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30th anniversary edition on yellow vinyl with gatefold cover and insert

When director Sam Raimi decided to make a second Evil Dead movie, 5 years after the first, he approached Joseph LoDuca to write the score again, as he had for the first film. The result does not disappoint. LoDuca succeeds – and improves on – the score for the first Evil Dead. Book Of Evil, which tells some of the story of the Necronomicon XMortis, or book of the dead, serves as the film’s main title. It has a distinctly creepy, rumbling motif featuring low brass/strings with a gnashing synthesizer thrown in. Ash’s Dream/Dancing Game/Dance of the Dead uses a flat violin/cello effect as Ash’s girlfriend Linda, now one of the Evil Dead ghouls, rises out of her makeshift grave and the head rolls across the ground, then does the wild Dance Of The Dead in front of the window, in the same way Linda had done for Ash when she was alive. The theme then stops abruptly as Evil Dead Linda vanishes into the trees. Hush Lil Baby/Pee Wee Head does a creepy piano take on the well-known children’s song, as Evil Dead Henrietta – now host to a vile Candarian demon – pushes her head through the locked cellar door and tries to goad Ash and her daughter into letting her out. LoDuca is a seriously underrated composer; while not in the same league as John Williams, James Horner, Lalo Schifrin or the late Jerry Goldsmith, he definitely knows how to create a score for a horror film. Great album

Track list:
1. Behemoth
2. Hush Lil Baby / Pee-Wee Head
3. The Book Of Evil
4. Ash’s Dream / Dancing Game / Dance Of The Dead
5. Fresh Panic / The Other Side Of Your Dream
6. The Putrified Forest / Under Her Skin
7. The Evil Begins Anew / Sunrise / Ash Attacks
8. Hand And Mouse / Love Transforms / Mirror, Mirror, Bad Fingers
9. Hail The / End Title