(simple piano tones)

I'm Cara Santa Maria for Wired and I'm here with Slash

to talk about Nothing Left to Fear,

a new film that he scored,

Yeah. So, what was it like

writing the whole soundtrack to a film?

It brings out a completely different musician in me

when I do it, it's like for some reason,

looking at a picture, looking at a storyboard,

reading a script, or looking at the movement on the screen

inspires me to do something that I cannot do

when I'm just writing a song to make a regular rock record.

(slow, somber guitar music)

Hello! Anyone here?

I was just lookin' for a town called Stull.

You wouldn't be the new pastor, would ya?

Well, actually, yes.

How'd ya know that?

[Man] Pastor Kingsman asked me to keep an eye out for ya.

And so it's pretty fascinating even to myself,

what comes up, you know,

and so this isn't the first movie that I've scored.

I did another movie a couple years ago

called This Is Not a Movie which was like

this really low-budget movie with Peter Coyote in it

and it was really cuz that was my first full-length score.

(intense, upbeat rock music)

[Cara] So what about this film particularly,

like what's the vibe of it

and how were you inspired to write it?

Let's see, the vibe, it's a very somber,

very haunting and dark movie,

but half the movie is very light and summery.

And then, it's an interesting sort of slow-burn

to where it gets really sort of scary and all that,

but the movie, in short,

is based in this town called Stull, Kansas,

which is a real place and it's got

this sort of mythology to it

that it's one of the seven gateways to hell.

[Girl] Dad, what's going on?

[Dad] Go!

[Boy] Get in the car!

[Girl] What are those?

They're on every house.

(suspenseful, dark music)

[Guy] This place is evil.

(girl screaming)

[Pastor] Have faith.

So it's pretty That's a heavy thing

to write to.

Yeah, well, and so, you know, I started before

I think before anything was really shot,

I started writing songs for it

and actually the main song for the film

that I did with Myles Kennedy was one of those tunes

that before I'd even seen anything, but I knew the story,

but you just start to work in that frame of mind

of thinking of the characters,

the vibe that it makes you feel, you know.

(somber rock music)

♫ There will be nothing left to fear

I'm really excited to see the film, to see the score,

it sounds awesome and thank you so much

for talking to me today.

It was great talking to you.

We have to talk dinosaurs Yeah, for sure!

(Cara laughing)