Disasterpeace for a Disaster Piece

Considering how influential John Carpenter was for not only being a film maker, but as a soundtrack composer, it comes as no surprise then that Disasterpeace has fallen into the same pitfall as his spirit animal this year, by scoring an excellent soundtrack to a trash movie. Won't bore anyone reading this with just how bad the failure of Bodies Bodies Bodies (where are the commas, Hollywood?) and its social satire is, but after sitting all the way through to the troll worthy finale of this Agatha Christie style, zoomer turd, I've well and truly earnt the right to berate the film until my last dying breath.

Disasterpeace - Body Drop

(Bodies Bodies Bodies soundtrack, 2022)

Still processing the soundtrack, but the main theme, Body Drop is an instant highlight for me since it conveniently sums up what's so great about this new album; it resembles Disasterpeace's older work the most, but it also displays some obvious progress since then. Along with the rolling menacing trap basslines, what's really apparent about Disasterpeace's latest album are the influences of other horror soundtrack composers featured on it. There's still the gawd John Carpenter's indelible blueprint all over it, but you can't help noticing Fred Myrow and Malcolm Seagrave's classic Phantasm Main Theme on the track Whokiller, nor Jonathan Newton's score from the relatively obscure Unhinged (1982) on the track titled Dork.

Disasterpeace - Old Maid

(It Follows soundtrack, 2014)

One of my favourite film soundtracks from the 2010s was for David Mitchell's venereal teen horror, It Follows (2014). Other than it being a classic horror film in its own right, Disasterpeace's soundtrack for it, was an important contributor with it popping out from other generic teen horror flicks. The track I love the most is undoubtedly Old Maid. The build up at the start sounds so alien like, that it's become an earworm to me in the same vein as the one Chekov had that one time. Add in that alarm clock from hell chiming in and that's my morning wake-up theme to get the day poppin' off on the right track.