John Beal has been played on NTS shows including Mobbs, with Terror In The Aisles End Credits first played on 29 March 2024.

John Beal (born in Santa Monica, California) is an internationally recognized American film composer and conductor working in Hollywood, California and around the world. He has conducted for major recording artists ranging from Olivia Newton-John to Deadmau5, movies in concert such as the Harry Potter series, is the principal conductor of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra®, is a composer of film trailer music, and has composed the music for numerous television series and films.

John Beal was born in Santa Monica, California, raised in La Cañada Flintridge, California, graduated from John Muir High School (Pasadena, California), where he was honored for having written many of the drum cadences for the school's internationally renowned Drum Corps, many of which are still used more than 50 years after his graduation. He was named to their Hall of Fame in 2008. He attended San Diego State University and, after being decorated for heroism and bravery in combat with the United States Marine Corps, he attended UCLA. He studied percussion with William Kraft and Bernie Mattinson, and drums with Irv Cotler (drummer for Frank Sinatra), composition with Harry Partch scholar Danlee Mitchell, synthesizers with Clark Spangler, and film scoring with Dominic Frontiere, George Duning, Buddy Baker, Fred Werner, Eddy Lawrence Manson and Earle Hagen. In his early film career, and like many of the young composers of the day, he ghost wrote the scores for numerous major motion pictures and hit television shows and orchestrated and supervised the recording sessions for many others.

According to his official biography, Beal is a former Governor of the Composers & Lyricists Guild of America (CLGA), former National Trustee and Governor of the Los Angeles Chapter of National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammy Awards), an active member the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (Emmy Awards), The Recording Academy Producers & Engineers Wing, is a Platinum member of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, ASCAP, Veterans Media and Entertainment and the American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers.