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Forget digital synthesizers when you can just embrace heavy metallurgy. To sonically represent Saruman's violent industrialization of Middle-earth, composer Howard Shore rejected traditional percussion. Instead, he forced his orchestral percussionists to repeatedly smash massive iron chains and strike heavy metal anvils with blacksmith hammers, creating a relentless 5/4 time signature beat that genuinely sounds like an army of Uruk-hai destroying a forest.
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