The TV series “Alien: Earth” is the latest story from the universe created by Ridley Scott and his team back in 1979 when the classic original movie was released. Every episode of the first season of the story, which now brings the creatures to earth, ends with a heavy Hard Rock or Heavy Metal song. Some of them were Black Sabbath‘s “Mob Rules” and Metallica‘s “Wherever I May Roam”.
Black Sabbath’s bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler talked about “Mob Rules” being featured on the show, he said: “Started watching Alien: Earth and had forgotten that they were using “Mob Rules” so was pleasantly surprised to hear it in the credits”. In an interview with Empire Spoiler Specials podcast, the showrunner Noah Hawley, explained the choice to feature many amazing heavier songs to end each episode.
Why “Alien: Earth” has such a great Heavy Metal and Hard Rock soundtrack
“I’m just gonna say: I see you, man. I see all of the Alien fans, driving around in their vans with their (American fantasy/sci fi artist) Frank Frazetta paintings on the side. I know the records that you owned, the CDs that you owned. I know you. I want this show to be arena rock, and so I gotta play arena rock. I don’t want it to be late night at the Palladium or something, where it’s good, it’s a good theater, you can sit two thousand people in there, but it’s not Shea Stadium, it’s not Wembley, right? You want that.”
“(I) watched, along with everybody else, Ozzy’s last concert, and that crowd wanted to be there and they wanted to be there in that size. I wanted to end each episode with a big feeling, a throw to next week, there’s a bit of a cliffhanger, and so I was like, ‘I’m gonna call in the big guns here.’ Each week, when that song kicks in, the hair stands up on the back of your neck. That’s the feeling,” Noah Hawley said.
Besides the classic Alien, the TV series also presents new creatures and other kinds of cyborgs.