Last time I checked, most occulturistas were devoted fans of all things fantasy, sci-fi and/or horror. So I’m figuring many of you would be excited by the news that the soundtrack of the seminal cult horror/slasher film Texas Chainsaw Massacre is being officially released for the very first time. The New York Times ran an article on the matter last month. An excerpt reads:
‘”The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” changed the horror business when it splattered out in 1974, turning a spartan budget into a $30 million juggernaut and laying groundwork for the blood-soaked slasher genre that dominated the 1980s. Among its many innovations was its unconventional score, an abstract suite of bone-chilling scrapes, metallic clanks, ominous drones and mysterious stingers.
‘This symphony of discordance, recorded by the film’s director Tobe Hooper and the sound man Wayne Bell, emerged three full years before the first commercially available industrial music from Throbbing Gristle. It anticipated the tape-traded noise music underground that flourished in places like Japan in the 1990s and the American Midwest in the ’00s. But with the master tapes ostensibly lost and Hooper seemingly uninterested in an official release, the “Chain Saw” score survived mostly as a bootleg, often just the entire 83-minute film dubbed to audio cassette from a VHS or Laserdisc.’
Read the whole article:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/11/arts/music/texas-chain-saw-massacre-score-m.html.
