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Brad Ira Fiedel (born March 10, 1951 in New York City) is an American movie music . Raised in the Village of Bayville, on Long Island’s tony North Shore, Fiedel graduated from The Barlow School in upstate New York.

After college, he became a popular and progressive composer, and in the 1980s, he worked on several successful movies, predominantly in the action and thriller genres, and pioneered the use of electronic instruments and synthesizers—almost disappearing from the mainstream at the end of the 1990s. He has also served as the keyboardist for Hall & Oates.

He began his career in film in the late 1970s, and wrote extensively for television films and minor cinema releases, until director James Cameron hired him to score the science fiction film The Terminator in 1984, setting the wheels in motion for a successful career. The metallic, pounding main theme has since become the defining work of his career.

Since then, Fiedel has scored many popular and successful movies, including Fright Night (1985) and its sequel Fright Night II (1988), The Big Easy (1987), The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), The Accused (1988), Blue Steel (1990), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Blink (1994), and True Lies (1994), although in recent years, Fiedel has moved on to other creative areas, writing original musicals and designing and building a surf resort in Saladita Mexico. His last major theatrical score was in 1995, and although he enjoyed a brief period of renewed interest following the release of Terminator 3 in 2003, when Marco Beltrami wrote an orchestral arrangement of his theme, he shows no sign of returning to the movie music field.
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  • CapitanArsalan

    Terminator 2 Theme is the best theme to a movie ever in the history of ever. [12]

    16 Jun 1:21pm Reply

  • ace_the

    FUCK YOU I WANT TO FUCKING LISTEN TO TERMINATOR 2 THE DENTON BAND, NOT THIS DUDE. KTHNXBYE. [1]

    27 Mar 6:30am Reply

  • aphoticapathy

    YES! :D

    10 Mar 10:20pm Reply

  • Jacob_Grimm

    It's a shame he stopped doing film score work. I guess if you're going to semi-retire then you could do worse than leaving behind one of the most memorable main title themes to ever grace a science fiction film.

    24 Feb 1:17pm Reply

  • stinger11

    Denton sludge not movie soundtracks wtf Terminator 2 shouldn't redirect here.

    24 Jan 9:04pm Reply

  • MasterSloth

    FUCK YOU I WANT TO FUCKING LISTEN TO TERMINATOR 2 THE DENTON BAND, NOT THIS DUDE. KTHNXBYE.

    19 Jan 2:59am Reply

  • Iamjustapeasant

    Эпичный саунд

    10 Jan 9:01pm Reply

  • noisybishop

    Desert Suite demolishes me. Such an awesome, atmospheric song.

    21 Oct 2012 Reply

  • Vladalucard

    Terminator Definitive Edition finally in my hands. As it title prays it is the DEFINITIVE edition xD.

    13 Aug 2012 Reply

  • thepennywise

    "Come To Me" :O

    12 Aug 2012 Reply

  • iamdeathunlimit

    Terminator 2 Theme is the best theme to a movie ever in the history of ever. [11]

    25 Jul 2012 Reply

  • Alphaville73

    Terminator 2 Theme is the best theme to a movie ever in the history of ever. [10]

    31 May 2012 Reply

  • Kajek1993

    Terminator 2 Theme is the best theme to a movie ever in the history of ever. [9]

    9 Apr 2012 Reply

  • Fredoliiin

    The soundtrack for the first Terminator movie is fucking greatness. [2]

    20 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Coop_R

    I would so like him to record more soundtracks, or even a stand-alone ambient album... That would be amazing.

    14 Mar 2012 Reply

  • distant_glow

    Terminator 2 Theme is the best theme to a movie ever in the history of ever. [8]

    9 Mar 2012 Reply

  • krestianin

    "Future Remembered" (from T1 OST) and "Desert Suite" are awesome ambient tunes

    2 Jan 2012 Reply

  • BTsGraveland

    The soundtrack for the first Terminator movie is fucking greatness.

    24 Dec 2011 Reply

  • karavela

    Trust me Fiedel.

    13 Oct 2011 Reply

  • Warczeski

    The best OST is ,,Anvil of Crom" and ,,Riddle of Steel / Riders of Doom" from Conan the Barbarian, Terminator 2 Theme is second to me. Arnie played in films with amazing- the best soundtracks!

    27 Sep 2011 Reply
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