NEW GENRE SOUNDTRACKS
October 12, 2019
THE AMAZING MR. BLUNDEN, Elmer Bernstein’s 1972 family ghost film, unearthed for CD by Intrada
In 1972, acclaimed composer Elmer Bernstein (THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, GHOSTBUSTERS) scored a charming, family-friendly ghost story called THE AMAZING MR. BLUNDEN… “Part ghost story, part drama, part redemption tale, part time travel fantasy, all parts of THE AMAZING MR. BLUNDEN serve as inspiration for composer Bernstein to write in his most intimate style for orchestra with frequent spotlights on piano, flute, harp, vibraphone, orchestra bells…
Read the details here.
October 12, 2019
Elvira’s Haunted Hills Soundtrack LP Announced – Music by Eric Allaman
Enjoy The Ride Records and Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, in conjunction with Queen “B” Productions, have announced the release of the soundtrack to 2001’s ELVIRA’S HAUNTED HILLS, on vinyl for the very first time. The original motion picture score is composed by Eric Allaman (ANGEL III: THE FINAL CHAPTER, DOWN TWISTED, MUTANT LEAGUE, DANTE’S COVE, and a former member of the electronic duo Berlin Game). The original soundtrack CD, released in 2001, has been long out of print and sought after by Elvira fans for years.
Read the details here.
October 11, 2019
Alan Howarth’s ZOMBIE NIGHT Soundtrack Premiere, Richard Band’s MUTANT Soundtrack Reissue, Announced
Dragon’s Domain is releasing a pair of frightfully fun horror scores on CD and digital. 2013’s ZOMBIE NIGHT features music composed and performed by Alan Howarth (former John Carpenter associate on the HALLOWEEN movie sequels and others. 1984 science fiction/horror film MUTANT is being released as a 35th Anniversary Edition, featuring the music composed by Richard Band (THE HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW, RE-ANIMATOR, THE PUPPET MASTER films) and performed by England’s National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Read the details here.
October 11, 2019
Animated ADDAMS FAMILY: Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna’s Score Debuts Digitally
The original soundtrack album is out now digitally on all major music services. This new film is based on the original drawings of Charles Addams’ 1938 cartoons in The New Yorker.
Read the details here.
October 10, 2019
David Spear’s Soundtracks to DINOSAURS Reissued on CD
Released in 1984, DINOSAURS was the first in a series of family-oriented documentaries produced by Richard Jones and hosted by Gary Owens and Eric Boardman…
For DINOSAURS, Jones wanted an original orchestral score. He was not interested in library music or an electronic score. Composer/conductor David Spear was recommended to him. He had the distinction of being Elmer Bernstein’s orchestrator on several scores and also Spear’s parents produced and starred in children’s programming that had a lot of original music elements…
Read the full story, link to music samples and interview video here.
October 5, 2019
TV’s THE INVADERS, Expanded MINORITY REPORT Among La-La Land Records’ next Batch of Soundtracks
See story here.
September 27, 2019
Varèse Sarabande Offers Reissue of OOP STAR TREK: The Deluxe Edition in its September CD Club Releases
Among the mouth-watering limited edition soundtracks announced in Varèse Sarabande’s September 2019 CD Club roster is a much-requested reissue of their 2010 Deluxe Edition of Michael Giacchino’s score to J.J. Abrams STAR TREK reboot…
Read the details here.
September 24, 2019
Premiere Release of Graeme Revell’s 1990 Score to CHILD’S PLAY 2 Announced
La-La Land Records and Universal Studios proudly present the sixth title in the acclaimed Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection — the world premiere official release of the original motion picture score to the big-screen 1990 horror sequel, CHILD’S PLAY 2, composed by Graeme Revell.
Read the details here.
September 17, 2019
Simon Boswell’s SANTA SANGRE Score Gets Extended Vinyl Release in Nov.
Composer Simon Boswell announces the forthcoming extended double-vinyl soundtrack of his score to SANTA SANGRE. The is the Composer’s 30th Anniversary Edition featuring 78 minutes of music, including the complete score, previously unreleased cues, songs performed by cast, and—for the first time ever—all of the music recorded on the set of the film in Mexico City, PLUS new orchestral versions by Simon Boswell and the Gringo Orchestra.
Read the details here.
September 12, 2019
Amie Doherty’s Score To Groundbreaking Animated Series UNDONE Available Tomorrow – September 13
UNDONE is the critically acclaimed groundbreaking animated series coming to Amazon Prime Video this Friday September 13. The eight-episode series features a powerful score by Amie Doherty, known for her scores to HERE AND NOW, and Tribeca film KEEP THE CHANGE, in addition to her orchestration on such series as ALTERED CARBON, FARGO and more.
Read the details and watch the trailer here.
September 11, 2019
Penka Kouneva’s Soundtrack for Sci-Fi Film ENCOUNTER Announced
Notefornote Music announces the CD release of Penka Kouneva’s score for the science fiction film, ENCOUNTER.
Read the details here.
September 10, 2019
La-La Land Presents Standalone CD of Harry Manfredini’s Score to FRIDAY THE 13th PART VI: JASON LIVES
La-La Land Records has announced their release Harry Manfredini’s original motion picture scores to the classic Paramount Pictures horror sequel FRIDAY THE 13th PART VI: JASON LIVES (1986). Manfredini returns to his iconic FRIDAY THE 13th musicscape, but this time he’s armed with the largest orchestra the franchise had seen up to that point, resulting in a bigger, richer score that manages to hit all the classic FRIDAY motifs while adding an additional punch.
Read more details here.
September 9, 2019
Tadlow Announces World Premiere New Recordings of the Complete Scores from Two Classic Hammer Films of the 1950s on One Compact Disc
Tadlow Music presents the world premiere recordings of the complete scores from Hammer Films’ DRACULA (1957, aka HORROR OF DRACULA) and THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1956) composed by James Bernard. “A distinctive trait in Bernard’s Hammer scores is their use of clashing harmonies, often created by doubling a motif a tone higher, as in his famous Dracula theme,” writes Tadlow in their announcement. “His music is also frenzied and pacey at times, frequently making use of percussion such as timpani and snares…”
Read the details here.
September 8, 2019
SCARY STORIES soundtrack CD announced
eOne Music has announced CD edition of SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, which is currently set for release on November 1st. The label previously released a digital download soundtrack of the score on August 30.
The album, marked as a deluxe edition, will also include the 1966 song “Season of the Witch” by Scottish folk/pop singer Donovan, performed in the film by Lana del Rey. The CD edition can be pre-ordered from Amazon.
August 28, 2019
Gregory Tripi’s Soundtrack to Horror Thriller MA Set for Vinyl
Death Waltz Recording Co., in conjunction with Back Lot Music, announced the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack to MA, featuring the synth score by award-winning composer Gregory Tripi (REMEMORY, MANHUNT UNABOMBER).
Read the full story here.
August 27, 2018
Mark Isham’s 1998 BLADE Score to Be Issued on Vinyl
The Original Motion Picture Score for BLADE by award winning composer Mark Isham will be released for the first time on vinyl on October 4th and is now available for pre-order on from varesesarabande and other retailers.
Read the details here.
August 27, 2019
1992’s PET SEMATARY II Score Gets A Soundtrack from La-La Land
La-La Land Records and Paramount Pictures announces the world premiere release of composer Mark Governor’s (MINDWARP) original motion picture score to the 1992 feature film shocker, PET SEMATARY TWO, directed by Mary Lambert.
Read the full details here.
August 23, 2019
DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE Soundtrack Announced – Scores by Daniel Pemberton and Samuel Sim
The Soundtrack Volumes 1 & 2 for The Jim Henson Company’s fantasy adventure series THE DARK CRYSTAL: AGE OF RESISTANCE are being released digitally on Friday, August 30 (the same day as the series launch on Netflix), and on CD and vinyl in the coming months, exclusively through Music.Film Recordings. Volume 1 of the soundtrack features original music by composer Daniel Pemberton, while Volume 2 consists of tracks by Pemberton and by Samuel Sim.
Read the further details here.
August 23, 2019
Tim Wynn Scores Sci-Fi Thriller FREAKS – In Theatres Friday, September 13
Award-winning composer Tim Wynn (CW’s SUPERNATURAL, XCOM, MECH-X4) has scored the genre-bending psychological sci-fi thriller FREAKS, starring Emile Hirsch (INTO THE WILD), Bruce Dern (ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, SILENT RUNNING) and introducing Lexy Kolker… Wynn’s score will be released on all major digital platforms through the label MovieScore Media alongside the film’s theatrical release on Friday, 13th September.
Read the full details here.
August 23, 2019
Michael Abels’ US Released in Vinyl from Waxwork Records
Waxwork Records presents the official soundtrack and complete score from Michael Abels’ US as a deluxe double LP featuring 180 gram “Metallic Brass Scissors” colored vinyl for disc one, and “Tethered Red Jumpsuit” colored vinyl for disc two. The album artwork was created by illustrator Edward Kinsella.
Read the details here.
August 22, 2019
Dragon’s Domain Releasing Rare John Morgan Short Film Scores
John Morgan is best known as a leading reconstructionist of vintage film scores, in partnership with composer/conductor William T. Stromberg. THE JOHN MORGAN COLLECTION, VOLUME 1 features world premiere releases of music from several projects the composer has been involved with across his career. The scores demonstrate Morgan’s affinity to the form and style of classic film music and on their own contain some remarkable music.
Fore more details, see here.
August 21, 2019
Brian Tyler’s READY OR NOT Score Releases Today from Fox Music
In the new horror/mystery thriller READY OR NOT, a bride’s wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game which she may not survive. “It’s done as a completely old school, classic score, like a Hitchcock movie,” Tyler said in a red carpet interview for a special screening of the film. “The comedy and the wackiness [of the movie] plays against this really classic, old school score, all symphonic… and [then] it tweaks by the end… it twists.”
Read the full story here.
August 13, 2019
La-La-Land Announces Soundtrack to CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA Season 1 – Music by Adam Taylor
La-La Land Records, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Archie Studios, and WaterTower Music proudly present the limited edition CD release of CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA – Original Television Score Season One, featuring music score highlights from the first season (2018) of the acclaimed supernatural drama series…
Read the full story here.
August 7, 2019
Ben & Nick Foster’s THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO Series 2 Soundtrack set for Aug 23
On August 23rd, Silva Screen Records will release THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO – Series 2, Ben and Nick Foster’s updated soundtrack to the iconic TV series. Their score for the second series of the animated show, based on the classic Gerry Anderson series from the 1960s, features synths, various electronics, and full orchestra, following composer Barry Gray’s heritage of employing a vast array of brass and percussion.
Read more details here.
August 6, 2019
Expanded GHOST STORY & THE TENANT soundtracks from Quartet Records
Quartet Records, Universal Pictures, Universal Music Group and Geffen Records present the long-requested expanded release of the masterful score by Philippe Sarde for GHOST STORY, directed by John Irvin in 1981. Sarde’s classic, evocative score uses a melancholy, haunting main theme, a beautiful and obsessive love theme, and Gothic orchestration with some touches of Bartók and Stravinsky, building a solid and coherent “symphony of horror.” In addition, Quartet is also offering Sarde’s score for Roman Polanski’s 1976 horror tale, THE TENANT in an expanded, remastered edition. This film was the first collaboration between Polanski and composer Philippe Sarde, who was only 28 years old when he composed the score. The music featured a complicated orchestration that required an unusual arrangement of the orchestra.
Read the details here.
August 6, 2019
Silva Screen to Release Barry Gray’s UFO score for Gerry & Sylvia Anderson TV Series
First Release in Series Compiled & Designed by Fanderson
The long awaited release of Barry Gray’s freshly remastered score for Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s 1970 live action series, available worldwide from 13th September in CD, digital, and vinyl formats.
Read the full details here.
August 5, 2019
UNCAGED: tomandandy return to 47 METERS DOWN – digital soundtrack coming from Varèse Sarabande
The sequel to 2017’s sharkterror movie 47 METERS DOWN is titled 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED, and opens on August 16th. The composing duo of tomandandy (THE SILENCE, RESIDENT EVIL: RETRIBUTION, THE MOTHMAN PROPHESIES), who provided a commendable score for the previous movie, are back with another scary scuba score for the new film. Varèse Sarabande Records will release a digital soundtrack on August 16th.
Read the full story here.
August 1, 2019
Ron Goodwin’s Final Score, Animated Fantasy VALHALLA, Given Deluxe Soundtrack Treatment on CD
In December 1985 composer Ron Goodwin attended his very last film scoring session. It was at Easy Sound Studio in Copenhagen, and the score being recorded was for an ambitious Danish animated adventure fantasy called VALHALLA, based on Peter Madsen’s comics of the same name. At the time of its release in 1986, VALHALLA had become the most expensive film in Danish film history… part of the reason for its continued success is due to the wonderful symphonic score by legendary English composer Ron Goodwin…
Read the full story here.
July 25, 2019
Intrada premieres Christopher Young’s Score to VIRTUOSITY
“In perceptive fashion, Young creates 50 minutes of complex techno-electronic music for first two thirds of flashy film,” writes Intrada. “Then, in audacious display of scoring chops, Young literally attacks with full orchestral music written in his most ferocious fortissimo vernacular… The sudden aural effect of switching from synthesized material to more than 20 minutes of massive orchestral action music is nothing short of riveting!”
Read the full story here.
July 21, 2019
Deluxe expanded AQUAMAN soundtrack released by WaterTower
WaterTower Music will release a new deluxe soundtrack album for James Wan’s AQUAMAN, featuring the 20 tracks from the first release, originally released last December, featuring seven previously unreleased score tracks by Rupert Gregson-Williams as well as four remixes.
– via filmmusicreporter <– click link for track list.
July 21, 2019
Neal Acree’s REND Original Game Soundtrack Released
“As the players start out in the afterlife with nothing and have to craft survival tools with the elements around them I found myself reaching for older and less refined sounding instruments like the hardanger fiddle, hurdy gurdy, viola da gamba, and nyckelharpa,” explained Acree…
Read the full details here.
July 20, 2019
Netflix ULTRAMAN Soundtrack Released by Milan
Milan Records has released the soundtrack to the new ULTRAMAN (a Netflix Original Anime Series). The gorgeous score is composed by Nobuko Toda and Kazuma Jinnouchi
Stream or download it from these sources.
See our previous report on the debut of the series on Netflix, including trailer & video clip, here.
July 18, 2019
Sean Callery’s score to JESSICA JONES, Season 3 Releases Friday
Marvel Music and Hollywood Records will release a new soundtrack album for Marvel’s Netflix original series JESSICA JONES. The album features selections of the original score from the show’s third and final season composed by Sean Callery (24, HOMELAND, BONES, INHUMANS).
Read the details, and watch clips from the music and show, here.
July 17, 2019
PLANET OF THE APES – Original Film Series Soundtrack Collection: Limited Edition (5-CD Box Set)
La-La Land Records, 20th Century Fox, Fox Music and Varèse Sarabande present a special, limited edition, 5-CD Box Set collection of the remastered motion picture scores from the original landmark PLANET OF THE APES film franchise – PLANET OF THE APES (1968), BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (1970), ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (1971), CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (1972) and BATTLE FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES (1973).
Read details here.
July 8, 2019
Ben Lovett’s score to folk horror thriller THE WIND out on vinyl
This week, Mondo—in conjunction with Lakeshore Records—presents the score to Emma Tammi’s folk horror masterpiece THE WIND on vinyl. Featuring a super impressive score from Ben Lovett (THE RITUAL) and absolutely killer artwork by Candice Tripp, this release is limited to only 666 numbered copies.
Read the full story here.
July 6, 2019
MIDSOMMAR soundtrack released – score by Bobby Krlic (aka The Haxan Cloak)
The potent latest entry in the burgeoning folk horror subgenre is MIDSOMMAR, a US-Swedish co-production is written and directed by Ari Aster, whose feature film directorial debut, 2018’s HEREDITARY starring Toni Collette, was critically praised. Milan Records has released the official soundtrack album for MIDSOMMAR, featuring the film’s score, composed by Bobby Krlic, a British musician and music producer who uses the stage name The Haxan Cloak…
Read the full story, sample a music track, and watch the film’s trailer, here.
July 4, 2019
Jeff Russo’s score for STAR TREK DISCOVERY Season 2 announced for July 19th
Lakeshore Records has announced that their soundtrack album for STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Season 2 will be released digitally on July 19. A vinyl album is also reportedly forthcoming. “STAR TREK: DISCOVERY continues to be a source of incredible musical inspiration for me,” Russo has said…. “This season’s swashbuckling has allowed the music to shine and grow in ways that I didn’t expect.”
Read the full details, and sample a track, here.
June 27, 2019
Silva Screen Presents Music from the HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON Trilogy – London Music Works Performs John Powell Scores
On July 19th, Silva Screen Records will digitally release Music from the How to Train Your Dragon Trilogy, 14 exhilarating themes from John Powell’s award winning scores, performed by London Music Works, which skillfully brings together a selection of the very best themes from Powell’s consummate and game-changing animation score.
Read details here.
June 26, 2019
Edgar Rothermich’s Authentic Replicant of Vangelis’ BLADE RUNNER Score Comes to Vinyl via Notefornote Music
Notefornote Music presents a vinyl edition of BLADE RUNNER: Music from the Motion Picture Score – Edgar Rothermich’s faithful recording of the classic score composed by Vangelis, originally released on CD from BuySoundtrax Records in recognition of the film and score’s 30th Anniversary in 2012.
Read the full story here.
June 25, 2019
Mark Snow’s Music for THE X-FILES Season 11 Announced by La-La Land Records
The X-FILES’ exciting 11th season aired in 2018, with all new episodes – and incredible, all-new original scores from Mark Snow, the maestro who has been responsible for the show’s legendary musicscape for its entire run. Snow’s familiar, classic motifs expertly meld with new sonic delights, resulting in the unique dynamic blend of atmosphere, drama, warmth and chills that are a signature component of this beloved show.
Read the full details here.
June 21, 2019
Netflix Unleashes Epic Final Trailer for STRANGER THINGS Season 3; Lakeshore to Release Soundtrack on June 28
The long-awaited third season of Netflix’s science fiction series STRANGER THINGS is set to premieres on July 4. A new, final trailer for the new season has been posted yesterday to youtube. Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack album STRANGER THINGS Season 3, featuring music from the original score composed by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein, of the electronic band Survive. The soundtrack will be released digitally on June 28.
Read the full story, watch the new trailer, hear a sample track from the score album, here.
June 20, 2019
Soundtrack Debuts from Louis Febre’s ALIEN TRESPASS and John Morris’ THE ELECTRIC GRANDMOTHER offer 50’s sci-fi thrills and sentimentality, respectively.
Dragon’s Domain Records presents the original motion picture soundtrack release of ALIEN TRESPASS, the 2009 science fiction/horror/comedy film directed by R.W. Goodwin. The film is a 2009 science fiction film masquerading as a 1950’s science fiction thriller, carefully emulating the style of ’50s science fiction cinema, in all its earnestness, inadvertent silliness, and delightful period performances. Louis Febre composed an original, very 1950’s-esque score, replete with soaring Theremin, and an authentically-symphonic digital orchestra providing succulent string passages, expressive brass gestures, and dramatically rolling percussion.
Also announced by DDR is the premiere release of the soundtrack to the 1982 TV-movie adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s celebrated story “The Electric Grandmother.” The music is composed by John Morris (BLAZING SADDLES, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, THE ELEPHANT MAN), providing a cheerful “Electric Grandmother” melody and a tender, sentimental “Grandmother Lullaby.” The complete score is included in the label’s reissue of Morris’ orchestral music for THE SCARLET LETTER (1979 TV-miniseries).
Read the full details here.
June 14, 2019
David Stone Hamilton’s Symphonic Score for SF Thriller SOLIS Released
MovieScore Media’s latest discovery takes listeners on an unexpected journey to outer space with a thematically rich, symphonic score by up-and-coming composer David Stone Hamilton. MSM’s digital soundtrack album is available now (see link below) and will soon be offered on CD by Perseverance Records.
Read the details here.
June 13, 2019
Preview Bear McCreary’s CHILD’S PLAY main theme
“My idea from the beginning was not to score this film using a traditional orchestra, but in fact to score it with a toy orchestra,” McCreary told Consequences of Sound’s Ben Kaye. “This ultimately involved stealing toys from my daughter’s play room and adding bizarre, handheld instruments such as toy pianos, hurdy gurdies, accordions, action figures, Slinkies, slide whistles, Otamatones, melodicas, harmonicas, kazoos, to create an orchestra of sounds.” The web sit has posted an exclusive of McCreary’s main theme from CHILD’S PLAY… the soundtrack releases tomorrow from Sony.
Read the full story here:
June 7, 2019
Sony Presents MEN IN BLACK™: INTERNATIONAL Soundtrack Album – Music by Danny Elfman & Chris Bacon
Sony Music announces the release of MEN IN BLACK™: INTERNATIONAL Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, featuring the music of Danny Elfman and Chris Bacon. Elfman returns to MEN IN BLACK after scoring the franchise’s first three installments, joined by Chris Bacon, who has previously written additional music on Elfman’s scores including AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON, ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS and GOOSEBUMPS and his known for his own scores to TV’s BATES MOTEL and THE TICK…
Read the full story here.
GHOSTBUSTERS™ 35th Anniversary Edition of Elmer Bernstein Score Includes Previously Unreleased Tracks, Essay from Son, Peter Bernstein
In honor of the 35th anniversary of GHOSTBUSTERS’ 1984 theatrical debut, Sony Music announces a special reissue of the GHOSTBUSTERS Original Motion Picture Score with music by legendary film composer Elmer Bernstein. The anniversary edition arrives in digital formats for the very first time (in both standard and hi resolutions), on CD Friday, June 7, and on vinyl Friday, July 19.
For more details, and tracklist, click here.
Bear McCreary’s CHILD’S PLAY Soundtrack Releases Digitally on June 14
Sony Classical will release the official soundtrack album for director Lars Klevberg’s reboot of the long-running horror franchise, CHILD’S PLAY. The album features the film’s original music composed by Bear McCreary and will be released digitally on June 14, 2019…
Read the details here.
June 6, 2019
Randy Miller’s HELLRAISER III Remastered Anniversary Edition Score Comes to Vinyl This Summer
Coming June 28 is the vinyl release of HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH, featuring score by Randy Miller (DARKMAN II & III, THE SOONG SISTERS, WITHOUT LIMITS). This is the latest specially remastered anniversary release by Lakeshore Records from the iconic horror film franchise, and follows on Lakeshore’s superb vinyl editions of Christopher Young’s HELLRAISER and HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II.
Read the details here.
June 4, 2019
David Arnold’s GOOD OMENS Score Now Available
Composer David Arnold’s soundtrack to the highly anticipated TV adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s 1990 comic fable, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, has now released for streaming and download from Silva Screen.
Read the full article here.
June 2, 2019
DARK PHOENIX Soundtrack from Hans Zimmer Releases June 7
Hans Zimmer’s score for the new X-Men movie DARK PHOENIX will release digitally on June 7th from Fox Music. A CD version is also said to be in the works.
Read the full details here
May 20, 2019
GAME OF THRONES’ Season 8 Digital Soundtrack Released – And a Look Back at Ramin Djawadi’s Music for the Series
A digital soundtrack has been released by WaterTower Music of Ramin Djawadi’s music from final, eighth season of HBO’s GAME OF THRONES. A Double CD release is scheduled for July 19, 2019 and a vinyl release later in the year.
Looking Back at the Series’ Music
When Ramin Djawadi originally signed on to score GAME OF THRONES in 2011…
Read the full story, and watch a video about Djawai’s GoT scores, here.
May 14, 2019
La-La Land Records Presents Gil Melle’s THE SENTINEL soundtrack
La-La Land Records and Universal Studios proudly present the fourth title in the acclaimed Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection — the world premiere official release of the original motion picture score to the big-screen 1977 horror chiller, THE SENTINEL. Never before officially available in any format, the chilling music of renowned composer Gil Mellé (THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN, STARSHIP INVASIONS, FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY) is an expertly experimental mix of large orchestra and electronics that has earned its place as one of the great ’70s genre scores.
Read the full details here.
May 10, 2018
Timothy Williams scores BRIGHTBURN – digital soundtrack available today
“Being able to merge two genres which have never been combined before, superhero and horror, was an amazing experience,” said Williams. “We worked on the idea of a main theme at the beginning that would be simple and reflect the emotional investment of hope in the story… As Brandon’s power increases, we begin to feel the weight and power of a large orchestra which then bends and distorts with Brandon’s descent into evil…”
Read the full story here.
May 6, 2019
Lakeshore Releases Ben Lovett’s I TRAPPED THE DEVIL Soundtrack
“Ben Lovett’s score is more evidence that the man who sold the horror in THE WIND and THE RITUAL understands the importance of music in horror. Those two films utilized music and sound perfectly to create tension and put that feeling of dread in your stomach. With I TRAPPED THE DEVIL operating in minimalism, the music is even more important in establishing tension and Lovett’s score melds with the sound effects to create an underlying dread that percolates through the entire film. It pulses, mixing ambient noises and thudding bass.” – Gayly Dreadful
Read more details here.
May 4, 2019
Richard Stone’s PUMPKINHEAD Soundtrack Gets New Standalone CD Release
Notefornote music has reissued this with a unique graphic design, featuring insightful commentary notes by composer Edwin Wendler, and with jewel case packaging for those who missed out on the box set or decided to wait for a separate release.
Read full details here.
April 25, 2019
First Look: Two Tracks from Bear McCreary’s score to GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS Revealed
WaterTower music has shared this first glimpse of Bear McCreary’s intimate and delicate music for the upcoming kaiju epic.
Watch the videos here.
April 22, 2019
Christophe Beck’s ANT-MAN AND THE WASP 2-LP vinyl OST set from Mondo
Mondo Music in partnership with Hollywood Records and Marvel Music, is proud to present the first in a series of MCU soundtracks: the premiere vinyl release for Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP.
Award-winning composer Christophe Beck re-teamed with the Marvel Cinematic Universe to score Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN AND THE WASP, the sequel to 2015’s Marvel Studios’ ANT-MAN, one of the most kinetic and musically inventive chapters in the on-going series (and which Beck had also scored).
Read the details here.
April 20, 2019
Varèse & Newbury Comics Offer Exclusive MAD MAX Vinyl Edition
MAD MAX turns 40 this week. Varèse Sarabande Records and Newbury Comics offer an exclusive Red & Gray Haze vinyl of Australian composer Brian May’s classic action score for the original MAD MAX. The label has even brought back their classic vintage maroon colored paper circle in the middle of the LP. Limited to 750 copies…
More details here.
Sony Classical will release Henry Jackman’s score for Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Multi-award winning composer Henry Jackman scores the thrilling soundtrack to the eagerly anticipated film. The soundtrack album will be released on May 10 – the CD edition is now available for pre-order on Amazon
More details here.
April 12, 2019
Varèse Sarabande Records Announces Knight Rider – Featuring Remastered and Never Before Released Tracks
Varèse Sarabande Records announces the release of deluxe CD and LP packages of music from the beloved original KNIGHT RIDER TV show (1982). Featuring new artwork, these double album sets include one disc of out-of-print music and one disc of never before released tracks as selected by KNIGHT RIDER composer, Stu Phillips.
Read the full details here.
April 11, 2019
Joe Kraemer’s HITLER & BIGFOOT Soundtrack Announced
La-La Land Records will release Joe Kraemer’s original motion picture score to the acclaimed thriller/drama THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT. Kraemer weaves a robust, thematic score, teaming with drama, romance, pathos and suspense. It’s a striking work, incorporating classic 70s vibes with a modern sensibility.
Read more details here.
April 10, 2019
Christopher Young’s PET SEMATARY Soundtrack Available Digitally from Paramount – 2LP Vinyl Announced from Waxwork
“Being given the opportunity to try to continue to try to reinvent myself thru this electronic world is exciting,” Young told interviewer Daniel Schwieger. “I suppose if it had been an orchestral score, my question would have been ‘Can I do it again? What can I do with the orchestra that I haven’t already done?’ The pure electronic thing in horror movies is new and exciting.”
Read more details here.
Record Label Dedicated to Horror & Suspense Celebrates 10thAnniversary with MALEVOLENCE 3 soundtrack
Howlin’ Wolf Records is very proud to celebrate its ten year anniversary with the release of its 40th catalog entry, the conclusion to Stevan Mena’s MALEVOLENCE Trilogy, titled MALEVOLENCE 3: KILLER (2018).
April 5, 2019
Wallfisch’s HELLBOY Soundtrack Available from Sony
The soundtrack is available now in digital from Amazon, iTunes, and various streaming sources; a physical CD will be out on April 12, the same day the new HELLBOY will make his theatrical debut… “The film has this extraordinary kind of punk attitude,” Wallfisch said about scoring HELLBOY…
Read the full details here.
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA: Season One Song Soundtrack Now Available
The album is now available for streaming and purchase digitally, coinciding with new episodes of the show (Season One, Part Two) which launch the same day on Netflix. The Soundtrack features the theme from the show, “Main Title (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina)” by composer Adam Taylor, six performances from the cast, along with a wide range of songs that are featured in the show.
See here for details.
April 3, 2019
Music Box Releases Olivier Cussac’s Score to French Animated sf Adventure TERRA WILLY
In collaboration with TAT Productions, Music Box Records is pleased to present on CD the original motion picture soundtrack of the feature-length 3D animation TERRA WILLY – UNEXPLORED PLANET (2019) composed and orchestrated by Olivier Cussac (THE JUNGLE BUNCH).
Read details here.
April 3, 2019
Update: Digital SHAZAM! Soundtrack Coming April 5 – CD edition on May 10th. Score by Benjamin Wallfisch
The digital album will be released this Friday, April 5, 2019 (same date the film opens, via Warner Bros.) and we have confirmed that a CD release of the SHAZAM! score will be issued by WaterTower Music on May 10.
Read the updated story, which also includes comments from the director and composer, here.
April 2, 2019
GREEN INFERNO SE Blu-ray to Include Unreleased OST
Shout Factory has announced that their forthcoming Collector’s Edition Blu-ray release of Eli Roth’s cannibal horror movie GREEN INFERNO (2013) will include an exclusive bonus CD of the original motion picture soundtrack by Manuel Riveiro. This soundtrack has not been otherwise released.
Read the details here.
March 30, 2019
World Premiere of the Original Score and Disco Songs from the Cult Slasher Film
Perseverance Records presents the long awaited official release of the 1980 cult classic PROM NIGHT Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Perseverance worked closely with composers Carl Zittrer and Paul Zaza to locate and unearth the original masters and all music recorded for the film including unreleased disco songs and score not used in the final production, never heard before anywhere.
Read the full details here.
March 29, 2019
SHAZAM Soundtrack Due April 5 – Score by Benjamin Wallfisch
WaterTower Music will release the official soundtrack album for the comic book movie SHAZAM!. The album features the film’s original music composed by Benjamin Wallfisch…
Read more details, and sample Wallfisch’s main theme, here.
Jerome Leroy on Scoring KILLERS WITHIN – album is out on Milan
“Having to create a score that could change on a dime without feeling disorienting to the audience was the key challenge in scoring KILLERS WITHIN,” Leroy said. “We start with what looks like a fairly typical action story that moves into the heist film genre territory, eventually goes into horror, and fully settles into sci-fi/fantasy, to finally end up back in the action genre!
For more details, read the full story here.
March 26, 2019
Ben Lovett Soundtrack to Horror Western THE WIND Due from Lakeshore Apr 5
“Lovett’s score is also a major factor in establishing the unshakable dread associated with the evil you know is haunting the land, as is the impeccable sound design that provides one bone-chilling jolt after the next.” wrote Perri Nemiroff in a review of the film…
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March 25, 2019
Zdenek Liška’s score for IKARIE XB 1 comes to vinyl and mp3
Finders Keepers Records’ released last month of Zdenek Liška’s score to the 1963 Czech science fiction adventure IKARIE XB 1 (released, heavily edited, in the US, as VOYAGE TO THE END OF THE UNIVERSE) has surely put a smile on the faces of those familiar with Liška’s work and the legend of this film and its score. Described as a missing link between FORBIDDEN PLANET and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, with nuances we would later see in STAR TREK well in evidence, the film is directed by Jindřich Polàk and based on the book by Stanislaw Lem (best known for Solaris, source of another marvelous Eastern European film [and its lesser gratifying Hollywood remake]).
Read the full details here.
Chuck Cirino’s 976-EVIL II Score Released on CD
Dragon’s Domain Records, to be distributed through buysoundtrax.com presents the original motion picture soundtrack for 976 EVIL II, featuring music composed by Chuck Cirino for the 1991 sequel to 976-EVIL. With this film came a larger budget than usual and it was Chuck’s idea, rather than to score the movie wholly with synthesizers, as he had done with all his previous scores, to take advantage of the budget and bring in a small orchestra to enhance his synths. “What I had in mind is emulating what Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann had done back in THE TWILIGHT ZONE days, with small orchestras.”
Read the full article here.
March 22, 2019
About Michael Abels’ new score for Jordon Peele’s US
Michael Abels’ second scoring session with director Jordon Peele, after a successful first collaboration in 2017 for GET OUT, opened in theaters on Friday from Universal Pictures. Abels’ score favors strings and percussion, enhanced by a 30-voice choir, one third of the singers being children. “Jordan heard children’s voices as being an important, chilling part of the score,” said Abels …
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Danny Elfman’s DUMBO Score Album Takes Flight Soon from Sony
“We knew we would have to find a musical identity for Dumbo that was purely Dumbo,” Elfman said in a press release… “Tim wanted me to find a very simple theme because he feels it’s a simple story… “Dumbo definitely has a theme,” he explained. “It’s very simple, which is what Tim wanted, and it’s used throughout the entire score.”“Dumbo definitely has a theme,” he explained. “It’s very simple, which is what Tim wanted, and it’s used throughout the entire score.”
Read the full article for more details, here.
March 20, 2018
Horner’s PROJECT X sf Soundtrack Reissued by La-La Land
La-La Land Records, 20th Century Fox and Fox Music present a remastered reissue of renowned composer James Horner’s (GLORY, BRAVEHEART, TITANIC) original score from the 1987 feature film PROJECT X, starring Matthew Broderick and directed by Jonathan Kaplan. Mr. Horner crafts another beautiful work, expertly weaving heartwarming drama, sinister mystery and love to support this thoughtful and dramatic tale…
Read the details here.
March 15, 2019
ROBOCOP 2 deluxe, DREAMCATCHER standalone Headline New Varese Soundtrack Club Titles
ROBOCOP 2 was directed by Irvin Kershner and scored by Leonard Rosenman (FANTASTIC VOYAGE, BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES, STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME). This Deluxe Edition release is a huge restoration as the original score has been extended by more than forty minutes. The 2-CD Deluxe DREAMCATCHER was released previously in a Stephen King boxed set, but this is its debut as a stand-alone release.
See full details here.
Indie Horror WINTERSKIN Soundtrack by S.T.R.S.G.N and Europaweite Aussichten Debuts March 29
Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to WINTERSKIN, an indie horror film directed by Charlie Steeds (ESCAPE FROM CANNIBAL FARM). The film features score by electronic musicians S.T.R.S.G.N (Stewart Hamilton) and Europaweite Aussichten (Sam Freissler), who previously collaborated on the 2017 soundtrack to indie horror short, THE SEEKER.
Read the details here.
March 6, 2019
THE CHILLING SCORES OF MARTYRS & GHOSTLAND: Two Modern French Classic Horror Scores Announced from Omega Prods – CD and Vinyl
Omega Productions Records has announced for the first time on a physical medium the definitive soundtrack edition of Pascal Laugier’s MARTYRS (2008) composed by the French duo Seppuku Paradigm (Alex and Willie Cortés). – and with it Laugier 2018 horror feature, GHOSTLAND. Both scores have been released on digipak CD and 150gr vinyl, with diital editions to follow.
For more details, read the full story here.
February 21, 2019
Notefornote Music reissues Bill Conti’s MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE soundtrack
Notefornote reissues Bill Conti’s classic orchestral science fiction score in a new edition that features different cover art as well as newly commissioned liner notes by composer Edwin Wendler.
Read the details here.
February 15, 2019
Expanded 40th Anniversary Soundtrack for SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE announced by La-La land Records
La-La Land Records, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and DC Entertainment proudly continue SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE’s 40th anniversary celebration with a 3-CD remastered limited edition re-issue of the original motion picture score to the 1978 feature film classic…
More details here
February 15, 2019
Vintage Unreleased Richard Band Comic-Horror Score Comes to CD
… Band’s music for the film is a mixture of orchestra and electronics, considered a unique approach in those days as synthesizers were still relatively in their infancy in film music. The score was recorded with a small orchestra of 20 – 22 pieces, small string, brass and woodwind sections, along with two percussionists and augmented by synthesizers…
Read the details here.
February 14, 2019
Soundtrack to Tobe Hoopers Final Film DJINN Released – Score by BC Smith
Available as a limited pressing of 250 CDs, Howlin’ Wolf Records proudly present the world-premiere release of BC Smith’s score for Tobe Hooper’s supernatural horror film DJINN (2013)… For Tobe Hooper’s final film, Smith has crafted a modern vernacular for an ancient evil, at once vivid and poignant, thoughtful and provocative.
For more details, see here.
February 11, 2019
Sarah Schachner scores BioWare’s ANTHEM – Soundtrack due Feb 22
Composer Sarah Schachner’s (ASSASSIN’S CREED: UNITY, CALL OF DUTY: INFINITE WARFARE) new soundtrack for BioWare’s ANTHEM game will be out on Feb 22, but premiering today is one cue from the original soundtrack, entitled, “Anthem of Creation,” and you can listen to the full track at this link…
See full details here.
February 11, 2019
Jeff Russo’s UMBRELLA ACADEMY Soundtrack out on Friday – See Details & Listen to Title Track
Premiering today is “The Umbrella Academy,” the title track to the forthcoming THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY – Original Series Soundtrack, featuring score by Jeff Russo (THE PASSAGE, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, LEGION)! Click on link in this story to listen to the track.
The full album will released on Friday, February 15 from Lakeshore Records…
Read full details here.
February 10, 2019
Bear McCreary’s HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U Soundtrack Out Next Friday
Back Lot Music will release the official soundtrack album for the slasher sequel HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U, featuring the original score composed by Bear McCreary, who had previously the original HAPPY DEATH DAY movie in 2017…
For more details, see here.
February 10, 2019
Chinese SF Blockbuster THE WANDERING EARTH Opens in US – Soundtrack Now Available
Directed by Frant Gwo (LEE’S ADVENTURE, MY OLD CLASSMATE) and based on a short story by Hugo and multiple Galaxy award-winning Chinese science fiction writer, Cixin Liu, THE WANDERING EARTH, considered China’s first major science fiction movie opened in the US on Feb 8…
The film’s musical score has been composed by Roc Chen (SWITCH, LEGENDARY AMAZONS, addl. music CHINESE ZODIAC) and Tao Liu (SLIPAWAY, REALMS, PARADISE)…
For more details, see here.
February 1, 2019
Jeff Russo scores Netflix’s THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY – Soundtrack Emerging Soon
Lakeshore Records will release the score to THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, a new Netflix series developed by Steve Blackman (showrunner/exec producer for FARGO, LEGION, ALTERED CARBON) that launches February 15… The series features score by frequent Steve Blackman composer Jeff Russo (THE PASSAGE, ALTERED CARBON, LEGION, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, FARGO). A soundtrack is forthcoming; details to follow from the label and will be posted here as available.
Read the full story and watch the trailer here.
February 1, 2019
Brian Tyler’s WHAT MEN WANT Soundtrack Coming Up from Lakeshore
The vibe that I went for ended up being a kind of throwback quartet jazz with saxophone, piano, upright bass, and jazz drums, but much more pared down than CRAZY RICH ASIANS was. This was more of a soloistic type of thing within a jazz idiom. It also goes into a lot of funk and throwback soul music that’s really from the ‘70s as well as a bit of throwback to the 1990s in the style of the music.
Read the full story and watch the trailer here
January 25, 2019
SyFy/The CW’s THE OUTPOST series soundtrack released
Varese Sarabande has just released a digital-only soundtrack album for The CW’s fantasy-adventure TV series THE OUTPOST. The album features original music from the show’s first season composed by James Schafer (MYTHICA: THE IRON CROWN, THE CHRISTMAS DRAGON, 626 EVOLUTION)…
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January 23, 2019
Edwin Wendler’s DEAD ANT soundtrack to be released
Notefornote Music has announced a soundtrack album for the horror comedy DEAD ANT. The album features the film’s original score composed by Edwin Wendler (I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE: VENGEANCE IS MINE, UNNATURAL, TALES OF HALLOWEEN).
Read the full details here
January 22, 2019
ScreamWorks releases THE FARM soundtrack, scored by Sergei Stern
ScreamWorks Records opens up the New Year with the chilling score to a roadside attraction you should never stop at… As composer Sergei Stern explains: “The goal of this soundtrack was to create a unique palette of live instruments, human voice and organic sound design built on unconventional harmonies, catchy motifs and unpredictable counterpoint that would portray the story of the film the right and, at the same time, weird way.”
Read the full story and sample some of the music here
January 21, 2019
Details about La-La-Land’s THE ORVILLE soundtrack album
La-La Land Records has announced the upcoming 2-CD release of the Season One soundtrack of FOX’s THE ORVILLE – created by Emmy Award-winning actor and writer Seth MacFarlane. The series has been a hit with audiences since its debut and this will mark the first time that the soundtrack is getting its own release.
Read the full story, including tracklist, here
January 18, 2019
THE PUNISHER Season 2 Soundtrack
Hollywood Records has released the digital original television soundtrack to the Netflix series MARVEL’S THE PUNISHER Season 2, featuring music composed by Tyler Bates (DEADPOOL 2, ATOMIC BLONDE, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY). The Punisher is a 2017 American action crime drama television series, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. The series was created by Steve Lightfoot and stars Jon Bernthal, Ben Barnes, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Amber Rose Revah.
– via soundtracklist.com
THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE Season 3 Soundtrack
Varèse Sarabande will release the soundtrack to THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE Season 3 on February 8th as a digital download. The music is by Dominic Lewis, who scored the previous two seasons (with Henry Jackman on Season 1). The 3rd season soundtrack will feature 13 cues from the Emmy nominated alternate-history TV series based on the 1962 novel by celebrated author Philip K. Dick.
Bishara’s THE PRODIGY soundtrack coming out Feb 8 from Sony Classical
Sony Classical will release the digital soundtrack of Joseph Bishara’s music from the horror thriller THE PRODIGY on February 8. The album features the original music composed by Bishara (THE CONJURING, INSIDIOUS, ANNABELLE). Directed by Nicholas McCarthy and starring Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney and Colm Feore, the movie follows a mother whose young son’s disturbing behavior signals that an evil, possibly supernatural force has overtaken him. The soundtrack is now available for pre-order on Amazon.
-via filmmusicreporter
Pinar Toprak’s KRYPTON soundtrack due from Varese Sarabande in March
Varese Sarabande will release the first soundtrack album for the Syfy original series Krypton, featuring music from the show’s original soundtrack composed by Pinar Toprak…
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Venezuelan Horror THE WHISTLER: ORIGINS Soundtrack Available
Plaza Mayor Company has released a digital soundtrack to the last year’s Venezuelan horror thriller film EL SILBÓN: ORÍGENES (The Whistler: Origins). The music is composed by Nascuy Linares (LOS SILENCIOS, EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, HARPOON)…
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January 17, 2019
Terror – and Music! – Waits For You In Every Room In THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD!
Kritzerland presents a world premiere soundtrack release with the music from the Amicus 1971 film THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD, composed and conducted by Michael Dress.
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD was one of the most entertaining of the Amicus anthology horror film series. The four tales were all based on short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho), who also wrote the screenplay.
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January 14, 2009
Norwegian Horror Film Soundtrack THELMA Debuts on Vinyl from Mondo
Mondo’s first vinyl release of 2019 is the score for the amazing Norwegian horror film THELMA, on Death Waltz Recording Co.
“The score by Ola Fløttum is full of starkly beautiful dark strings and mood pieces washed over with the occasional synth drone or texture. It’s absolutely haunting and captivating, and ranks as one of our favorite scores from the last few years. If you were a fan of LET THE RIGHT ONE IN you should immediately seek out THELMA as we are sure you’ll fall in love with it as much as we did.” – mondetees.com
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January 11, 2019
Enjoy this splendid suite from John Powell’s score to HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD
Back Lot Music has unveiled John Powell’s marvelous “Hidden World Suite” from his score to the new animated fantasy, HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON: THE HIDDEN WORLD.
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January 11, 2019
Horror film DON’T GO Soundtrack Download Available – score by DJ/trance artist Ferry Corsten
On working on his first film score, Ferry Corsten said (in Stillpoint’s official press release), “I have always been interested in soundscapes and using music to evoke emotional responses, so working with film is an area I have wanted to explore. I am grateful to have been able to work with David on my first soundtrack, and it is something I would like to expand on in the future.”
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January 10, 2019
West Dylan Thordson scores M. Night Shyamalan’s sequel film GLASS, digital soundtrack out Jan 18.
Back Lot Music will release the official soundtrack album for M. Night Shyamalan’s GLASS. The album features the film’s original music composed by West Dylan Thordson (SPLIT, JOY, 3 GENERATIONS) who has incorporated some of James Newton Howard’s themes from 2000’s UNBREAKABLE…
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January 4, 2018
Disney World’s PANDORA: WORLD OF AVATAR Soundtrack Released Today – Featuring James Horner & Simon Franglen music
Walt Disney Records has released a soundtrack album for Walt Disney World’s themed area Pandora: The World of Avatar. The album features the music for the Pandora area attractions, written by James Horner and Simon Franglen…
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December 27, 2018
Scott Glasgow’s Holiday Horror Comedy SLAY BELLES Soundtrack Released for Digital Download – free on Bandcamp
SLAY BELLES is an affectionate holiday horror comedy directed by former visual effects specialist “Spooky” Dan Walker. The film is a parody about three cosplaying women who accidentally unleash Christmas demon Krampus and must enlist the help of Santa to stop the monster before it can continue its killing spree.
The film is scored by genre specialist Scott Glasgow (THE NINTH PASSENGER, THE CURSE OF SLEEPING BEAUTY, HATCHET III, THE GENE GENERATION), which he describes as a hybrid of traditional horror scoring with dubstep elements. “This was a choice the director wanted,” Glasgow explained to Musique Fantastique…
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December 25, 2018
Seth McFarland’s ORVILLE s.f. Series Gets a Soundtrack Album
La-La Land Records will release a soundtrack album for Seth MacFarland’s sci-fi comedy drama THE ORVILLE, which debuted last year on Fox. The album includes original music from the show’s first season composed by Bruce Broughton (who also wrote the series’ main theme), John Debney, Joel McNeely, and Andrew Cottee.
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December 23, 2018
Short Suites Represent Short Film Scores in New MSM Soundtrack Release
This year, the represented genres on Short Cuts include fantasy, drama, horror, sci-fi, comedy and documentary. An interesting trend is that at least a handful of these films got their start from crowdfunding sites, so it’s especially refreshing to see that some of that budget going to recording original scores with actual musicians. Each of the represented composers have fashioned a score that successfully encapsulates the essence of these unique stories in a polished musical gem that not only supports the visuals, but is a satisfying listening experience in its own right.
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Supernatural Shipwreck Score: Oscar Fogelström’s AURORA Soundtrack Leaves Port via Screamworks
“AURORA asks a lot of questions about our own mortality” composer Oscar Fogelström explained. “Early on we talked about writing a requiem for the (many) people that die in the fatal boat accident that is central in the films story. It was a great challenge to turn that idea into a real thing, a device that I could use throughout the score. I adapted and rewrote part of the classical lyrics from the requiem mass and had it performed by a choir.” Another prominent theme in the film is the water, appearing in almost every shot. Oscar says: “To some extent I wanted the music to feel like water. The string arrangements in particular have a sort of a wave-like motion to them, swelling back and forth as the tide.”
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December 18, 2018
Mondo presents Death Waltz’s Danny Bensi/Saunder Jurriaans’ AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE in a very cool vinyl package
“We are super proud to bring you the score LP just in time for the holiday season!” wrote the label in their announcement. “We fell in love with this film (and score) when we saw it and we just knew we had to release the score to what is one of our favorite horror films of the last 10 years…”
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December 17, 2018
Rupert Gregson-Williams (WONDER WOMAN) scores DC Universe’s latest saga, AQUAMAN – Soundtrack out via WaterTower Music
“Writing the themes for the different characters was awesome. Arthur Curry has such a strong character—he’s a real rock star—so I felt he deserved a big melody. He gets to rock out for certain intense moments too. Orm is Atlantean, and the score I wrote for Atlantis is in big contrast to the score for the surface world, epic and glorious. Black Manta inspired a more industrial, electronic feel.
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December 17, 2018
Daniel Pemberton’s Score for SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE released on CD, digital download
“It has been such a pleasure to enter the Spider-Verse with such an amazing array of collaborators and truly ground-breaking directors,” said Pemberton. “I absolutely love this film, I love the risks taken, the story, the astonishing art style, everything. I feel so lucky to have been a part of it and to have the opportunity to create a whole new musical universe for one of the world’s most beloved superheroes – Spider-Man.”
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December 15, 2018
Jean Rollin Film Music: THE LIVING DEAD GIRL and DRACULA’S FIANCÉE soundtracks announced
As a composer inseparable of the universe of Jean Rollin, Philippe d’Aram composed for THE LIVING DEAD GIRL a score both dark and melancholic. Twenty years later, the similar sounds of DRACULA’S FIANCEE – from percussion to synthesizers and string pieces –echo it. This multifaceted musical treatment serves perfectly Rollin’s mesmerizing and provocative images…
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YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER: Andrew Morgan Smith scores Love Letter to ‘80s Slasher Movies
Screamworks Records re-teams with JEEPERS CREEPERS 3 composer Andrew Morgan Smith to present his new score for YOU MIGHT BE THE KILLER… “When I first met with the director, Brett, he was very interested in classic ‘80s orchestral scores. This was really exciting for me. Since the whole movie is a send up of classic slasher/horror movies, we needed a score that would do the same thing.
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December 14, 2018
MORTAL ENGINES soundtrack released – digital today, CD next Friday
Back Lot Music has released the digital edition of Tom Holkenborg’s score to the Peter Jackson-produced film adaptation of MORTAL ENGINES. The movie is also co-written Jackson and based on Philip Reeve’s book of the same title, which is set thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event and cities survive a now desolate Earth by moving around on giant wheels, attacking and devouring smaller towns to replenish their resources. A CD edition will be released on Dec. 21st and may be pre-ordered through Amazon US. To sample snippets of all tracks or find links to download or purchase, click here.
December 12, 2018
Silva Screen Announces Doctor Who: Series 11 Original TV Soundtrack – Jewel Case CD, Limited Digipack CD, and Download versions
Silva Screen UK announces the DOCTOR WHO Series 11 soundtrack. Available to pre-order now. The album is being released on CD (choice of jewel case of digipak – both have same audio content spread over 2 discs and include a 20 page booklet) and to stream/download on January 11th, 2019, featuring the music of composer Segun Akinola, whose debut on DOCTOR WHO gives the new Doctor a fresh and unique musical accommodation.
Read the full story and see tracklist here.
December 10, 2018
New Orchestral Recording of THE BRIDE WORE BLACK and Expanded Release of WARGAMES among Quartet’s End-of-Year Titles
Quartet Records has announced an amazing bundle of seven special titles to wrap up its superlative list of 2018 soundtrack releases. Of particular note are these two genre favorites: a new digital recording of Bernard Herrmann’s complete score to THE BRIDE WORE BLACK, in honor of the 50th anniversary of François Truffaut’s esteemed Hitchcockian thriller, with Fernando Velázquez conducting The Basque National Orchestra; and a remastered 35th-anniversary, 2-CD expanded edition of Arthur B. Rubinstein’s celebrated score to John Badham’s WARGAMES.
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BSX presents Popular Songs From Sci-Fi And Fantasy compilation album
Science fiction and fantasy films haven’t just inspired classic and terrific musical scores. In some cases they’ve also generated some pretty cool – and classic – songs as well. Buysoundtrax Digital recognizes this in its newly-recorded collection of songs heard in popular science fiction and fantasy films and television shows
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December 9, 2018
Soundtrack Available for the Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Video Game
Ninja Theory has released the soundtrack from the Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice video game, now available for streaming and digital download. The soundtrack was written and produced by award-winning composer David Garcia, in collaboration with Andy LaPlegua. Sample the track “Gramr”…
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December 8, 2018
Tom Holkenborg (Junkie XL) scores MORTAL ENGINES – Soundtrack out on Dec 14
Back Lot Music will release a digital soundtrack album for the Peter Jackson-produced film adaptation of MORTAL ENGINES. The album features the film’s original music composed by Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL)…
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November 5, 2018
Will Bates scores Syfy’s George R.R. Martin’ NIGHTFLYERS series – soundtrack coming soon
Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to NIGHTFLYERS, an original space horror drama based on the novella by George R.R. Martin. The album features score by Will Bates, award-winning composer, multi-instrumentalist and founder of music production company Fall On Your Sword.
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November 3, 2018
Lakeshore Delivers the SLICE horror soundtrack on Pizza Picture Disc December 5th
The film’s original soundtrack is the work of composers Ludwig Göransson who recently created the score for BLACK PANTHER, and Nathan Matthew David who crafted scores for DEADLY CLASS and THE LAST WORD. The Vinyl Factory describes the score as “inspired by ’80s horror films and analogue synths.” Lakeshore Records will dish up the SLICE soundtrack in two tasty formats – a digital soundtrack available fresh right now, but, if you can keep your hunger under control until Wednesday when it finishes cooking, you can get the soundtrack on a 12″ pizza-sized picture disc.
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PETER PROUD: Jerry Goldsmith Rarity Found & Produced by Intrada
One of the most sought-after Jerry Goldsmith horror/science fiction scores makes its long-awaited world premiere courtesy of Intrada. Goldsmith’s score for THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD (1975), is an effective mix of electronic keyboards and full orchestra. “Shades of complex multi-piano and string complexities of the forthcoming COMA and meld of electronics becoming full orchestra timbre of LOGAN’S RUN both find their origins in PETER PROUD,” writes the label.
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November 27, 2018
Zbigniew Preisner’s haunting VALLEY OF SHADOWS soundtrack released by Caldera
Caldera Records of Germany presents their latest release, the atmospheric and provocative score for the 2017 Norwegian motion picture VALLEY OF SHADOWS (“’Skyggenes dal”), directed by Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen, featuring music by Zbigniew Preisner (Kieślowski’s THREE COLORS, THE SECRET GARDEN). “This is a beautifully lyrical and mesmerizing work which is as sonically enchanting as it is haunting. The music’s dark and menacing fabric manages to be creepy but evocative, deliriously compelling and yet dangerously foreboding.” -rdl
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November 23, 2018
Williams’ HARRY POTTER scores, Arnold’s THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH, Kilar’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA, TV’s LAND OF THE GIANTS among La-La Land’s deluxe December releases
La-La Land Records has announced an astonishing collection of five multiple-CD deluxe sets, including two box sets, for its December releases – a holiday soundtrack gift of five significant limited editions releases that can only be described as must-haves for soundtrack collectors!
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November 16, 2018
Henry Jackman Revisits WRECK-IT RALPH in new Disney Comedy RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET
RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET: WRECK-IT RALPH 2 leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. The soundtrack features an original score by Henry Jackman; the album also features the original song “A Place Called Slaughter Race” written by Academy Award winner Alan Menken
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November 14, 2018
Tech-Noir Animated Science Fiction RENAISSANCE Gets an Expanded Soundtrack from Music Box Records
In collaboration with Onyx Films, Music Box Records presents the remastered and expanded CD release of Nicholas Dodd’s original motion picture score to the 2006 motion-capture animated tech-noir science fiction film RENAISSANCE, directed by Christian Volckman. With its doom-drenched cityscapes populated by anguished detectives, cunning crooks and the femmes fatales who play them all like puppets, the black and white imagery of classic film noir has yielded any number of colorful film scores. This contrast has never been so striking as with Nicholas Dodd’s combination of Hollywood’s orchestral past and the pulsing electronics of France’s future.
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November 13, 2018
Digital Soundtrack for GOTHAM Season 1 from WaterTower Music
Music from the first season of the Fox television series GOTHAM has been released digitally by WaterTower Music. The album features 33 selections of the original score from the show’s first season composed by David Russo (NIKITA, THE TOMORROW PEOPLE) and Graeme Revell (THE CROW, LARA CROFT: TOMB RAIDER, AEON FLUX, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK).
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November 8, 2018
Music from the Star Trek Saga – Vol 2: Faithful Performances of the orignal the Star Trek music featuring Ron Jones, Dennis McCarthy, others
BSX Records presents Music from the Star Trek Saga, Volume 2, a brand new collection of freshly recorded and arranged performances by the Meridian Studio Orchestra from various corners of the STAR TREK universe. Faithfully rendered from the original performances, this 19-track collection brings together music from every generation of STAR TREK…
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November 3, 2018
James Newton Howard’s NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS Soundtrack Released
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS is a 2018 American fantasy adventure film retelling E. T. A. Hoffmann’s short story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” and Marius Petipa’s The Nutcracker,” about a young girl who finds a Nutcracker doll among the family’s gifts and is charged by her parents to take special care of it. The music was adapted in part from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker Suite from 1892 by James Newton Howard, updating the original and adding new tracks as well.
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November 2, 2018
Blair Mowat – DOCTOR WHO spinoff CLASS Soundtrack Announced
The science fiction/drama series CLASS, spinning out of the world of DOCTOR WHO and written by acclaimed YA author Patrick Ness, made its debut on BBC3 in 2016. The eight part series centered around Coal Hill School in Shoreditch, which has been a part of the DOCTOR WHO Universe since the very beginning. Silva Screen will release the soundtrack on CD as well as digital download and streaming on December 7th, with a limited edition vinyl edition spinning up on January 4th, 2019.
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Masakatsu Takagi scores MIRAI; Soundtrack out 11/30 on Milan Records
MIRAI is an upcoming Japanese animated film from director Mamoru Hosoda. Scoring duties came to Masakatsu Takagi, a frequent collaborator of Hosoda who composed the memorable scores for the director’s recent THE BOY AND THE BEST and WOLF CHILDREN. A favorite in Japan noted for his delicate composition style, Takagi has crafted the score around his signature piano work peppered with boisterous eruptions of wondrous, youthful strings.
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November 1, 2018
La-La Land to release Netflix’s HAUNTING AT HILL HOUSE soundtrack on CD
As we shared on October 11, Paramount Music has released a digital soundtrack album for the Netflix horror series THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, featuring the show’s original music and main theme composed by The Newton Brothers (OCULUS, OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL, EXTINCTION, LIFE OF CRIME, THE BYE BYE MAN). We’re happy to report that a non-virtual CD soundtrack has now been announced by La-La Land Records, to be released on November 13th as part of the label’s pre-Black Friday release batch.
Read the full story (including about Waxwork’s vinyl edition) here.
October 24, 2018
John Paesano’s DAREDEVIL Season 3 digital soundtrack album out now
With Marvel’s DAREDEVIL Season 3 now streaming on Netflix, fans are treated to a new musical score from composer John Paesano, who has worked on the series since its debut. He has also scored the spin-off series THE DEFENDERS, which features Daredevil along with Netflix’s other Marvel heroes.
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Christopher Young scores audio drama The Lost Children of Planet X
Caldera Records presents Christopher Young’s and Bob Badway’s concept album “The Lost Children of Planet X,” a spoken word drama filled with surrealism and dream logic. Young, best known for scoring HELLRAISER, SPIDER-MAN 3, THE GRUDGE), himself appears as the booming voice of King Everett, while also delivering a few odd quips here and there. As a bonus, eight purely instrumental tracks are included that accompany the adventures in space.
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October 22, 2018
John Williams’ DRACULA Gets Deluxe Treatment
Varèse Sarabande is celebrating its 40th Anniversary with a Deluxe Edition of its most requested soundtrack. Years in the making, countless hurdles overcome: an extended, 2-CD deluxe edition of John Williams’ score for John Badham’s 1979 DRACULA – the latest edition of the label’s limited edition CD Club. DRACULA features one of John Williams’ most brilliant and iconic themes, which captured the mythical Count in a darkly romantic and seductive way.
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October 19, 2018
John Carpenter joins Cody Carpenter & Daniel Davies for HALLOWEEN 2018 sequel score
The soundtrack for the new HALLOWEEN sequel has been released digitally, on CD, and coming up on Vinyl in November, by Sacred Bones Records. The album features the film’s original score composed John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.
The new HALLOWEEN movie has the distinction of being the first film in the canon with creator John Carpenter’s direct involvement since 1982’s HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH. Carpenter serves on the new David Gordon Green-directed installment as an executive producer, a creative consultant, and, thrillingly, as a soundtrack composer, alongside his collaborators from his three recent solo albums, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.
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October 18, 2018
Gore Score: Soundtrack Released for Composer Dominik Hauser’s Directorial Debut
“DEAD SQUAD: TEMPLE OF THE UNDEAD has a few nods to the ‘80s with a couple synthy throwback cues,” Hauser said, “but then I departed from that and I tried to stay in more of a percussive, orchestral vein – which to me is the timeless design for music in movies. I wanted to score the film a little more seriously and not synthy throughout.” The score is an effectively mix of digital orchestra and a small group of live musicians.
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Enchanting Danish Fantasy Film Score WILDWITCH issued by MovieScore Media
“I wanted to create a music that reflected the cold and misty nature present in the film, but also the spiritual evolution of Clara, our 12-year old main character” says Flemming Nordkrog about his contributions. “The music had to be fragile, mysterious and very organic. I wrote most of the musical themes and textures before the shooting of the film, working solely on paper and piano before I went on doing some very free-floating recordings of my ideas, with different groups of musicians. First the female voice, representing Clara, then a duo of cello and bass, a duo of alto flute and clarinet and a 30 piece string orchestra.
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October 12, 2018
CANDYMAN: Philip Glass’ Original 1992 Soundtrack Now on Vinyl
One Way Static Records has announced their vinyl presentation of the original motion picture soundtrack to Clive Barker’s 1992 horror film, CANDYMAN, featuring the film score by Philip Glass. All versions also come with an insert containing exclusive and extensive liner notes by author Clive Barker, composer Philip Glass, director Bernard Rose and actors Tony Todd, Ted Raimi, and Xander Berkeley.
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October 11, 2018
James Newton Howard’s CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD soundtrack coming from Water Tower Music
WaterTower Music is scheduled to release their soundtrack album for FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD, the fantasy adventure sequel to the J. K. Rowling-scripted FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM from 2016 [and based on her 2001 book], on November 9th. Along with director David Yates, composer James Newton Howard (THE HUNGER GAMES series, Peter Jackson’s KING KONG, Disney’s MALEFICENT) returns for the new film.
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Netflix HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE Series and Soundtrack Debuts Tomorrow – Sample Newton Brothers’ Main Title Theme Here
Paramount Music will release a digital soundtrack album tomorrow, October 12, for the Netflix horror series THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. The album features the show’s original music composed by The Newton Brothers. The series centers on a fractured family who confronts haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
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October 10, 2018
Jonathan Beard Scores WHAT STILL REMAINS – Digital Soundtrack Out
Lakeshore Records has the digital soundtrack to the post-apocalypse thriller WHAT STILL REMAINS. The Album features original music by composer Jonathan Beard (STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC – KNIGHTS OF THE FALLEN EMPIRE). Beard describes scoring WHAT STILL REMAINS: “In exploring the uncertain world that our characters face, the film unfolds as a complex and engaging psychological thriller, and the score needed to musically reflect that reality. We’re really looking at a Hitchcockian psychological tapestry, dialog scenes where what’s being discussed on the surface is 100% cover for what’s being insinuated below the surface, and the score gets to dance between those two levels.”
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October 9, 2018
Victor Reyes’ Horror Thriller Score for DOWN A DARK HALL coming out from Quartet
Victor Reyes crafts a mesmerizing, haunting orchestral score with suspenseful atmospherics. It encompasses the sound of Gothic terror, full-blooded romanticism, an impressionistic love theme (Kit & Jules), and a return to the openly symphonic sound that we miss in other current scores.
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October 6, 2018
Jason Brandt’s F.R.E.D.I. Soundtrack Out on Oct 15
The family friendly science fiction film F.R.E.D.I. will come out on both DVD and via digital soundtrack within the next two weeks. Composer Jason Brandt has composed a lively and likable score for the film, which along with the film has gained acclaim on the festival circuit…
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Varèse Sarabande Records Declares Revolution with First-Ever Vinyl Release of V For Vendetta Soundtrack
Varèse Sarabande is excited to announce the first-ever double-LP release for V FOR VENDETTA on October 5, 2018. This premiere of Dario Marianello’s compelling score for V FOR VENDETTA soundtrack features new jacket artwork of the masked face of V designed by “Ghoulish Gary” Pullin. Known for his work on period pieces such as PRIDE AND PREJUDICE and ANNA KARENINA, composer Dario Marianelli won the Academy Award for the score to ATONEMENT. Arguably Dario’s most culturally significant work is tied to the “Guy Fawkes” mask, an image for rebellion, most notably used by the online anarchist group, Anonymous.
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October 4, 2018
Sony Releases Goosebumps 2 Soundtrack by Dominic Lewis
Sony will release the digital soundtrack to GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN on October 12. The music for this sequel to the 2015 movie based on the works (and character) of young adult horror author R. L. Stine has been composed by Dominic Lewis (ROUGH NIGHT, PETER RABBIT, THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE, MONEY MONSTER).
See more details and film’s trailer here.
October 3, 2018
One Way Static Records presents the 1988 remake of THE BLOB soundtrack on vinyl for the first time
Michael’s music for THE BLOB is classic top shelf synth-driven electronica that fits the film like a glove. The voices, dark strings and feverish percussion create a rhythmic drive that embodies heroic desperation and a massive sense of relentless doom. Hoenig fashioned a creepy, compelling and atmospheric synth-based score, unleashing textured waves of sonic terror and suspense.
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September 28, 2018
Sony to Release VENOM Soundtrack
Composer Ludwig Göransson (BLACK PANTHER, CREED, DEATH WISH remake) has scored Sony Picture’s VENOM. Sony will release the soundtrack on CD on October 5th, the same day the movie arrives in theaters.
Read the full story here – then listen to the track at the Collider website.
September 27, 2018
Frederik Wiedmann scores SCORPION KING: BOOK OF SOULS – Soundtrack album set for October 19
Back Lot Music will release the digital soundtrack to the score for SCORPION KING: BOOK OF SOULS on October 19. The music has been composed by prolific genre composer Frederik Wiedmann (THE DEATH OF SUPERMAN, BATMAN: GOTHAM BY GASLIGHT, TREMORS: A COLD DAY IN HELL, TREMORS 5: BLOODLINES, GREEN LANTERN: THE ANIMATED SERIES).
The film is the fifth entry in the (mostly) direct-to-video fantasy film series from Universal…
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Bear McCreary’s HELL FEST Soundtrack Out Sep 28th
Sparks & Shadows is releasing tomorrow the digital soundtrack album of Bear McCreary’s original score for the slasher thriller HELL FEST. The film is about a masked serial killer who turns a horror themed amusement park into his own personal playground, terrorizing a group of friends while the rest of the patrons believe that it is all part of the show.
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September 21, 2018
Nathan Barr’s music for THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS released digitally today
Back Lot Music has released today the digital soundtrack album for Eli Roth’s new gothic fantasy film, THE HOUSE WITH A CLOCK IN ITS WALLS, featuring music composed by Nathan Barr (TRUE BLOOD, HOSTEL, CABIN FEVER), which features the historic 20th Century Fox Wutlitzer organ that Barr restored in order to use on the soundtrack…
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John Paesano’s SPIDER-MAN Game Score Released by Marvel Music
Marvel Music has announced the global release of Marvel’s SPIDER-MAN Original Video Game digital soundtrack. The music, scored by John Paesano (Marvel’s DAREDEVIL, Marvel’s THE DEFENDERS, and the MAZE RUNNER franchise) complements Marvel’s SPIDER-MAN, the brand-new action-packed PlayStation 4 story developed by Insomniac Games in collaboration with PlayStation and Marvel Games…
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September 19, 2018
Two Digital Doctor Who Soundtracks: Silva Screen Presents The Invasion and The Five Doctors
Two new soundtracks albums from vintage DOCTOR WHO episodes have been released in digital format from Silva Screen Records. The first is Don Harper’s soundtrack to “The Invasion,” an eight-part DOCTOR WHO story made and transmitted in 1968. The second album features Peter Howell’s score to BBC TV’s 1983 DOCTOR WHO special, The Five Doctors. Howell’s bracing, spine-chilling and atmospheric music was composed by Howell at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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September 17, 2018
Intrada Expanded 2-CD Release of 1987 James Horner Science Fiction Score
The entire 2-CD Intrada release is assembled and mastered from the original 1987 two-track stereo masters engineered by Shawn Murphy at The Burbank Studios in 1987 and vaulted by Universal in pristine condition. Flipper-style cover art prepared by Kay Marshall for colorful booklet offers two distinctive artwork campaigns. Informative liner notes from Frank K. DeWald provide insight to release edited, mastered and produced for Intrada by Douglass Fake with executive production work from Roger Feigelson. Since the complete score (90 minutes) requires two CDs, the second disc also features a remastered presentation of Horner’s original 1987 soundtrack album.
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September 16, 2018
François de Roubaix’s cult horror score for DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (LES LÈVRES ROUGES) now on CD/Vinyl for the first time
Butler Records has released last Friday the first ever official soundtrack album of the Belgian cult horror classic DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (LES LÈVRES ROUGES). The film, one of the many adaptations of Carmilla, is directed by Harry Kümel (MALPERTUIS, ELINE VERE), and features an exquisite score by award winning composer François de Roubaix (LE SAMOURAI, LES AVENTURIERS, LES GRANDES GUEULES (The Wise Guys).
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SUSPIRIA Soundtrack by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Available for Pre-Order
XL recordings will release a 2-CD soundtrack album for the forthcoming remake of Dario Argento’s cult classic SUSPIRIA. The album features the original score music from Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, including 5 original songs.
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September 15, 2018
Limited edition STAR TREK NEMESIS 2-LP vinyl set available from Varèse Sarabande
An exclusive vinyl edition of Jerry Goldsmith’s final STAR TREK score, limited to 750 copies, is only available on the Varèse Sarabande website.
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September 14, 2018
Jóhann Jóhannsson’s final score, MANDY, is now available on digital & vinyl
MANDY, Panos Cosmatos’ highly-anticipated follow up to his BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW has been released today by Lakeshore (digital) and Invada Records (vinyl).
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September 13, 2018
Hellbound: Hellraiser II’s 30th Anniversary Edition Vinyl Features Two Never Released Tracks
Lakeshore Records will release Christopher Young’s score to HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II in honor of the film’s 30th Anniversary, featuring two tracks previously never released on vinyl. The record will come in Red with Black Smoke “Bloodshed” vinyl and a foil embossed album art treatment. The album drops in October…
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September 12, 2018
Vicious Nature: Soundtracks for GRIZZLY and DEEP BLUE SEA 2 Announced
Dragon’s Domain Records, distributed through buysoundtrax.com, presents the world premiere compact disc release of the soundtrack to GRIZZLY, featuring music composed by Robert O. Ragland (10 TO MIDNIGHT, Q, THE WINGED SERPENT, ASSASSINATION) for the 1976 horror thriller.
Also announced today by Dragon’s Domain is the premiere soundtrack release of DEEP BLUE SEA 2, featuring music composed by Sean Murray for the 2018 action film directed by Darin Scott.
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September 8, 2018
Bruno Nicolai 3-CD set of Classic Eurospy Scores from Quartet
Quartet Records and GDM are proud to present a mammoth 3-CD set with the complete, remastered edition of scores by the great Bruno Nicolai from three of the most renowned and lovely mid-sixties Eurospy movies.
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Netflix’s NEXGEN animated film – soundtrack by Alexis Marsh & Samuel Jones – released by Lakeshore
Netflix has dropped a slew of new films in September, including the family-friendly NEXTGEN animated film, featuring the voices of Charlyne Yi, John Krasinski, Michael Peña, Constance Wu, Jason Sudeikis and David Cross! Lakeshore Records has released a digital soundtrack from the film score by Alexis Marsh and Samuel Jones (INTERSECTION).
NEXT GEN is now streaming on Netflix.
James Edward Barker Scores Horror Film MARA – Digital Soundtrack Released
Filmtrax has released a soundtrack album for the supernatural horror thriller MARA. The album features the film’s original music composed by James Edward Barker (LEAN ON PETE, HEIST, PRECIOUS CARGO, FINAL SCORE). The soundtrack is now available to download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio clips. MARA is directed by Clive Tonge and stars Olga Kurylenko, Javier Botet and Mitch Eakins. The movie revolves around a criminal psychologist who unearths a community of people who claim to be tormented by a shadowy menace, a centuries-old demon who kills her victims as they sleep.
– via filmmusicreporter
Robert Lydecker Scores Second Season of Marvel’s IRON FIST – Digital Soundtrack Available
Marvel Music and Hollywood Records have released the digital soundtrack album to MARVEL’S IRON FIST: SEASON 2 by Emmy-nominated composer Robert Lydecker. Lydecker is best known for his work on the new LETHAL WEAPON TV series, and is currently working on the show’s third season.
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Scott Glasgow’s NINTH PASSENGER score available on CD from Howlin’ Wolf Records
Available as a limited pressing of 300 CDs, Howlin’ Wolf Records and Fourteen Kings Music proudly present Scott Glasgow’s score for THE NINTH PASSENGER. A tale of industrial espionage that morphs into a good old fashioned monster movie, THE NINTH PASSENGER is co-written and directed by Corey Large, producer of such films as IT FOLLOWS, POKER NIGHT, and THE FROZEN GROUND.
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September 7, 2018
EN LAS ESTRELLAS: A Spanish Fantasy Film with a Beautiful & Delicate Score
Quartet Records presents the delightfully emotional Ivan Palomares score for the delicate fantasy film directed by Zoe Berriatúa, EN LAS ESTRELLAS (In The Stars). The music has been composed, orchestrated, and conducted by young Spanish composer Iván Palomares, whose score invokes daydreams and fantasy, full of beautiful and delicate melodies…
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August 29, 2018
Varèse Sarabande Releases Garry Schyman’s TORN Science Fiction Video Game Soundtrack
Varèse Sarabande will release the original video game soundtrack to TORN on August 31, 2018. This is a soundtrack for the new and emerging realm of VR Video Games.
“TORN is one of the most interesting projects I have ever scored and it inspired me to create something I feel is very special musically,” said composer Garry Schyman. “This virtual reality game is like entering and being part of a fascinating dark mysterious film.”
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August 27, 2018
Asian Ghost Story THE HOUSEMAID – Score Released by Rosetta Soundtrack
Rosetta Soundtrack of Spain has released Jerome Leroy’s score for the Asian ghost film, THE HOUSEMAID, for Vietnamese-American film director Derek Nguyen. The movie is a romantic horror film rooted in the ghosts popular in much of Asian folklore.
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August 22, 2018
Patrick Gleeson’s STAR WARS – classic 1977 electronic album reissued by BSX
New digital release from BuySoundtrax: Patrick Gleeson’s STAR WARS, an electronic realization of themes from John Williams’ STAR WARS as performed by electronic music pioneer Patrick Gleeson on an eMU synthesizer. Originally recorded in 1977, Gleeson used what were, at the time, state of the art synthesizer systems to electronically recreate John William’s iconic score. Very cool!Check out Patrick Gleeson’s STAR WARS and sample some of the tracks here.
August 16, 2018
Oh Geez! RICK AND MORTY Soundtrack Due In September
RICK AND MORTY is a critically acclaimed, half-hour animated hit comedy series on Adult Swim that follows a sociopathic genius scientist who drags his timid grandson on insanely dangerous adventures across the universe. This release is the first official collection of music from RICK AND MORTY. All formats feature 26 songs, 24 of which are from the first 3 seasons of the show, and 18 of which were composed by Ryan Elder specifically for the show.
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August 16, 2018
MANDY: Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Highly-Anticipated Final Score – Exclusive Soundtrack Preview at The Playlist
August 4, 2018
Fabio Frizzi Scores PUPPET MASTER reimagining, soundtrack forthcoming
…Says Frizzi: “I started working early in film music. It was the beginning of the 70s, Italian cinema was very prosperous, and there were productions of all kinds. I remember that the common element among them was enthusiasm, a deep love for what is called the seventh art, and is for many producers, directors, screenwriters, and workers first of all, a passion. It’s been a long time, but Cinestate involved me in this new adventure, which has had many points in common with my early experience in film music….
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Sample Two Tracks from Fabio Frizzi’s New PUPPET MASTER Score
July 30, 2018
Expanded Soundtrack for Robert O. Ragland’s Q – THE WINGED SERPENT coming from Kronos Records in August
Ragland’s orchestral score is a real show of force, and the film also carries a charm of its own, belonging to the early 80’s. The score is a strong, very melodic and rhythmic one. A fine example of Ragland’s skill at writing a big orchestral score that never fails to entertain and thrill. Kronos’ release features over half an hour of previously unreleased material that was not included on the previous CD release of this score…
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July 25, 2018
1980’s THE BOOGEYMAN soundtrack comes to Vinyl
One Way Static Records presents the original 1980 soundtrack to Ulli Lommel’s THE BOOGEYMAN, composed by Tim Krog and Synthe-Sound-Trax. The limited-edition vinyl release comes hand-numbered, features the original 1980 artwork. For his film’s score, Lommel turned to Tim Krog and his team ‘Synthe-Sound-Trax’ (SST for short) composed of Jan Barlett and Ed Christiano. This trio produced a soundtrack far more progressive and unique than one might expect. Moving easily between traditional melodies and more experimental textures, THE BOOGEYMAN’s score is a superb example of an economical but highly effective scoring style that would be prevalent throughout the ensuing decades.
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July 23, 2018
Lakeshore Records to release Mark Korvan’s supernatural horror score OUR HOUSE
Lakeshore Records will release the soundtrack to OUR HOUSE, available digitally on July 27. The album features the film score by Toronto based, multi-award winning composer Mark Korven (THE WITCH). This hair-raising science-fiction ghost story is a nightmare journey into a past that refuses to stay dead and buried.
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July 20, 2018
Australian sf thriller ALPHA GATEWAY soundtrack released by MovieScore Media
“While very much a sci-fi film, our central characters’ journey is driven by a deep emotional desire, ” explains composer Thomas E Rouch. “It was important to me that the music really united the awe and scale of the science with the personal nature of her quest. To that end I was always seeking to find the balance in every cue, between light and dark, power and emotion, personal and universal.”
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Massive Alan Silvestri score gets lavish 2-CD treatment from Intrada
Following in the path forged by Jerry Goldsmith for the 1999 movie, Alan Silvestri in 2001’s THE MUMMY RETURNS recorded some 112 minutes of massive orchestra/choral score, plus an additional 35 minutes of alternates to accommodate changes during film editing, making it one of his largest projects ever. Decca released a soundtrack CD of highlights but due to timing of 2001 album release in stores, they necessarily had to drop large portions of the score that had not yet been mixed, including every single cue scored for the climactic action sequences, totaling some 25 minutes alone! All of this is premiered here in Intrada’s 2-CD set for the first time, courtesy of Universal Pictures and Universal Music Group.
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July 15, 2018
Lakeshore to release YouTube’s original sf series IMPULSE Season 1
“The inspiration for the score focused around the Cristal Baschet, a French instrument that involves getting your fingers wet and rubbing glass rods that make two metal radiators vibrate and come to life,” explained DERU. “They’re hard to come by, but I happened to meet a player, Lenka Moravkova, who was in LA at the time. The first night we got together I came up with the main theme just by playing a few notes on it. The sound itself seemed to match with the vibe of the show.”
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July 12, 2018
Varèse Sarabande premieres Beltrami’s HELLBOY soundtrack on vinyl among three new LP packages
Varèse Sarabande is releasing three exciting LP packages, exclusive to Barnes & Noble, on July, 13 2018: ROAD HOUSE, released for the first time in three decades, on limited “Double Deuce” Neon Vinyl, a supernatural blue/black swirl vinyl for HELLBOY, and the red vinyl edition of PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE with a bonus second soundtrack of BACK TO SCHOOL. HELLBOY features a large-scaled score by composer Marco Beltrami (LOGAN, A QUIET PLACE), performed by Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Symphony, with choir and limited use of both synths and Theremin. Beltrami’s stirring and highly thematic has been largely praised.
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July 10, 2018
Beltrami’s A QUIET PLACE Soundtrack comes to Vinyl from Mondo
…The score by Marco Beltrami is an absolute tour-de-force – it’s basically another character in the film. It can be forceful and bludgeoning one minute, and quiet and reflective the next. His players twist their instruments to generate tones and textures not usually associated with them; the layers of sound and percussion on display are incredible. The opening track ‘It Hears You’ is reminiscent of a classic PLANET OF THE APES cue; it’s disquieting and slightly wonky but has an incredible hook that immediately lets you know you are in horror territory. Contrastingly, ‘A Quiet Family’ is a beautiful piano track that reminds you of the life the family lived before a world of monsters took over. The pianos are detuned and electronics are layered over traditional instruments to create something truly unsettling…
Read full details on the Mondo LP release here
June 29, 2018
Silva Screen’s new expansive TRANSFORMERS compilation follows-up on 2011’s Music From The Transformers Trilogy
Firmly established as the soundtrack composer for the TRANSFORMERS movie franchise, Steve Jablonsky delivers joyful fast-paced music, a mixture of orchestral and electronic sound, heavily laced with percussion.
Music From The Transformers Movies, authoritatively performed by London Music Works, features selected tracks from Transformers, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Transformers: Age of Extinction and Transformers: The Last Knight. The digital album will release on Friday, June 29
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June 27, 2018
Digital Soundtrack to ORBITER 9 released by MovieScore Media
MovieScore Media once again ventures into a dystopian landscape with ORBITER 9, the Spanish-Colombian sci-fi co-production written and directed by Hatem Khraiche. “The score attempts to oscillate between cold colors and a more heartfelt tone depending on who’s character voice is embodying, between the intimacy of the romantic encounter and the more massive and harsh character of the armed group chasing our protagonists,” commented composer Federico Jusid.
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Mondo Announces vinyl soundtracks to LUKE CAGE Season 2 and Argento’s PROFONDO ROSSO
Mondo Music, in partnership with Marvel, present the soundtrack to the Netflix Original Series: MARVEL’S LUKE CAGE Season Two. The all new score by composers Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad (The Midnight Hour) is an incredible follow up to one of the best scores of 2016.
Next to SUSPIRIA, PROFONDO ROSSO has to be the jewel in the Goblin crown. It’s impossible to overstate the importance of this score, as it really set the stage for prog-infused synth scores and has influenced a generation. We are super proud to not only be re-issuing the full original soundtrack as it originally appeared in 1975, but we also have an entire disc of alternate tracks and takes on vinyl for the first time ever.
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June 25, 2018
THE OMEN Comes to Vinyl via Varèse Sarabande Records
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June 22, 2018
Variety: Universal Launches Music Restoration Program, New Soundtrack Imprint
In an exclusive article posted today at Variety, writer Jon Burlingame reported that Universal Studios has embarked on a long-range plan to preserve and restore its unreleased movie music. The studio will begin releasing some of these scores as limited-edition soundtrack albums starting next week.
“The imprint will be called Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection, wrote Burlingame. “Its first release, to be formally announced Tuesday [June 26], will be Michel Colombier’s music from the 1970 science-fiction film COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT.
Following in August will be Henry Mancini’s score for the 1979 Peter Sellers remake of THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. Both will be on the La-La Land label, which specializes in movie and TV soundtracks.
“We’re a century-old media company,” Mike Knobloch, Universal Pictures president of global film music and publishing, told Variety. “As much as we’re always looking forward, sometimes we have to look back, and recognize and value our history. Our catalog dates back to the beginning of cinema and the advent of sound. This is just the tip of the iceberg that’s in the vault.”
Read the full story at Variety
June 18, 2018
Varèse CD Club: Goldsmith’s SMALL SOLDIERS expanded soundtrack release
Varèse Sarabande Records has announced a new limited edition Club CD – a deluxe release of Jerry Goldsmith’s score to Joe Dante’s 1998 science fiction film SMALL SOLDIERS.
Additional limited edition Club releases announced today are an expanded and extensively remastered album of John Williams’ Western score for THE COWBOYS (1972); a 2-CD reissue of the label’s long-out-of-print Georges Delerue: The Complete London Sessions, combining the previous three CD albums into a single 2-CD edition; and an “encore” release of David Newman’s score for HEATHERS (1989).
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June 9, 2018
Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Song Soundtrack Released – Mark Isham’s Score To Be Released on July 6
cloak and dagger songtrack album cover
Marvel Music is releasing the digital versions of two Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger albums. Out today, MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER soundtrack features songs from the Freeform Original Series. MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER Original Score digital album by composer Mark Isham will be available July 6, 2018.
MARVEL’S CLOAK & DAGGER is the story of Tandy Bowen (Olivia Holt) and Tyrone Johnson (Aubrey Joseph) – two teenagers from very different backgrounds, who find themselves burdened by and awakened to newly discovered superpowers which are mysteriously linked to one another.
The soundtrack features 12 licensed tracks including songs from Hollywood Records recording artists’ Bea Miller, Morgxn and the star of “Cloak & Dagger,” Olivia Holt. Holt performs a cover of the classic Styx track “Come Sail Away,” which will be featured in the season finale episode.
June 7, 2018
Lakeshore Records To Release the FUTURE WORLD Soundtrack
Lakeshore Records will release a digital soundtrack album of the music for James Franco’s FUTURE WORLD on June 15, featuring music by the electronic duo Toydrum (Pablo Clements and James Griffith, who have also worked together as UNKLE.
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June 2, 2018
Christopher Lennertz’s LOST IN SPACE soundtrack is now on compact disc
Following up on the digital release issued on April 13, Lakeshore Records has released the score to Netflix’s LOST IN SPACE on un-compressed audio CD, housed in a handsome digipak.
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June 1, 2018
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom soundtrack debuts on June 15
Back Lot Music will release the soundtrack album for J.A. Bayona’s JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM on CD this coming June 15th. The album features the film’s original music composed Michael Giacchino, who previously scored Colin Trevorrow’s original 2015 JURASSIC WORLD movie, which was the fourth movie in the JURASSIC PARK franchise. The soundtrack CD is now available for pre-order on Amazon
The movie will be released nationwide on June 22 by Universal Pictures.
-via filmmusicreporter. See their full report, including tracklist and film trailer, here.
May 28, 2018
Intrada Captures GWANGI: Classic Jerome Moross Score for Harryhausen Dynamation Thriller available in its entirely after nearly 50 years!
“After exhaustive search, suitable mono music elements were assembled and the entire score was finally available for presentation, free of dialog, including several unused alternates and bits not heard in finished film – 71 minutes of music in all!”
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Chad Cannon grounds DEVIL TREE: ROOTED EVIL score in the dark depths of the church organ
ScreamWorks Records reunites with composer Chad Cannon (THE CAIRO DECLARATION, PAPER LANTERNS) to bring listeners an otherworldly horror score. Directed by Chris Alonso and Joshua Louis, DEVIL’S TREE: ROOTED EVIL is about an aspiring journalist named Sam who finds a tree with a very dark history.
The musical score by Chad Cannon takes the organ, one of the favorite instruments of horror films, and puts an unusual spin on it.
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May 25, 2018
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY Soundtrack CD Available Today
Walt Disney Records has released the original motion picture soundtrack for SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY today The album features score composed and adapted by Academy® and Grammy®-Award nominated composer John Powell and the new Han Solo theme and original STAR WARS music by five-time Academy Award-winning composer John Williams.
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Christopher Young’s hearty new game score will Creep You Out 
WILSON’S HEART is an immersive first-person psychological thriller set in a 1940s hospital that has undergone a haunting transformation… The original soundtrack features a creepy, horror movie-inspired score…
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May 24, 2018
BATMAN NINJA Soundtrack Due Out June 13
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May 23, 2018
LEGION Season 2 soundtrack coming up on Friday
Lakeshore Records will release the LEGION SEASON TWO – Original Television Soundtrack digitally on May 25th, featuring original music by Emmy® Award winning composer Jeff Russo (FARGO, THE NIGHT OF). Legion is the story of “David Haller” (Dan Stevens), a man who believed himself to be schizophrenic only to discover that he may actually be the most powerful mutant the world has ever seen. Russo goes deeper and pushes more boundaries with the second season score. Legion currently airs Tuesdays at 10pm ET/PT on FX.
Says Russo: “There wasn’t a directive this season except to write some new themes for our new characters and locations. Vermillion! Farouk! Future Syd! It’s a roller coaster ride or maybe a fast carousel. Always keeping the viewer and listener off balance and engaged in the emotional through line of the narrative is the most important part. I’m always asking myself how can I stay in the heart of the story and color outside the lines.”
Strange Disc proudly presents (for the first time on any format) the original soundtrack to POPCORN (1991) – Music by Paul Zaza
The sublime soundtrack was composed & performed by ‘PAUL ZAZA’ who was responsible for scoring many horror-classics such as PROM NIGHT (1980), MY BLOODY VALENTINE (1981), and Bob Clark’s PORKY’s (1981). POPCORN was entirely shot in Jamaica, so on some tracks you can definitely sense the ‘island flavor’ slipping into Paul’s eerie trademark sound.
Now, for the first time on any format, Strange Disc record presents a deluxe limited vinyl edition that also comes with a double-sided insert containing exclusive liner notes by the composer and noted horror film journalist Kristy Jett. Supervised and produced by the composer, this release is available as a classic black vinyl edition (250 copies) & as a color vinyl variant (300 copies Popcorn Swirl Vinyl).
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May 17, 2018
John Massari’s Reimagined KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE soundtrack
On May 25, Varese Sarabande will release the eagerly awaited reimagined soundtrack to the 1988 Chiodo Bros cult classic, KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. This project has been a labor of love for composer John Massari. He spent two years assembling a top-notch Hollywood orchestra, enlisting famed composer Bear McCreary (Walking Dead, Outlander) and asked the Dickies to record a new version of the theme song.
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May 4, 2018
BAFTA Nominated Composer Olivier Derivière Scores DONTNOD Entertainment’s Vampyr
“I wanted to capture the struggle between the doctor and vampire that Jonathan Reid becomes,” reveals composer Olivier Derivière. “Only a virtuoso cellist like Eric-Maria Couturier, with all his experience in contemporary classical music, could give this performance such complex duality with his instrument. With the use of dual strings and so many disturbing notes, his musicianship evokes something unique that perfectly matches the journey of Jonathan Reid.”
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May 2, 2018
Trunk Records release vinyl soundtrack from a popular TV cartoon about spiders!
For many enthusiasts the soundtrack to a certain spider-related TV series (we’re not allowed to mention its name for legal reasons) is really is formative music – a junior 
foray into hip swinging crime jazz and esoteric musical grooviness… After its first season the producing company went bankrupt, so the amazing spider series was taken on by producer Steve Krantz, who brought in the idea of using economic library music. Here the production turned to the KPM catalogue, one of the few really established library catalogues around at the time with a modern edge; it was full of fabulous, modern dramatic music tracks. Not only would this KPM music be efficient, affordable and very easy to use, it would also mean syndication worldwide would not be held up by any future musical issues. Krantz produced two amazing spider series and both were smothered with KPM music. In fact barely a spider second goes by without music playing in either the background or foreground.
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April 29, 2018
AVENGERS: INFINITY WARS Deluxe Digital Edition Now Available
Marvel Music/Hollywood Records have releasing the digital deluxe edition soundtrack to the Avengers: Infinity Wars featuring the entire score by Oscar®-nominated and GRAMMY® and EMMY® award-winning composer Alan Silverstri. The CD version will be available on May 18.
See details here.
April 27, 2018
Music Video from DOCTOR WHO Series 9 soundtrack box!
Listen to Murray Gold’s gorgeously lyrical composition “The Shepherd’s Boy” from the DOCTOR WHO Series 9 episode “Heaven Sent,” included in the Series 9 soundtrack. Sign up to the Doctor Who newsletter to get another exclusive track next week: http://bit.ly/DWEmail-S9Soundtrack
See our March 28, 2018 story for more details on the Series 9 soundtrack release.
Silva Screen has released the Series 9 soundtrack today in both digital and on CD [in the UK; the American release comes out May 18]. Get your copy here: http://bit.ly/DW-S9-Soundtrack
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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