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Waxwork Records Announces 2017 Subscription: Includes ‘Darkman’, ‘Evil Dead 2’, and More!
Waxwork Records has announced the details of their 2017 subscription package, which goes on sale tomorrow, and it’s packed with some incredible titles and soundtracks! The company explains that by buying into this subscription, “…you will receive five deluxe soundtrack releases on exclusive 180 gram colored vinyl, exclusive merchandise, posters, enamel pins, apparel, and incentives unavailable to the general public.”
The five records they’ll be releasing are for Darkman, Evil Dead 2, Don’t Look Now, Creepshow 2, and The Babadook. Details for each release can be found below.
The subscription will be $205 for domestic US, $250 for Canada, and $300 for international.
Waxwork Records is thrilled to include the complete score to Creepshow 2 in our 2017 Subscription! Available for the very first time in any format, the original 1987 score to CREEPSHOW 2 is composed by Les Reed and Rick Wakeman. This massive release serves as the follow up to our 2014 deluxe vinyl film score release to 1982’s CREEPSHOW. Expect all new artwork by Ghoulish Gary Pullin, deluxe LP packaging with built in gatefold jacket pages, colored vinyl, and so much more!
Waxwork is excited finally offer a deluxe vinyl soundtrack release to the horror classic, EVIL DEAD 2. Composed by Joseph Loduca (Evil Dead, Army Of Darkness) EVIL DEAD 2 is arguably the wildest film in the EVIL DEAD franchise. Expect all new art by Phantom City Creative, re-mastered audio, 180 gram colored vinyl, insane packaging, and some bonus surprises throughout 2017 that are exclusive only to Waxwork Records Subscribers!
Jennifer Kent’s THE BABADOOK is one of the darkest horror films in recent years. Don’t take it from us, though. THE EXORCIST director, William Friedkin, calls it, “The scariest film I have ever seen”. What better to accompany the scariest film in years than a terrifying score by composer Jed Kurzel. We dare you to listen to this score by yourself in the dark and NOT get spooked! Expect the complete score to THE BABADOOK, deluxe packaging, bonus art by illustrator Jessica Seamans of LANDLAND, 180 gram colored vinyl, and more!
Waxwork is honored to finally release a proper, expanded, and deluxe re-issue of Pino Donaggio’s incredible score to DON’T LOOK NOW. The classic 1973 British-Italian horror-thriller stars Donald Sutherland and takes you on a dark, mind bending trip through death, psychosis, grief, and the supernatural. DON’T LOOK NOW is innovative, influential, and challenging. The soundtrack by Pino Donaggio (Carrie, Tourist Trap, The Howling) features his film scoring debut which won him awards and accolades, allowing him to pursue becoming a full time composer. Expect the complete and expanded score, re-mastered audio, new artwork by Jessica Seamans of LANDLAND, deluxe packaging, 180 gram colored vinyl, and more!
Fans of Sam Raimi, Pulp, Action, and Horror rejoice! Waxwork is proud to include Danny Elfman’s amazing score to DARKMAN as part of the 2017 Waxwork Records Subscription! The over the top 1990 film stars Liam Neeson and is directed by Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead Trilogy). Danny Elfman’s bold, lively, and bombastic score has been re-mastered from the original masters and will be available on exclusive 180 gram colored vinyl, housed in deluxe packaging, and features all new artwork by Francesco Francavilla! DARKMAN is a “superhero” movie like no other. Original, dark, fun, and in your face!
Subscription perks
*Five Deluxe Soundtracks on Subscriber Exclusive 180 gram Colored Vinyl
*WAXWORK x EVIL DEAD 2 Subscriber T-Shirt
*CREEPSHOW 2 Screen Printed Poster designed by Ghoulish Gary Pullin
*Secret, Surprise Enamel Pin
*10% OFF Anything From Waxwork Records During 2017
*No Hassle and Stress-Free Service without the worry of any items selling out
*All Shipping Costs Included
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‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’ – John Carpenter Announces New Album & Releases New Music Video!
John Carpenter has been teasing big news for a couple weeks now and all has been revealed this morning. Carpenter is back with Lost Themes IV: Noir from Sacred Bones Records!
Lost Themes IV: Noir is the latest installment in a series that sees Carpenter releasing new music for John Carpenter movies that don’t actually exist. The first Lost Themes was released in 2015, followed by Lost Themes II in 2016 and Lost Themes III: Alive After Death in 2021.
John Carpenter called the first Lost Themes album “a soundtrack for the movies in your mind.”
From John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, Lost Themes IV: Noir is set for release on May 3 via Sacred Bones Records. The album pays tribute to Noir cinema!
In conjunction with the announcement, they’ve shared a music video for the album’s first single, “My Name Is Death”, a miniature noir film directed by Ambar Navarro, starring Natalie Mering (Weyes Blood), Staz Lindes (The Paranoyds) and Misha Lindes (SadGirl). “Noir is a uniquely American genre born in post-war cinema,” states Carpenter. “ We grew up loving Noir and were influenced by it for this new album. The video celebrates this style and our new song, My Name is Death.”
Sacred Bones previews, “The scene-setting new single marks new territory for Carpenter and his cohorts, propelled by a driving post-punk bassline that is embellished by washes of atmospheric synth, pulsing drum machine, and, at the song’s climax, a smoldering guitar solo.”
“Sandy [King, John’s wife and producer] had given John a book for Christmas, of pictures from noir films, all stills from that era,” Davies says of the lightbulb moment for Lost Themes IV. “I was looking through it, and I thought, ‘I like that imagery, and what those titles make me think of. What if we loosely based it around that? What if the titles were of some of John’s favorite noir films?’ Some of the music is heavy guitar riffs, which is not in old noir films. But somehow, it’s connected in an emotional way.”
Sacred Bones notes, “Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes the songs on Lost Themes IV ‘noirish’ is sometimes slippery and hard to define, and not merely reducible to a collection of tropes. The scores for the great American noir pictures were largely orchestral, while the Carpenters and Davies work off a sturdy synth-and-guitar backbone. The noir quality, then, is something you understand instinctively when you hear it.”
“It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that became the initial Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts,” the label explains. “Those vibrant, synth-driven songs, made in collaboration with his son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, kickstarted a musical renaissance for the pioneering composer and director. In the years since, Carpenter, Carpenter, and Davies have released close to a dozen musical projects, including a growing library of studio albums and the scores for David Gordon Green’s trilogy of Halloween reboots. It helped that they grew up in a musical environment. Daniel’s dad is The Kinks’ Dave Davies, and he would pop by the L.A. studio – the same one the Lost Themes records are made in today – to jam, or to perform at wrap parties for John’s films. That innate free-flowing chemistry helps Lost Themes IV: Noir run like a well-oiled machine—the 1951 Jaguar XK120 Roadster from Kiss Me Deadly, perhaps, or the 1958 Plymouth Fury from John’s own Christine. It’s a chemistry that’s helped power one of the most productive stretches of John’s creative life, and Noir proves that it’s nowhere near done yielding brilliant results.”
Here’s the full Lost Themes IV: Noir track list:
1. My Name is Death
2. Machine Fear
3. Last Rites
4. The Burning Door
5. He Walks By Night
6. Beyond The Gallows
7. Kiss The Blood Off My Fingers
8. Guillotine
9. The Demon’s Shadow
10. Shadows Have A Thousand Eyes
The following physical variants will be available:
- Sacred Bones Exclusive Red on Clear Splatter vinyl w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Sacred Bones Society Exclusive on Black and White Splatter on Clear w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Silver Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- All retail Transparent Red, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Indie Exclusive Tan and Black Marble, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Rough Trade Exclusive Oxblood Red and Black Splatter, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Shout Exclusive Black and Clear cloudy, w/ Screen Printed 7” bonus track “Black Cathedral”, a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- Black LP, with a Gold Foil Stamped Jacket and poster.
- CD
- Tape
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now!
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