horror soundtracks

(on "Richard Band ripped Herrmanns' Psycho")
an older Mikael Carlsson fanboyish review of the "flawed but unique" Re-Animator filmscore by Richard Band....being "one of the coolest musical in-jokes ever presented in a film score", plus some funny trivia like how difficult it was to work with the Rome Philharmonic.

oddly enough, as i'm listening right now to the Pit & The Pendulum (1991) score by Band...i have to admit it sounds like some generic carmina burana rip-off.

Yeah, Band is not the man to go to for startling originality. He can be pretty fun sometimes though.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/null.jpg

WHOA

yeahnoway

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lol brad palsy

October ___ ?

weird, phil anselmo's apparently putting this thing together

Films confirmed to be shown throughout the three-day festival include, ‘The Evil Dead’ (plus horror/exploitation reel), ‘The Manson Family,’ ‘Maniac,’ ‘Zombie,’ ‘Cannibal Holocaust,’ ‘Scream Bloody Murder’ and many others. Former Mayhem vocalist Attila Csihar will also present fans with a truly unique experience, as the black metal veteran will perform a live soundtrack while the silent German expressionist classic ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ is screened for a wide-eyed audience.

For true cult horror fans, Anselmo has yet another masterful treat to offer at the Housecore festival, as ‘Coffin Joe’ director and actor José Mojica Marins will introduce his Brazilian classic films, engage in a Q&A with fans, sign autographs and curate a museum-style exhibit of original artwork and posters never seen outside of Brazil.

Philip H. Anselmo’s Housecore Horror Film Festival will be held at Emo’s in Austin, Texas, from Oct. 25-27. Want to learn even more about the event? Check out the fest’s official website!

yeah I know that kinda put me off but w/e

omg coffin joe!!

i'm never going to this event for a variety of reasons but it's ambitious, i'll say that

i know, crazy!

would love to go, tbh, but it seems unlikely i'd be able to pull it off (consults actuarial tables)

I think we are all doing the personal calculus on our odds of attending, if only briefly

Remastered, expanded DRESSED TO KILL soundtrack (Pino Donnagio).

http://buysoundtrax.stores.yahoo.net/drtokiorsoby.html

On a similar note, Kritzerland just encored their Carrie remaster, lopping off the second disc, which was iirc just the crap Ryko disc minus the sound clips?

http://www.kritzerland.com/carrie.htm

20% off sale at LaLaLand ends this morning at 11:50 pst. Lots of great horror stuff, of course. I would put in a word for Shirley Walker's Willard.

i like what death waltz is doing but tbqf i hate the cover art.

i mean, i don't hate the art itself. i just don't think it works for the albums. i guess it's just not in my visual aesthetics wheelhouse.

goblin US tour dates!

Oct 1 Atlanta, GA/ The Loft
Oct 3 Asheville, NC/ The Orange Peel
Oct 4 Baltimore, MD/ Otto Bar
Oct 5 Philadelphia, PA/ Underground Arts
Oct 6 Brooklyn, NY/ The Music Hall of Williamsburg
Oct 9 Boston, MA/ Sinclair
Oct 10 Montreal, QC/ Le National
Oct 11 Toronto, ON/ Opera House
Oct 12 Pontiac, MI/ The Crofoot
Oct 13 Chicago, IL/ Metro
Oct 15 Denver, CO/ The Gothic Theatre
Oct 18 Seattle, WA/ Neumos
Oct 19 Portland, OR/ Hawthorne Theatre
Oct 20 San Francisco, CA/ The Regency Ballroom
Oct 22 Los Angeles, CA/ Beyond Fest @ The Egyptian Theater (with a screening of Deep Red)
Oct 25 Austin, TX/ Housecore Horror Film Festival
Oct 27 Austin, TX/ Housecore Horror Film Festival

!!!!!

Already on my calendar!

I am so there.

http://manoshandsoffate.bandcamp.com/album/manos-the-soundtrack-of-fate

Haven't downloaded it yet, but hopefully it includes the haunting strains of Torgo's Theme.

Not horror but since Barry de Vorzon is well known to devotees of the genre: la la land have just released an expanded remastered cd of his awesome score for The Warriors.

solaris from superior viaduct

http://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/upcoming/products/eduard-artemiev-solaris-original-soundtrack-lp

two versions of that came out at the same time on the same label, which is a bit odd... also Stalker.

http://boomkat.com/search?fields[]=artist&q=Edward+Artemiev

grrr, url mangled by parser...

oh, that looks different again... and a different label.

Lol I just sent MP3s of both those to an ilxor for their bday a couple if weeks ago. Great stuff.

Great stuff!! Sounds like the quiet side of Agalloch in parts!! Also noting this as an example to tell my sts about gender neutrality/singulars & plurals and pronouns.

I did that on purpose to protect yr identity!

(That use of 'their' usually gets on my nerves)

I believe it's a thing that's changing about language. I'm alright with it. It's difficult to explain to sts though!!

I mean I prefer that use of 'their' to a cumbersome 'his or her' or a presumptive 'his'. Idk.

Agree! It's useful, which is why it should be widely acceptable.

Big horror sdtrk news round my way is the new kritzerland reissue of Jerry goldsmith's Poltergeist II The Other Side. This has been on cd two times before but the critical diff is that for this one they worked from the analog session tapes rather than the digital master prepared circa the film. And it makes a world of difference, to the extent that I now consider this an essential 80s goldsmith where before I didn't rate it much. The warmer, richer sound picture integrates the bizarre synth filigree with the orchestra more continuously; the synths sound more at home than on the brittle, glare-y previous editions. This is not on the level of the first film's score, duh, but I love it now. Unfort this edition of 1500 sold out in a couple of days but it's probably out there in DL land.

dbl cd of salem's lot

http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8285/.f

Kept meaning to post that itt. In stereo too, unlike a lot of television scores from its era!

prolly due to the planned european theatrical release

Yeah I should have said, remarkable that the stereo elements even survive when so much stuff from that era exists only as mono mixdowns...

holy shit! alan howarth performing tonight in brooklyn

https://www.facebook.com/events/594667857258551/

Fabio frizzi tonight in London too.

Frizzi show was at least partly awesome, if you ignored the ballads anyway.

death waltz putting out some carpenter stuff on cassette - bummed that the assault on precinct 13 is already sold out

http://experimedia.net/index.php?main_page=index&typefilter=record_company&record_company_id=1209

Just got the expanded 2cd of the fog this week as it happens. Disc 2 is amazing. Also Alan howarths rerecording of Assault On... which is gorgeous.

Good news, De Wolfe's CD of Paul Ferris' WITCHFINDER GENERAL score got listed again and this time it actually came out and people have it! Only on Amazon UK so far. Hurray!

oooOOOOooooo!

It's a really good listen in a Greensleeves + classic Hammer music mode. Not many scores I can think of that inhabit this specific crossroads.

Important update for LL and other eMusic members-- Witchfinder General is on there now for 6.99! (Though I hear the booklet notes are really great but still tbh I'm prob gonna go with the download).