• Shockwave-sound offers royalty-free music. This means you can buy the music and use it for a certain purpose, no licencing fee required. Their newest high quality release is Massive Impact 5.

• TNT trailers 4 is available for listening at Online Production Music. Composed by Timothy Despic.

"Hard hitting drums, percussion and guitar with orchestral underscore"

• The best news are left behind: Power of Darkness coming this March at Extreme Music with "35 epic driven, adventurous, brooding brand new explosive tracks".
• Audiomachine posted 2 tracks, "As Daylight Dies" and "Being And Nothingness" from Maelstorm album. Check! thx to twostepsfromhellfan

Hoy, hoy! Everyone's favorite teddy bear released a new album called 'Sinners'. According the descritpon the album features 13 non traditional trailer tracks.Click on the cover-art to listen to the sampe!

"Collection of cutting edge trailer tracks written and produced by Aleksandar Dimitrijevic, If you are interested, please give us a call or drop us an email about licencing details."

You can buy it at

• Amazon.co.uk
• Amazon.com
• Amazon.de
• Amazon.fr
• CDBaby
• iTunes

Hoy, hoy! Some informations from the world of trailer music.

• Brand X got a brand new webdesign. Here you can listen to their newest album, Volume 12. You can download the cover in high-resolution exclusively at TMN and listen to a track from this album, Last Days:  

• Ryan Amon working on Volume 2 of City of the Fallen library. One song, "As wings blot out the sun" , from this album is available on Facebook.
• Globus Epic Live's release is postponed till early February.
• Erik Ekholm shared a track from Brickwall Audio's new album.
• Fired Earth Music's third album, Fantazium, is dedicated to family adventure, fantasy style. The composer is Toby Chu. Do you want to know more?
• Some behind the scenes photos from Globus' upcoming studio album here and here.

Thomas Bergersen just posted the official album cover art for Two Steps From Hell's yet to be released Power of Darkness.

Here it is, in all it's glory:

I expect we'll see some more information appearing on Two Steps From Hell's official site soon when it's officially released in February. I wonder what exactly this is a picture of... any guesses? [Edit: It's a horse, er... obviously. It's dark! What can I say? Thanks greg]

According to Thomas, "Many of the tracks from this release will be featured on our first public CD, "Genesis", scheduled for release later this year."  That is definitely something we are looking forward to.

Via, Two Steps From Hell's Facebook

Trailer Music News presents the third and final chapter of the interview with Kaveh Cohen and Michael Nielsen; composers for the Full Tilt Library, distributed by Groove Addicts.

In this part Kaveh and Michael discuss the aspects that make composing for trailers unique, and what other projects outside of trailers they have worked on. They conclude with a message for their fans.

The cue "The Fallen", from their newest release Full Tilt: Rising, is used in the video. You can listen to more of their music on Facebook or Kaveh's MySpace.

You can watch the interview in HD below, on Vimeo, or on YouTube. (Part 1) (Part 2)

We did the interview at Kaveh's studio, but Michael was kind enough to send some pictures of his studio, and you can check them out below, by clicking to enlarge.

Brickwall Audio announces the release of the third album, Future Armour composed by Erik Ekholm.

"High powered, epic, distorted and loud! Future Armour features cutting edge sounds that will boost your production into overdrive! Get ready for awesome impacts, hits, ambiance and even a full set of recorded stainless steel kitchen knifes - all crushed, twisted and manhandled for maximum sonic brutality!"

Listen to the demo here:               

Hoy, hoy! The previews of E.S. Posthumus' long awaited third album, Makara just appeared on Amazon.com along with its cover art. The release date is still 2nd Feb 201.

Kalki
Varuna
Unstoppable
Durga
Manju
Kuvera
Ushas
Lavanya
Vishnu
Indra
Arise
Saint Matthew Passion
Krosah
Anumati
Moonlight Sonata

greg says: "The sign on the cover is the zodiac sign of capricorn (from January 15 to February 15).  The Sanskrit name of Capricorn in Hindu astrology is Makara."

Thx worm9100 to draw our attention.

Trivia: Yes. I am expert at googling stuffs.

The biggest and the most versatile virtual string library is available for pre-order at Soundsonline by Doug Rogers, Nick Phoenix, Thomas Bergersen and Shawn Murphy. I do not want to list the details (price , features, etc...) here because you can check it at the website. The reason of this article is to draw your attention to the fact you do not have to download the video introduction of Hollywood Strings, but you can watch it streamed at TMN. Enjoy, it contains some nice samples at the beginning and at the end.  The end features a full orchestral piece composed by Bergersen, and it's definitely worth a listen.

Click here for the video 

Hoy, hoy! I watched the trailer of Serj Tankian’s new album when he preforms his songs rearranged with orchestra and I loved it, but it made me think: what the hell is missing? I just thought how awesome would it be with choir in the backgorund. And it led me to a question which I want to ask from you now: In your opinion which classic hit song have been rearranged in trailer music style?

Don’t forget that this has happened some cases already. Some songs from other genres were already reorchestrated and ended up in trailers. Just start the with the most famous one: " Requiem for a Tower"'s origin is Clint Mensell’s masterpiece "Lux Aetherna" from Requeim for a Dream. Movie soundtracks are not so far in style from trailer music, because usually scores are built from symphonic instruments as well, so it’s not really what I meant with song hit, but this one is the most well known.

Do you remember the trailers for the Underworld movies? During the trailer of the first sequel a song called "Red Tape" by Agent Provocateur was used. Later a symphonic version of this song was heard in the theatrical trailer of Underworld: Evolution. So what happend? Veigar Margeirsson kept the marked vocal of the original compositon and reorchestrated the song. It’s better or not – it’s not a question now. An other example is "Ten Years of Kashmir" by Corner Stone Cues. The original song, "Kashmir" was preformed by the rockband Led Zeppelin.

So my question is if you would have a chance to hear one hit reorchestrated in epic orchestra and choir which would you like to hear?

Well I would like to hear "All along the watchtower".