BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror
titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging (gilded foil
page edges + ribbon marker).
Are you obsessed with John Carpenter's iconic music for the Halloween
series? Do you thrill to the unforgettable stabs of the Psycho score, or
the pounding synths of Goblin's soundtrack to Suspiria? Do you find
yourself being pulled into the hair-raising modern scores for the likes
of Get Out, Hereditary, and It Follows?
You're not alone.
Blood on Black Wax is a defining horror soundtrack volume that
spotlights iconic franchises such as A Nightmare on Elm Street,
Friday the 13th, Jaws, The Exorcist, Child's Play, and George A.
Romero's "living dead" films, highlighting both the music and the
amazing, often rare artwork that graces the record sleeves. It also
tells the stories behind the soundtrack, from the mouths of the
musicians who made them, including John Carpenter, Fabio Frizzi,
Christopher Young, Harry Manfredini, Charles Bernstein, Pino Donaggio,
John Harrison, and more.
Aaron Lupton and Jeff Szpirglas, both of Rue Morgue magazine, have
curated Blood on Black Wax to reflect their own passion for the
darkest slabs of soundtrack music. Their journey into the fascinating
history of horror movie scores contains reviews, release details, and
the wild stories about the making of both iconic classics and the
strange outliers of the genre - everything from the orchestral sounds of
Hammer and Universal horror, to the truly experimental albums for The
Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Eraserhead, to the outlandish punk and
metal songs of '80s soundtrack albums like The Return of the Living
Dead and Shocker.
Go back to your favorite horror films one more time, through the
jaw-dropping, spine-tingling music that helped solidify their place in
cinematic history!
