The November edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is an interview with BEAR MCCREARY about his massive scoring for Amazon’s LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER, with a focus on the new season. Also this issue are a new TV TRIMMINGS column in which Vikram breaks down the various soundtrack albums for RINGS OF POWER, SEASON 2; an interview with VOLKER BERTELMANN about the papal thriller CONCLAVE, starring Ralph Fiennes; DAN DEACON joins the VENOM franchise on LAST DANCE; KRIS BOWERS scores the emotional animated blockbuster WILD ROBOT; ILAN ESHKERI lifts up Christopher Reeve in the documentary SUPER/MAN; THEODORE SHAPIRO fixes things on Apple TV+’s WOLFS, starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt; impressions of the new Disney+ documentary MUSIC BY JOHN WILLIAMS; MICHAEL PARASKEVAS joins Christophe Beck on the MCU’s AGATHA ALL ALONG; JULIA NEWMAN reteams with her father Thomas to cement her relationship with Ryan Murphy Productions; BEN MACDIARMID makes his feature scoring debut on actor Jack Huston’s directorial debut, DAY OF THE FIGHT; CAROLINE SHAW becomes the first person to create an original score for a Ken Burns documentary with LEONARDO DA VINCI; Cary’s annual GIFT GUIDE; a LORD OF THE RINGS-themed Ear of the Month; plenty of album reviews, including BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX and THE OTHER: THE DELUXE EDITION; plus embedded audio clips, and more. Enjoy!

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