Superhero films often have a significant relationship to music. Think of the use of Black Sabbath and AC/DC tunes in the Iron Man movies, or Peter Quill’s mixtape in Guardians Of The Galaxy. What’s more unusual is for an actual comic book to have its own soundtrack, but that’s what GOTG composer Tyler Bates has produced here for Dark Nights: Death Metal, the latest of the continuity-altering mega-events that DC seems to publish every other year. Theoretically, the bands and artists recruited for this super team-up shouldn’t hang together at all. Instead of following the title and summoning Obituary, Bolt Thrower and Dying Fetus, Tyler has opted for musicians occupying wildly different corners of the multiverse. You’re certainly unlikely to find IDLES, Rise Against, symphonic blac...
