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BEYOND FRIGHT: Watch Trent Reznor And David S. Goyer Preview CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS 2!

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If it’s one thing Icons Of Fright co-creator RobG and I have in common, it’s our fandom towards the work of Trent Reznor. Whether it’s the hard pounding industrial infused music he releases as NIN or the more moody and melodic instrumentals he’s been dabbling in recently with his scoring work for both THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO and THE SOCIAL NETWORK (which he won an Academy Award for), both Rob and I tend to flock to all things Reznor.

So when I first caught glimpse of this story yesterday, I thought it my duty to post this. Not only do we have Academy Award winning Trent Reznor on as the composer for the highly anticipated sequel to Treyarch’s record breaking first person shooter, but David S Goyer (THE DARK KNIGHT) is on as writer!

For those familiar with Reznor’s work, this isn’t his first time dabbling in the video game world.  He has previously contributed music to QUAKE and DOOM 3.

You know, I sometimes scoff when people call video game releases “an event” but after watching the below video, it’s hard to refer to this as anything else!

Listening to the music playing in the background in the above video reminds me of some of the tracks off of THE FRAGILE. I was already planning on purchasing the game upon its release on November 13th.  This right here, is just an added incentive!

For those of you who can’t wait for the new How To Destroy Angels album to come out, or the new Nine Inch Nails material (which Reznor says is currently in a gestation period), it looks like this score is the best way to go!

For Pre-Order details and other pertinent COD: BLOPS 2 information, check out the official website!


Beyond Fright: Nine Inch Nails Return with “Came Back Haunted”!!

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2013-titleNews of the week for me. After Nine Inch Nails main-man Trent Reznor’s announcement this last week that NIN has secretly recorded and will release Hesitation Marks on September 3rd, we are now given the first glimpse of what’s to come with the first single, “Came Back Haunted“! After hearing the track, you can definitely color me anxious, it’s awesome as hell to have Trent and Co. back!! Check it out!!

Nine Inch Nails’ Hesitation Marks blesses ears everywhere September 3rd via Columbia Records.

Beyond Fright: David Lynch Directed Music Video For NIN’s “Came Back Haunted”!

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Although it’s not for a new film or TV series, seeing David Lynch back behind the camera for a Nine Inch Nail music video is just enough reason to celebrate. Lynch has teamed up with Trent Reznor again for a very trippy music video for “Came Back Haunted“, a single off Reznor’s upcoming album HESITATION MARKS. The video comes with a seizure/epilepsy warning disclaimer at the start, and is loaded with the type of imagery we’ve come to expect from Lynch; plus it’s a damn good tune!

Nine Inch Nails’ HESITATION MARKS streets September 3rd.

BEYOND FRIGHT: Song Of The Week – NINE INCH NAILS “Closer”

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Here we go! It’s Friday, time to kick back and enjoy the weekend and what better way than by cranking a killer tune to set the mood?! This post was inspired by artist Kawehi. Have you heard of her yet? In the last several weeks, she became an Internet sensation with her beautiful reinterpretation of Nirvana‘s single “Heart Shaped Box.” I love every thing about it! (Including her! Marry me, please? Dammit, she’s already married.) But on the Esquire article where I originally discovered her, they also embedded a cover of Nine Inch Nail‘s “Closer.” I’ve always been a huge, huge fan of Trent Reznor and company, and I enjoyed the hell out of their most recent album ‘Hesitation Marks’ (the vinyl mix is excellent, by the way), but hearing this cover got me to re-appreciate “The Downward Spiral” again. I even have an instrumental version of that entire album!

The “Closer” music video is still something to marvel over. It was very unique for MTV at the time that it initially aired and was pushing the envelope of what could be seen on regular television. I mean, the chorus has the “F” word in it repeatedly and yet was one of the biggest hits of that year & constantly on the radio. It’s also worth mentioning that the video was directed by Mark Romanek, who later went on to do the creepy dramatic thriller ONE HOUR PHOTO, NEVER LET ME DOWN and we almost saw his version of THE WOLFMAN remake a few years back. He reunited with Reznor for “The Perfect Drug” music video, which has a SHINING-esque vibe to it, but for now, let’s celebrate his video for “Closer” in it’s UNCUT form! Underneath that, you’ll find Kawehi’s cover of “Closer” as well. Enjoy and have a great weekend, fiends!

Previous ‘Song Of The Week’ Picks:
– Suicide Silence “Slaves To Substance”
– Soundgarden “Live To Rise”
– Megadeth “Go To Hell”
– Alice In Chains “Them Bones”
– Ministry “Just One Fix”
– The Ramones “Pet Cemetery”
– Testament “Souls Of Black”
– Impending Doom “Deceiver”
– Helmet “In The Meantime”
– Slayer “Threshold”
– Anthrax “Only”
– Sebadoh “Skull” & The Misfits “Skulls”
– TV On The Radio “Wolf Like Me”
– The Misfits “Dig Up Her Bones”
– The Dwarves “We Must Have Blood”
– Deftones “Tempest”
– Vision Of Disorder “Hard Times”
– Metallica “Holier Than Thou”
– The Melvins “Honey Bucket”
– Suicide Machines “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”
– Bring Me The Horizon “Shadow Moses” & Alice In Chains “Hollow”
– How To Destroy Angels “How Long” 
– My Vitriol “Grounded”
– Rivulets “How, Who”
– Bring Me The Horizon “Chelsea Smile”
– Anvil “Straight Between The Eyes”
– Danzig “How The Gods Kill”
– “Dwight Twilley Band “Looking For The Magic”
Strapping Young Lad “Love?”

 

Beyond Fright: GONE GIRL Trailer Looks Creepy, Eerily Familiar!

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The debut trailer for Fox’s upcoming David Fincher-helmed GONE GIRL has made its way online, and hot damn, does it look great. Personally, I’m a massive fan of Fincher’s stuff, and the score work that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have done for Fincher’s last two films (THE SOCIAL NETWORK, which they won an Oscar for) and THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (No Oscar, but a Grammy!) is quite the mood-music to write to. Revolving around a missing woman whose husband seems more and more suspect as time goes on, GONE GIRL is based off the book by Gillian Flynn, who also wrote the screenplay. As if the plot, which feels eerily similar to the Scott Peterson case, isn’t enthralling enough, those people at Fox just had to throw in an excellent yet creepy cover of Elvis Costello’s “She” in there for good measure. SIGN ME UP.

GONE GIRL hits theaters October 3rd from 20th Century Fox.

Synopsis:

Based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn – unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage. On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his beautiful wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Beyond Fright: A Look Back At David Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY Soundtrack

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Very few films affect me the way that David Lynch’s 1997 mystery/thriller (I consider it a horror film) LOST HIGHWAY does.  Maybe it was the adventure I had to go through to see it (read about that  here), or maybe its surreal, noir-like mood and tone of the film that made it so very easy to rope me in, leaving a large imprint in my mind. While the film itself can stand so very firmly on its own, it was made even more effective and chilling, by what is, in my opinion, one of the greatest soundtrack of all time. A perfect compilation, and an even more perfect companion to the film, the mix of Angelo Badalamenti and Barry Adamson’s score, and a hell of a lot of great bands flow together perfectly, making it a soundtrack that deserves attention, even seventeen years later.

Beginning with noise, the album then heads into its melancholy opener, David Bowie’s “I’m Deranged“, a song that builds you up, then slowly fades into the 2nd track, the Trent Reznor created “Videodrones: Questions“. While the opening Bowie song establishes a mood, “Videodrones: Questions“, serves as more of an eerie segue between “I’m Deranged” and the third track, the great Nine Inch Nails song,  “The Perfect Drug“.

Following “The Perfect Drug“, listeners are then given Angelo Badalamenti’s jazz-filled, soft then chaotic “Red Bats with Teeth“, followed by somber, ethereal, and aptly titled “Haunting and Heartbreaking” track, one that wouldn’t feel out of place had it been in TWIN PEAKS instead.  Fading into “Eye“, a smashing pumpkins track recorded just as they were heading into their electronic phase. It’s one of my favorite Pumpkins songs, and fits the film very well. In fact, while some soundtracks are just compilations of singles, designed to cash in on a film and promote the bands, every single track on LOST HIGHWAY not only fits the film perfectly, but is at the same time, a very cohesive album. I once played the entire soundtrack to a friend and not knowing it WAS a soundtrack, he mentioned how great of a mixtape it was.

When Badalamenti’s “Dub Driving” starts, it takes the listener to chill time, as it’s something that would play in a noir-film, something in a smokey bar, a femme fatale…not far off from how the song is actually used in the real film. Following that, are three songs that are quite interesting as a triptych in itself, the jazzy “Mr. Eddy’s Theme Parts 1 &2” with Lou Reed’s cover of the Doc Pomus classic, “This Magic Moment” sandwiched in between. It’s such a different tone that strangely works very well as a three-piece, before the haunting Badalamenti track “Fred and Renee Make Love” kicks in, giving one eerie piece of music over one interesting sex scene in the film. Never being someone who goes for the obvious, Lynch and soundtrack producer Trent Reznor then give listeners Marilyn Manson’s “Apple of Sodom“, a solid as ever track recorded during the band’s Antichrist Superstar-era, definitely one of the highlights of the album.

If Satanic rock doesn’t flip your skirt up, the soundtrack then goes into some lounge territory with “Insensatez“, a song by Bossa Nova godfather Antonio Carlos Jobin, giving listeners a real chill moment, before Barry Adamson’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes” hits, raising the level slightly, and preparing listeners to what’s next: another Marilyn Manson song, this time a cover of the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins classic, “I Put a Spell on You” (taken from Manson’s “Smells Like Children” EP). While some might wonder why the soundtrack is so schizophrenic in its song selections, it fits the film perfectly, as the “Who is who” element of Lynch’s film warrants songs that might confuse listeners as much as the film might. It’s like I stated earlier, a perfect companion to the film, with each song lending itself to being a part of the film’s fabric.

The Badalamenti-composed duo of “Fats Revisited“, and “Fred’s World”  are great examples of just how versatile the composer can be, with the first one being a piano-led “Aw Shucks”, “good ol’ Boy” song and the second, an otherworldy, completely haunting and beautiful piece of music that completely pulls a solemn emotion out of you. Not wanting listeners to get comfortable, we then get a clip of Robert Blake’s Mystery Man laughing, before German metallers Rammstein’s “Rammstein” track throws a great big “wtf” in the air, and giving you a “let’s start a fight!” feeling. It’s a moment that always brings a smile to my face, not because I’m a fan (I’m not), but because of how oddly it fits the up and down, left to right, all over the place yet contained feeling of the soundtrack. When Rammstein’s track stops, we’re giving “Hollywood Sunset“, one hell of a moody instrumental by Barry Adamson, one that just brings smoking cigarettes and writing to my mind, giving the listener a very calm and almost dream-like mood before you know what?, ANOTHER Rammstein song hits. This time, the cult-like “Heirate Mich” plays, which at the time sounded like nothing I had ever heard before, but nowadays reminds me of the opening and closing of Lars Von Trier’s NYMPHOMANIAC, another film that features music by the German band.

When that track stops very suddenly, we’re given a one minute long, yet very effective Badalamenti track, “Police,” followed by the Trent Reznor-composed “Driver Down,” a guitar heavy almost closer to the film and the soundtrack. In the film, “Driver Down” sees the switch back from Pete to Fred, as cops chase him, with the track setting up such an intense and chaotic mood, right before the film and album’s closer, a reprise of Bowie’s “I’m Deranged” begins, quietly, and beautifully.

It’s a soundtrack that I hold very close to my heart, one that I find myself revisiting a good amount. Solid as a rock, and full of some of the most moody, beautiful, abrasive and emotional tracks I’ve ever heard. If you haven’t seen the film, do yourselves a favor and watch it, and if you’re in the mood for one hell of a soundtrack, pick this one up.





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