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Vault of Horror: The Italian Connection is a soundtrack themes vinyl album released on 8 December 2017 by Demon Records. “The golden era of Italian horror dated from the early …
Daniel James Licht (March 13, 1957 – August 2, 2017) was an American soundtrack composer and musician, best known for writing the score of Showtime TV series Dexter. Daniel Licht grew up in Detroit and …
Read MoreGiuseppe “Pino” Donaggio (born 24 November 1941) is an Italian musician and film composer. A classically-trained violinist, Donaggio is best known for his collaborations with American director Brian De Palma, scoring films such as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Body Double, and Raising …
Read MoreScored to Death: Conversations with Some of Horror’s Greatest Composers is a 2016 book by author J. Blake Fichera, published by Silman-James Press. The book collects together fourteen interviews with renowned …
Read MoreHorrorcore is a subgenre of hip hop music based on horror-themed lyrical content and imagery. Its origins derived from hardcore and gangsta rap artists such as the Geto Boys and …
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Stelvio Cipriani - born 20 August 1937, in Rome, died 1 October 2018 - was an Italian composer, mostly of movie soundtracks, many of which were for genre films, including, horror, giallo …
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Robert le Diable (translation: “Robert the Devil”) is an 1831 opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer from a libretto written by Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne. Robert le …
Read MoreBalzac (typeset as BALZAC) is a Japanese punk band formed in 1992 in Kyoto. The band was founded by singer and songwriter Hirosuke Nishiyama, who has remained the only constant …
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Stalaggh, later to be re-named Gulaggh, are a musical collective with their foundations in the metal scene but which soon evolved to be a far more avant-garde unit incorporating disturbing …
Read MoreThe Misfits are an American rock band often recognised as the progenitors of the horror punk sub-genre, blending punk rock and other musical influences with horror film themes and imagery. …
Read MoreBrian May (28 July 1934 – 25 April 1997) was an Australian film composer. His best known scores are those for Mad Max and Mad Max 2, though he composed …
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Jack the Ripper is a song written by Clarence Stacy, his brother Charles Stacy, Walter Haggin and Joe Simmons. It was first recorded by Clarence Stacy in 1961, arranged by Lor …
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Zombie is a song by British singer/songwriter Jamie T and is the second single to be taken from his 2014 Virgin Records album Carry on the Grudge. The promotional music …
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The Monster Album is a 1964 release on Don Costa’s DCP label. The twelve songs are mostly written by Dickie Goodman and Bill Ramal, though there are also takes on …
Read MoreLes Baxter (March 14, 1922 – January 15, 1996) was an American musician and composer. Although he is best known as a practitioner of exotica music, he also scored several …
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(Agnes) Elisabeth Lutyens (9 July 1906 – 14 April 1983) was an English composer of classical music but is best known for her contribution for scores to horror films throughout the 1960’s. Born …
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Riziero “Riz” Ortolani was an Italian film composer. Born on 25 March 1926, he died in Rome, on 23 January 2014. In the early 1950s, Ortolani began his musical career as a founder …
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‘He sold his soul for rock n’ roll’ Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 American musical horror film written and directed by Brian De Palma (Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill). The story …
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Fabio Frizzi is an Italian musician and composer. Born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, on July 2, 1951, Frizzi is best known for his film scores and work for television. A frequent collaborator with the director Lucio Fulci, his horror …
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The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument, controlled without physical contact from the player. It was originally also known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone, termenvox or thereminvox, In the 1950s, the emergence of science fiction movies as mass …
Read More1968 was an epochal year around the world in horror films and for Hammer it was no different. After covering Mummies, vampires, yetis and reptilian women, there was one evil …
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Armando Trovajoli composed over three hundred film scores from the early 1950s up until as recently as 2010. Amongst his most famous works are Marriage, Italian Style (one of several …
Read MoreGoblin is an Italian progressive rock band formed from the ashes of two bands, Oliver and Cherry Five, by keyboardist Claudio Simonetti (born in 1952 in São Paulo), guitarist Massimo Morante (born in 1952 in Rome), …
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Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1973) needs little introduction in terms of the effect it had culturally on horror film-making nor it’s notoriety, certainly in England, largely based on what was …
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As The Exorcist was to the US, an invasion of the American home by outside forces unknown, so was The Wicker Man to Britain. Suspicion, lack of faith and becoming lost in …
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In England, jazz drummer Basil Kirchin had established himself as a reliable hand to bandleaders such as Ted Heath, belting out resolutely British jazz stylings to 1950s ‘cats’. Although his success …
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