- - - ‘Stranger Things 5’ Teaser Uses Haunting ’70s Rock Epic to Foreshadow Final Battle

Whitney DanhauerJuly 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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‘Stranger Things 5’ Teaser Uses Haunting ’70s Rock Epic to Foreshadow Final Battle originally appeared on Parade.

A new teaser for Stranger Things 5 premiered, and the sound editors surprisingly went for a ‘70s hit versus something from the ‘80s. Deep Purple’s “Child in Time” soundtracks the latest adventures of Will, Eleven, Mike and the rest of the Hawkins gang.

The English band’s epic tune runs over 10 minutes long and is in the same vein of rock as Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.” With its haunting organ intro, “Child in Time” pairs perfectly with the buildup to the final showdown between the kids and Vecna, despite the song being released over a decade before the Upside Down began wreaking havoc on Hawkins.

Deep Purple has previously said that “Child in Time” was written as a protest against war with a particular focus on the nuclear conflict and the growing paranoia between East and West during the Cold War. Considering that Stranger Things 5 is set at the very end of the Cold War in 1987, the song symbolically mimics the threat of a superpower’s plans to try and tear the world apart.

“We created this song using the Cold War as the theme and wrote the lines 'Sweet child in time, you'll see the line,’” Deep Purple’s lead singer Ian Gillan said during a 2002 interview, according to Rock Reflections. “The words came easily because we were all aware of the nuclear threat looming over us at what was probably the height of the Cold War.”

Since season 3, Stranger Things has implied that Russia plans to weaponize the Upside Down and the supernatural forces it contains. The entire plot in season 3 revolved around the Russian military using Starcourt Mall as a coverup while they worked to build their own portal into the realm.

With war looming on both a literal and supernatural front, the choice to use “Child in Time” feels like a blaring alarm that things are about to go wildly off the rails in Hawkins.

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‘Stranger Things 5’ Teaser Uses Haunting ’70s Rock Epic to Foreshadow Final Battle first appeared on Parade on Jul 16, 2025

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