Vampire Circus

Vampire Circus

Track Listings

1. Fighting the Devils Inside You

2. Understand

3. Vampire Circus

4. Dirtnap

5. Interlude

6. God's Own Medicine

7. Loss

8. For Wrath and Ruin

9. In the World I Live

10. Swamp Witch

Vampire Circus,Earthride,Southern Lord,Doom Metal,Heavy Metal,Pop,Rock,Stoner Metal

Hammer the Studio That Dripped Blood
Average customer rating:

Beautiful music.

5 stars for performance, 4 stars due to omissions

"Hammer & Silva...raises the hair on the back of your neck"

Hammer the Studio That Dripped Blood
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Silva America
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House of Frankenstein

The Hammer Studio Frankenstein Film Music Collection

ASIN: B000063IUP
Release Date: 2002-04-09

Tracks:

Main Theme/Inside Castle Darcula/Lure Of The Vampire Women/Dracula's Rage/The Kiss Of The Living Dead (Dracula)
Funeral In Carpethia/Finale: Confrontation & Climax/The Fall Of Dracula (Dracula Prince Of Darkness)
Love Theme (The Scars Of Dracula)
Finale/Dracula And The Crucifix (Dracula Has Risen From The Grave)
The Blood Of Dracula (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
Romance: The Young Lovers/Shadow Of The Tomb (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
Ride To The Ruined Church/Romance At Dusk (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
Dracula Triumphant/Pursuit/Death Of Lucy (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
The Victory Of Love (Taste The Blood Of Dracula)
Christina (Frankenstein Created Woman)
The Power Of Evil (The Devil Rides Out)
Invocation To The Devil/Dance Frenzy (The Devil Rides Out)
Awakening And Absolution (The Devil Rides Out)
Vampire Rhapsody (Kiss Of The Vampire)

Tracks:

Cosmic Sequence/Tumak Meets Luana/In The Domain Of The Shell People/Eruption Of The Volcano (One Million Years B.C.) - Mario Nascimbene
Main Theme/Storm Over The Sea (When Dinasours Ruled The Earth) - Mario Nascimbene
Life Of The Tribe/Finale (Creatures The World Forgot) - Mario Nascimbene
The Tomb/The Desert (The Curse Of The Mummy's Tomb) - Carlo Martelli
Ayesha - She Who Must Be Obeyed (She)
Bedouin Attack & Desert Quest (She)
In The Kingdom Of She - Processional/The Cruelty Of She (She)
The Eternal Flame And The Destruction Of She (She)
Main Title (The Abominable Snowman) - Humphrey Searle
Defeat Of The Aliens/Finale (Quatermass II)
Main Titles/Anna's Theme - Christopher Gunning
Prologue (Vampire Circus) - David Whitaker
Main Themes (The Vampire Hunter) - Jamed Bernard
Pastorale/The Werewolf At Bay/Aptheosis (Curse Of The Werewolf) - Benjamin Frankel

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful music........2007-01-10

I sat back with the lights dimmed and a cup of hot coffee and enjoyed the beautiful haunting music of years gone by. Memories abound.

5 stars for performance, 4 stars due to omissions.......2006-08-29

Why doesn't this get a perfect five stars?

Simple reason.

The producers at Silva, for wahtever reason, decided to cut down their SHE suites and Hands of the Ripper suites.

On the previous Hammer releases, "Draculas - Classic Horror Films", released in 1993, recorded in 1989, they had seven additional minutes of "Hands of the Ripper" that could have been included on this set.

Additionally, The Devil Rides Out: Film Music of James Bernard, released in 1997, recorded in 1995 and 1996 had about a minute more of additional music from SHE, PLUS about seven minutes worth of suites from Quatermass and X: The Unknown.

Both discs in this new re-issue round out at around 68 minutes, so there was room for some of these omissions.

Silva Screen gets big kudos for a reissuing these recordeings in the remastered HDCD format, but I don't understand these omissions. In fact, one of the tracks included, "Vampire Hunter" isn't even from a Hammer film, and its the only recording on this collection not on previous Silva CD's.

Again, 5 stars for the performances, the 1989 performances with Neil Richardson and the Philharmonia are fantastic. (Dracula, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Dracula Has Risen From The Grave, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Hands of the Ripper, Vampire Circus.)

Additionally, The Westminster Philharmonic under the baton of Kenneth Alwyn do an excellent job as usual (Kiss of the Vampire, Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, She, THe Abominable Snowman, Quatermass II and Curse of the Werewolf.) Finally, the City of Prague Philharmonic, who get a bad rap more often than they deserve round out hte album and IMHO, deliver the goods, under the trusty batons of Paul Bateman (Scars of Dracula, Frankenstein Created Woman, additionally, Bateman also plays the piano solo on Kiss of the Vampire.) and Nic Raine (The Devil Rides Out, One Million Years BC, When Dinosuars Ruled the Earth, Creatures The World Forgot, The Vampire Hunter)

I'd give it 4.5 stars if I could.

Much thanks to producers David Wishart, Eric Tomlinson and James Fitzpatrick and recording engineers Mike Ross-Trevor, John Luard Timperley and Jan Holzner for contributing to these fine historical film music recordings.

"Hammer & Silva...raises the hair on the back of your neck".......2002-04-09

Silva Screen takes us on tour through the castles of Transylvania with a collection of
outstanding scores from James Bernard on Disc One ~ "DRACULA" (1958)..."KISS OF
THE VAMPIRE" (1964)..."DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS"
(1966)..."FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN" (1967)..."THE DEVIL RIDES OUT"
(1968)..."DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE" (1968)..."THE SCARS OF
DRACULA" (1970)..."TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA" (1970)...even though the
blood doesn't flow as easily in "KISS OF THE VAMPIRE", the score from Bernard is
seductive, sensual to say the least for "creatures of the night", masked ball scene blends
atmospheric trance-masquerade themes, intoxicating main title is hauntingly mesmerizing with
"VAMPIRE RHAPSODY", just listen to the piano solo from our character in the film Carl
Ravna (Barry Warren), son of Dr. Ravna (Noel Willman) along with daughter Sabena Ravna
(Jacqueline Wallis), a cult of vampires in early 20th century Bavarian, praying on a young
honeymoon couple...Bernard's rhapsody captures the listeners heart and BLOOD!

Let's look at Disc Two with the other Hammer themes and their composers ~ "THE
ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN" (1957-Humphrey Searle)..."QUATERMASS II"
(1957-James Bernard)..."CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF" (1960-Benjamin
Frankel)..."CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB" (1964-Carlo Martelli)..."SHE"
(1965-James Bernard)..."ONE MILLION YEARS B.C." (1966-Mario
Nascimbene)..."WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH" (1969-Mario
Nascimbene)..."HANDS OF THE RIPPER" (1971-Christopher Gunning)..."VAMPIRE
CIRCUS" (1971-David Whitaker)..."VAMPIRE HUNTER" (2000-James
Bernard)...difficult as it may be, there is a stand out ~ "THE CURSE OF THE
WEREWOLF", fine direction from Terence Fisher (director) with an outstanding cast Oliver
Reed (Leon-the Werewolf), Clifford Evans (Alfredo), Yvonne Romain (Servant Girl) and
Catherine Feller (Christina), Hammer's departure from the old stereotype of the beast is
refreshing, Reed's performance as the tormented sole, from man to wolf is touching, the score
by Ben Frankel is tense building at it's best, to say the least, setting the tone and mood for the
transformation with counterpoints is stimulating, inclusive orchestration development for what
lies ahead during a full moon.

Without a doubt the highlight pick hands down is "SHE", composer James Bernard gives of
himself without question, the SUITE takes the orchestra into lilting melodic exercises with
percussion chiming in, the harmonies are hypnotic blends of textured fabric, listen as The
Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kenneth Alwyn display stirring strings and
a solo harp run the scales in "THE ETERNAL FLAME AND THE DESTRUCTION OF
SHE", hold-fast arrangement has haunting echoes of Bernard's constant theme, with a final
beat from a drum in the percussion section.

Must make mention the cast of players that made this possible ~ The Philharmonia Orchestra,
The City Of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, The Westminster Philharmonic Orchestra ~ and
their various conductors Kenneth Alwyn, Paul Bateman, Nic Raine and Neil
Richardson...supported by the illustrious staff from Silva Screen Records LTD ~ Reynold da
Silva (executive producer), David Stoner (associate producer), Gareth Williams (Dolby
Surround/HDCD Mastering) and of course James Fitzpatrick (compilation producer), who
has the knack of developing quality in every Silva Screen release...similar to "A History Of
Horror:From Nosferatu To The Sixth Sense" (SSD-1111/2CD Set), guaranteed to raise the
hair on the back of your neck!

Total Time: Disc One 68:01 on 14 Tracks & Disc Two 68:46 on 14 Tracks ~ Silva Screen
Records SSD-357 ~ (2002)

Vampire Circus
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Even Better than "Taming of the Demons" ???

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Tracks:

Fighting the Devils Inside You
Understand
Vampire Circus
Dirtnap
Interlude
God's Own Medicine
Loss
For Wrath and Ruin
In the World I Live
Swamp Witch

Customer Reviews:

Even Better than "Taming of the Demons" ???.......2007-06-05

If you liked "Taming" you will love this. The songwriting is a little more consistent, but the blending of the instuments is even rougher than on "Taming". So, it will take a few listens, but then it will sound like a whole new album. This is very very good doom metal.

For the discriminating doom fanatic........2007-04-08

EARTHRIDE is home-grown pure Maryland doom. If you think we make good crabcakes, take a listen to the doom metal. This isn't gonna tickle fans of that gothy imported PARADISE LOST type stuff. Sherman's vocals are coarse, croaky, and sinister. Stuff like "God's Own Medicine" is just perfect, moving from a bubbling tar riff to perhaps the pace of SABS "Paranoid" while evil growls and snarls abound. "Drink some whiskey and bite down on this leather", he suggests. I suggest you stop messing around with the pseudo-stuff and pick up the real thing.

Here be some badass jams, son..........2005-11-16

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Music From the Hammer Films

Manufacturer: Silva
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000FTYX2W

Product Description

CD features 1989 recordings of music originally from these classic Hammer horror films: Dracula, Hands of the Ripper, Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Vampire Circus, Taste the Blood of Dracula. Recordings conducted by Neil Richardson. Tracks: Dracula Main Title, Inside Castle Dracula/Lure of the Vampire Woman/Dracula's Rage, Kiss of Living Death, Funeral in Carpathia, Confrontation and Climax/Fall of Dracula, Hands of the Ripper Main Titles/Trance/Mrs Golding's Murder/Anna's Theme, Finale: Dracula and the Crucifix, Vampire Circus Prologue, Blood of Dracula, Romance: Young Lovers/Shadow of the Tomb, Ride to the Ruined Church, Romance at Dusk, Dracula Triumphant/Pursuit/Death of Lucy, Victory of Love.

Vampire Circus: The Essential Vampire Theme Collection (Soundtrack Anthology)

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Vampire Circus: The Essential Vampire Theme Collection (Soundtrack Anthology)
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Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B000004BP9
Release Date: 1993-09-11

Tracks:

The Return Of Dracula Overture - Gerald Fried
Vampire Circus Prologue - The Philharmonia Orchestra with Neil Richardson
Fright Night-Come To Me - BRAD FIEDEL
Transylvania Twist-Painting The Way/The Letter... - Chuck Cirino
Vamp-The Vampire Coven's Prayer - Jonathan Elias
Children Of The Night-The Blood Sucker's Ball - Daniel Licht
Thirst-Vampire Ceremony and Initiation Ritual - Brian May
Transylvania 6-5000 Suite - Lee Holdridge
Forever Knight Main Title Theme - Fred Mollin
To Die For-Main Title... - Cliff Eidelman
Son Of Darkness: To Die For II-Finale - Mark McKenzie
The Hunger-Seduction - Lesley Garrett and Lesley Christian
Dracula-The Legend Of Vlad the Impaler... - Bob Cobert
Sundown: The Vampire In Retreat-Redemption Of... - Richard Stone

The Hammer Vampire Film Music Collection

Average customer rating:

A Disk with Bite

The Hammer Vampire Film Music Collection

Manufacturer: GDI Records
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B00005AKQL
Release Date: 2001-01-01

Tracks:

"Who Dares to Disturb the Sanctity of Dracula?"
Dracula's Metamorphosis/Opening Credits
Temple of Evil/Resurrection
Hunt of Death
Introducing Vanessa Buren
Ambush
Siege Begins
Battle Rages
End Credits
Seven Brothers Meet Dracula (Opening Credits) [*]
Call of the Undead [*]
Opening Credits
Piano's Spell
Vampire Rhapsody
Masked Ball
Marianne and Carl
Ravna's Power
End Credits
Anna and the Count
Opening Credits
Tiger Dance
Emile's Passion
Count Awakens
End Credits
Tiger Dance [Alternate Version]
Opening Credits
Lestrange and Mircalla
Dream
March of Vengeance
Castle Karnstein Burns/Finale

Album Description

Compilation of music from the classic Hammer vampire films,'The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires', 'The Kiss Of The Vampire', 'Vampire Circus' and 'Lust For A Vampire'. 2001 release. Standard jewel case.

Customer Reviews:

A Disk with Bite.......2001-05-04

I have to hand it to Hammer films, or, as I call them, the studio of the 3 "B"s: Blood, Boobs, and Bouffants! The Hammer horrors always featured lots of blood, and women with awesome cleavages and hairdos. musical scores. This disk features excerpts from four of their vampire films, two of which were composed by the prolific James Bernard. My personal favorite, "Kiss of The Vampire", features a dark, Lisztian piano, which was later reorchestrated by Bernard into a concert piece, "Vampire Rhapsody". It is an hypnotic, seductive piece, which added tremendously to the feeling of pervasive evil in the film. The 3 other scores represented on the disk are "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires", which has some vague "oriental" strains running through it, as well as some revamped passages from Bernard's famous "Horror of Dracula" score, "Lust for a Vampire", and "Vampire Circus". "Circus" is an unusual score, and features a "Tiger Dance", which sounds as if it was performed by Perez Prado, complete with shouts of "Uh!", and bongo drums! If you are a Hammer Films fan, then this is a fairly entertaining disk that you can "sink your teeth into!"

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Hammer Horror Classics

Manufacturer: Import [Generic]
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ASIN: B000067OT6
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Tracks:

Opening Credits [From Twins of Evil]
Resurrection of Mircalla [From Twins of Evil]
Opening Credits [From Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]
Discovering the Tomb [From Blood from the Mummy's Tomb]
Opening Credits [From Vampire Circus]
Opening Credits [From Scars of Dracula]
Finale and End Credits [From Scars of Dracula]
Opening Credits [From the DeVil Rides Out]
Goat of Mendes [From the DeVil Rides Out]
Opening Credits [From Frankenstein Created Woman]
Opening Credits [From She Done Him Wrong]
Killikrates Reborn
Opening Credits [From the Mummy]
Mummy Rises from the Swamp [From "The Mummy"]
Opening Credits [From Kiss of the Vampire]
Opening Credits [From Horror of Frankenstein]
Opening Credits [From Curse of the Mummy's Tomb]
Ra's Revenge [From Curse of the Mummy's Tomb]
Opening Credits [From Quatermass II]
Baron Hartog's Story [From the Vampire Lovers]
Opening Credits [From the Vampire Lovers]
Entering Kuma [From the Vengeance of She]
Destruction of Kuma [From the Vengeance of She]

Album Description

Budget price 23 track collection digitally restored from the original recordings features tracks from Twins Of Evil, Vampire Circus, Kiss Of The Vampire, The Mummy, The Devil Rides Out and more. Delta Blue label. 2002.

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A mature, insightful and talented ensemble
This music...

Sideshow: Songs of Charles Ives

Manufacturer: Composers Recordings
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ASIN: B00005A0M5
Release Date: 2001-02-02

Tracks:

The Housatonic at Stockbridge
The Cage
Like a Sick Eagle
Slugging a Vampire
Memories
Thoreau
The See'r
The Circus Band
Serenity
At the River

Customer Reviews:

A mature, insightful and talented ensemble.......2006-11-16

I would have to disagree with Kenneth. Sideshow is a very exciting group to listen to. There is so much texture in their music. This is a cd where you listen to one song at a time, taking in every chord choice that this talented ensemble chooses. I thought they gave Charles Ives his due respect. Their arrangements were very original and unique.

The only problem I have with this album is I wish they explored Ives' Americana military music more.

This music..........2003-01-15

The way to enjoy this music is sitting back in an easy smoking a pipe filled with something illegal.

Tracks:

The Satanic Rites Of Dracula-John Cacavas
Demons Of The Mind-Harry Robinson
The Mummy's Shroud-Don Banks
Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell-James
Dracula Has Risen From The Grave-James Bernard
The Witches-Richard Rodney Bennett
The Vengeance Of She-Mario Nascimbene
The Evil Of Frankenstein-Don Banks
The Plague Of The Zombies-James Bernard
Fear In The Night-John McCabe
Frankenstein Created Woman-James Bernard
The Pirates Of Blood River-Gary Hughes
To The Devil A Daughter-Paul Glass
Quatermass 2-james Bernard
The Curse Of The Warewolf-Benjamin Frankel
The Abominable Snowman-humphrey Searle
Dracula AD 1972-Michael Vickers
The Hound Of The Baskervilles-James Bernard
Vampire Circus-David Whitaker
The Lost Continent-Roy Phillips
Slave Girls-Carlo Martelli
The Phantom Of The Opera-Edwin Astley
Crescendo-Malcolm Williamson
Rasputin The Mad Monk-Don Banks
One Million Years BC-Mario Nascimbene

Album Description

Collection of 25 digitally remastered original recordings from some of Hammer Films' finest horror movie themes. This second volume features music from motion pictures that starred Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Contains music from 'Plague Of The Zombies', 'Slave Girls', 'To The Devil A Daughter', 'The Abominable Snowman', 'Dracula AD 72', 'One Million Years BC', 'Hound Of The Baskervilles' and many others. 1999 release.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered. Includes: 'mummy's Shroud'& 'dracula Has Risen from the Grave'.