10 Most Epic Wrestling Entrance Themes You May Not Have Heard

6. Penta El 0M - Thrill Switch

One general rule of wrestling theme entrances thumb is: if you're foreign, make d*mn sure everybody gets used to the idea within a matter of seconds, else you run the risk of not pigeonholing yourself through your ethnicity.

Eddie (Eddy) Guerrero was lumbered with a particularly stereotypical ditty in WCW - a lowriding bass number spiked with lazy mariachi leanings. Juventud Guerrera's theme was similarly region-specific. It's a miracle he didn't lead a bull to the ring. Trumpets also blared over the speakers when the Mexicools faction entered WWE arenas in the mid-2000s (though in fairness, their entire act was based on being Mexican.)

Happily, Penta El 0M has selected a far less cumbersome tune than his Mexican predecessors (and his recent enforced name change). 'Thrill Switch' starts inauspiciously with an anonymous guitar squall and drum fill, threatening to approach the generic hard rock territory into which so many wrestlers land - before settling into a wavy trip-hop bassline and an almost mournful synth pitying his opponents.

Wrestling themes have mastered the epic, the intimidating and the fabulously naff. This is a rare cool wrestling theme.

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