{"id":2439070,"date":"2026-05-31T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2439070"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T13:23:00","slug":"check-out-the-darkness-80s-leaning-theme-song-to-new-masters-of-the-universe-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/check-out-the-darkness-80s-leaning-theme-song-to-new-masters-of-the-universe-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Check out The Darkness&#8217; 80s-leaning theme song to new &#8216;Masters of the Universe&#8217; movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/the-darkness\">The Darkness<\/a> have shared their 80s-inspired theme song to the new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/jared-leto-to-play-skeletor-in-live-action-masters-of-the-universe-film-3824340\"><em>Masters Of The Universe<\/em><\/a> movie \u2013 give it a listen below.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"post-content-read-more\">\n<li><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-darkness-interview-christmas-rock-roll-2026-tour-3917538\">The Darkness on being part of Christmas and \u201cone of the last proper rock \u2019n\u2019 roll bands\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Starring <em>Bottoms<\/em> actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/features\/tv-interviews\/nicholas-galitzine-mary-and-george-soundtrack-of-my-life-3601148\">Nicholas Galitzine<\/a> as Adam Glenn\/He-Man, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/thirty-seconds-to-mars\">30 Seconds To Mars<\/a> frontman <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/jared-leto\">Jared Leto<\/a> as Skeletor, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/idris-elba\">Idris Elba<\/a> as Man-at-Arms, the film \u2013 based on the \u201980s animated TV series \u2013 will hit cinemas on June 5 \u2013 now complete with a bombastic theme courtesy of the UK glam-rock veterans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen He-Man asked whether we could provide some music for his forthcoming biopic\u00a0<em>Masters of the Universe,<\/em> we dusted off our trusty loincloths, assembled in the courtyard of Castle Darkness and bellowed in unison, \u2018WE HAVE THE POWER\u2019,\u201d the band said of the track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/brian-may\">Brian May<\/a> was there.\u201d The <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/Queen\">Queen<\/a> guitarist plays a guitar solo in \u2018Eternia\u2019 for the soundtrack, with the title a nod to the fantasy planet that serves as the film\u2019s main setting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Masters of the Universe\u2019 was written by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/justin-hawkins\">Justin<\/a> and Dan Hawkins \u2013 who also produced and mixed the track \u2013 alongside Daniel Pemberton, who composed the upcoming film\u2019s soundtrack.<\/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<p>Later this year, The Darkness are set to embark on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-darkness-announce-2026-uk-arena-tour-their-biggest-in-20-years-3910367\">a big UK arena tour<\/a>\u00a0in support of\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-darkness-announce-new-album-dreams-on-toast-and-2025-uk-tour-including-wembley-show-with-ash-3794787\">their 2025 album \u2018Dreams On Toast\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The dates follow their huge support slot at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/iron-maiden\">Iron Maiden<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/iron-maiden-announce-knebworth-show-for-summer-2026-with-the-darkness-the-hu-and-more-3894431\">Knebworth Park gig<\/a> on July 11, and, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-darkness-interview-christmas-rock-roll-2026-tour-3917538\">speaking to <em>NME<\/em>\u00a0about the upcoming dates late last year<\/a>, Justin\u2019s brother and bandmate, Dan Hawkins, said: \u201cEven close friends of mine who come to every London show sigh if the tour is in spring or early autumn or whatever, because they consider coming to see The Darkness play in December as part of their Christmas build-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are my best friends saying that, and not necessarily the biggest Darkness fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cWe\u2019re just part of people\u2019s festive period, and we\u2019ve got quite a few Christmas songs. As you\u2019ve seen today, we can break into pretty much any one\u2026 and do a pretty bad job!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also touched on courting a new generation of fans, which he said they had been \u201cbuilding and building\u201d on since <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/the-darkness-27-1268857\">since reuniting in 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had quite a tough challenge convincing people that we were going to be around for a while,\u201d he told us. \u201cWe\u2019re operating on pretty much a cult fanbase. The transient pop fans that came and screamed at the early gigs and then left when they realised we were actually a rock band went quite early doors, then we split up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Darkness: &quot;A Lot Of People Say No Regrets, But I Have So Many Regrets It&amp;apos;s Better Not To Think\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UaVv7EHwc_c?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<p>\u201cWhen we got back together, we had to really develop a hardcore fanbase again. We had it initially to the point where we could sell out The Astoria as an unsigned band, then we kind of just fucking blew it all and had to start again. It\u2019s taken us a while to release quality stuff, and get better and better as far as being a rock band that isn\u2019t just peddling the same old shit every time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you\u2019ve just heard, our fans aren\u2019t shouting for the hits \u2013 they want the album tracks, and not the ones we were playing 20 years ago. We\u2019re a different beast now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/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 www.nme.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Darkness have shared their 80s-inspired theme song to the new Masters Of The Universe movie \u2013 give it a listen below. READ MORE:\u00a0The Darkness on being part of Christmas and \u201cone of the last proper rock \u2019n\u2019 roll bands\u201d Starring Bottoms actor Nicholas Galitzine as Adam Glenn\/He-Man, 30 Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2439071,"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":[21939],"class_list":["post-2439070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-rock"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Check-out-The-Darkness-80s-leaning-theme-song-to-new-Masters.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439070","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=2439070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439072,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439070\/revisions\/2439072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}