Horror Prog

Saperlipopette! wrote: There's loads and loads of fantastic 1970's (and early 1980's) "Horror Prog" scores. Here's a few favorites (where I love more or less the whole album, but releases of full scores are often a mess with tons of bonus material that's almost identical to each other etc... so I usually end up curating my own listen):

I love the Phantasm score. I first bought the LP from the Varese shop via Fangoria. I've owned several iterations of the CD. The recent LP is a completely new remaster (still hoping they issue it on CD).

Have you heard David Hughes' score for C.H.U.D.?

There's loads and loads of fantastic 1970's (and early 1980's) "Horror Prog" scores. Here's a few favorites (where I love more or less the whole album, but releases of full scores are often a mess with tons of bonus material that's almost identical to each other etc... so I usually end up curating my own listen):









Recently Reissued as with plenty of bonus stuff as Nightmare City. Amazing score interrupted by a (inoffensive) disco song sung by Grace Jones:) - and then we're back to the dark stuff again

Yep agree with Carpenter and also would add the Alien soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith. Christ that was proper creepy back in the day!

How about Jacula? that's some spooky occult music from 70's Italy, with church organ and all,

omphaloskepsis wrote: I recently purchased the Alien 3 soundtrack, composed by Elliot Goldenthal.

That is an amazing score, and so different than Jerry Goldsmith's or James Horner's work which were more traditional cinema music.

John Carpenter's soundtracks might apply.  Prog magazine has written some reviews on some of these.  He has released 4 volumes of Lost Themes that might be of some appeal.