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"The
Shadow Warrior"

Digital Album Release

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MUSIC PRODUCTION CREDITS  
Music Composed and Performed by: D4Disgruntled  
Mixed & Engineered by: D4Disgruntled  
Artwork by: D4Disgruntled  
All Intellectual Property, Copyrights and Licenses are owned by: D4Disgruntled

The world premiere release of the the original film score to the upcoming supernatural horror film "Shadow Warrior" from musician & filmmaker Strange Nocturnal. 

ABOUT THE ALBUM 
D4Disgruntled provides a unique voice to the music that takes you down a dark, emotional, spiritual and action packed journey. He blends creepy and dissonant ambient textures, pounding percussion and drums, creature sounds, wailing voices, Asian folk music inspired melodies and harmonies while incorporating the action packed elements of tribal drumming, techno, industrial and pseudo synth-wave. 

What is different about this album is that most scores are composed to picture. This one was not. Much like how the famous film composer Ennio Morricone's work process was executed on many films, the director provided much insight into the plot, action, emotional aspects and overall narrative themes from which D4Disgruintled crafted over an hour of music. And like with Morricone's music, the filmmaker would then edit the cues how he/she saw fit with the consent of the composer. 

Whether or not all the music is used in the final film is not an issue for the composer as it all lives here on this album in its original state as originally intended. So sit back, turn down the lights, lock the doors and grab hold of something as you get jettisoned into another world.

PROJECT BACKSTORY
In late May of 2021, while working with the owner of the website "Promote Horror" to get promotion for my "Horror Re-Scored" albums, I was put in contact with a filmmaker who was in need of music for his upcoming supernatural horror film. The individual is a gentleman who goes by a stage name himself, like me.  That name is Strange Nocturnal.  

What is interesting about this project, besides it being my first official film score (outside of all the concept soundtrack scores I do), but I was composing the music before any of the film was shot. The filmmaker requested about 20 minutes of music from which he could choreograph fight scenes to as well as storyboard scenes and ultimately shoot and edit the to the music. So it was like a form of creating an original temp score that would ultimately get hacked up and re-edited to suit the needs f the film.  

After composing the 30 minutes of music, I was really digging my musical ideas as was the filmmaker.  I proposed to him to expand the musical composition to a more full-length score of which an album could also be sold in conjunction with the promotion of the film or prior to the film's release to help drum up early awareness for his film.  

So over an hour of music was created. This allowed for more musical variety to be heard and used throughout the film.  Also, it allowed for me to develop many of the themes and motifs further. The filmmaker was quite impressed with what I did as well as the passion I exhibited for working on his project.  

What was challenging here was I had no visuals to go on, just his plot synopsis and specific story details.  There were no storyboards, no concept art, nothing. While he provided me with initial notes on what each original cue was to be (trailer, chaos and horror, melancholy and dramatic, fast-techno/dance, etc.), the end result could be anything still and potentially not the direction or tone he might be looking for.  

Knowing he was a composer as well, I listened to his music on YouTube and Spotify. His style is quite dark, very industrial and gothic, at times lots of screaming, others, demonic groans and grunts with lots of drumming and guitar as well as dark synth instruments layered in. this was my stepping stone form which I created my own style and voice for the complete score. I did not copy his style but rather approached the music as if I were this filmmaker / composer doing the music himself.  

What resulted is a interesting mixture of Industrial, Techno, Horror, Action, Sound Design and maybe even a little homage to 80s synth wave.

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The world premiere release of the the original film score to the supernatural horror film "Shadow Warrior" from musician & filmmaker Strange Nocturnal.

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    Shadow Warrior: 01 - Main Titles 2:22
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    Shadow Warrior: 02 - The Darkness Is Spreading 5:00
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    Shadow Warrior: 04 - A Spiritual Calling 3:23
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    Trek To The Ancient City 7:10
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    Where It All Began 4:35
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    Shadow Warrior: 07 - It's A Trap 2:32
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    Darkness Is Seductive 1:43
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    Shadow Warrior: 10 - The Past IS Catching Up 10:42
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    Humanity Is Doomed 7:04
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    Shadow Warrior: 15 - Reveal Yourself 2:15
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    A New Beginning 2:57
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