So, maybe some of you have heard already, but for those that haven't, Mastodon is currently working on scoring a western horror comic book movie called Jonah Hex.
The movie is based around a ex-confederate officer, Jonah Woodson Hex (Josh Brolin), post American Civil War. Now, I haven't read the comic, but the character is compared to Clint Eastwood's Man with No Name and The Outlaw Josey Wales. Scanning through the biography of the fictional character (via Wikipedia [which we all know now as the truth]) 3 things grab my attention; he was raised by Apaches, human taxidermy, and time travel.
Alongside Mastodon are Harry Gregson-Williams and Trevor Rabin. Harry has scored movies like The Rock, The Chronicles of Narnia (both of them), and Team America: World Police. Also, he has previously scored Metal Gear Solid 2-4. Now, you might know Trevor Rabin as the vocalist/guitarist/songwriter from one of my favorite albums of all time, Fragile, by British Prog-Rock band Yes.
When asked what the score sounds like the answer was "Needless to say, pretty heavy!" Others to star in the movie include Megan Fox, John Malkovich, and a cameo from an alcoholic; psychedelic lovin; metal guitarist.
On a different note, I was just informed of a new band from Portland, Oregon with Johnny Whitney (the Blood Brothers) and Cody Votolato (Pretty Girls Make Graves) named Jaguar Love. At first I didn't like it, but then it grew on me like mold grows on cheese. It has a kind of wanna-be Volta sound around the De-loused era, which I really, REALLY enjoy. The only difference is it is more of a focused rock sound and the vocals have also been compared to a "modern day" Robert Plant.
Speaking of Led Zepplin, check out the video I've posted at the bottom of the new "Super Group", Them Crooked Vultures. Now, I'm not the biggest fan of "Super Groups" lately (ex. Chickenfoot, Audioslave, Velvet Revovler, Alter Bridge, Angels & Airwaves, Hellyeah, Damnocracy, etc...) but this has 3 of my favorite musicians; Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Jones.
Now I'm not saying this will happen, but I think it would be kind of ironic if in the beginning of the next decade major label music had a huge shift from overly produced; rhythmic based; pop music and up-tempo; prog wanna-be; arena rock to straight forward; melodic based rock and Dave Grohl was playing drums.
they will be in austin the Thursday before ACL at Stubbs too.
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ReplyDeleteGregson-Williams only did one cue for The Rock. He's credited as providing "additional music" Outside of the that it was all Hans Zimmer baby.
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