Epic brooding horns FTW. The National’s mournful ‘The Rains of Castamere’ appears on the Game Of Thrones season two soundtrack. The song appears as the credits roll in Episode 9 which was aired in the US last night. It was announced last week that Matt Berninger would also be doing narration for a kid’s iPad app which the band will be scoring also.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005. He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Cara Magazine, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, co-founder of Lumo Club, event curator, Indie Sleaze club promoter, and producer of gigs and monthly listening parties & events in Dublin.
