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.

Here are some fresh news from the scene:

• Future World Music's newest album, Immortal Empire, is fully auditionable (choir and non-choir versions of tracks) at BeatBoxMD.

• A new album has appeared at X-Ray Dog's site, Seeing Eye. 

" Seeing Eye is a variety of light drama, dramedy and comedy tracks..."       

• Volume 12 and Family, Adventure and Comedy Vol.2 by Brand X music is available at Ravenwood Music.
• Extreme Music has updated their database. Now it includes album Devil Wears Nada by Two Steps From Hell. Furthermore there are new albums from series Directors Cut, e.g. Epic Themes 3.

• First of all, Trailer Music News has got a FaceBook page! Yaaay! 
• Second, Larry Groupé has got a MySpace page including (but not limited to) tracks from Excelsius.
• Third, a picture has been appeared on MagixBox Music's site. It is the cover art of Brand X Music's newest album,  Family Adventure Vol 2.

Hoy, hoy! We have some news to mention.

• Brand X Music has an official Facebook page (called: "The-Real-Brand-X-Music" What a proof, right?). Already existed this one, but it was maintained by fans.
• Aleksandar Dimitrijevic has revealed on his homepage that Fired Earth Music releases Cyanite with his musical compositions. The album contains 16 horror trailer tracks. More details about this album later.
• Michael Nielsen has uploaded 2 tracks on his MySpace: The Beast at Our Door and Up From the Ashes from album Full Tilt Black.

Brand X Music presents their newest album Volume 11. Its genre is family adventure action/epic. This album (as like as Volume 10) features live orchestra. Furthermore they have recorded strings and brass for their upcoming several releases in Seattle. About the recording session read here. These upcoming releases will be Family/Adventure/Comedy Vol. 2 and Volume 12 (both due out late 2009) recorded with live orchestra.

Including:

• Two upcoming albums: Volume 11 & Volume 12.
• The newest HP&THBP trailer features their custom track.
• A new composing room.

Finally Brand X has officially presented their newest album Volume 10. They say:

"Full of all the heart pounding, mind numbing, gut wrenching sonic mayhem that you know and love. Brand X volume 10 is not only a hallmark volume, but also we feel our best work yet! "

You can listen to few tracks from the album but I warn you, the quality of the music is.. umm...crappy.

Thanks to MrDream for the tip.

Hoy, hoy! I will write a summary about year 2008 so it is under construction. According to my plans I wanted to make a diagram of music usage by companies based on SoundTrack.Net's database. But they didn't aswered my letter, so I couldn't get these datas from them (yet) and gather these manually would be tiresome. Altough I will harass the guys over SoundTrack.Net with my mails until they answer me, but so far I gathered the most used music piece by certain companies.

TOP5 Immediate Music
Redrum 28
Tightwire 26
Naked Prey 25
Blasphemy 19
Red Wire Blue Wire 15

TOP5 X-ray Dog
Gothic Power 12
Here comes the king 9
Battle Cry 6
Clash to Arms 6
Dethroned 5

TOP5 RipTide
Massive Incline 9
Evil Pitch Bender 8
Out of Time 7
Monster Orch Rise 6
Wicked Climb 4

TOP5 Cinetrax
Knife 9
Wrath 7
Inferno 5
Trust No One 5
Laceration 5

TOP5 Brand X
Off Ramp 6
Hostile Takeover 5
King Drum 4
A Hero's Only Choice 4
Code of Honor 4
Eliminator 4

TOP5 E.S. Posthumus
Tikal 6
Menouthis 5
Pompeii 5
Nara 5
Harappa 3

Well, the recent poll " What is your favourite company? vol.2 " has been closed. You, guys, have made a record number of votes (137).

• Two Steps From Hell 49% (67 votes)
• Immediate Music 18% (24 votes)
• else* 10% (14 votes)
• X-Ray Dog 9% (12 votes)
• Pfeiffer broz. Music 4% (6 votes)
• Position Music 4% (5 votes)
• Audiomachine 2% (3 votes)
• E.S Posthumus 1% (2 votes)
• Corner Stone Cues 1% (1 vote)
• Brand X 1% (1 vote)
• APM Music - w/ all its libraries 1% (1 vote)
• Q-Factory 1% (1 vote)

Check their site. You can listen to few samples from "Editor's Toolbox".

Magic Box is very excited to announce the largest release in the History of the Brand X catalog. Our newest venture will feature three unique volumes that each serve a specific purpose.

First up is the "Editor's Toolbox" featuring all the hits, swells, rises, transitions and layers that any editor could want! Use them as transitions and accents, or drop one of our drones and then mix and match to create your own unique score!

Next will be "Single Acts". It is a collection of single musical ideas that range from simple and light, dark and brooding, or slick and rhythmic and most stops in between.

Last but not least will be "Drums". This is a collection of "percussion" cues written with the style and quality that Magic Box is known for. It features a sonic palette and production values that are far beyond the scope of any normal drum library.