In honor of Halloween (or Samhain, if you prefer), I'd like to showcase another record label whose art and design I admire:
Death Waltz Recording Company. This UK-based label specializes in reissuing original soundtracks from horror films, some as recent as
Let The Right One In (2008) and as vintage as
Zombi (1979).
Death Waltz is a new enterprise, so they only have a handful of releases available. Despite their youth, the label has already reached cult status; this is in part because the film scores they release come from more-or-less underground horror movies, but it's also because they have managed to gather a roster of top-notch artists to render the covers. The series initially possessed a visual unity by framing each image in blue and black, but the 2 most recent releases,
Halloween 2 and
Halloween 3, depart from that convention (but still look great). Many of these releases are already out of print, so if this stuff looks good to you, you'd better hop to it!
Wow! Fabulously dark!
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