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Gun Interactive Reveals “Remains”, a Companion Album to ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Game [Video]
Earlier this week, we got a taste of the audio terror that’s in store for us with Sumo Digital and Gun Interactive’s upcoming asymmetrical horror title The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Now, to add to that, Gun Interactive have done something a little different with the reveal of “a one of a kind creative project” in Remains: The Companion Album to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Game.
Composed by Wes Keltner & Jim Bonney, the album is described by Keltner as “a direct reflection of what Kim Henkel wrote [for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre film], influenced by the events that led up to that moment and why the Slaughter family did the things they did and it’s about that town that they grew up in and around.”
“Wes called and asked if I would be interested in writing music about what happened before the original Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie,” explains Bonney. “The story of a town before their only source of income dried up. The story of a family, before they were left behind by friends or co-workers, with no job prospects, alone on their family homestead to fend for themselves the best they knew how.”
“The overall goal was to create music that was inherently evil, but not cartoonish. Heavy, without lacking sensitivity, slow and menacing, but never without soul. I really enjoyed collaborating with Wes. He offered me a clear, driven direction, and throughout the process he pushed me to create better music, but he also left space for me to experiment and to leave my own mark within the music.”
To clarify, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre official game soundtrack is and will be a separate entity from Remains. However, both albums will be available in their entirety on streaming services proir to the game launching next year. “If you’re looking for the tracks you hear in the menus and in game, the official soundtrack is for you. But for the listener that wants to dive deeper, that wants to hear something dark and abstract, thematic and inspired, Remains might be what you’re looking for.”
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre arrives in 2023 for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store. The game will also be available on Xbox Game Pass on Xbox and PC.
It’s a new day, and you’ve got new John Carpenter to listen to. John Carpenter, Daniel Davies and Cody Carpenter have released the new track He Walks By Night this morning, the second single off their upcoming album Lost Themes IV: Noir, out May 3 on 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.
Sacred Bones previews, “It’s been a decade since John Carpenter recorded the material that would become Lost Themes, his debut album of non-film music and the opening salvo in one of Hollywood’s great second acts. 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. With Lost Themes IV: Noir, they’ve struck gold again, this time mining the rich history of the film noir genre for inspiration.
“Since the first Lost Themes, John has referred to these compositions as “soundtracks for the movies in your mind.” On the fourth installment in the series, those movies are noirs. Like the film genre they were influenced by, what makes these songs “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 trio’s free-flowing chemistry means Lost Themes IV: Noir runs 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.”
You can pre-save Lost Themes IV: Noir right now! And listen to the new track below…
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