Alien Vs Predator: Requiem (Score) [Soundtrack]

Brian Tyler | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 11, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B000Y30OE0
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #174,158 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Aliens Vs. Predator - Requiem - Brian Tyler

2. Opening Titles

3. Decimation Proclamation

4. Requiem Epilogue

5. National Guard Part 1

6. National Guard Part 2

7. Taking Sides

8. Predicide

9. Kelly Returns Home

10. Coprocloakia

11. Power Struggle

12. Skinned And Hanged

13. Down To Earth

14. Predator Arrival

15. Special Delivery

16. Alien Awakening

17. Striptease

18. Buddy's New Buddy

19. Searching The Poolhouse

20. Gutless And Autosurgiosis

See all 21 tracks on this disc

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Genre: Soundtracks & Scores
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 11-DEC-2007

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Knock Out, December 11, 2007

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Alex Murray (Chicago, Ill) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alien Vs Predator: Requiem (Score) (Audio CD)

Brian Tyler gives us a knock out punch to the head with one of the biggest and most intense science fiction scores ever recorded. The music is at times terrifying suspenseful and at times full of searing action. For anyone that enjoyed the classic Alien and Predator scores, this soundtrack is for you. The orchestral fury of this score is akin to Horner's "Aliens" score while there are shades of Silverstri's "Predator" with the tribal drums. This is a no-brainer purchase for anyone that loves science fiction soundtracks. And this is by far the best of the latter day Alien scores.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great score, December 25, 2007

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Trevor Merris "Gizmo" (Carmicheal, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alien Vs Predator: Requiem (Score) (Audio CD)

A Great score. Many are underwellmed because of its unoriginal sets but i think it only adds to the movie and the Alien and Predator franchise. It has parts from both films and puts them together for one great film soundtrack. The film was a knock-out by itself and this only adds to it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Relentless action score which tips its hat to its precedessors, September 25, 2008

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Jon Broxton (Thousand Oaks, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alien Vs Predator: Requiem (Score) (Audio CD)

It's interesting how the careers of Brian Tyler and the late Jerry Goldsmith have dovetailed: Tyler replaced Goldsmith on Timeline in 2003, and is scoring the fourth Rambo movie in a series which Goldsmith made his own. On Alien vs. Predator: Requiem, Tyler is not only following in the footsteps of Goldsmith, but also James Horner, Elliot Goldenthal and Alan Silvestri, each of whom left an indelible musical mark on their respective entries into the franchises. What's most impressive about this score is how Tyler has managed to pay homage to all the composers who preceded him by incorporating some of their compositional stylistics into his own music, while still retaining a great deal of his own voice throughout the score. This tightrope must have been a difficult one to walk, but he has succeeded admirably. The film itself was a critical and commercial disaster: with an unknown cast, debutante directors (Greg Strause and Colin Strause), and hackneyed plot involving aliens and predators descending on small-town America to wreak havoc, really the only thing to concentrate on is the quality of Tyler's music. Tyler doesn't waste any time setting his stall out, going for the jugular from the outset. The opening "Alien vs. Predator - Requiem" is a massive collision of Goldenthal and Gustav Holst, with the famous ostinato overlaid with throbbing, apocalyptic brass. Elsewhere, the creeping, metallic, sub-industrial chords which so typified James Horner's Alien music can be heard in the militaristic beginning to the "Opening Titles", which effortlessly segues into a neat twist the icy isolation of Goldsmith's classic original score. Similarly, the instantly-recognizable percussion elements, chord progressions and rhythmic devices from Alan Silvestri's Predator scores are immediately noticable in cues such as "Skinned and Hanged". The score's many action cues, such as the two "National Guard" tracks, "Power Struggle" and the angry, vicious "Searching the Poolhouse" are wholly exciting. However, by far the most impressive piece on the album is the 7½-minute "Decimation Proclamation", a loud, cacophonous, relentless, utterly thrilling action set piece which is amongst the most impressive single cues of Tyler's entire career. It nods it's head to `Bishop's Countdown' and `Futile Escape', but embraces a broader orchestral palette, resulting in a singularly stunning piece through-composed action music. If one was to make one criticism of the album it's that it lasts too long - even with score as good as this, 77 minutes of relentlessly pounding action music can tax even the most hardy listener. A little bit of judicious pruning could have made a good score better; nevertheless, in purely musical terms, this is a winner.