Suicide Squad: First Track From Soundtrack Released

WaterTower Music, Warner Bros.' in-house music label, has released "Task Force X," the first track from the Suicide Squad: Original Motion Picture Score, which was composed by Academy Award-winning composer Steven Price (Fury, Gravity).

How does Price's score differ from the typical superhero score? "Guitar was always my first love, and it was something I never really got into my writing work. With this, the moment I saw it, there was something about the way it looks that made me feel like there was a sleazy '70s sort of thing, and that made me think of David Bowie records, and Station to Station," Price told EW. "I ended up doing a lot of stuff with feedback and guitar stuff that was bent out of shape. These things became part of the texture of the score, and when you start combining that with the orchestra, it started to feel like something a bit different."

When Price got his first look at the film, he knew how he wanted it to sound. He spent the next year chasing that sound. Also, since many of the Squad, except for The Joker and Batman, aren't well known to mainstream audiences, Price felt he more freedom to play with the score.

"David [Ayer] and I discussed them as being outsiders; they all exist in their world, whatever they're doing. They're all outsiders until they become the squad," he said. "Musically as well, I tried to give them the identity that they exist on their own terms but they made a different sort of sense when they were together with the rest of the squad."

It feels good to be bad… Assemble a team of the world's most dangerous, incarcerated Super Villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government's disposal, and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do. However, once they realize they weren't picked to succeed but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it's every man for himself?

Written and directed by David Ayer based on the characters from DC Comics, the film stars Will Smith ("Ali"), Jared Leto ("Dallas Buyers Club"), Margot Robbie ("The Wolf of Wall Street"), Joel Kinnaman ("RoboCop") and Viola Davis ("The Help"). The cast also includes Jai Courtney ("Insurgent"), Jay Hernandez ("Takers"), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ("Thor: The Dark World"), Ike Barinholtz ("Neighbors"), Scott Eastwood ("Fury"), Cara Delevingne ("Paper Towns"), Adam Beach ("Cowboys & Aliens"), and Karen Fukuhara in her feature film debut. It is produced by Charles Roven and Richard Suckle, with Zack Snyder, Deborah Snyder, Colin Wilson and Geoff Johns serving as executive producers.

Suicide Squad opens worldwide in 3D, and in 2D, and in select IMAX 3D theaters beginning August 5, 2016.