Soundtracks

Konami has provided a bit more information on yet another great team member working on the highly anticipated Silent Hill: Downpour: award-winning composer Daniel Licht, known for his work on Showtime's "Dexter", who will be adding his eerie touches to the upcoming game.

BuySoundtrax Records has announced the November release of the Chillerama: Zom-B-Movie – Original Soundtrack featuring music by Bear McCreary ("The Walking Dead", Knights of Badassdom) with the new track “I Don’t Want to Die a Virgin” by Young Beautiful in a Hurry.

We've seen a lot of candles in videos before, but Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years" takes the cake. Check out her official video from the soundtrack of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 and see if you don't start fanning yourself from the heat! In addition, we have info on when and where you can watch the next clip from the flick.

Haunting up your home this Halloween season? Looking for the perfect soundtrack to bring fear to everyone around you? Of course you are! Everyone's entitled to at least one good scare!

Still have that old reliable turntable handy but not a lot of things to play on it? How does winning the soundtrack to Lucky McKee's controversial horror film The Woman on vinyl sound? We know the record itself sounds dark and powerful -- the perfect background to all your upcoming Halloween festivities!

The official soundtrack for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 hits store shelves (and online outlets) on November 8th, and today the first single - Bruno Mars' "It Will Rain" - dropped, offering some doo-wop sadness in place of the franchise's typical indie angst.

Lucky McKee's controversial horror film The Woman is opening in limited theaters October 14th, but in the meantime we have a sneak peek of "Distracted", the first single from the film's soundtrack, available for you right now! The eerily calm, dark yet melodic and powerful song will be released tomorrow, September 15th, with the full soundtrack following soon after on October 1st from ModernCine.

Fans of The Hunger Games looking for new info on the currently filming adaptation got a bone thrown their way today with an update on the score, an all-star collaboration between T-Bone Burnett and Danny Elfman. In addition Burnett confirmed that star Jennifer Lawrence will be heard singing on the soundtrack.

WaterTower Music has announced the upcoming release of True Blood – Music from the HBO Original Series – Volume 3 due in stores and online this fall. The follow-up to the first two Grammy-nominated soundtracks will consist of new songs from the upcoming fourth season of the acclaimed HBO drama as well as music from the show’s wildly successful third season.

It's not often we get to see the process of symphony orchestras providing the soundtrack to video games, but if you happen to live near California State University Northridge, you have the chance to see -- and hear -- just that on May 9th, when Garry Schyman's music from both Bioshock and Dante's Inferno will be performed live in concert. From the Press Release:

It's another lackluster week with barely any noteworthy titles to compete for your hard-earned dollars. However, you can prepare yourselves for Wes Craven's latest installment in the Scream franchise which is opening this week by getting your groove on with the Scream 4 soundtrack.

Moviescore Media is celebrating the works of composer Chris Ridenhour with three new releases: 2012 Supernova: The Sci-Fi Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour, The Land that Time Forgot: The Fantasy Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour, and Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus: The Monster Film Scores of Chris Ridenhour. All three releases highlight the composer’s work with The Asylum.

Reviewed by Scott A. Johnson Music Composed by Alex Heffes

As horror fans know better than anyone, the best way to beef up a film's mood and atmosphere is through the use of music, and few did that better than the composers who worked for Hammer Films in its heyday. Which is why we're thrilled to pass on the news that three new compilations of Hammer film soundtrack music will be made available through Silva Screen on March 28th.

To go along with the screenshots they provided a week or so ago, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc., has released a one-and-a-half-minute preview of TV and videogame composer Daniel Licht's eerie score from the highly anticipated survival horror game Silent Hill: Downpour.