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Here is the first trailer from 77 Pictures new werewolf/coming of age film, BEFORE 12
I chose a melancholy fusion of cello & synth to match the dark & brooding visuals.

Peter Steele 1962-2010
R.I.P
Another loss to the music world today. CARNIVORE were ahead of their time, and TYPE O NEGATIVE actually made me weep more than once. I will miss your talent, integrity, intelligence & wicked sense of humor. Farewell Peter.
“Everything Dies”
- P. Steele

So, in honor of the release of Stephan Romano’s SHOCK FESTIVAL DVD, I’ve decided to provide 100 lucky downloaders a link to ALL of the music I wrote for the DVD collection…FREE!
Yep, free. All the euro-sleeze jazz, all the cheap cannibal synth, all the bombastic sword and sandal, all the creeptastic-Poe-infused melancholy, and bad-ass bass […]

Chas was such an influence on so many people in the world of Horror. He will be missed.
Chas Balun
1948-2009

Wyrd Features definitive documentary on the life,works, and influence of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft-”LOVECRAFT: FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN” is out on DVD/Blu-Ray today!!!
It’s been over a year since Mars finished the score to the film, which went on to win Best Documentary at the 2008 Comi-Con, as well as recognition at film festivals all over […]

Mars has completed his score to Gregory Lamberson’s “SLIME CITY MASSACRE“, and the music has been dubbed “The best soundtrack I’ve ever heard for a low budget movie” by the film’s director himself. This is the sequel to his 1988 splatter-fest/cult film phenom “SLIME CITY“, and it is being courted by fans and press […]

POP/Alternative Cinema has posted the first trailer for their upcoming DVD adaptation of Stephan Romano’s award-winning book “SHOCK FESTIVAL“.
Mars’s homage to 1970’s funkploitation; the music track named “Damn Straight’ is the music used in the trailer.
The whole project looks amazing, and the actual release will feature 2DVD’s and a separate audio disc featuring 10 tracks […]

Mars has just finished a video clip for the legendary horror comic DEAD WORLD.
Gary Reed; the comic’s writer, and Mars collaborated on the project, and both men are quite pleased with the morbid outcome.
The comic is set to become a feature film, which is being written by David Hayter (screen writer of X MEN & […]

Dead House Music has done all the musical interludes that will acompany the films for this years “A Nighmare To Remember” Horror film festival. Last Doorway Productions (who are currently knee-deep in finishing the “Welcome To My Darkside: Women In Horror” documentary) are the creators of the San Francisco based event, and it is always […]

Mars has signed on to write the music for Red Hatchet Films latest Lovecraft film, “BOKRUG”, a stop-motion adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Doom that Came to Sarnath”. The film tells the story of the decadent city of Sarnath, whose greatness is built on the destruction of an older race of beings who lived in […]