Preview Excerpts from the "Wolfman" Soundtrack!
In the final week before the premiere of Universal's long-awaited Wolfman reboot, genre-friendly record label Varese Sarabande has posted excerpts from the upcoming soundtrack CD, featuring 19 cues from the über-Gothic Danny Elfman score. Click through, read on and learn more!
Described as “classically Gothic” and “Transylvania-flavored,” the final score is mostly comprised of material music Elfman wrote when he was initially attached to the project last year, before being temporarily replaced by composer Paul Haslinger (formerly of Tangerine Dream). According to a recent scoop from Movie Score magazine, Elfman was already committed to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland by the time Universal came knocking again, so some of the cues had to be completed by other composers.
If the preview tracks are any indication, it sounds like Elfman's trademark mix of darkly rhythmic energy and gothic grandeur is occasionally supplemented by electronic touches (something he also incorporated into the Terminator Salvation score), creating an eerie, nightmarish quality that sounds fairly promising, and the main theme in particular is very effective.
The Wolfman: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack isn't slated for release until February 23rd, but the label is taking pre-orders now. In the meantime, you can preview “Wolf Suite Part 1,” “Gypsy Massacre,” “Country Carnage” and “The Traveling Montage” at the Varese Sarabande website.
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- The Wolfman – Leave Him To His Fate
- The Wolfman - Telegraph the Yard
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- The Wolfman - You've Done Terrible Things
- The Wolfman - You Bear His Mark
- The Wolfman - You Have to Leave
- The Wolfman - Let Me Help You
