X-Men: Apocalypse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the
soundtrack album to the 2016 film X-Men: Apocalypse, based on the
X-Men characters appearing in
Marvel Comics, and is the seventh mainline installment in the
X-Men film series and the seventh installment overall. Directed and produced by
Bryan Singer, the film score is composed by his regular collaborator, composer-editor
John Ottman, being the first to score more than one film in the X-Men film series, having previously scored X2 (2003) and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014).
On March 2, 2015, it was announced that
John Ottman, who composed the scores for X2 and X-Men: Days of Future Past, would return to write and compose the score for Apocalypse. On May 20, 2016, the official soundtrack was released as a digital download. In addition to Ottman's score, the film features a remix of the second movement of
Ludwig van Beethoven's
seventh symphony entitled "Beethoven Havok" and two songs contemporary to the film's 1983 setting, "
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" by
Eurythmics and "The Four Horsemen" by
Metallica.[1]