Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs Discussion Topic Part 2

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You can't judge a book by its cover (Have I not already said this?).

The song is strange but without context... cannot really tell if it does fit (fit what exactly?).

The samples you could hear in the trailers were quite encouraging, so I'm pretty confident I won't be disappointed. Although hearing them and this "Mors Praematura" you can already gauge her style.

Have you ever seen any old Hollywood epics like Ben-Hur, Ten Commandments, Spartacus, King Kong, etc.? The intro to those films was literally a still image with the score overture playing, to set the mood for the entire film. It presented the key themes that would be used throughout the entire movie and audiences had nothing to do but listen for upwards of 15 minutes (not even with rolling credits). That's how important the scores were in those movies and all of the movies I named have absolutely fantastic scores that can be listened to independently of the movie, and yet they also perfectly compliment the visuals going on (Ben-Hur especially has a great score).





So you see this "wait and see if it maybe fits" thing is total BS. I am well aware of the stylistic differences between film music and normal concert music but the emphasis on the actual music is equal in both cases.