The Evil Dead: A Nightmare Reimagined
Digital Album

Mondo and Death Waltz have announced they have teamed up with the film's original soundtrack composer Joe LoDuca to present The Evil Dead - A Nightmare Reimagined.

Mondo and Death Waltz have announced they have teamed up with the film's original soundtrack composer Joe LoDuca to present The Evil Dead - A Nightmare Reimagined.

As you could perhaps guess from that title, the reissue is not a straight-up repressing of the original soundtrack for Sam Raimi's 1981 horror classic, but rather a fully re-recorded and expanded version by LoDuca of his original film score (which actually first arrived in 1984).

In a press release, Mondo explained, 'Joe LoDuca went back to the drawing board to fully re-record and expand his original score to The Evil Dead with absolutely terrifying results. The record you hold in your hands manages to keep the essence and familiarity of the original score yet feels completely new and exciting due to the addition of all new music combining the classic and the contemporary.'

Up above you check out the newly done artwork by Graham Humphreys, while below you can see the vinyl of the 2-LP set, which comes on Kandarian Demon vinyl (a.k.a. green, yellow and purple swirl with red splatter). The release also comes with a Necromonicon booklet featuring liner notes from LoDuca, Evil Dead star Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert. It includes download card as well.

The Evil Dead - A Nightmare Reimagined goes on sale Wednesday (June 6). For now you can listen to the entire release, down below.

In a statement, LoDuca said, 'Evil Dead was my first film commission. As fate would have it, this is the movie that has the most enduring impact on generations of fans. Every few years I get a request to release the score and my response is the same — I own the score, but not the recording rights. So when I was last approached to reissue the score, I asked myself this question: Knowing what I now know, how would I write for that ensemble today? I am happy that I did. Welcome to my nightmare: reimagined.'

More info at: Mondo

The Evil Dead was my first film commission. As fate would have it, it is the movie that has had the most enduring impact on generations of fans. Every few years I get a request to release the score, and my response is the same. I own the score, but not the recording rights.

The Evil Dead was my first film commission. As fate would have it, it is the movie that has had the most enduring impact on generations of fans. Every few years I get a request to release the score, and my response is the same. I own the score, but not the recording rights.

The Evil Dead trilogy launched my career composing for films and television. I still get asked to write for horror/thrillers. I love doing it, because the genre has no rules when it comes to music, save the objective of building tension and sustaining dread in the viewer. Today’s audience is savvier, so I have to constantly re-examine what is scary. Keeps me on my toes.

Producers always want the popcorn to fly, and I am often afforded large orchestras to insure that happens. Yet I never seem to be able to sell the idea that intimacy conjures a bubbling cauldron of fear just as potent. With limited resources, I scored EVILD DEAD for a string quintet augmented by piano, hand percussion, a synthesizer and a bit of guitar--anything I could get my hands on.

So when I was last approached to reissue the score, I asked myself this question: Knowing what I now know, how would I write for that ensemble today?

I took the idea to my long-time agents, Laura Engel and Richard Kraft and they ran with it, far beyond my expectations. Together we produced a sold out live-to-picture Halloween concert at the historic United Artists’ Theater (now the Ace Hotel) in Los Angeles, with the inimitable Bruce Campbell, the star of EVIL DEAD, as our host.

So sit back in a darkened room and listen to the soundtrack to what Stephen King once called “a black rainbow of horror”.

Welcome to my nightmare: reimagined.
credits
released April 19, 2018

Monte Belknap – 1st Violin
Aaron Ashton - 2nd Violin
Claudine Bigelow – Viola
Nicole Pinell - Cello
Ben Henderson – Contrabass
Joseph LoDuca – guitar, synthesizers, percussion

Recording Engineer – Chase Taylor
Music Recorded at LA East Studio
Mixed at LoDuca Music Studios
Scott Davidson- Engineer
Joshua Mathews – Engineer
Nathan Hofheins - Copyists

Thanks to: Laura Engel, Richard Kraft, Jonathan Clark, Dan North, Sarah Kovacs, Justin Thompson, Jennifer Sprague, Kathie Stork, Bo Altherr, Kevin Carney, Mo Shafeek, Spencer Hickman

Special Thanks to Bruce Campbell, Rob Tapert and Sam Raimi: I owe it all to you!

More info at: Mondo Bandcamp