{"id":9126,"date":"2014-06-23T13:44:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9126"},"modified":"2014-06-23T13:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T17:44:11","slug":"cd-castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=9126","title":{"rendered":"CD: Castlevania – Lords of Shadow 2 (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Castlevania_LordsOfShadow_2\"<\/a>Score<\/strong>: Excellent<\/p>\n

Label<\/strong>: Mercyrusteam \/\u00a0Sumthing Else<\/a><\/p>\n

Released:<\/strong> \u00a0February 25, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n

Tracks \/ Album Length:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a019 tracks \/ (68:29)<\/p>\n

Composer:<\/strong> Oscar Araujo<\/p>\n

Special Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0 Includes colour booklet.<\/span><\/p>\n

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

For the follow-up to Konami\u2019s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow<\/a><\/b> (2010), esteemed composer Oscar Araujo augmented the video game\u2019s sound with a richer inclusion of electronics, often deepening the heavy string chords in epic melodic build-ups like \u201cDying for a Drop of Blood\u201d with some chorals, or pulsing bass hits.<\/p>\n

The score\u2019s sonic design does evoke a little bit of the Remote Control sound \u2013 Hans Zimmer\u2019s brand which produced aggressive, doom-laden action scores for games like Crysis 2<\/a><\/b> (2011) \u2013 but Araujo\u2019s not into bombast; the epic and slow-burning passages designed to heighten heroism, loss, and daunting tasks are as potent as his prior works, and he invigorates cues with some marvelous nuances, including disjointed brass notes (\u201cThe Toy Maker\u201d), muscular brass and a hugely addictive ostinato (\u201cHunter and Prey\u201d), or flanging synths in the chromatic \u201cChaotic Battle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Polished orchestrations make Araujo\u2019s harmonics and churning action rhythms sweep across each other in seamless waves, and the score\u2019s engineering is especially rich on CD, with resonating bass tones never smothering the fine details of voices, downward arching notes on brass, or the gradual layering of instruments in any heavily constructed crescendo.<\/p>\n

More important, the score has a fairly steady drive, with changing moods and motifs to ensure the album is never repetitive, nor dominated by one sound, and the album offers a musical resolution in winding down the tension to a lovely, gloomy, sweeping theme recap with piano and heavy strings in \u201cCarmilla\u2019s Spell.\u201d<\/p>\n

A 31-track album is also available exclusively from Sumthing Else<\/a>.<\/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— \u00a0Composer Filmography<\/a> —\u00a0 Soundtrack Album<\/a>
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For the follow-up to Konami\u2019s Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (2010), esteemed composer Oscar Araujo augmented the video game\u2019s sound with a richer inclusion of electronics, often deepening the heavy string chords in epic melodic build-ups like \u201cDying for a Drop of Blood\u201d with some chorals, or pulsing bass hits…<\/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":[2861,2850],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2nc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126"}],"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=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9140,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions\/9140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}