural kinship with the composer for his heavy metal cult hit. In “Mandy,” Nicolas Cage goes on a wild-eyed quest for revenge, but the movie’s plot comes ...

Although the film’s aesthetic owes just as much to bad-trip ’70s psychedelia, the phrase you’ll hear most often when describing the psychotronic new Nicolas Cage vehicle Mandy is “heavy metal.” (In ...

On February 9, 2018, the 48-year-old Icelandic musician and film composer Jóhann Jóhannsson passed away suddenly from heart failure. Since the early 2000s, Jóhannsson had built up a pristine catalog ...

Darkness and despair infuse nearly every moment of Jóhannsson’s score, its atmosphere conjured in part by co-producer Randall Dunn, with Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley on guitar. The heaviness native to ...