2:36 "So... we meet again... Doctor!"

Bricks were shat, sofas were hidden behind, and doctors were lost- The classic Cybermen.

Ah "Earthshock", the first story I ever saw. What a beginning! The Cybermen and the death of a companion!!! A great theme for the Cybermen!!!

''We meet again.............Doctor''!

Now *this* is how to make a villain's theme! Menacing, creepy, powerful, scary, and memorable. So many little bits and sounds in it that are fantastic and appropriate for a cyber race.

"He has been damaged by gunfire! Order the reactivation of reinforcements!"

5:00 *DESTROY THEM! DESTROY THEM AT ONCE!*

3:08 Can't get that part out of my head. They NEED to bring this theme back.

3:06 The part everybody came for.

Anyone think they should make "Spare Parts" into a life action episode? That would be good.

it takes a while to really get going but once it does it is really eerie and creepy, a perfect theme for the proper cybermen

Some of the best music of the entire series! This definately gives me chills, especially during the cliffhanger for Episode 1! Destroy them! Destroy them AT ONCE!

This is really good. Used it in Colin Baker's Attack of the Cybermen too.

Although the cybermen haven't always been used very well, they've always had a great theme! The 60s 80s and 00's!

80s Style Cybermen were the best now they just look like robots all the past ones had something good about them and this was great when I heard it on Earthshock.

"When was the last time you've smelt the flowers, or enjoyed a well-prepared meal?" "These things are... Irrelevant."

My army awakes, Doctor!

This still sends shivers up and down my spine. The tension from Earthshock ep. 1 is in small part due to this marvellous piece of work; the way the androids focus in on the Doctor to reveal the Cybermen with the music reaching that crescendo of that bell like "dee-da-dang"...Awesome

Music gets really freaky at 3:50 when it keeps going thump thump thump thump. chilling stuff!

3:09 - Whenever I reading/watching something and an evil villian appears this part plays in my head

Just as the Cyber lieutenant point his weapon at the Doctor (@ 2:50 into the track), then KILLS Ringway instead for his decieval of the Cybermen, I thought that was brilliant!!!

This is genuinely unsettling. Certainly fits the Cybermen better than Murray Gold's giant cacophonies.

I love how the beginning feels like some "space race" era synthwave. Fits right in, and the marching is also a nice touch.

Best soundtrack ever in Dr Who

Excellent! (With a David Banks Cyber fist!)

5:01, Cyber-Leader: DESTROY THEM...DESTROY THEM AT ONCE!

New idea for a Cyberman design: Merge the two designs starting from "The Moonbase" and "Earthshock". Have elements of "The Tenth Planet" deisgn underneath the exoskeleton - especially the face mask. The voice should sound like "The Moonbase" and "Tomb of the Cybermen". The music should be a combination of this theme with elements from the current theme, and synth motifs.

Very good, this theme was also used in 'Attack of the Cybermen'.

The Cybermen are the most popular monsters on Doctor Who,next to the Daleks.

This was my favorite track from the Doctor Who Sound Effects Picture Disc I had. Ah, colored vinyl. Remember the silent credits at the end of Earthshock?

BEST WHO MUSIC EVER!!!!

Thank you for posting this. I have this still on vinyl and I loved listening to this growing up.

How I miss the old Cybermen. Neil Gaiman really didn't fill in on his promise did he? Giving the fans back "Their Cybermen" when they were nothing else but re-skinned versions of the ones from Tennant's era. I hope that the Cybermen get a slightly more decent story in Capaldi's tenor as the Doctor and maybe a "proper" redesign by 2016 to celebrate their first time on screen.

wow this kicks ass.....I really need to watch Earthshock sometime soon

2:30 "So, we meet again... Doctor."

3:10 the moment we’re all here for

A lot of this music seems to evoke the fact that the mondasians were an ancient culture, something lacking in modern cyberman depictions.

I love how 3:06 sounds like a door breach or similar, followed by marching sounds. Congratulations, you're being boarded and overrun.

These old cybermen are way more badass than these new cybermen.

man, I love this music ....this was the stuff that made me want to make electronic killer robot music as a kid

Very menacing and rather atmospheric really builds up an eerie environment

This Cyber Leader (David Banks) dripped evil every bit as well as the Master

"Excellent"

Heresy on my part, I imagine, but music like this is way more frighteningly evocative than any of Murray Gold's bombastic pretentiousness . . .

It's like listening to a German Prog Rock album!!

Someone should re-score Tomb of the Cybermen with the music from Earthshock! Imagining this music go with the 'Tomb voices just sends chills down my spine!

"My army awaits! Doctor!"

4:38 My army awaits, Doctor!!!

One might almost say.... EXCELLENT! 😁

0:00 - 0:16 sounds like Space Adventure (OG Cyberman theme)

The composer is Trent Reznor. Who might be a fan of the show, as well.

This is EXCELLENT news, I can listen to the banging choon on youtube

So mysterious and epic

i might make a 5th Doctor episode using Earthshock Music (as I absoloutley love it!) It will be based with the cybermen,more information coming soon...

Thank you so much for posting this. :)

Excellent!

3:08 and onwards!!!

One of the great Cybertunes!

And probably also the composer of Quake (who also seems to have been inspired by some Tristram Cary music, too)

I spent the whole track waiting for "dun, DUN, dun, dun, duuuuun, dun", only to find out that theme isn't from the original series after all, I just assumed that because this shares a title with a track from the Series 4 Specials. Shame, I always thought that was a neat connection.

Why does the cover have a Romulan wearing Patrick Troughton's clothes? :P

3:16 onwards sends shivers down the spine.

"Resistance is futile."

I mostly like Murray golds stuff, but I've never been a fan of the cyberman theme. However I do think the 60's one was best.

YOU BELONG TO UZZ...YOU SHALL BE LIKE UZZ...

" So, we meet again,Doctor."

@Wodanaz Hey, I think you're spot on! Gold is a complete hack.

exelent

In their first appearance in the reboot, all they did was march around with plastic sheeting everywhere. And since then that same friggin marching sound effect and the cyber men basically march around a lot. Hope someone really uses them to their full potential before we all become transformed. And why do they now always delete ?

Is there anywhere we can download this track from?

It's a shame that Murray Gold never tried to combine this with his new Cybermen theme. I can't say I'm a huge fan of the classic Cybermen in terms of the way they were portrayed on screen, but that's mainly due to limitations of the TV shows of the 60's, 70's and 80's. The concept is pretty terrifying. The fact that the original Cybermen still have a semblance of emotion and actually have conversations is rather cool, even though their dialogue was incredibly dumb sometimes. Overall, I'd say I prefer the look and voices of the modern Cybermen but I much prefer the writing for the original Cybermen. Same for the Daleks.

The Classic Cybermen may have been emotional when arrogantly spouting propaganda or getting superior but you could write scenes with dialogue that included them. Two Cybermen could talk to each other as well The New Cybermen don't even need to talk at all now because of their Web so the writers have backed themselves into a corner. They remade the Cybermen as robots and then discovered robots aren't actually scary. Being a brain in a suit of armour isn't as scary as being human with robot parts

Oh this is amazing! I've barely watched old Who but I'm starting to like the soundtrack better than that of NuWho!

3:05 what you came for

There is much of the Cybermen's origin and past that has yet to be adequately explored, with 'Big Finish' doing a sterling job of 'audio only' productions. Cybermen used to be menacing and worth watching back in the 70's and 80's but todays Doctor Who productions 'cram it all in' comic book style in either a single or sometimes a two part story in order to entertain the masses, and as a result, fail to a large extent. I am certainly not a fan of the 'new look' Cybermen that started back in 2005, (with a nod to a 'revenge Cyberman' during the episode 'Dalek',) but with the new look Cybermen closely resembling the fritz lang 'metropolis' robot lady from the 1927 film. Even with the 'evolution' pf the Cybermen design that we have see on the screen reasonably recently trying to 'look' a bit like the designs of the 70's and 80's, the overall effect still falls far short of what many of the fans would like to see back on screen. One of the biggest 'let downs' is that of the 'metropolis' Cybermen's voices, really dreadful, weak, poorly pitched and the blue led mouth light...really necessary or just 'over egging' the cake. Hopefully we will see some sense prevail at the BBC and the Cybermen (the original Mondasians) will return, with an original and menacing storyline. We can only hope...

This music is really creepy!

@Wodanaz no! do not insult the master!

@WowbaggerGriffin You are 100% right. What they should do is reuse this music but with a more modern feel to it. That way whenever The Cybermen appear, the music will make them badass as they could posibly be.

@Wodanaz i did not mean literally i know all those masters so look me up synopsis of me: WHOVIAN WHO KNOWS EVERYTHING!!! and there are other terms for that sir so there I said it!

the beginning part wasn't in the serial but is brilliant nonetheless.

used to love this particular music on the Cassette version; the tud thumping 'Cyber march' itself from 3:08-3.32 was never actually used in Earthshock, sadly, which is a shame as its quite forceful but the rest of the music was.

What. You don't recognize me? It's me, Poyo.

Easily better than Space Adventure.

It's annoying they had such a forced catchphrase that made little sense when you thought about it. At the very least, "Upgrade in Progress" made a small amount of sense. Though it sounded more like an attempt to give them actual dialogue since they remained rather silent throughout the majority of the story.

@Cybusmaster92 use vdownloader. you can download it for free. just google it

"Your logic is incorrect."

3:13

Segun Akinola's Cyberman theme evokes this heavily. As much as I like Murray Gold's Cyberman theme (different approaches for different takes on the Cybermen) Akinola's music brings back the harsh mechanical nature of them. The two best Cyberscores IMO.

the cybermen in my series are more like the classics i will have t use this music

Wow...creepy O.o

@Wodanaz suit yourself wodanaz

@DoctorWhoMaster999 I got an A in Music. I'm not tone deaf, and Murray Gold is terrible!

4:40 4:52 3:33

This is far better than anything Murray Gold can put together!

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The Cybermen have been redesigned for series 7. What does everyone think of them?

The whole 'delete' line is just an embarrassingly transparent attempt to give them the same 'badass' image as the Daleks. When I saw Doomsday I liked it but repeat viewings just make me cringe hearing the cries of 'exterminate' and 'delete' between the rage-filled Daleks and Cybermen who now sound a printer my father owned in the nineties. And in the Silver Nightmare, their 'upgrade in progress' is just them 'adapting' like the Borg. There seems to be no original ideas left in the BBC.

I think that there are better cybermen stories in theclassic era, but I thought the earthshock cybermen were dire. I'm sorry but those lines.... 'Explode the bomb!' Cool music tho

Its the flatulence of the cybermen...cant touch the stock music from Moonbase and Tomb...

This is better than the entire current series of Dr who.😂..... Thanks BBC for killing this icon 👎👎