TOBE HOOPER & WAYNE BELL – The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [Original Motion Picture Score] – LP – Blood Red / Black Hand Pour Coloured Vinyl [MAR 21]

LP – Limited Edition Deluxe Blood Red / Black Hand Pour Coloured Vinyl housed in a heavyweight Gatefold Jacket with inner flood printing. Sourced from the Original Master Tapes and available for the first time in any format. Includes 11″x11″ Twelve Page Booklet with Production and Behind The Scenes Photos.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American Independent horror film produced, co-composed, and directed by Tobe Hooper, who co-wrote it with Kim Henkel. The plot follows a group of friends who fall victim to a family of cannibals while on their way to visit an old homestead. Over the 50 years since its release, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has become widely regarded as one of the best and most influential horror films ever made.

The film’s original score by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell is an experimental exercise in music composing and performance that utilizes non-traditional instruments such as suspended cymbals, aluminum saucepans, a children’s toy percussion set, various wildlife calls, whistles, shakers, and more. The result is one of the earliest examples of industrial music and has since become known as the “holy grail” of film scores due to its status of being either lost or destroyed. As such, Hooper and Bell’s innovative score has become highly sought after, spawning countless bootlegs and attempts to re-create it for commercial gain.

In 2023, the original film score master tapes were discovered and then privately held at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, TX for preservation. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre‘s co-composer Wayne Bell painstakingly worked to have these original source material master tapes safely transferred. Bell then personally worked to construct and mix the newly transferred official Texas Chain Saw Massacre score for a cohesive listening experience. The score was then mastered by Thomas Dimuzio at Gench Mastering.

THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE Original Motion Picture Score Features:

The Original 1974 Score by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell
Available For The First Time In Any Format
Sourced From The Original Master Tapes
Hand Poured Color Vinyl
Exclusive Liner Notes By Composer Wayne Bell
Heavyweight Gatefold Jackets with Inner Flood Printing
11″x11″ Twelve Page Booklet
Production and Behind The Scenes Photography
Design by Steve Reeves

Tracklist:

SIDE A
1. Main Title
2. Warnings Medley: Joe Bill’s Cemetery Warning / Gas Station Sun
3. Cuts Medley: Feedlot / Hitchhiker’s Razor
4. Outside Grandpa’s – The Mark
5. Inside Grandpa’s – Bones
6. Menace Medley: What Kirk and Pam Don’t Know / Pam’s Foreboding / Leatherface Slams the Door
7. Jerry X, Leatherface Worries
8. Trouble Moon
9. Distant Disturbance (Sketch 1)

SIDE B
10. Closer Problem (Sketch 2)
11. Franklin X, But Then
12. Sally Awakens for Dinner, to the End
13. End Titles
14. Descent (Sketch 3)