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Mandy Review: Johann Johannsson-Scored Horror Film Opens In UK Cinemas October 12! | Empire Online

How to describe Mandy? Imagine a live-action version of the cover art from a band that sang about dragons, Vikings and both Sodom and Gomorrah, set to a score from the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, that’s half the hardest basslines you’ll find outside a Berlin basement club and half atmospherics that would give Beelzebub himself the willies. – Andrew Lowry, Empire Online

Ahead of the UK theatrical release, critics reviews continue to roll in for Mandy, Directed by Panos Cosmatos!  Empire Magazine remarks on the chilling score by the late Johann Johannsson to what critics are already calling a new cult classic.  If you haven’t yet seen the film, this review is pretty spoiler free.  If you’re not in the UK, you can catch Mandy in select theaters now and on Digital VOD (rent it on iTunes).  The soundtrack released by Lakeshore and Invada Records is available now on Digital and Vinyl formats!

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen/Buy]

RLJE Films presents MANDY, in UK Cinemas on October 12!

 

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Mandy Soundtrack Vinyl: Johann Johannsson’s Score LP Available In U.S. + Worldwide September 28!

Johann Johannsson embraces the voice on the doom metal  influenced Mandy soundtrack – AV Club

In his final completed film score, the late composer and experimental musician revels in extreme sounds, delving into black metal, menacing ambient, doom drone, and piercing orchestrations. – Pitchfork

Panos Cosmatos’ New York Times Critic’s Pick film, Mandy, features score by the late Johann Johannsson! The digital album charted to No. 7 on iTunes when it was released, but film music fans looking to get their hands on a collectible record stateside will not have to wait much longer.  The soundtrack LP, available in Translucent Red and 180 gram Black vinyl will be available stateside (and worldwide) on September 28 via our friends and partners at Invada Records!  Which pressing are you going to get?

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen][Pre-order U.S. Vinyl]{Order at Invada Records UK}

TRACK LIST

1. Seeker of the Serpent’s Eye
2. Starling
3. Mandy Love Theme
4. Horns of Abraxas
5. Black Skulls
6. Death and Ashes
7. Sand
8. Red
9. Forging the Beast
10. Dive-bomb Blues
11. Waste
12. Temple
13. Burning Church
14. Memories
15. Children of the New Dawn


 

Haven’t seen the critically-acclaimed film yet?  

RLJE Films presents MANDY, now playing in select theaters (find a theater) and available on VOD [rent it on iTunes].

 

Mandy Soundtrack: On Johann Johannsson’s Final Score (Review) | Pitchfork

Mandy Soundtrack - Score by Johann Johannsson | Lakeshore and Invada Records

In his final completed film score, the late composer and experimental musician revels in extreme sounds, delving into black metal, menacing ambient, doom drone, and piercing orchestrations. – Pitchfork

 

Critics and fans have used adjectives such as metal, black metal, doom metal, drone metal and more to describe Johann Johannsson’s score to Mandy, out now in select theaters and on VOD.  Check out the review over at Pitchfork in which contributor Andy Beta dives into the dark cinematic experience that is Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy.  Have you had a chance to see this new movie starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough and Linus Roache?

Soundtrack Available Now: [Download/Listen]

‘Mandy’ Lyric Video: Jeremiah Sand ‘Amulet Of The Weeping Maze’ | Flaunt Magazine

Be sure to note how the eerie sounds Johannsson created set the scene for the horror that is the film Mandy. – Flaunt Magazine

The song, “Amulet Of The Weeping Maze” offers a lens into the villain Jeremiah Sand (Linus Roache), the cult leader that would go head to head with Nicolas Cage’s Red Miller.  The song appears in Mandy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), and was the debut track that Lakeshore Records released early this year when the film headed to Sundance.  Flaunt Magazine reveals more about the film’s soundtrack, which features score by the late Johann Johannsson, who actually started working on the score as far back as 2016.  More on that and the full Lyric Video to “Amulet Of The Weeping Maze” is available now exclusively at Flaunt.

Download The Soundtrack: [iTunes]

Johann Johannsson : The Music Of ‘Mandy’ | Variety

Johann Johannsson | Photo credit: Jonatan Gretarsson

Partly electronic, partly live players, it’s also heavily edited and processed for a dark, massive, industrial-metal sound that matches the grim, violent, sometimes insane milieu of the film. – Jon Burlingame, Variety

On the eve of the Mandy theatrical and soundtrack release, Variety’s Jon Burlingame takes a look at the late composer Johann Johannsson, whose score was completed shortly before his passing earlier this year.  The film’s director Panos Cosmatos, his friend and manager Tim Husom and others remark on the journey and collaborations that brought the highly-anticipated score to fruition, including the newly-formed Johann Johannsson Foundation, which aims to “connect and support music students to musicians.”  Read the full story at Variety.

Album Out Now!: [iTunes]