{"id":10078,"date":"2014-11-24T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10078"},"modified":"2014-11-24T14:25:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:25:06","slug":"soundtrack-reviews-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10078","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FilmMusicReviews_square_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8421\" alt=\"FilmMusicReviews_square_pic\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FilmMusicReviews_square_pic.jpg\" width=\"308\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FilmMusicReviews_square_pic.jpg 308w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FilmMusicReviews_square_pic-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 308px) 100vw, 308px\" \/><\/a>2014 may be the year in which more composers produced faux soundtrack albums to horror scores than in previous years, and while many really, <em>really<\/em> embrace the sounds and quirks of John Carpenter, there\u2019s no doubt each effort is an homage and shows genuine affection for not only horror scores of the eighties and early nineties, but specific branches of horror.<\/p>\n<p>Slasher, post-apocalyptic, zombie, ghosts, etc. \u00a0are all covered in fake soundtracks that offer a variety of vintage sounds. I\u2019ve covered several in Rue Morgue this year and will re-post a few in the coming weeks, but the latest album \u2013 and a really solid effort \u2013 is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10084\">Accursed <\/a><\/strong>(2014), from former Evanescence\u00a0drummer Rocky Gray, which is available digitally from online retailers.<\/p>\n<p>Also covered this week is Elia Cmiral\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10081\">Atlas Shrugged Part 3: Who is John Galt?<\/a><\/strong> (Atlas Productions), following my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10016\">podcast interview<\/a> with the composer; and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10077\">Nu Epiq<\/a> <\/strong>(Imperativa Records), the latest CD from Trailerhead, whose lead composer, Yoav Goren, <a href=\"http:\/\/bigheadamusements.com\/wordpress\/?p=362\">I interviewed<\/a>\u00a0back in 2012 about writing and producing large-scale orchestral music exclusively for blockbuster movie trailers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming shortly:<\/em> a pairing of Twilight Time\u2019s new Blu-ray of John Huston\u2019s <strong>Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison<\/strong> (1957) with a slightly similar-themed <strong>Sea Wife<\/strong> (1957), plus the classic horror films <strong>The Blob <\/strong>(1988) and <strong>Bloody Birthday<\/strong> (1981).<\/p>\n<p>Depending how much I can squeeze in between editing and some scheduled podcast interviews for an upcoming profile, I might get the first half of my Fabio Frizzi podcast up as well within the next week.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soundtrack reviews of Rocky Gray&#8217;s Accursed, Elia Cmiral&#8217;s Atlas Shrugged Part 3: Who is John Galt? (Atlas Productions), and Trailerhead&#8217;s Nu Epiq trailer music compilation (Imperativa Records).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3135,3134,27,2562,3133,2563,3137,3130,3136,1622],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FilmMusicReviews_630x300.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2Cy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10093,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10078\/revisions\/10093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}