“Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” by Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders

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A rather dark series for one of Marco Beltrami’s and Buck Sanders’ finest collaborations: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. Troy Nixey’s creepy horror movie may not be the film it ought to be, but the musical treatment by Beltrami and his pal Sanders is everything and anything any horror movie director could ever want. A very romantic, waltz-like lullaby, a fantastic main title theme, creepy-beautiful suspense music and spine-chilling action-sequences full of dissonance and terror. It’s the prime example of a horror score and I love it! There’s not much to say about my custom covers this time. They were all based on official promotion material…

Lost Covers, Vol. 1

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I don’t know why, but a few days ago, late at night, I was thinking about all my “failed” attempts at creating well-crafted cover art. I was visiting the Final Fantasy Shrine Forums, browsing through all that awesome cover art posted there and I wondered how much time the people over there invest in this creative, time-consuming hobby. Are they as nitpicky as me? Everyone loves his own creations, otherwise we wouldn’t publish it, but for my part it sometimes degenerates a bit. I often spend hours on one single image. I’ve created one cover with thirty-three different font types,…

“The Ring” & “The Ring Two” by Hans Zimmer, Henning Lohner, Martin Tillman

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Let me tell you something you probably didn’t know: Creating these covers is pretty simple! It’s basically always the same: I stumble upon a soundtrack in my iTunes library which surprisingly has its original artwork still attached to the file or a new release on the web that strikes my nerve. I turn the entire internet upside down and, over the course of a few weeks, gather all possible and impossible source material related to the film in the slightest. I listen to the damn thing over and over, trying to fully get it, you know. Simultaneousely I scatter through…

“True Detective” by T Bone Burnett/Various Artists

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True Detective may be my TV surprise of the year so far. This HBO series is superb in every way! Be it the original characters (Nic Pizzolatto) and their portrayal (Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson), or the brilliant direction (Cary Fukunaga) and stunning cinematography (Adam Arkapaw). Everyone involved with this series performs at the top of the game and I cannot recommend it highly enough. But the game-changer for me has been T Bone Burnett’s meticulous selection of songs, that are featured so prominently within each episode. He assembled a collection of songs that is utterly fantastic. Unfortunately there hasn’t been an official soundtrack album yet, neither…

“Hannibal” by Hans Zimmer

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The soundtrack to Ridley Scott’s Hannibal had it all. Beautiful classical compositions by Hans Zimmer and Company, a haunting orchestral performance by The Lyndhurst Orchestra and above it all, Sir Anthony Hopkins’ annoying monologue passages that ruin almost half of the album’s running time. But thanks to the filesharers community there existed a fairly decent bootleg of the score without all that I’m sure highly significant, but ultimately disruptive drivel. But there was one thing missing to put the cherry on the cake. Right… Originally my three renditions of the official artwork (#1 incl. variations) date back to 2003, when…