ScreamWorks Records: "THE FARM" Music by Sergei Stern

ScreamWorks Records opens up the new year with the chilling score to a roadside attraction you should never stop at. Written and directed Hans Stjernswärd, The Farm tells the story of a young couple who get kidnapped and treated like farm animals after stopping at a roadside diner to eat meat. Characterized by little dialogue and a lot of atmosphere, the film takes us to an alternate reality where humans live through the same things animals go through before they land on the plates - and then some…

The score ranges from the maniac strings of the “Main Title” to the more experimental and disturbing material for the protagonists’ descent into animaldom. 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.” The last piece entitled “On My Land” is an original 'folk' song that was written and performed by me which tells a story of a farmer running in contrast to the actual horrific farm from the film where the song is playing from the local radio.

Sergei Stern is a classically trained composer with music band background and a deep interest in electronic music. He has scored seven feature films and over 80 short films, while his music can be heard in various feature films, TV shows and video games. The Farm marks his soundtrack release debut, while the film itself is his fourth collaboration with director Hans Stjernswärd, following the short films Gepetto, Lady in Red and Rapunzel.

On the link below, you can view a video, featuring a suite from the score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh1UTysAqmg
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Screamworks Records: "Aurora" by Oscar Fogelström

Screamworks Records ventures to the seas around The Philippines with Aurora, a truly international collaboration between Filipino director Yam Laranas and Swedish composer Oscar Fogelström. In this supernatural thriller, the passenger ship Aurora mysteriously collides into the rocky sea threatening an entire island. A young woman and her sister must both survive by finding the missing dead for a bounty. The soundtrack release coincides with the movie’s premiere at the Metro Manila Film Festival on December 25, 2018.

“Aurora asks a lot of questions about our own mortality” says Oscar Fogelström about the score. “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 lot of fun and 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 has a sort of a wave-like motion to them, swelling back and forth as the tide.” The score features violin solo performances by David Bergström and choral performances by the Johannebergs Vokalensemble, conducted by Jan K. Delemark and MovieScore Media's very own producer Mikael Carlsson.

Swedish composer Oscar Fogelström has been scoring, movies, TV shows and commercials for the past 20 years. His clients have included such names as Coke, Blackberry, Reebok and IKEA as well as award winning movie directors, including Lasse Hallström for whom he composed the score for Sweden's entry for the Academy Awards 2013, The Hypnotist. Aurora marks his second collaboration with director Yam Laranas, following their work together on Abomination (2018), which was nominated for best score at the Sinag Maynila Film Festival. As a songwriter, his 2016 song  "If I Were Sorry" was #1 on many European radio channels and won him his second Swedish Grammy.

On the link below, you can view a video, featuring a suite from the score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNGx4aUkSC4
 

FRONT RUNNER FOR TOP SCORE INTO THE NEW YEAR!

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Screamworks Records: "You Might Be the Killer" by Andrew Morgan Smith

ScreamWorks Records reteams with composer Andrew Morgan Smith to present his score for You Might Be the Killer, starring genre veterans Fran Kranz (The Cabin in the Woods) and Alyson Hannigan (Buffy, the Vampire Slayer). When Sam (Kranz), the camp counselor suffering from blackouts finds himself surrounded by murder victims, he gets an uneasy feeling about the murders. When he turns to his horror movie enthusiast friend Chuck (Hannigan) for advice, the two of them figure out the only logical solution - what if Sam is  the killer and he might strike again? Who will stop him - and does he need stopping at all?

“You Might Be the Killer was a tremendously fun movie to work on,” says Andrew Morgan Smith about the project. “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. With this in mind, I delved into that style and wrote a horror score that paid homage to these old movies and help it really nail that time period/genre. It's not often you get to play in the Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri, and Christopher Young sandbox, but You Might Be the Killer allowed me to do that.“ With its cheeky references to the decade of slashers, this might be a camp classic - pun fully intended.

Composer Andrew Morgan Smith studied composition and music media at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As a media composer, he started his career writing for SyFy movies and has now branched out into Indie film and other TV content. His credits include such hit films for the channel as A Sort of Homecoming, Zombie Shark, and A Deadly Affair. Andrew is no stranger to the world of horror scoring - his music for Jeepers Creepers 3 is also available from ScreamWorks Records and Quartet Records.

The soundtrack has a digital release date of  December 14, 2018.On the link below, you can view a video, featuring a suite from the score: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJn_nhg5YKM]

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Screamworks Records: "THE TOYBOX Music by Holly Amber Church

Coinciding with the film’s general release on 18 September 2018, ScreamWorks Records once again teams up with Holly Amber Church (The Devil’s Dolls, Ruin Me) with the composer’s next terrifying project, The Toybox. Directed by Tom Nagel, written by Jeff Denton and produced by Tom Nagel, Jeff Denton, Brian Nagel and Jeff Miller, the film follows the journey of a cursed RV that ends up lost in the middle of the desert. With passengers including Denise Richards and Mischa Barton, the trip that was meant to bring together a dysfunctional family may be the last trip this group is ever going to take.

“The Toybox is my second feature collaboration with director Tom Nagel and I was thrilled to be a part of this film!“ recalls composer Holly Amber Church about the project. “This score combines atmospheric textures, cinematic orchestral elements and some old-school 80s synths to capture the feel, characters and emotions of the film. The Toybox is filled with a lot of intense action and suspense, some very creepy, unnerving moments and some heart-wrenching emotional scenes so I really got to write a great balance of music for this film. I hope that listeners will enjoy the soundtrack and the film!”

Holly Amber Church has scored many films including the gritty score for Padraig Reynolds’ crime thriller/horror feature Rites of Spring, and the orchestral thematic score for his supernatural thriller The Devil's Dolls, both which were released by IFC Midnight with Screamworks Records releasing the official soundtracks. Her latest score released with ScreamWorks Records, Ruin Me was nominated for Best Original Score at the Women in Horror Film Festival in 2017. Holly’s other current projects include the inspiring biopic Butterfly in the Typewriter with director David DuBos and the psychological thriller Open 24 Hours with Padraig Reynolds. [http://moviescoremedia.com/]
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

ScreamWorks Records: "DOGGED" Music by James Griffths

ScreamWorks Records once again teams up with The Drift composer James Griffths to present his latest finely tuned chiller score on the Screamworks label. Directed by Richard Rowntree based on his 2015 short film, Dogged is a horror that deals with the sins of the past and their effects on the present. When Sam returns home to the tidal island where he grew up to attend a funeral of a young girl, he soon realizes that the community he had once left has changed considerably. He soon uncovers disturbing secrets about his former home and the seedy underbelly of the small community harbors more than just a few secrets.

"My score for Dogged is very much a homage to the sinister detail that the movie itself presents" reveals composer James Griffiths about his contributions to the film. "The Folk Horror genre thrives by its gripping detail, extended plots and unpredictable sub stories. Musically I have scored to continue this detail, and nothing creates so much exposed detail than a string quartet. The tension and grittiness of their performance acts as its own unique character and I wanted to continue that musical character throughout the score. Combining the quartet with electronics, sound design and gut wrenching vocals presents an audio experience I am proud of composing for this wonderful movie."

MovieScore Media has previously released the first feature film score of composer James Griffiths; The Drift was a finalist at the Music and Sound Awards 2016, was nominated for The Siren Award for Best Original Composition in a Feature Film and won Best Surprise at the Soundtrack Geek Awards. The first ever CD release of the score by the label expanded the program with Darkwave Edge of The Storm, a sequel set in the same universe. Since then, James has shown his lyrical side in Marianna Dean’s award-winning short film In the Park and collaborated with Frank Ilfman on Trent Haaga’s insane cult film, 68 Kill.
 

On the link below, you can view a video, featuring a suite from the score: [CLICK HERE]

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Screamworks Records: "RUIN ME" Music by Holly Amber Church

Screamworks Records reunites with composer Holly Amber Church (Worry Dolls, Rites of Spring), releasing her intense horror score for Preston DeFrancis' Ruin Me. The film takes place at Slasher Sleepout, a crossover between escape room, a haunted house and a 36-hour endurance trip. Though she has never even seen a horror film, Alexandra (Marcienne Dwyer) reluctantly tags along with her boyfriend, but as the other campers start to drop like flies, it's up to the horror virgin to unravel who is responsible for the real-life murder and mayhem. Ruin Me  premieres July 19 on AMC's Shudder network.

“Working with director Preston DeFrancis on the score for Ruin Me was an incredibly fun adventure!“ says Holly Amber Church about the music. “I knew I was in for a treat when Preston shared his vision for the music, including his focus on themes and strong melodic material.  Throughout the film, these themes help tell the story by morphing, melding, twisting and turning - much like the movie does. My hope is that fans of the film will enjoy the experience of the soundtrack album - a different way to go on the thrill ride that is Ruin Me.

Holly Amber Church has scored many films including the viral hit and epic sci-fi short film Archetype created by concept artist, creature designer and director, Aaron Sims. She wrote the gritty score for Padraig Reynolds’ crime thriller/horror feature Rites of Spring, and the orchestral thematic score for his supernatural thriller The Devil's Dolls, both which were released by IFC Midnight with Screamworks Records releasing the official score soundtracks on their label. Holly’s current projects include the inspiring biopic Butterfly in the Typewriter with director David DuBos and the supernatural horror The Toybox with director Tom Nagel - starring Denise Richards and Mischa Barton. Her score for Ruin Me was nominated for Best Original Score at the Women in Horror Film Festival in 2017.
 

On the link below, you can view a video, featuring a suite from the score: [CLICK HERE]

 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

ScreamWorks Records: "FERAL" Music by Elia Cmiral

ScreamWorks Records presents a chilling collaboration with composer Elia Cmiral in the composer’s latest collaboration with writer/director Mark Young (Tooth & Nail, The Killing Jar). Their latest film entitled Feral had a limited theatrical release in the US last week and stars Scout Taylor-Compton and Olivia Luccardi as two girls from a party of six whose celebratory camping trip goes horribly wrong. A mutated virus that turns people into rampaging cannibal zombies pits former friends against each other and it’s up to the remaining survivors to find a way out of the nightmarish scenario.

Feral marks the fourth collaboration between director Mark Young and composer Elia Cmiral, who recalls: “From the very beginning, I saw Feral as a drama/thriller and I was greatly inspired by the girls characters and their development in the course of this hopeless set up going from bad to worse. Besides human characters there is a theme for the haunting, dark and silent forest keeping a grisly secret - a feral virus. I wanted to have a score with a large scope stretching from drama to the suspenseful dark moments and to the wild actions.“ The score features a string ensemble with piano, extended with contemporary electronica.

Composer Elia Cmiral was born in Czechoslovakia and after a stop in Sweden, he moved to the United States in 1994 where he’d been cultivating a prolific career in film scoring. Arguably his most famous work was done for John Frankenheimer’s Ronin (1997) which was notable for introducing the duduk (an Armenian woodwind instrument) to the world of film scoring. Though he had done a great number of horror films such as Stigmata (1999), Wrong Turn (2003) Splinter (2008) and the Pulse trilogy (2006/08), Cmiral’s more recent credits include a great variety of genres, including the war drama Habermann (2010) the adaptation of Ayn Rand’s trilogy Atlas Shrugged (2011/14).

The soundtrack has a digital release date of  June 1, 2018, followed by a physical release in June 2018 by Quartet Records. On the link below, you can view a video, featuring a suite from the score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDu77a3c1Sk

Jeremy [Six Strings]

ScreamWorks Records: "Devil's Tree: Rooted in Evil" Music by Chad Cannon

ScreamWorks Records reunites with composer Chad Cannon to bring listeners an otherworldly horror score quite literally rooted in malice. 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. As her own past has demons that continue to haunt her, she eventually finds out what haunts this ominous tree. Loosely based on real events, the actual tree still stands today. This film takes you on a ride out of the realm of fantasy and into the realm of true evil. The musical score by Chad Cannon takes the organ, one of the favourite instruments of horror films, and puts an unusual spin on it.

"I've always been around church organs and have always held a sort of reverence for them" says Chad Cannon about basing his score around the instrument. "There was a danger of "kitchyness" in using a church organ in a horror film, so I decided early on that I wanted to focus on the quality of the sound of the pipes, not the performance of the organ, per sé. So before writing any music for this score, I took my sound engineer to a church, where my organist and I our followed our ears into the depths of the organ's sound. What fascinated me most were the huge, pulsing, beating frequencies that came from the lowest of the pedals. I had the organist play slowly, allowing the ears to focus in on the way the pipes were physically pumping air out. We would record 1-2 minutes on each note, and on each chord, on each dissonance. This pulsing quality became the heartbeat of the score."

Composer Chad Cannon got his background in the orchestration team of Conrad Pope on top Hollywood films as Godzilla (score by Alexandre Desplat) and the last two The Hobbit films (Howard Shore). Chad is also the founder of the Asia / America New Music Institute (AANMI), which promotes new music relationships between the U.S., Japan and greater Asia. MovieScore Media previously released The Cairo Declaration, a Chinese score co-composed by Chad and Ye Xiaogang. Chad's music for Paper Lanterns was nominated for Best Original Score for a Documentary IFMCA Award while the composer was also nominated for Breakthrough Film Composer of the Year.

The soundtrack has a digital release date of  May 25, 2018, followed by a physical release in June 2018 by Quartet Records. On the link below, you can view a video, featuring a suite from the score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfI1aAXzmFQ

Jeremy [Six Strings]

Screamworks Records and Quartet Records: "JEEPERS CREEPERS 3" Music by Andrew Morgan Smith

Coinciding with both Halloween and the film’s television premiere, ScreamWorks Records and Quartet Records resurrect the notorious monster of the Jeepers Creepers franchise with a release of the third episode’s soundtrack. Written and directed by Victor Salva, Jeepers Creepers 3 is finally unleashed fourteen years after the last adventure of the notorious flesh-consuming monster. The story of the third episode is actually set between the first and second film as Sergeant Davis Tubbs (Davis Tubbs) assembles a task force to destroy the Creeper once and for all the while growing closer than ever before to learning the secrets of its dark origins, as the monster terrorizes a local farming community. After so many years of slumber, The Creeper is back and his music lives up to the greatness of the first two scores.

The previous movies were scored by Bennett Salvay, but the torch has now been passed onto composer Andrew Morgan Smith who shares the following thoughts about the score: ”Bennett Salvay’s work was an intrinsic part of the series' success. For this third film, our challenge was to haunt the same space as Bennett, while carving out a fresh experience that would thrill old and new fans alike. We needed to infuse the old with the new. Not unlike our now-infamous villain, the Creeper. An ancient creature who emerges every twenty-three years to hunt, replacing its old organs with new ones, harvested from humans. I started with the old: an orchestral sound inspired by Jerry Goldsmith and the other greats. And then, I infused it with the new: interesting sound design elements, and a very intense, kinetic pulse. The final result is a sound that promises to thrill you, kill you or both.”

Composer Andrew Morgan Smith studied composition and music media at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. As a media composer, he started his career writing for SyFy movies and has now branched out into Indie film and other TV content. His credits include such hit films for the channel as A Sort of Homecoming, Zombie Shark, and A Deadly Affair. "http://moviescoremedia.com/"
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

MovieScore Media: "Blood Feast" by Klaus Pfreundner

Coinciding with the film’s stateside theatrical release on July 28, ScreamWorks Records invites its listeners to a Blood Feast, scored by German composer Klaus Pfreundner. An official remake of the 1963 horror by Herschell Gordon Lewis, the 2016 movie is co-written and directed by Marcel Waltz. The film tells the story of Fuad Ramses (Robert Rusler), an American entrepreneur who moves to France with his family in order to open an American diner. With business going slowly, Ramses  also works night shifts in a museum of ancient Egyptian culture. Tortured by vision from the Goddess Ishtar (Sadie Katz), Fuad starts to spice up his meals with unlikely ingredients....

German composer Klaus Pfreundner has a varied background in music with a strong emphasis on songwriter and musical theater (Amadeus Rockt, Rock the Ballet – Australian Tour 2012). He is a member of the cover band Radspitz whose first original song entitled “Iceland Call” recently made headlines for incorporating the legendary Viking clap, the notorious calling card of the Icelandic football fans from the European Championship. Blood Feast marks Pfreundner’s fifth collaboration with director Marcel Waltz, following Seed 2, RAW 2, Das Tagebuch der Grete Müller and La Petite Mort II. His trailer and library compositions are available through TUNESforMOVIES. In 2014 he won the prestigious composer's competition of Filmtonart by the German TV Station Bayerischer Rundfunk

"Behind the seemingly perfect world lurks the beast" shares composer Klaus Pfreundner his initial thoughts about the project after seeing the first cut. "Marcel was excited about that and so he gave me his confidence and free hand to implement my ideas. For us, it was important to honor the original score by Lewis, so in the "Main Theme", you can hear the legendary timpani sound from the original score. The cue called "The Feast” proved an opportunity for another darkly humorous sequence - in this one, I quoted 'In the Hall of the Mountain King' from Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt. The whole project was a funny 'bloody' journey from Heaven to Hell, not least because I could use my entire arsenal of nasty and evil sounds." The soundtrack also includes two-two songs performed by Chilli con Curtis and Nici Roxx.
 

Jeremy [Six Strings]

ScreamWorks Records: Secrets of a Psychopath - Scott Glasgow

ScreamWorks Records presents another great thriller score from Scott Glasgow, the composer from such affectionate genre entries as Hack! and Lo. His work on Secrets of a Psychopath underscores the twisted relationship of an incestuous brother and sister duo who lure unsuspecting people to their house via a dating site… The film is the latest work of 93 years old cult filmmaker Bert I. Gordon (known to many as Mr. B.I.G.), who is best know for such genre classics films as The Amazing Colossal Man (1957), Earth vs The Spider (1958), Food of the Gods (1976) and Empire of the Ants (1977). As usual for Gordon, the film deals with some controversial issues while featuring an imaginative score that underlines the key themes of the story.

"There are children songs, music box music and many other innocent colors combined with orchestral 'violence' to accompany the descent into madness the main character finds himself in” explains Glasgow about the music. “There is a low theme in the strings, a flute theme lullaby and the piano colors which are weaved through the whole score. In the end, there is no real redemption, only the secrets inside the psychopath’s head that seem to pull the audience through the story." Regarding Mr. B.I.G., Scott added: "Even in his 90’s he had more energy than anyone during our days of work. This film marked his return to film making after 25 years. He tells me there is many more to come and I believe him!"

Composer Scott Glasgow graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in composition and earned his ­Bachelors of Music degree from Cal State Northridge in composition as well. Following his breakout work on the revitalized anime classic Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006), Glasgow's scores released by MovieScore Media include the urban thriller Chasing Ghosts (2005), the brilliant homage-laden score for the horror comedy Hack! (2007), the neo noirish thriller Toxic (2009) and Lo (2009), a macabre ensemble piece about love which was nominated 'Best Score for a Comedy' by the International Film Music Critics Association.

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Jeremy [The Wolf]

ScreamWorks Records: We Are Still Here [2015] - Wojciech Golczewski

ScreamWorks Records presents Wojciech Golczewski’s chilling industrial ambience score for We Are Still Here, directed by Ted Geoghegan. The haunted house horror takes place in the cold, wintery fields of New England where an isolated house wakes up every thirty years to  demand a sacrifice. Its current victims are Paul (Andrew Sensenig) and Anne (Barbara Crampton), a couple who moves to their new home following the tragic death of their son who was killed in a car crash. The grieving couple becomes the target of vengeful spirits who prove to be dangerous tenants, holding the key to the dark secrets of the seemingly peaceful town. Instead of starting the healing process, Paul and Anne must fight back the ghosts who not only want them, but their lost son as well...

“The concept behind the film's music was to make it feel eerily organic and, unlike traditional horror tracks, treat it like proper sound design" explains the composer. “This is by far the most minimal score I’ve done so far. Our idea was to create the score that reflects the house as some kind of a living being. The base for the score is some eerie tones i wanted to reflect the house atmosphere, tones that are almost like a "still" air inside the house, that can change the mood in a sec. Some kind of acoustic vibrations in the air. On top of that we decide to use very simple themes and harmonics that are more of a human nature and reflect our characters and their emotions." 

Born in 1980, Wojciech Golczewski taught himself music alongside his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. His musical career started in the European demo scene, an art subculture where artists show of their programming and musical skills in so called demos. Following a career in composing for video games which included PlayStation 3 titles like Linger in Shadows and Datura (2012), the composer scored his first feature film with Eraser Children (2009), an Australian sci-fi. His other recent scores include the Norwegian thriller Dark Souls (2010), the Icelandic crime thriller City State (2011) and the werewolf film Late Phases (2014) .

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Just Announced... wow from what I have seen and now what I have heard, this one is going to be a heart stopper!

Jeremy [The Wolf]

Screamworks Records: Sweet Home [2015] - Ginés Carrión

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ScreamWorks Records returns to the world of Spanish horror films with Sweet Home, the latest home invasion thriller released by Filmax, the company behind the country’s number one horror franchise, [REC]. Directed by Rafa Martítnez, Sweet Home stars Ingrid Garcia-Jonasson and Bruno Sevilla in the roles of a young couple who move into a new home, set in a largely disused building. Although having a huge place to themselves seems to be advantageous at first,  they will soon find out that having no neighbors means nobody could help them when the house unravels it’s horrific secrets… The soundtrack release by ScreamWorks Records coincides with the film’s theatrical premiere in Spain on May 8.

Composer Ginés Carrión started his career in film music alongside composer Roque Baños and worked as an orchestrator on films like Alatriste (2006), Evil Dead (2013) Oldboy (2013) and numerous entries of the Torrente franchise. As a composer, his list of credits include several notable short films such as Daniel Romero's No mires ahí (Don't Look There, 2013) or Alicia Albares' Al otro lado (To the Other Side, 2013) - both films offered him the chance to experiment in the fields of fantasy and mystery, now presented in feature-length glory.

The music for Sweet Home is an action-horror score building upon the composer’s experience of orchestrating Roque Baños’s music for Evil Dead with a special focus on the currently popular hybrid sound fitting for a home invasion thriller. The ”Main Title” launches an energetic yet sinister theme with a strong sense of 80s sensibilities. "I'm a maniac for the sounds my neighbors make” admits the composer “and since the whole movie takes place inside a building, the music is full of bumps, sounds and echoes that seem to emanate from behind the walls of the hallway or another apartment." The majority of the score is electronic with a smaller section devoted to orchestral effects that break the barrier between sound and music, including a horn simulating a truck klaxon and an ignition flare effect to name just a few of the more creative examples from the score. 

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Just Announced! Knock.. Knock? Who is there?

Jeremy [The Wolf]

ScreamWorks Records: The Devil’s Hand - Anton Sanko

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The latest release of ScreamWorks Records entitled The Devil’s Hand guides you into the dark soul of a small and isolated religious community whose depraved secrets are slowly unfolded by a suitably experimental scored by Anton Sanko. Set in a small rural community caught up in religious fervor, the isolated group is shaken by the birth of six girls on the sixth day of the sixth month. 666. When one of the girls disappears 18 years later, the village is split on the question. For members like Elder Beacon (Colm Meany), the vanishing act is the sign of an apocalyptic prophecy - younger members like Jacob Brown (Rufus Sewell) however think that the elders may be responsible and further disappearances will follow suit...

The score by composer Anton Sanko builds upon the unlikely setting of the story as it invents a brand new musical language for a group of luddites whose only access to music could be the objects they are readily available to them. As the composer puts it: "The Devil's Hand takes place in a fictionalized Amish-like community called New Bethlehem. It is a small, religiously conservative commune that shuns the modern world. I imagined what instruments would exist within this environment and  wanted to make score from them. I spent a few days recording, torturing  and abusing various dulcimers, autoharps, zithers and other stringed instruments, and those recordings became the foundation to this score."

Starting out his career as a musician in the band of Suzanne Vega, Anton Sanko has been writing film music since the early ‘90s and has contributed music to over 50 films and television shows. He may be best known for underscoring Nicole Kidman’s Oscar-nominated performance in Rabbit Hole (2010) while his small screen successes include three seasons of HBO’s polygamy drama Big Love (2009-11) and Ring of Fire (2013), the Johnny Cash / June Carter biopic that brought the composer a Primetime Emmy nomination. The Devil’s Hand is the latest addition to Anton Sanko’s already impressive filmography in the horror genre: his other recent titles include the exorcism film The Possession (2012), Hasbro’s first feature film Ouija (2014) and Jessabelle (2014), a supernatural horror set in the Louisiana.
 

Jeremy [The Wolf]

Screamworks Records: BACKCOUNTRY - Frères Lumières

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Dedicated to presenting some of the best soundtracks of independent cinema, the latest undertaking of MovieScore Media is Backcountry, the critically acclaimed Canadian survival horror. The indie hit follows the hiking trip of Alex (Jeff Roop) and Jenn (Missy Peregrym), two city folks who venture into the darker side of the wild. Following a chance encounter with the dangerous looking Brad (Eric Balfour), our heroes make a few too many wrong turns and end up lost. Even worse, they are in the territory of an aggressive bear defending it land. The already complicated relationship between Alex and Jenn reaches its breaking point...

The music for Backcountry is provided by Frères Lumières, an ensemble made up of multi instrumentalists Vince Nudo and Dan Watchorn who began their musical collaborations in the Montreal rock band Priestess. After recording two studio albums and touring North America, the two musicians set out to create cinematic soundtracks outside the confines of rock music. Their list of credits include Thomas Michael's Running Mates (2010) starring Henry Winkler and Caroline Monnet's short Gephyrophobia which got them to attend the Festival de Cannes. Backcountry marks the duo's first feature-length score.

The music for Backcountry builds upon the exciting combination of inventive electronic textures, moody dreamlike atmospheres,  and a hint of country twang / industrial rock passages in selected tracks. The music is as much about the predatory nemesis as it is about the deteriorating relationship of Alex and Jenn as the composers explain: “We wanted to avoid certain film score conventions common to the genre. Working in tangent with Adam’s vision, the goal was to create a dramatic score that developed as the story did. The tone reflects the relationship between the characters, their journey into the unknown and the uncertainty of their survival.“
 

Just Announced... it's going to be great, wait it is great!

Jeremy [Howlin' Wolf]

Screamworks Records: El árbol sin sombra (The Shadowless Tree) [2015] - Marc Timón Barceló

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ScreamWorks Records presents the digital and CD premiere of El árbol sin sombra, the first horror score of composer Marc Timón Barceló (The Little Wizard, Coliseum) which won the Jerry Goldsmith Award for Best Music at the 2014 Film Music Festival at Cordoba. Co-written and directed by Xavier Miralles, El árbol sin sombra tells the story of Ingrid (Mima Riera) and Tina (Paloma Alma), two girlfriends who have chosen different paths in their lives. Before Ingrid leaves for college, the two decide to go camping one last time… The girls however meet another group in the forest and their conflict with them reveals that the link they thought was so strong is actually quite weak….

Though it was written for a horror film, the music for El árbol sin sombra is actually more focused on the deteriorating relationship of Ingrid and Tina than the horror that puts them in jeopardy. As the composer explains: “The score is based on a main theme which gives life to the rest of the music in just a few notes: a single piano melody with strings contains the mystery, the loneliness and the fear in the story. By deconstructing the main theme, many more other themes, colors and textures are born from this initial idea. Its structure is simulating a heartbeat for every two measures, the melody is born from his own echo.” Apart from the score, the soundtrack also feature the end credits song entitled ”Cold.

Composer Marc Timón Barceló was Born in Castelló d'Empúries in 1980 and has shown great talent and creativity at an early age. He first graduated in journalism before getting his degree in composition from the prestigious ESMUC (High School of Music of Catalonia) – his teachers included Albert Guinovart (orchestral composition) and Arnau Bataller (film scoring). Keeping a versatile career, Timón premiered a piano concerto, songs for voices and orchestra and a handful of songs for children. The composer’s more recent credits include Habanera (2007) and Witches (2010), the animated feature The Little Wizard (2013) and the historical spectacle Coliseum (2014) – the latter two are available from MovieScore Media.

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I really only like to share my opinion when something is really good, right here we have something great and composer Marc Timón Barceló has a great story to tell. Telling us in the music from this film, a structure to scare and to hold us until the end. Success!

Jeremy [Howlin' Wolf]

Holiday Horror... ScreamWorks Records: Lucifer's Angels by John DelVento

ScreamWorks Records releases John DelVento’s music for the independent horror film Lucifer’s Angels. The story follows three different groups of people as their paths will eventually cross in the the Catskill Mountains of New York. We meet a group of four friends who go on their first camping trip together, a ghost hunter and his fiancé from investigating mysterious disappearances and a father/son team who live in the haunted woods. The bad reputation of the mountain is linked with four inmates at the King Lakes Psychiatric Hospital for the Criminally Insane whose horrible acts committed in 1978 still take a toll to this day… Lucifer's Angels is directed, co-written, photographed and edited by Ricky McDonald.

Lucifer's Angels composer John DelVento took his musical training to The Hartt School of Music, Dance, and Theatre as a double music major, where his music composition career was born. After a brief stint as an urban music producer, DelVento started to get more involved with writing for agencies and music libraries, leading to placements with The Science Channel, Food Network, Nike, Toyota, Covergirl, Pepsi and Visa. His most recent release (apart from Lucifer’s Angels) is the Beltrami-esque Reaper, now available on iTunes. Apart from being a media composer, John is also one of the few soloists of the euphonium, a rare brass instrument that allowed him to appear as a soloist all over the world..

Eerie sounds wrapped around a scary score, captured nicely by composer John DelVento as we are thrown into a dark place. Paying homage to a classic horror film and style, John DelVento keeps us guessing where he wants to take us next... 

Jeremy [Howlin' Wolf]

ScreamWorks Records: [REC4]: Apocalypse [2014] - Arnau Bataller

Coinciding with the film’s October 31 premiere in Spain, ScreamWorks Records proudly presents the original soundtrack for last chapter of the popular [REC] franchise: [REC]4. Written and directed by Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, the [REC] films (mostly) follow the adventures of television reporter Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco) who accidentally comes across a groundbreaking story about an infection that turns people into zombies. Hailed as a ground-breaking experiment with the first person / found footage format, the series now comes to a close with the final chapter on Ángela’s battle with the disease. [REC] 4 has already been announced for a November 12 premiere in France and will get a release in the US by Magnet Releasing. 

[REC] 4 composer Arnau Bataller originally studied to play the violin and got a degree on the instrument in 1998 – then he decided to specialize in film music, studying the art form at the prestigious University of Southern California. Since graduating in 2002, Arnau had worked on countless American and Spanish projects. Some of his most notable works include José Luis Alemán’s H.P. Lovecraft-inspired horror films The Valdemar Legacy (2010) and The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow (2010), the latter of which is available from MovieScore Media. His recent score for Julio Martí’s The Brotherhood (2014) is available from Screamworks Records, just like the music from [REC]3: Genesis.

Though he originally worked on [REC]3 as an orchestrator Bataller’s score for the last episode of the franchise builds upon elements of the story that transpired in the second installment. The key suspense theme (heard in tracks like 'The Medeiros Girl' and 'Inside the House') is reserved for moments of great revelations about the infection and Ángela’s transformation into a real heroine. Recorded in Bratislava and mixed with electronic elements created by the composer himself, [REC]4 is an exciting, suspenseful and sometimes operatic experience that is a welcome companion to the music of [REC]3.

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Jeremy [Howlin' Wolf]

Screamworks Records: BAD MILO [2014] - Ted Masur

Screamworks Records releases Ted Masur’s acclaimed music for Bad Milo!, the quirky cult horror co-written and directed by Jacob Vaughan. The album is available on CD and digitally online from September 30, 2014.  The film, which had a theatrical release in the USA last year courtesy of Magnet Releasing, tells the story of Duncan (Ken Marino), an average man toiling at an average office job with no brighter prospects apart from his beautiful wife, Sarah (Gillian Jacobs). When Duncan starts to suffer from abdominal pains as a result of his stressful life, he gives birth to a tiny demon housed inside his colon. When his therapist suggests bonding with the creature, Duncan begins his unusual friendship with Milo, who soon enough deserves the “Bad” moniker…

Screamworks Records: Dead Within [2014] - Joshua Bradford and Clayton Worbeck

Screamworks Records presents the chilling ambient horror soundtrack to the Canadian survival horror Dead Within, composed by Joshua Bradford and Clayton Worbeck (Stayte, Revolting Cocks, Ministry). Directed by Ben Wagner, the film is set six months after a devastating outbreak that has all but ended the human race. A man named Mike (Dean Chekvala, True Blood) and a woman named Kin (Amy Cale Peterson, Southbounders) have survived for such a long time only by isolating themselves in a remote cabin and never opening the door. Now that they are finally starved for resources, they have no choice but to confront the horrors awaiting inside and outside.

The soundtrack for Dead Within is courtesy of Joshua Bradford and Clayton Worbeck, two veteran heavyweights of the Canadian industrial music scene. Bradford and Worbeck first played together in the industrial rock band Stayte, then later joined Revolting Cocks as a singer and keyboardist respectively. Worbeck also frequently worked together with Ministry, his remix of the band's "Death and Destruction" was featured on the Saw V Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. Their collaboration on Dead Within marks the duo’s first, but hopefully not last venture into feature film scoring.

"It was a pleasure to work on this score because of the clear intent to blur the lines between the score and the sound design" explains co-composer Clayton Worbeck. "This approach gave us the freedom to create some incredibly dark, tense compositions that creep and claw into each other as the two characters make their way through hell on Earth. Embedded in all this darkness and insanity is a strong bond of love and trust slowly eroding away. This decay of faith influenced much of my work on the score."

The soundtrack has a digital release date of  September 9, 2014.  

Jeremy [Howlin' Wolf]