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Prog And Some Other Great Music - The Horror Soundtrack


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Tis the season

 

Some of the greatest film soundtracks come from the horror side of things .. We're all familiar with the great John Carpenter HALLOWEEN themes, as the sounds and music have become so intertwined with the visual experience ..

 

Sadly, like film itself, the art of the soundtrack has become buried in a cesspool of utterly generic garbage called Hollywood - the repetitive, tribal drumming and video game style soundtrack perfects suits the cookie cutter movies of today just fine, but the true, stylistic art of the composer and music has fallen into obscurity ..

 

1970s and 80s Italian horror was big on prog, and I'd be ecstatic if bands were this good these days ... Usually made on a shoestring budget in a matter of days, the horror soundtrack will, like some of the great character themes, live forever or rise from the dead ..

 

Happy Halloween

 

 

Gobin from "Deep Red"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IwY_D3pnOs&index=4&list=LLAp9eKKR2POv6k4UQeT0GJQ&t=0s

 

 

Goblin from "Phenonena"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhXQEUEFAx0&t=0s&index=2&list=PLK2An84p8JMVrHp-Ov3nFSPfJqZOj_Y-D

 

 

Bruno Nicolai from "Your Vice Is A Locked Room, And Only I Have The Key"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkUmSNrlN-c&list=LLAp9eKKR2POv6k4UQeT0GJQ&t=56s&index=2

 

 

Fabio Frizzi from "The Beyond"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC2q23WFDEQ&index=7&list=PLM5QrQkmR36B_hJg6fShR-lS0X7pcusr1

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That second one is actually brilliant! When did it come out? It's like some sick fusion of MP era Rush (the guitar solo, so Limelight) and early Muse but trying to sound 80s (in any case what I wish Muse sounded like right now).
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That second one is actually brilliant! When did it come out? It's like some sick fusion of MP era Rush (the guitar solo, so Limelight) and early Muse but trying to sound 80s (in any case what I wish Muse sounded like right now).

 

EP, that's Dario Argento's "Phenomena" circa 1985 ... In addition to Goblin, Bill Wyman contributed some of the soundtrack .. It's really great stuff

 

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The Canadian progressive-rock band FM had three songs from their 1980 City Of Fear album featured in the 1982 horror film The Incubus.

 

Very cool .. I still have to get around to watching The Incubus as I love horror films ... I saw FM open for Rush May of 1981 in Philadelphia !!!

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Very cool .. I still have to get around to watching The Incubus as I love horror films ... I saw FM open for Rush May of 1981 in Philadelphia !!!

 

Speaking of which. The Spectrum in Philadelphia on May 22, 1981.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfsAyjWTs38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ_1wMBpOU

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Very cool .. I still have to get around to watching The Incubus as I love horror films ... I saw FM open for Rush May of 1981 in Philadelphia !!!

 

Speaking of which. The Spectrum in Philadelphia on May 22, 1981.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfsAyjWTs38

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnJ_1wMBpOU

 

RFF, thanks for posting this

 

I had no idea this footage existed

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