Now Playing: The Mothman Of Point Pleasant

An exceptional soundtrack by Brandon Dalo.

Was driving around last night listening to this score.  Crazy good.  An entirely different animal played outside of the documentary.  Highly listenable on its own.  And truly creepy.

As two old school soundtrack collectors, I was just telling my brother that I haven't been this excited about a soundtrack release in a very long time.

Re-posting the soundtrack samples below:

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Now Playing: His Divine Grace

Been a fan of this group for a long long time.


Listen to a bunch of great samples here.

Now Playing: Halloween IV

Fantastic score by John Carpenter's co-composer Alan Howarth, who proves he's quite the musical force with his own voice. The first track is brilliant in that the familiar and expected Carpenter Halloween motif is missing until the tail end of the piece. I recall reading an interview with Howarth where he described his intro music as needing wind-like ghostly sounds for the slow creepy main credits. And it works like a dream.


Listen to samples here.

Now Playing: Oxana

By ambient group Igneous Flame.

I once made the mistake of playing one of my ambient discs in the car when I was driving my father somewhere when his car was in the shop. The first track came on and he started squirming and appeared to be straining to hear something. After a minute he asked "What the Hell IS that?" I answered "It's my music." He replied "Music? I thought something was wrong with your brakes."


Listen to samples here.

Now Playing: Humanoids From The Deep

Great old school soundtrack by composer James Horner.
The album features two scores:
Tracks 1-16 Battle Beyond the Stars
Tracks 17-31 Humanoids from the Deep



Listen to samples here.

Now Playing: Elegies For The End [Samples]

Ordered this cd last night - Elegies for the End by Svartsinn. Cyclic Law has been a great source of dark ambient for my collection (Kammarheit, Sinke Dus, Northhaunt). And their customer service is absolutely fantastic.


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Listen to samples here.

Now Playing: Halloween II [Samples]

Going to be ordering this today. I own the original release on cd, but it's one of those cds from a time when not all cds were engineered equally - this one needed to be cranked way up.

From BuySountrax.com:
For this special 30th Anniversary Edition of HALLOWEEN II, the original 1981 album presentation is included, newly remastered. In addition, a special suite of seven tracks has been prepared, consisting of the entire film score sequenced in chronological order and including previously unreleased music. In addition, Alan Howarth has contributed exclusive notes for the booklet.

Buy it here.

or here (and listen to samples of each track).

Now Playing: Talk Amongst The Trees

By Eluvium.


Listen to samples here.

Now Playing: Kammarheit

A favorite of mine - Kammarheit. This was going to be the soundtrack for this year's haunt, before the rain came. I thought it captured the feeling of despair and darkness perfectly.

Here's a sample of a track I could have listened to all night.

Samples of the entire album.

Now Playing: Desiderii Marginis

Massive dark tracks from the previously-featured Desiderii Marginis.

From the album Dead Beat.

Listen to samples.

Now Playing: Autumn

By George Winston.

Had the pleasure of seeing this man perform live once in Princeton, New Jersey. He made a few of these tracks much darker than the album versions. Occasionally he would reach into the piano and alter the notes by manipulating the piano strings. Very neat effect.


Samples here.

Now Playing: Swimming With Sharks

Not really Halloween music... more like October music.

The film score to SWIMMING WITH SHARKS by Tom Hiel.


Click here to listen to the end title track.

Click here for samples.

Now Playing: The Village

Huge fan of James Newton Howard and I always find myself playing his scores for SIGNS and THE VILLAGE around this time of year.


Samples here.

Now Playing: Millennium

By Mark Snow.


Some samples here.

Now Playing: Raison D'Etre Teaser

Looking SO forward to the latest from Raison D'Etre -
'The Stains of the Embodied Sacrifice.'

Now Playing: Tonight Of The Living Dead

Zombie music.
Some pretty sweet ambient tracks featuring samples and distortions from the score to NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD.


Tonight of the Living Dead.

Now Playing: Cities In Fog

An old favorite in my library of dark ambient drone.


The track Among Icebergs always reminds me of the "electronic realization" music in Carpenter's THE FOG (music when they first show Blake and his men [not on the score release]).

Listen to samples.

Now Playing: Something Wicked This Way Comes

Playing the soundclips, that is.

I've been waiting for an official release of this score for quite some time. I managed to get a copy back when Napster was free and loaded with bootlegged gems.

Just ordered this one this morning.

Click to order and listen to some clips.

Now Playing: Badlands

A band featured on all the [incredible] Halloween At High Noon albums, here's the latest from The Divine Sham called Badlands. Makes me crave the fourth Halloween volume.


"...like smoking a backwoods cigar and lighting dynamite wicks with it."

Listen to samples here.

Now Playing: ALIENS

The score for James Cameron's ALIENS is incredibly dark and sinister and some of these tracks would be perfect for a dark walk-through haunt, specifically Bad Dreams, Dark Discovery, Sub-Level 3, Complex and Queen. This powerhouse score by composer James Horner also contains some of the most exciting cues ever written for film (in my opinion).


Listen to samples here.