{"id":10084,"date":"2014-11-24T13:57:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T18:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2014-11-24T14:16:35","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:16:35","slug":"mp3-accursed-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=10084","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Accursed (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Accursed2014\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: n\/a<\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong> \u00a0September 30, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong> \u00a012 tracks \/ (42:55)<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong>\u00a0Rocky Gray<\/p>\n

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Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlike most faux soundtrack efforts of late, William Rocky\u2019 Gray\u2019s Accursed<\/strong> is less reliant on the sounds of John Carpenter and Goblin, making this effort in percussive mayhem rather refreshing. The opening track (\u201cCannibal\u201d) is a mass of pounding drums and distorted electric guitar bridged with howling tones and that classic staple of eighties horror, sampled chorus.<\/p>\n

Gray, the former drummer from Evanescence, does pay homage to Carpenter in the form of a recurring piano theme, but it\u2019s really a tertiary component in a narrative that\u2019s driven by unwavering rhythms, backbeats, and some acoustic grunge. Buffering the kinetic cues are the classical styled \u201cThe Maze\u201d with keyboard and slow, ominous passages; a synth cello that lead into the vocal heavy \u201cHigh Hopes\u201d; and the goofy dance track \u201cLovecraftian\u201d with nothing but icy keyboards and layered drum sequencing.<\/p>\n

The digital album\u2019s 12 tracks flip between metal, rock, orchestral emulations highly redolent of nascent synth gear, and pulse-based electronica (Getting Away with Murder). There\u2019s a clear line that Gray doesn\u2019t cross, ensuring each idiomatic theme variation is pure to a late eighties \/ early nineties sound, and instead of unfolding like a schizophrenic pastiche of cues, Accursed<\/strong> is unified by traditional genre motifs and extreme theme variations, making this album sound like vintage gem from a long-forgotten indie shocker.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nEditor’s Blog<\/a> — Composer on IMDB<\/a>
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Unlike most faux soundtrack efforts of late, William Rocky\u2019 Gray\u2019s Accursed is less reliant on the sounds of John Carpenter and Goblin, making this effort in percussive mayhem rather refreshing. The opening track (\u201cCannibal\u201d) is a mass of pounding drums and distorted electric guitar bridged with howling tones and that classic staple of eighties horror, sampled chorus…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[3131,3132,3130],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2CE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084"}],"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=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10091,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions\/10091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}