{"id":8357,"date":"2014-04-03T23:11:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T03:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8357"},"modified":"2014-10-07T13:25:26","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:25:26","slug":"mp3-knights-of-badassdom-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8357","title":{"rendered":"MP3: Knights of Badassdom (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"KnightsOfBadassdom_MP3_s\"<\/a>MP3Score<\/strong>: Very Good<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: \u00a0Sparks and Shadows \/ La-LaLand Records<\/a><\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>February 11, 2014<\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a017 tracks \/ (64:00)<\/p>\n

Composer:\u00a0<\/strong>Bear McCreary<\/p>\n

Special Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0n\/a<\/span><\/p>\n

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

The combination of folk instruments, a little classical, and chunks of heavy metal make sense in uplifting a tale where\u00a0 a trio of Dungeons and Dragons players conjure real-life danger, but Knights of Badassdom<\/strong> also feels like a natural development for composer Bear McCreary after his Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(2013) which featured heavy electric guitar and maximum feedback to give the teleplay a youthful, rebellious edge.<\/p>\n

Fans of BG and McCreary\u2019s orchestral work may find the integration of veteran heavy metal musicians a little, er, heavier than the composer\u2019s usual action and dramatic writing, but the album does grow on you (although it helps if one has an appreciation for classic metal, and its dynamic combinations of contemplative guitar sections, sudden vocal declarations, and hard drums).<\/p>\n

McCreary\u2019s bridge material \u2013 some of which is new to give the album better flow \u2013 features orchestral passages with Uilleann and small Scottish pipes, and brooding brass and hard percussion (\u201cSlightly Badass\u201d); the best material resides in longer cues such as \u201cThe Game Master,\u201d which repeats sections of the score\u2019s journeymen theme.<\/p>\n

The contemporary stylistic injections often feature heavy guitar (metal, and a little bluegrass), plus rock drums and dramatic progressions standard to an action film music cue; there\u2019s also three vocal cuts where theme fragments are included within the classic structures of power ballads, head-banding odes, and bad boy guitar riffs.<\/p>\n

McCreary\u2019s writing can be characterized as leadened with attitude, muscle, and a sense of humour (especially his collaborations with lyricist \/ singer Brendan McCreary), and the album\u2019s final cue is an appropriately epic vocal track (over 7 mins.of badassing) with multiple guitarists performing heavy riffs, a fat grungy bass line, \u00a0some tongue-in-cheek call-and-answer vocals, and a finale featuring folk pipes.<\/p>\n

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

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Additional Links:<\/strong>
\nComposer on IMDB<\/a> \u00a0— Composer Filmography<\/a> — Soundtrack Album<\/a>
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The combination of folk instruments, a little classical, and chunks of heavy metal make sense in uplifting a tale where a trio of Dungeons and Dragons players conjure real-life danger, but Knights of Badassdom also feels like a natural development for composer Bear McCreary after his Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome (2013)…<\/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":[41,2636],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2aN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357"}],"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=8357"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9823,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8357\/revisions\/9823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}