NEW GENRE SOUNDTRACKS
April 26, 2018
La-La Land Releases Expanded & Remastered 2-disc ALIEN 3 soundtrack CD
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STRANGER THINGS 2 soundtrack 80’s style cassette release plus Season 1 vinyl repress (2 volumes)
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April 13, 2018
Andrew Lockington’s RAMPAGE Soundtrack Now Available on CD & Digital Download
WaterTower Music announced today the release of the soundtrack to the action adventure film RAMPAGE, which features an original score by Canadian composer Andrew Lockington (SAN ANDREAS, JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, CITY OF EMBER), as well as Grammy Award winning multi-platinum trailblazer Kid Cudi’s end title song “The Rage.”
“Before RAMPAGE was even green-lit, [director/producer] Brad Peyton and I began discussing and exploring music ideas that might work for the score,” the composer explained. “This included recording wild Howler Monkeys in Costa Rica, researching tribal music in the South Pacific, tracking down vintage modular computer chips used in 80’s video games, and tasking sound programmers with designing custom analog synth rigs and processors.”
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Varèse Sarabande Records To Release Deluxe Box Set Of Music From Jim Henson’s The Storyteller, featuring Original Score by Rachel Portman
Varèse Sarabande will release a limited-edition box set of music from JIM HENSON’S THE STORYTELLER on April 27, 2018. The 3-CD set, which is available for pre-orders beginning April 13, features original music composed by Academy Award® winning composer Rachel Portman (EMMA, CHOCOLAT), available for the first time ever.
The release contains music from JIM HENSON’S THE STORYTELLER and its spinoff series, JIM HENSON’S THE STORYTELLER: GREEK MYTHS, a 32-page booklet of exclusive interviews with the producers of the series and Portman herself, and a collection of behind-the-scenes photographs. Currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, the Emmy® and BAFTA TV Craft award-winning anthology series features both human actors and creations from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop in this retelling of classic folk tales, fables, and legends.
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April 5, 2018
Lakeshore releases score from STAR TREK DISCOVERY Chapter II digitally – CD due later in year
Composer John Russo shared his excitement about the progression of the music for the second chapter of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY: “As the story developed, the score needed to adapt,” said Russo. “The mirror universe storyline in episodes 10 through 13 created interesting possibilities for the score. For example, it allowed me to introduce new characters and geographical themes. Additionally, for the season one finale of STAR TREK DISCOVERY, I was able to include Alexander Courage’s iconic theme into the episode…
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Varèse Sarabande Records to Release Frank Ilfman’s Score to GHOST STORIES
The connections between the film and the play on which it is based were important to Ilfman. “The original play didn’t have any music, but it was clear from day one, that we wanted to have the essence of the stage play when we can, have the mystery supernatural feel looming, we wanted to make sure you entered the world of Goodman you stay there,” he explained. “We used many new techniques with the orchestra and the hall space at Air studio, so we can get a more ethereal feel for the score throughout.”
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April 4, 2018
David Shire’s score for George A. Romero film given well-deserved expanded soundtrack treatment
Music Box Records presents an extended soundtrack release of MONKEY SHINES: AN EXPERIMENT IN FEAR, George A. Romero’s vivid 1988 psychological horror thriller about a young man paralyzed from the neck down after an accident. In the story, the man is given a specially-trained capuchin monkey to help him with his day-to-day cares, unaware that the little monkey is actually the ongoing subject of a secret genetic experiment to increase animal intelligence. As a result, man and monkey develop a dangerous psychotic link that fuels homicidal rages that are shared and accentuated between them both.
The music was composed by David Shire, in one of only a few excursions into horror territory made by the composer…
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March 28, 2018
DOCTOR WHO Season 9 Soundtrack Box Set for April 27
Silva Screen Records Announces they will release the DOCTOR WHO Season 9 soundtrack on April 27, 2018, both digitally and on CD.
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March 23, 2018 
Kevin Riepel’s Score to Sci-Fi web-series ATROPA released by MovieScore Media
“The director and I are big fans of science fiction films, we agreed that the best way to capture and support this was employing the use of some traditional orchestra alongside 80s inspired synths & ambiences,” Riepl said. “On completion the score became a slight homage to 80s sci-fi.”
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March 22, 2018
“Final Cut” of Joel Goldsmith’s STARGATE SG-1: CHILDREN OF THE GODS Released by Dragon’s Domain Records – includes forty minutes of previously unreleased music
The first episode of STARGATE SG-1 was titled ‘Children Of The Gods.’ This episode originally aired with a portion of its score coupled with tracked music from the 1994 motion picture. Now, for the first time, Joel Goldsmith’s [son of Jerry Goldsmith] complete score for the pilot as it was meant to be heard is available on CD.
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March 19, 2018
Tadlow announces THRILLER Vol. 2
Tadlow Music’s Thriller Vol. 2 features newly recorded suites from six episodes composed by Jerry Goldsmith. The new release is scheduled for April 19, 2018.
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March 14, 2018
Silva Screen Records Presents “The Definitive Superhero Themes Collection”
On March 16th, Silva Screen Records will digitally release The Definitive Superhero Themes Collection, a 2 Volume 44 track compilation featuring the best and most popular Superhero themes from films and TV series.
The album presents authentic concert-styled performances of these themes by London Music Works and The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra.
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March 3, 2018
Game of Times: Ramin Djawadi’s WRINKLE IN TIME score due from Disney on March 9
The soundtrack album for Disney’s fantasy drama A WRINKLE IN TIME, featuring the film’s original score composed by Ramin Djawadi (WESTWORLD, PACIFIC RIM, GAME OF THRONES, IRON MAN), will be released digitally on March 9 and physically on March 30 by Walt Disney Records.
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March 3, 2018
Soundtrack album to THE STRANGERS reboot announced
THE STRANGERS: PREY AT NIGHT is a reboot of Bryan Bertino’s 2008 cult classic THE STRANGERS. Directed by Johannes Roberts (maker of the tense thrillers F, STORAGE 24, and 47 METERS DOWN), the movie features music by Adrian Johnston (BECOMING JANE, SHACKLETON and BRIDESHEAD Revisited). The soundtrack is expected to be released digitally on March 9 and physically in April by Varese Sarabande.
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February 28, 2018
Escape From New York – Limited Edition Artist Release
Composer/synthesist Alan Howarth is offering through his web store a Limited edition Artist Release of the original score for 1981’s ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. This digitally remastered original score is a double CD package that contains the original 1981 release of the score by John Carpenter in association with Alan Howarth and the 1995 remixed version with dialogue inserts between tracks. Sounding better than ever by utilizing the latest digital sound technology, every fan and collector will be excited to get this limited product. Each copy shipped from the web store will be personally signed by Alan Howarth.
See: http://alanhowarth.com/product/escape-from-new-york-limited-edition-artist-release/
February 20, 2018
Joseph Bishara’s score for THE WORTHY released digitally on Friday
void recordings will release the original motion picture soundtrack to The Worthy as a digital presentation on Friday, February 23, 2018. The album features original music by composer Joseph Bishara (INSIDIOUS 1-4, The CONJURING 1&2).
The post-apocalyptic thriller THE WORTHY was one of the largest Arabic genre film productions in the Middle East, served by an evocative score combining electronic elements with organic grit and a percussive push.
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February 16, 2018
Ludwig Göransson infuses the sounds of Marvel’s Super Heroes with the African landscape of Wakanda in BLACK PANTHER score
Marvel Music/Hollywood Records have released a digital album of the BLACK PANTHER score, composed by Grammy®-nominated composer and songwriter Ludwig Göransson, on February 16, 2018, coinciding with the arrival of the movie in US theaters.
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February 14, 2018
DEAD SHACK Soundtrack Comes to Life this Friday
Lakeshore Records will release two albums for the ‘80s-flavored zom-com DEAD SHACK , by Canadian indie-electronic duo HUMANS (aka DEAD SHACK director Peter Ricq and partner Robbie Slade): an Original Motion Picture Soundtrack album containing the band’s instrumental score and a “teaser” Music From The Original Motion Picture EP, consisting of songs and remixes (originally released last Halloween exclusively on Bandcamp). Both albums will be available digitally worldwide on Friday, February 16.
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February 13, 2018
WINCHESTER: The Spierig Brothers Digital Soundtrack Out from Lakeshore on Friday
Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to WINCHESTER, the new supernatural horror film from JIGSAW directors Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig (The Spierig Brothers). The soundtrack. featuring a spooky electronic/sound design score by Peter Spierig, will be released digitally on Friday Feb 16.
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February 10, 2018 
Annihilation Soundtrack Due Feb 23rd
The music for Alex Garland’s science fiction thriller ANNIHILATION has been composed by Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow (FREE FIRE) who previously scored the director’s 2015 feature EX MACHINA. The soundtrack will be released digitally on February 23, 2018 by Lakeshore Records…
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February 9, 2018
4-CD Box Set soundtrack to BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Out Next Tues
Announced from La-La Land Records: the premiere multi-disc set devoted to the scores (and theme song) from the televised chronicles of our very own Chosen One of Sunnydale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with four CDs staked full of prime slayer trackage, presenting choice bites from seasons 2-7 plus the Carter Burwell score from the original BUFFY movie starring Kristy Swanson.
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Bear McCreary’s score for OUTLANDER Season 3 Soundtrack Released
Bear McCreary’s score for the third season of the Starz fantasy-drama series OUTLANDER is now available from Madison Gate Records. CD, mp3, and streaming options available from Amazon and iTunes.
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Supernatural thriller from BBC One & Netflix, REQUIEM, Soundtrack OST composed by Dominik Scherrer with Natasha Khan (Bat For Lashes) released digitally
“It was an exciting, entertaining script, with an off-beat tone,” said Scherrer. “I loved that the central character, Matilda, is a concert cellist. The cello immediately unlocked the door into the score and justified an element of virtuoso solo cello. The cello often plays in unusually spooky registers, as if it was part of a mysterious Welsh landscape.”
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Cyberpunk Noir Novel ALTERED CARBON Comes to Netflix – Scored by Jeff Russo, Album Available Today
Lakeshore Records has released a digital soundtrack to the new Netflix series, ALTERED CARBON. The album features original music by composer Jeff Russo (STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, TV’s FARGO). In addition to the original score, the album includes three songs including a cover of the Johnny Cash standard “Ain’t No Grave” performed by ALTERED CARBON star Renée Elise Goldsberry and Sune Rose Wagner’s performance of White Zombie’s “More Human Than Human.”
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February 7, 2018
Lakeshore Records will release a digital soundtrack to THE RITUAL on February 9, 2018.
The album features original music by composer Ben Lovett (SYNCHRONICITY, AMERICAN FOLK).
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February 5, 2018
Surprise! Bear McCreary’s THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX Score Album is Available
Composer Bear McCreary’s boutique music label, Sparks & Shadows, released a digital soundtrack album on Monday, with a CD version promised “very soon.”
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February 1, 2018
THE MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE – Digital Soundtrack Available Now
Original Music by John Paesano
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January 20, 2018
Season 2 soundtrack for Fox TV’s THE EXORCIST available from Milan Records
A soundtrack album for the Fox horror drama TV series THE EXORCIST has been released digitally earlier this month by Milan Records, with a CD release scheduled for March 6. It features music from the show’s second season, composed by Tyler Bates with Joanne Higginbottom and Timothy Williams. The album also includes Daniel Hart’s main title theme from the series (Hart scored season one and created the series main theme; a season one soundtrack has not as of yet been issued).
The music can be streamed or downloaded from: Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music, and other streaming sources.
January 12, 2018
MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS Digital Song Soundtrack Available Today, Score Album Due on January 26
Marvel Music is releasing the digital versions of two MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS albums featuring music from the Hulu Original series. Out today is the MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS soundtrack album, which features songs from the show. A digital album of composer Siddhartha Khosla score music will be issued on January 26, 2018.
The series, based on a Marvel super hero comic book series, tells the story of a group of empowered teenagers who, after discovering their parents are super-villains in disguise, band together to run away from their homes in order to atone for their parents’ actions and to discover the secrets of their origins. MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS completed its first season last Tuesday – but will return for a second season in the Fall.
The soundtrack features 12 licensed tracks, along with two score tracks by Khosla – the series Main Title music and “Gert’s Lullaby.” In addition to MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS, Khosla also scores the Golden Globe and Emmy winning NBC TV series THIS IS US, as well as films and television shows such as THE ROYALS (E! Entertainment) and others. He is also singer/songwriter of the band Goldspot.
MARVEL’S RUNAWAYS soundtrack track list follows:
- “Marvel’s Runaways” Main Title – Siddhartha Khosla
- “May I Have This Dance” – Francis and the Lights
- “Cane Shuga” – Glass Animals
- “King Charles” (Clean) – Yungblud
- “Drinkee” – Sofi Tukker
- “Ocean Eyes” (Blackbear Remix) – Billie Eilish
- “Beat Goes On” – Lizzy Land
- .“All My Heroes” – Bleachers
- “Antidote” (live version) – Emily Wells
- “Fuerza” (feat. Nani Castle) – Tony Quattro
- “Beyond a Mortal” – Austra
- “Long Life” – Bombadil
- “Blanket Me” – Hundred Waters
- “Gert’s Lullaby” – Siddhartha Khosla
Marvel’s Runaways soundtrack is now available at digital retailers HERE and streaming services HERE. For more information, stay tuned to @MarvelMusicInc on Twitter and @runaways on Twitter.
January 12, 2018
Julien Mineau Creates A Dark, Video-Gamesque And “Synthelicious” Score For GAME OF DEATH
Dare To Care Records has released a soundtrack album for the horror thriller GAME OF DEATH. The album features the film’s original music composed by Julien Mineau (THE TROTSKY). Mineau’s music for GAME OF DEATH won best score at the 2017 Brooklyn Horror Film Festival.
The singer, guitarist and composer behind Malajube and Fontarabie has once again expanded his range by composing the soundtrack for GAME OF DEATH, a gory horror flick produced by Laurence “Baz” Morais and Sébastien Landry (LA CHIENNE). An engaging mosaic of atmospheric synth-pop pieces, the soundtrack album is available now for digital download and online streaming under Dare To Care Records.
Kill or be killed is the golden rule of the GAME OF DEATH. Sucks for seven millennials who ignored that rule. Now each one’s head will explode unless they kill someone. Will they turn on each other to survive, or will this sunny day be the last for the innocent people of their middle-of-nowhere town?
The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also listen to audio samples, and other digital music outlets.
-via filmmusicreporter.com and daretocarerecords.
January 4, 2018
La-La-Land Presents STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE Vol 2
La-La Land has announced the second volume of the Deep Space Nine soundtrack collection. This 4-CD Soundtrack Set To Be Released January 9.
Limited to 3000 units, the four-CD set will be released on Tuesday, January 9, at a cost of $59.98 per set. The first 200 purchasers will receive a signed front tray card by composer Dennis McCarthy.
Produced by Ford A Thaxton, the set features liner notes by Randall D. Larson, art direction by Mark Banning, and original cover art by Darren Dochterman.
The track listing can be found here.
The set can be ordered next week on La-La Land‘s website, located here.
– via TrekCore
December 27, 2017
Silva Screen Announces 2018 Release of DOCTOR WHO Series 9 Soundtrack
To be released early in 2018, Silva Screen Records has announced an early 2018 release of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from DOCTOR WHO Series 9.
The long-awaited release will be a four-disc set:
- Disc 1 containing cues from The Magician’s Apprentice, The Witch’s Familiar, Under The Lake, Before The Flood, The Girl Who Died and The Woman Who Lived
- Disc 2 containing cues from The Zygon Invasion, The Zygon Inversion, Sleep No More, Face The Raven and Hell Bent
- Disc 3 will contain the score from the Series standout episode – Heaven Sent
- Disc 4 will contain the score to the 2015 Christmas Special – The Husbands of River Song
As with the Series 8 release, the first run of CDs will contain an additional booklet collecting Stuart Manning’s retro poster designs for each episode.
The actual release date will be scheduled soon. For more details, see: http://www.silvascreen.com/
In other Silva Screen News
In addition to releasing CDs of Ben & Nick Foster’s THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO Vols. 1 and 2, the label has also released via digital and streaming audio the complete score for the Season 1 finale, “Legacy.” The score is presented in a single track of 21 minutes length.
For more details, see: this link at silvascreenmusic
Or order from iTunes or amazon.uk
December 17 2017
More THRILLER from Tadlow
Teaser: Coming from Tadlow in 2018 – a second helping of newly-recorded music from the original TV series, THRILLER (1961-62).
Jerry Goldsmith had taken over composing for THRILLER when first-season scorer Pete Rugolo was let go during a house-clearing to retool the series as a scarier anthology in its second season. Goldsmith had previously contributed to CBS’s THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959-64), scoring 16 of its original half-hour episodes. Goldsmith relished the opportunity to score THRILLER’s hour-long format. Tadlow’s 2017 CD release offered up a premiere release of Goldsmith’s music from THRILLER’s second-season scores (Rugolo had made an LP in 1961 of some of his music from the show’s first season; that LP was reissued on CD in Spain in 2002; but none of Goldsmith’s THRILLER music had been issued in any format).
With their first volume, producers James Fitzpatrick and Leigh Phillips (the latter also reconstructed the scores) had rearranged the powerful resources of the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra into an unusual chamber set-up that befitted the scope of Goldsmith’s music, which was originally recorded with minimal ensembles, but nonetheless made the most of the composer’s inventive orchestrations.
Tadlow’s world premiere recording would revisit more than an hour’s worth of music from six of THRILLER’s most provocatively scored second-season episodes, each one score presented via a trio of short suites. More details, including specific episode content of Volume 2, have not been announced yet, but it will surely be something to look forward to. Watch for the official word here – or at www.tadlowmusic.com/.
Check out this teaser from the THRILLER 2 sessions, courtesy of Tadlow’s James Fitzpatrick, via Facebook:
December 5, 2017
Lakeshore Records to release soundtrack to STAR TREK: DISCOVERY on Dec. 15
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Silva Screen Records Presents The White King Soundtrack – Featuring an original score by acclaimed composer Joanna Bruzdowicz.
Directed by Alex Helfrecht and Jörg Tittel and starring Jonathan Pryce and Agyness Deyn, the disturbing sci-fi drama THE WHITE KING made its debut at the Edinburgh International Film Festival where it was nominated for the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature. Lorenzo Allchurch plays Djata, a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labeled traitors, the boy will not rest until he sees his father again.
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December 3, 2017
Intrada presents Goldsmith’s unreleased score to 1977’s DAMNATION ALLEY
Likely, Jerry Goldsmith’s most sought-after unreleased score is that for Jack Smight’s 1977 post-apocalyptic action thriller, loosely based on the novel of the same name by Roger Zelazny, Intrada has found the original standalone music tapes and re-performed the missing synthesizer tracks to provide the score as originally heard in theaters.
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Toho’s animated GODZILLA MONSTER PLANET soundtrack released in Japan
Japanese composer Takayuki Hattori’s score for the new animated film, GODZILLA MONSTER PLANET (aka GODZILLA PLANET OF THE MONSTERS) has been released in Japan by Toho Records, and is a superlative and sophisticated orchestral score. Hattori rejoins Toho’s classic kaiju (who resembles the SHIN GODZILLA design) for the first time since 1999’s GODZILLA 2000.
The Toho animated film GODZILLA MONSTER PLANET opened in Japan on November 17. No US release date has been reported yet although it appears it will debut on Netflix (see comment below to link to Netflix trailer).
The soundtrack is available from amazon japan and from sellers on eBay.
Watch the Japanese trailer at the film’s official website here.
Fabio Frizzi’s UN GATTO NEL CERVELLO – BEAT Records Announces Expanded CD Release
November 19, 2017
La-La Land’s Latest: Menacing Youngsters & Super Hero Scores
La-La Land Records, Warner Bros. and Sony Music proudly present the world premiere official CD release of the original motion picture score to the 1956 classic feature film chiller THE BAD SEED, starring Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack and Henry Jones, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Legendary composer Alex North (A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, THE ROSE TATOO, WILLARD, DRAGONSLAYER) expertly crafts a heady mix of heart-melting lyricism and sharp-edged dissonance, creating a musical masterwork that escalates all the tension and drama within this acclaimed tale of lethal evil lurking within a seemingly perfect child. Produced by Neil S. Bulk and Didier C. Deutsch, mastered by Mike Piacentini, this special release marks the first time the BAD SEED score has been officially issued on CD. The original, remastered LP program has been augmented with additional tracks. Writer Frank K. DeWald takes you behind the film and its score with his in-depth, exclusive liner notes and Dan Goldwasser’s sharp art design completes this thoughtful release of a classic work from a master composer. Limited to 2500 units.
For more details, see: http://www.lalalandrecords.com/Site/BadSeed.html
Also among La-La Land’s November releases are another set of Blake Neely soundtrack scores, including the music from ARROW Season Five, THE FLASH Season 3, SUPERGIRL Season 2, and LEGENDS OF TOMORROW Season 2. Once again Neely bolsters all the thrills and emotion that course through the heroic veins of these DC super heroes’ hit series. Powerful, propulsive – but always human — Neely’s score is pitch-perfect for the titular hooded vigilante. Neely selected, assembled and produced each of these collections. Each of these special releases is limited to 3000 Units
Nov. 9, 2017
SAW Anthology soundtrack to feature scores from all eight films
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Updated November 9, 2017 (unboxing video – see below)
October 31, 2017
Four classic modern horror soundtracks from Stephen King Movies – coming up Nov 10 from Varèse Sarabande.
Varèse Sarabande has announced THE STEPHEN KING 8-CD Box Set coming out Friday Nov 10th. The set continues THE SHINING (1997 TV miniseries, score by Nicholas Pike, 3CDs), DREAMCATCHER (2003 feature film, score by James Newton Howard (2 CDs), FIRESTARTER (1984 feature film, scored by Tangerine Dream), and THE STAND (1994 TV miniseries, score by W. G. Snuffy Walden). The set is a limited edition of only 1500 copies. Further information and ordering details will follow soon at www.varesesarabande.com
Watch a video unboxing below to examine the box set in detail, from Varese Sarabande’s FACEBOOK page.
October 26, 2017
Thunderbirds Are Go – Volume 2 Soundtrack – is GO! from Silva Screen on Nov 24
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