Damien: Omen II (The Deluxe Edition) [Original recording remastered, Soundtrack]

Jerry Goldsmith (Composer), National Philharmonic Orchestra (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra
• Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
• Audio CD (December 4, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording remastered, Soundtrack
• Label: Varese Sarabande
• ASIN: B00005RZTZ
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #403,678 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Runaway Train

3. Claws

4. Thoughtful Night

5. Broken Ice

6. Fallen Temple

7. I Love You, Mark

8. Shafted

9. The Knife

10. End Title (All the Power)

11. Main Title

12. Face of the Antichrist

13. Fallen Temple

14. Aunt Marion's Visitor

15. Another Thorn

16. A Ravenous Killing

17. Snowmobiles

18. Broken Ice

19. Number of the Beast

20. Shafted

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My favorite of the bunch., December 30, 2003

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Chadwick H. Saxelid "Bookworm" (Concord, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Damien: Omen II (The Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD)

Jerry Goldsmith's score for the first sequel (and second part of the trilogy) to The Omen is, like the movie itself, more muscular and over the top, almost operatic. It grabs for the throat right at the opening of the synthesizer enhanced main title (Goldsmith was the first film composer to place the instrument in his orchestra) and it doesn't let go until the final jab of the end title. What is even better is that this deluxe edition not only has the original release soundtrack, it also contains the newly discovered session tapes of the music used in the film itself - so fans can compare and contrast the studio style soundtrack with the original score recordings (detailed liner notes explain why many soundtracks in the 70s were actually recordings of different performances, and even arrangements, than what actually appeared in the films themselves). Coming from one of the great composer's most impressive fertile periods (76-79), Damien Omen II is an essential for any Jerry Goldsmith collector and/or film music buff. Highest recommendation.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two soundtracks on one cd, both with music finally released!, December 5, 2001

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Newman (Olympia, WA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Damien: Omen II (The Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD)

I wasted no time in getting this soundtrack once I saw that it was being sold, and I don't think that anybody else should either. There have been years of waiting for this soundtrack to be released, and now it's finally here with the original rerecording album made in 1978. Jerry Goldsmith has updated his sound of Ave Satani to a very scary and mystifying way. The score is the scariest out of all three Omen films, and I think that Goldsmith should've received an Oscar for this film to. I don't know why the album was released while this one was waiting to be made, because there are lots of memorable pieces of music in this cd. One of them is the music in track number 16: A Ravenous Death, and 18: Broken Ice. Goldsmith's music did better than what the characters could do in the film any day. I recommend this soundtrack to anyone who wants to finish their Omen Trilogy soundtracks, but for me personnally, I think that the first and second soundtracks are enough. The reason why is because Goldsmith's music wasn't the same in The Final Conflict. The beat was slower and the music wasn't as crafty.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First billed as a "Black Mass," it still frightens!, December 23, 2001

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Reginald D. Garrard "the G-man" (Camilla, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Damien: Omen II (The Deluxe Edition) (Audio CD)

After years of litigation and relative obscurity the second in Goldsmith's masterful "Omen" trilogy is now available in this deluxe edition featuring the original album release and the soundtrack version. Although the composer won an Academy Award for the first installment, the sequel boasted super-charged versions of familiar themes and chants superbly orchestrated to accompany the on-screen horrors of the tale of Satan's offspring. Newly restored tracks are greatly appreciated to fans of the film and Jerry Goldsmith. Clocking in at slightly less than seventy minutes this is an unrelenting excursion into terror from one of Hollywood's premiere musicians.