'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' soundtrack artist METRIC speaks up about being on the album

'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse' OST - Summit Ent./Atlantic Records

Just yesterday, METRIC was the first of a long list of artists announced to be a part of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse's soundtrack, and almost immediately the band's vocalist Emily Haines took to MySpace blogs to talk about METRIC's inclusion on the soundtrack (with the song "Eclipse (All Yours)").
Haines revealed that METRIC's song was co-written by the band and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse score composer (and fellow Eclipse soundtrack contributor) Howard Shore - who also cherry-picked the band for the film's music list.

I've always wanted to write music for film, but I never expected to start with something on this scale, so you can imagine how surprised I was when out of nowhere I got a phone call from Howard Shore, who I’d never met or even spoken with before. Most people know him as the man who wrote the acclaimed score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but I grew up on Shore's earlier works-- his score for David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch in collaboration with jazz great Ornette Coleman still stands as one of the most ambitious & unusual scores out there. 
To my amazement, Howard was calling to ask me to work with him on his latest project: scoring the next Twilight movie, Eclipse. He wanted Jimmy & I to write the theme song for the pivotal last scene in the movie, integrating the music from his existing score into a composition that would express the emotional ending of the film. Seriously?!?!  The lyrics would have to be in the voice of the main character Bella, and we had to stay within the confines of harmonic and melodic themes Howard had in mind for the last scene. 

Haines went on to describe the song-making process for "Eclipse (All Yours)."

We've had songs from our albums licensed for use in movies & tv shows before, but composing for a score was completely different.  Every day as the song progressed--from sitting at the piano with Jimmy in NYC recording acoustic versions and reading the script (see photo below), to working at Howard's studio upstate, to tracking vocals at our own studio Giant in Toronto, to mixing at Electric Lady with Howard on the line from Abbey Road in London-- every step of the way we did our best to fulfill Howard’s vision of the film's last moments.

You can read the full blog entry here.