John Carpenter - Halloween Ends (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - VINYL LP

John Carpenter's soundtracks for the most recent Halloween trilogy, made alongside his frequent collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, marked the legendary director and composer's return to film scoring after nearly two decades away. 2018's Halloween, 2021's Halloween Kills, and 2022's Halloween Ends were all directed by David Gordon Green, who engaged Carpenter early in the pre-production process, ultimately enlisting him as both an executive producer and soundtrack composer for the trilogy. Now, for the first time, a deluxe, 2xLP expanded edition of the Halloween Ends score is being made available by Carpenter's longtime tag, Sacred Bones Records. 2018's Halloween was a hit beyond the wildest dreams of anyone involved. It opened to the biggest box office gross in Blumhouse's history at the time, and the biggest in the history of the Halloween franchise. It was inevitable that a pair of sequels, Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, would soon be greenlit. Green signed on to direct both, but he didn't want to assume that John, Cody, and Daniel would return to do the scores. InchI don't ever take anything for granted,Inch he says. InchSo you hope they had a good experience. I know we had fun on the project, but you never know people's time and financial interests and all these things. The realities of deal making, moviemaking, don't always slide in so smoothly. But there wasn't a hiccup. We looked at each other and said, 'How do we make this work? Let's do it again.' Twice.Inch The expanded version of Halloween Kills includes 25 never-before-released cues, and it comes packaged with all-new artwork by Chris Bilheimer and an exclusive 24x36Inchposter designed by Creepy Duck. Expanded versions of Halloween and Halloween Ends scores, as well as a box set collecting all three expanded editions, will also be available from Sacred Bones on the same date. Album Tra

John Carpenter's soundtracks for the most recent Halloween trilogy, made alongside his frequent collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, marked the legendary director and composer's return to film scoring after nearly two decades away. 2018's Halloween, 2021's Halloween Kills, and 2022's Halloween Ends were all directed by David Gordon Green, who engaged Carpenter early in the pre-production process, ultimately enlisting him as both an executive producer and soundtrack composer for the trilogy. Now, for the first time, a deluxe, 2xLP expanded edition of the Hallow-een Kills score is being made available by Carpenter's longtime tag, Sacred Bones Records. 2018's Halloween was a hit beyond the wildest dreams of anyone involved. It opened to the biggest box office gross in Blumhouse's history at the time, and the biggest in the history of the Halloween franchise. It was inevitable that a pair of sequels, HalloweenKills and Halloween Ends, would soon be greenlit. Green signed on to direct both, but he didn't want to assume that John, Cody, and Daniel would return to do the scores. InchI don't ever take anything for granted,Inch he says. InchSo you hope they had a good experience. I know we had fun on the project, but you never know people's time and financial interests and all these things. The realities of dealmaking, moviemaking, don't always slide in so smoothly. But there wasn't a hiccup. We looked at each other and said, 'How do we make this work? Let's do it again.' Twice.Inch The expanded version of Halloween Kills includes 25 never-before-released cues, and it comes packaged with all-new artwork by Chris Bilheimer and an exclusive 24x36Inchposter designed by Creepy Duck. Expanded versions of Halloween and Halloween Ends scores, as well as a box set collecting all three expanded editions, will also be available from Sacred Bones on the same date. Album Tra

In 2018, David Gordon Green's Halloween, starring icon Jamie Lee Curtis, slaughtered the box office, earning more than $250 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing chapter in the four-decade franchise and setting a new record for the biggest opening weekend in history for a horror film starring a woman. The film had the distinction of being the first film in the series with creator John Carpenter's  direct involvement since 1982's Halloween III Season of the Witch. Carpenter served as an executive producer, a creative consultant, and, thrillingly, as a soundtrack composer, alongside his collaborators from his recent solo albums, Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies.  Now the scream team is back for the highly anticipated follow up, Halloween Kills and Carpenter has returned to the studio with son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies to further expand on the iconic score that forever changed the course of horror cinema and synthesizer music. The 2018 Halloween movie soundtrack received unanimous praise and brought a rich and ominous depth to the original theme music that was famously recorded on a shoestring budget in 1978. The trio utilized an array of software synths, vintage analogue equipment, and live instrumentation including a Dave Smith OB-6, bowed guitar, Roland Juno, Moog, Roland System 1, Roland System 8, different guitar pedals, mellotron, and piano. Now with the Halloween Kills score director Green has pushed the musicians to be more experimental and take their modern sound to a chilling new level. Standout tracks like InchUnkillableInch and InchRampageInch feature skittering synths over deep four on the floor bass that create a full psychosis of dread before the guitars smash into the song like a semi creating a confusion over whether to headbang, dance, or run for you life. More tragic songs like InchMichael's LegendInch and InchStrode's at the