‘Blade’ and ‘Blade II’ Scores to Receive Deluxe Edition Vinyl Releases

Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings have announced today that they are bringing the scores for Blade and sequel Blade II, from prolific composers Mark Isham and Marco Beltrami, to vinyl for the first time. Both will receive deluxe editions in multiple color variants, releasing on May 16 and available for pre-order today. The scores will be […] The post ‘Blade’ and ‘Blade II’ Scores to Receive Deluxe Edition Vinyl Releases appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.

Mar 26, 2025 - 20:49

‘Blade’ and ‘Blade II’ Scores to Receive Deluxe Edition Vinyl Releases

Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings have announced today that they are bringing the scores for Blade and sequel Blade II, from prolific composers Mark Isham and Marco Beltrami, to vinyl for the first time.

Both will receive deluxe editions in multiple color variants, releasing on May 16 and available for pre-order today.

The scores will be pressed on“Bloodbath” red vinyl exclusivelyvia Barnes & Noble, and“Blood Splatter” clear and black translucent vinylin alimited-edition run of 500 on the Varèse Sarabande store. Both scores will be available as 2-LP gatefold packages with brand-new artwork by acclaimed illustrator Micha Huigen.

“Blade was a very interesting movie to be on,” Mark Isham told author Randall D. Larson. “There were two factions that had a very strong musical voice. One was Wesley Snipes. He was involved in the hip-hop community, which was material that he felt reflected the urban part of the story. Then you had this young, sort of punk English director who was into English electronica, acid jazz and things like that. He felt that Blade lived in more of that world. And then of course you have the score. So it was a challenge. I talked a lot with Stephen Norrington and the studio’s music department about how to get these musical elements to all wrap around the story and feel like they belonged together.”

“Guillermo wanted those stylized Asian overtones for me to incorporate at a time before that sound was the rage in film scores,” Marco Beltrami said of his work with Guillermo del Toro on Blade II. “I appropriated instruments and brought them into what I was doing, as I hadn’t studied traditional Japanese music. I used them in a very ‘western’ way for Blade II. We also had the idea of Tibetan throat singing, so we got this guy who called himself ‘the lowest of the low.’ But he wasn’t quite able to do the overtone stuff we wanted. I don’t know if it sounded like someone who was singing or someone who had an upset stomach! But he became part of the sound, along with the sounds that Buck Sanders had been creating.”

Check out the track listing and deluxe edition details below.

Blade Tracklist:

Side A

1. Born Of Blood (Then)

2. Headed For Trouble

3. Blood Club Voices

4. Party Crasher

5. Quinn Stapled And Torched

6. Quinn Chows Down

7. Daywalker *

8. The House Of Lords

9. Karen Awakens

10. The Injection

11. There’s A War Going On Out There

Side B

1. The Slap

2. Glyphs

3. Somebody’s Gonna Take You Out

4. You Gotta Learn To Pull The Trigger

5. Stakeout

6. High Tech Lair

7. The Translation Completed

8. Pearl Fries

9. The Book Of Erebus

10. Blade Captured

11. Whistler’s A Mother

12. The Subway

13. History

14. Sunblock

15. The Last Dawn

16. A Pain In The Neck

17. Man In The Street

Side C

1. Top Of The Food Chain

2. The Beating

3. Death Of Whistler

4. A Hurricane’s Coming

5. Intruder

6. One Big Happy Family

7. Temple Of Light

8. Curtis Isn’t Himself Today

9. Blood Relations

Side D

1. The Bleeding Stone

2. The Ritual Continues

3. The Thirst Always Wins

4. The Wraiths Emerge

5. Defrosted

6. Quinn Loses His Head

7. The Blood God

8. It’s Not Over

Blade II Tracklist:

Side A

1. Blood Bank Creeps

2. Nomack The Knife

3. Blade II Main Titles

4. Moo Cow

5. Wheel And Deal

6. Wet Whistler

7. Waiting For The Sun

8. Suckheads Infiltrate

9. Caliban By Helicopter

10. Big D Hosts Big B

Side B

1. The Imp ’n’ Pimp

2. Meet The Bloodpack

3. Reapers In The Kitchen

4. I.H.O. Paincakes

5. Priest Splits

6. Little Boy Blue

7. Bath Time

8. Nyssa Needs A Napkin

Side C

1. Sewer Pickles

2. B Slice

3. Charge Of The Light Grenade

4. Blade’s Discharge

5. Crispy Reapers

6. Nyssa Swallows

7. Who’s The Man?

Side D

1. Big D Educates

2. Nomack Snacks

3. Blood Bath

4. Reinhardt Splits

5. Family Feud

6. Smackdown

7. Nyssa Over Easy

8. End Credits

Blade II vinyl

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