300 Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Special Edition)
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Free Music Review: Hauntingly Beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
I picked this up 2 days ago and cannot stop listening to it. All controversy of the movie aside, this is an amazing musical score. Using sweeping orchestral movements, trancelike drums, deliberate pacing, and the rich voice of Middle Eastern diva, Azam Ali, Bates weaves a spell of dark fantasy. Although calling to mind such scores as "Gladiator", "Lord of the Rings", "Kingdom of Heaven", and even "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves", "300" holds it's own, evoking a atmosphere of majesty, mysticism, and larger than life heroes and villains.
The flow of this album is very well-paced, beginning with a crescendo of sound and motion and then seamlessly moving through sorrowful strings, tension-filled drum rhythms, epic choral chants, climaxing guitar riffs, and then back again without hesitation. Azam Ali's voice is the thread that weaves this tapestry of sound together. Her vocals effortlessly slip in and out of the score like a phantom, sometimes barely perceptible, but always on the edge of awareness.
My advice? Listen to the music samples here. If you like what you hear, pick up the score and prepare to be swept away, because these samples are just a taste of the entirely of the work. It's brilliant.
Free Music Review: Aggressive, epic, and beautiful
Hit: 5 Stars
Simply a well written score. Tyler Bates creates a very epic scaled sound that is conveyed through emotional melodic cues, aggressive, grim, atmospheric and beautiful. It plays out like a 60 minute piece, carefully mixed with only a few stops when needed.
This score is just a pleasure to listen to - the music is just amazing; there are cues like "Message For The Queen" and "Remember Us" that sound so emotional that you can't help it but feel sad. Cues like "No Sleep Tonight", "No Mercy" offer an aggressive, grim, moody, atmospheric sound that catches ones attention. In fact, I keep repeating those two because they just set the tone so well to the battle scenes of the film.
"Tree of the Dead", "The Hot Gates", "Fight in the Shade", "Immortals Battle" and so on are one of the aggressive and epic sounds that are produced by Tyler Bates that I myself keep looping over and over.
This score is a must have for everyone who loves the epic sound. It is epic, but it's not your usual case of epic - it is a fusion of elements of electronic music, as well as elements of heavy metal as heard in "Fever Dream"
It's a definite recommendation, even blind buying wouldn't disappoint.
Free Music Review: Amazing Score
Hit: 5 Stars
First off, to the above comments, while I thoroughly enjoyed your well articulated history lessons, and would be interested to read other history lessons from you, you have to realize that this story is not directly based off of the 300 Spartans at Thermopolye, but of the Graphic Novel. Now this is not to say that it is historily accurate in some sense, but the movie is tuned more to the direction of the graphic novell itself.
**** Caution SPOILER ALERT *****
Besides that the Soundtrack is amazing and it is always a Joy to listen to a soundtrack that really captivates the real emotion of that particular scene, I especially enjoyed the music when they fight the "beasts" and it is really hard rock, and I especially LOVED the ending music when the entire Spartan Army is gathered and the one spartan is telling them to remember Leonidas (It is called Remember Us on the Soundtrack).
May we all find our own "Glorius Death"
Free Music Review: Great film
Hit: 5 Stars
Edit: Decided to edit this for various reasons.
First, the film was awesome, I enjoyed it a lot. Yes, it took some serious liberties with the original story, but in all fairness it had to to make the film more interesting. Regardless, it was a fantastic film that gave you the necessary information on everyone to get an idea of what life was like back then, to an extent of course.
As for the music, it is very strong and uses some seriously gripping vocal work. I enjoyed the music almost as much as the movie. Give it a listen and see if you enjoy it too. You get a strong sense of the middle eastern world through the vocals. I usually hate the introduction of electronic or rock riffs in orchestrated music, but they were brilliantly placed in this music to give strength to scenes in the film. The string work is very powerful and dark. You won't be disappointed by this. It is now one of my favorites.
Free Music Review: Seriously great soundtrack!
Hit: 5 Stars
I loved the movie and I recalled the music being very cool. I bought the CD as I often like to write (novels) to the soundtracks of epic movies, puts me in the right frame of mind. This soundtrack has sweeping scores, but more than that the songs have a rock 'n roll edge to them, hard-driving, pulsing beats that capture the adrenaline-rush energy of the movie. It's a unique score in that it is orchestral but with a modern, cool edge that is energizing. For those of you who shy away from soundtracks, this will be a pleasant surprise. Rock on!!
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