Alien 3 (soundtrack)
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| Soundtrack album by Elliot Goldenthal | ||||
| Released | June 9, 1992 | |||
| Genre | Classical, avant-garde, modernist, musique concrète, electronic | |||
| Length | 47:58 | |||
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MCA MCA MCAD-10629 |
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| Producer | Matthias Gohl | |||
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The avant-garde Alien 3 score was written for the motion picture of the same name. Scored by Elliot Goldenthal, it was his first big mainstream score; he described it as an experiment and spent a whole year creating it.
Goldenthal cites the score as one of his six stand-out soundtracks. In 1995, the Industrial band Front Line Assembly sampled the cue "Agnus Dei" on the track "Infra Red Combat" from the album Hard Wired.
Movie-wave.net said that most of the cues are quite "dissonant" and "bleak" for a casual movie score listener. AllMusic described it as "...mandatory for all serious enthusiasts of film music."
The menacing cue that comes with the opening sequence of the Sulaco being evacuated by the on-board computer because of the alien presence and fire. This sample is taken from the part where the escape pod is hurtling through the planet's atmosphere.
Cue of the failed attempt to capture the alien.
Cue from the scene where the sprinkler system is activated to destroy the alien.
The cue from the scene where Ripley commits suicide in the blast furnace.
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