‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Soundtrack Hits Vinyl, CD & Cassette for First Time Ever

In honor of Phantasm‘s 45th anniversary, the film’s original motion picture soundtrack is available on vinyl for $60 via Waxwork Records.

Drawing inspiration from Goblin‘s work in Suspiria and Mike Oldfield‘s “Tubular Bells” from The Exorcist, the synthesizer score is composed by Fred Myrow (Soylent Green) and Malcolm Seagrave.

The deluxe 3xLP album includes the expanded and complete score sourced from the original 1979 master tapes, never-before-released score cues from the Phantasm recording sessions, and the newly remastered original 1979 score album.

The records are pressed on “Silver Sphere” metallic silver colored vinyl and housed in a heavyweight triple gatefold jacket featuring artwork by Graham Humphreys and an 11×11 insert with liner notes by writer-director Don Coscarelli.

“I recently received notice that our long-term film storage vault in the basement of the historic Howard Hughes Headquarters building on the corner of Romaine and Sycamore in Hollywood was being permanently closed. During the process of moving out our negative materials, I came across the original three reels of Ampex 456 analog tape used in the Phantasm score recording sessions,” Coscarelli explains.

“Listening now to the score, including the outtake tracks, I am impressed with how inventive and adventurous Fred and Malcolm were in their approach to scoring Phantasm.”

The Phantasm soundtrack is expected to ship in February. For more Phantasm-related media, the Halloweenies podcast just dropped a three-hour exploration of Coscarelli’s film with a heavy focus on his first two works: Jim the World’s Greatest and Kenny & Company.

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