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Explosions in the Sky

Explosions in the Sky is an American post-rock band from Texas. The band is a quartet, composed of drummer Chris Hrasky and guitarist/keyboardists Michael James, Munaf Rayani and Mark Smith. The band originally played under the name Breaker Morant, then changed to the current name in 1999. They primarily play with three electric guitars and a drum kit, although James will at times exchange his electric guitar for a bass guitar and all three guitarists also add additional keyboard and synthesizer parts. The band later added a fifth musician to their live performances, largely to accommodate for these bass and keyboard parts. This role was occupied by multi instrumentalist, Carlos Torres, from 2010 to 2018, and reprised in 2024. The band has released eight studio albums to date; their most recent, End, was released in September 2023.[1]

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Explosions in the Sky

Austin, Texas, U.S.
Midland, Texas, U.S.

1999–present

Chris Hrasky
Michael James
Munaf Rayani
Mark Smith

The band has garnered popularity beyond the post-rock scene for their elaborately developed guitar work, narratively styled instrumentals – which they refer to as "cathartic mini-symphonies" – and their emotional live shows.[2]

The song "It's Natural To Be Afraid" is featured in the narrative sports documentary series , "Mayweather vs. De La Hoya", and was also used in the season 8 finale of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, "For Gedda (Part 1)".

24/7

The song "Catastrophe and the Cure" is used during the intro to Get Collins, an Irish documentary on and the film Kaboom by director Gregg Araki in which the male lead is also given a signed copy of All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone as a birthday gift.

Michael Collins

In 2009, the song "First Breath After Coma" is used for the introduction of feature presentations on the television network, . The song is also used in the trailer for the documentary Focus, directed by Steve Hwang. "First Breath After Coma", along with "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean", were featured in the 2010 film Kalamity.

Versus

The song "The Only Moment We Were Alone" is shortly featured in 's documentary Capitalism: A Love Story. It is also featured in the 2008 film Sleepwalking.

Michael Moore

The song "Your Hand in Mine" is featured in the films , The Big Empty, Love Happens, The King of Staten Island, the TV series Prisoners' Wives, the documentary Gideon's Army and the Cerveza Pacifico TV commercial "Anchors Up".[24]

Friday Night Lights

The song "A Poor Man's Memory" is featured in the TV show .

Blue Mountain State

The song "Glittering Blackness" is featured in the film .

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

The song "Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean" is featured in the film .

Lunopolis

The song "So Long, Lonesome" is featured in the 2010 film .

Last Night

The song "An Ugly Fact of Life" was featured in the film adaptation of .

The Kite Runner

The song "Human Qualities" is featured in the 2012 film .

This Means War

The song "Trembling Hands" is featured on the 2012 video game .

Major League Baseball 2K12

The song "First Breath After Coma" is used for an commercial featuring Chicago Bulls player Derrick Rose, the end of the television series Doctors, the 2005 Israeli film Close to Home and in the first episode of John Bishop's Australia.

Adidas

The song "The Birth and Death of the Day" is used in the final scene of the mountain biking documentary Life Cycles

The song "Waking Up" was featured in the film .

Lone Survivor

The song "Postcard From 1952" was used in the episode "Chicago" of , and a snippet of the song is used in the Welcome to Night Vale episode "The September Monologues".

Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways

The song "The Only Moment We Were Alone" was used in the teaser reveal of .

Street Fighter V

Along with David Wingo, Explosions in the Sky wrote the entire soundtrack to the 2013 comedy-drama film , starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. The idea itself came when the band proposed working on a film with director David Gordon Green.

Prince Avalanche

The band is filmed performing "Last Known Surroundings" for 2015 film Knight of Cups.

Terrance Malick's

The song "Remember Me as a Time of Day" was used in the 2015 film .

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

Their song "The Birth and Death of the Day" was used at the end of the 2015 mountaineering documentary .

Meru

Their song "Logic of a Dream" was used in the trailer of the 2016 film .

Deepwater Horizon

Their song "The Ecstatics" was used in the 2017 film .

Power Rangers

Austin-based movie theater chain uses "Wilderness" in their Feature Presentation bumper.

Alamo Drafthouse Cinema

Most notably, Explosions in the Sky's music is heavily featured in the Friday Night Lights movie and television show. It is a common misconception that the band wrote and recorded the television show's theme song. Instead, it is an original composition by W. G. Snuffy Walden. Music by Explosions in the Sky has been used in several television programs and commercials: "The Birth and Death of the Day" for the BBC documentary Lost Land of the Jaguar, All the Real Girls, Shopgirl, One Tree Hill, Love the Beast and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, as well as various songs for the PBS documentary The Street Stops Here. A number of One Tree Hill episodes are named after the band's songs.

Chris Hrasky – drums

[25]

Michael James – guitar, bass guitar, keyboards

Munaf Rayani – guitar, keyboards,

percussion

Mark Smith – guitar, keyboards

Current touring musicians


Former touring musicians

(2000)

How Strange, Innocence

(2001)

Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever

(2003)

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place

(2005)

The Rescue

(2007)

All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone

(2011)

Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

(2016)

The Wilderness

(2023)

End

List of post-rock bands

Official website

at the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive

Explosions in the Sky

at IMDb

Explosions in the Sky

Podcast of Explosions in the Sky's 2008 Lollapalooza performance

at NPR.

Explosions in the Sky live show, 930 Club in DC

at Ground Control.

Explosions in the Sky interview with Chris Hrasky

at Webcuts (February 2008)

Explosions in the Sky interview