The first entirely instrumental album of the project, and a remarkably good one. I was in a show last year that was set in Ancient Greece where my castmates and I were warriors from a nearby citystate, and before each show this album played. Tyler Bates mixes the traditional full orchestral and choir sound that appears on most standard film soundtracks and blends it with nu-metal guitar crunch and a rock style unbelievably well. Most film soundtracks become a challenge to listen to after about 30 minutes, save for the occasional piece of stellar craftsmanship from John Williams. Tyler Bates’ scoring of 300 lasts an entire hour and never gets tedious. Even its softer, textured moments carry something that demands to be heard. The movie itself was a hit-and-miss affair, with most of my history-major friends wanting to beat the crap out of something after seeing its glaring historical inaccuracies, but the soundtrack is well worth the time.
On an unrelated note, its also a good thing to play through to get you excited about reading the theories of Marshall McLuhan (which is how I spent about 30 minutes while this album played)
==TJ==
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