Epic music

Epic music is a modern classical-like musical genre derived from a wide array of genres, primarily trailer music.

The first official trailer music companies, which later became epic music producers, were created in the 1990s, with Immediate Music being one of the first starting as early as 1993. From then until the 2010s, many albums and single tracks were created; however they were only available to the companies’ clients and the film industry. Until this day only few of these albums have been officially, or unofficially through Internet platforms, released to the public. It was around 2005-2010 some composers started to pick up public fame for the first time, thanks to their songs being featured at special events like the Olympic Games and the many trailers they composed for.

The genre was named 'epic music' by its community when composers finally started releasing public albums. The first company to release an album of epic music was Globus (Epicon), followed by Immediate Music with Trailerhead in 2008 and later in the same series with Nu Epiq. This and many requests from fans encouraged Two Steps from Hell to release their first public album Invincible in 2010, and things kept growing from there. These companies and composers showed that publicizing music, which was first vaguely referred to as trailer and film music, worked and that there was an audience for it. With more albums being released publicly, the community grew and has kept growing ever since, even reaching outer space.

Separating itself from the trailer music genre, epic music is a stand-alone genre which produces a lot of music that can be used in trailers (which then also makes it trailer music). Although people who enjoy epic music also tend to like trailer and film music due to the many similarities, the community distinguishes the three as separate genres. Epic music has also proven to be similar to neoclassical music.

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