Reign Of Fire: Brad Wagner, Ed Shearmur: Amazon.ca: Music

1. Prologue

2. Enter The Dragon

3. An Early Harvest

4. Field Attack

5. Marauders

6. Meet Van Zan

7. Archangels

8. Dawn Burial

9. A Battle Of Wills

10. The Ruins At Pembury

11. Inferno

12. Return To London

13. Magic Hour

14. Rebirth

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4.0 out of 5 stars Reign of Sound, July 16 2003

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Christopher Girvan "wolfgirv" (Menzies Creek- Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reign Of Fire (Audio CD)

Edward Shearmur has again surprised us with an enormous sounding score to the underrated genre film "Reign of Fire". There is no pretty romantic themes here, not even a chance to take a breath during this recordings mass of pure action cues. If you enjoy well performed powerhouse orchestral music that hits you like a black metal band then this is for you. Certainly this score is not for everyone but if you are like me and saw the film and was taken by the score then what you heard in the film is what you get here, 50 minutes and 40 seconds worth of Fire- Breathing Sound

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5.0 out of 5 stars Full of fire and reigns at the top, Jan 9 2003

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Brandon Cutro (Tyler, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reign Of Fire (Audio CD)

I have not been familiar with Edward Shearmur's scores until this one. I decided to give it a try just for the fun of it and I was blown away. This is awesome music that really burns. For the most part, the music contains tons and tons of brass, eerie electronics, wild string passages, wailing woodwinds, and tons of militaristic percussion, especially the snare drum. There is plenty of exciting action music, heroic passages, and driving rhythms in this score. A lot of what is heard in this score is similar to what Elliot Goldenthal writes largely because the orchestrator of this score, Robert Elhai, Goldenthal uses in just about every score. The London Metropolitan Orchestra performs this very difficult score with remarkable stamina and courage. Knockout and I do mean knockout action music can be found in "Enter the Dragon", "Field Attack", "Marauders",
"Archangels", "Inferno", and "Magic Hour". "Field Attack" contains some exciting and rhythmic string passages, along with driving and militaristic snare drums. "Meet Van Zan" contains the main theme which is found in other tracks as well. It is a majestic and noble horn motif played around a militaristic percussive rhythm. "Magic Hour" and "Rebirth" contain music that is more toward the lighter side, as the other tracks mainly focused on the darker side. The incredible brass fanfare main theme closes out the soundtrack in "Rebirth" that ends things in a heroic fashion. If you are into Elliot Goldenthal or like the score to The Matrix by Don Davis, then you will absolutely love this. This is superb and outstanding film music.

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4.0 out of 5 stars A BIG SCORE!!!, Jan 1 2003

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Randal Shipway (Adelaide, South Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reign Of Fire (Audio CD)

If you like your film music to be filled with lovely themes, rich harmonies and an all-round "nice feel" that makes you "feel nice" then do not touch this soundtrack! However, if you often feel in the mood for powerhouse action scoring in the vein of the Alien movie scores or similar violent film scores then grab this awesome soundtrack as soon as possible!
Like so many others I was wary of this one due to the past compositional styles of Edward Shearmur. But what I found was one of the most brilliant action/millitant/agressive scores to come out in years. It never becomes repetative or boring and it is often filled with rich orchestration and wonderful electronic sound effects. Shearmur has now moved up to the big leage in my opinion and I look forward to hearing his work in the future!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good Score for a good movie
I think the music from this movie set a perfect pace for the events in the film. Its an action movie with an action score that goes with it well. Read more

Published on Dec 29 2002 by JoeSoul

4.0 out of 5 stars Reign of Shearmur!
When I heard that the man who was going to compose the music for the ultra-cool blockbuster "Reign of Fire" was just Edward Shearmur, I was a bit disappointed. Read more

Published on Dec 11 2002 by Johannes