Songs About Terror: Tower of London by Rob Lattin Horror Music

Rob Lattin Horror Music reaches back to the Middle Ages

This song is not based on either the Basil Rathbone nor Vincent Price versions of "Tower of London". Even so, the music I created could more aptly be suitable for Price's role.

 I wanted to create a song about terror, not something that has happened or is happening, but something that is immanent. But to take this a little further, the song creates the suspense of something about to happen, then a brief lull, then worse fears realized.

 I open with bass and strings to bring the listener closer to what terror is about to strike. I use Moog sound to make a brief break and transition.

Then, in the vein of Bernard Hermann (a la Sindbad), the worse has come. The pace changes. What do you hear? You hear a bell in a tower tolling. You hear a club scraping against the bars of a jail. You hear a second set of bells to bring on finality.

During this time, I present to sympathetic violinist, who plays a sad melody for those about to die. The violin stops, then the bells stop, the song about terror stops. Execution has just occurred. Was it a beheading or a hanging? We don't know -- the song was about the terror.

Terror comes steadily and then in a fury. To offset that fury we have the melody of pity. Listen to it below. If you like this song please share it!

If you want to associate this instrumental track with either the Roger Corman version or Universal Pictures rendition, then you need to visualize Mr. Vincent Price as he was in both stories. Other classic actors in these films were Basil Rathbone (of Son of Frankenstein and Sherlock Holmes fame) and Boris Karloff (Frankenstein and numerous memorable roles.)

Also of note was the execution by beheading and drawing and quartering of St John Fisher on Tower Hill, near the Tower of London where he was imprisoned by the evil King Henry VIII. So, we have fact and we have fiction. And with my song, you have imagination - apply this soundtrack to what you think it represents.

UPDATE 2020: I will be making this song and others available on a new site so hang in there!

Related Links:

Tower of London 1939

Tower of London 1962

About John Fisher

Sounds like:

Bernard Herrmann

Robert Cobert

All artwork created by Robert Lattin. Original track (C)2015 R. Lattin.

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Song About Nuclear War and Man's Survival: El Destructo Mundo 2 by Rob Lattin's Mad Experiment

Nuclear Armageddon? El Destructo Mundo?

Let's discuss the real devasting threats to this world in order of least likely to possibly likely, barring divine Intervention and the  Second Coming.

3. Climate change
2. ISIS conquest
1. Nuclear Holocaust

Rule out number 3. Yes, you liberals out there - I am a DENIER. BOOO!!!! Did I scare you? It ain't gonna happen, it has'nt been happening and there's no science OR history to back it up.

#2 is happening now and as soon as we get real leadership we can send ISIS in oblivion.

#3 hangs in the rafters like the sword of Damacles.

Well the blog below is about Nuclear War and Man's Survival. The song is about the same and is titled "El Destructo Mundo 2"

Here is the full version of El Destructo Mundo. The original was an abbreviated version which was offered through Tune Core back in 2009-2010.

  

UPDATE JUNE 8,2015

RECENT THOUGHTS ABOUT NUCLEAR ARMAGEDDON.

I just realized that I never had any thoughts about the reason for this song and what it means. So, here I am, reading all the nonsense about global warming, nuclear war, and recently "climate change". Yes, all the atheists and liberal nutcases are promoting that "man" is destroying the ecology, poor Mother Earth, boo hoo, let's wring our hands some more.With no science to back it up, we are not going to destroy the Earth by not "going green". On the other hand, many believe we are going to bomb ourselves into oblivion with a nuclear Armageddon. There will be an Armageddon of sorts, but it won't be man-made.

The end won't occur on our timetable and Divine Providence determines when the end of the age will  be.However, this song is trying to capture what it would be like if we bombed ourselves silly. Evil thinks he has won, but even he is powerless to destroy mankind. so at the beginning of the song, after the missiles launch and all seems to be wiped out, evil laughs and plays his evil metal guitar. But he won;t be laughing for long as there will be survivors. there will always be survivors. Recall the Great Deluge, 8 were allowed to survive and replenish the Earth. Satan cannot change Divine Plans.

So the song takes on a growing and developing mode, flourishing into a happiness, showing that Good does overcome Evil. This is a jazz-tinged instrumental. Take the time to listen through. This song tells a different ending than Steve Farmer's Amboy Dukes song about Armageddon "Psalms of Aftermath". (God Bless Steve Farmer - he will be sorely missed April 2020.)

Now, letting ISIS bomb us all, well, that's another tale to tell. Or perhaps we'll be invaded by aliens and turned into brain-hungry zombies. Perhaps not.

UPDATE 2020: I will be making this song and others available on a new site so hang in there!

Related links:

Armageddon
Psalms of Aftermath - Amboy Dukes
Climate Change
Nuclear War

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Rob Lattin's Mad Experiment


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