{"id":2430596,"date":"2026-05-24T19:58:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2430596"},"modified":"2026-05-24T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:58:37","slug":"the-darkness-unleash-masters-of-the-universe-theme-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-darkness-unleash-masters-of-the-universe-theme-song\/","title":{"rendered":"The Darkness Unleash Masters of the Universe Theme Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-id=\"1600082\" data-title=\"The Darkness Unleash Theme Song to New Movie Masters of the Universe: Stream\" data-url=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2026\/05\/the-darkness-masters-of-the-universe-theme-song\/\" data-page=\"1\" data-pages=\"1\">\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/the-darkness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Darkness<\/a> have unleashed their theme song to the upcoming <em>Masters of the Universe<\/em> film. The movie, based on the \u201980s animated TV series, will hit theaters on June 5th.<\/p>\n<p>The song, simply titled \u201cMasters of the Universe,\u201d is a throwback retro rocker in the style of Queen\u2019s <em>Flash Gordon<\/em> theme from decades ago, matching the film\u2019s \u201980s bombastic tone. It follows the release of the previous <em>Masters of the Universe<\/em> single \u201cEternia\u201d featuring Queen\u2019s Brian May.<\/p>\n<p>The Darkness stated on Facebook, \u201cWhen He-Man asked whether we could provide some music for his forthcoming biopic <em>Masters of the Universe<\/em> we dusted off our trusty loin cloths, assembled in the courtyard of Castle Darkness and bellowed in unison \u2018WE HAVE THE POWER.\u2019 Our song \u2018Masters of the Universe\u2019 produced by our very own Daniel Hawkins and Daniel Pemberton is out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>The Darkness will be playing as part of Iron Maiden\u2019s massive July 11th Knebworth Eddfest show (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/viagogo.prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101lumwA\/pubref:the-darkness*masters-of-the-universe\/destination:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.viagogo.com%2FFestival-Tickets%2FInternational-Festivals%2FEddfest-Tickets%2FE-159465700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tickets here<\/a>) and are set to embark on a run of UK dates this December (<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/the-darkness-tickets\/artist\/890404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tickets here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the Darkness\u2019 \u201cMasters of the Universe\u201d below.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Masters of the Universe (from &quot;Masters of the Universe&quot;)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G_lonD5RUVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DYl9zHZAvLi\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:500px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source consequence.net \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Darkness have unleashed their theme song to the upcoming Masters of the Universe film. The movie, based on the \u201980s animated TV series, will hit theaters on June 5th. The song, simply titled \u201cMasters of the Universe,\u201d is a throwback retro rocker in the style of Queen\u2019s Flash Gordon theme from decades ago, matching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2430597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/The-Darkness-Unleash-Masters-of-the-Universe-Theme-Song.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2430598,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430596\/revisions\/2430598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2430597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}