Pre-Order: Mark Isham - Blade (Original Soundtrack) [CD]

Blade (1998) is the first installment in the Blade film series, starring Wesley Snipes in his signature role as the iconic vampire hunter. The film kicked off not only the Blade franchise but Marvel’s incredible run translating their iconic stories to the big screen.
Adapting the comics character created by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan in 1973, Blade was written by David S. Goyer and stylishly directed by Stephen Norrington. Snipes plays a dhampir, a human with vampire abilities, who fights evil vampires led by Stephen Dorff, with Kris Kristofferson starring as Whistler, Blade’s mentor.
Mark Isham was asked to score Blade with a combination of influences from hip-hop (Snipes’ preference) to English electronica (favored by the director). A jazz trumpeter who excelled in film due to his uncanny sense of cinematic mood, Isham blended those genres with synthesizers, orchestra and choir into what is, by comic book film standards, an unusually subtle yet powerful and dramatic score.


Varèse Sarabande released the original Blade soundtrack in 1998 as a 7-track, 33-minute album. This Deluxe Edition vastly expands the sequence into a 45-track, 72-minute program, with new liner notes by Daniel Schweiger.

Tracklist:

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. House of Lords
9. Karen Awakens
10. Injection
11. There's a War Going on Out There
12. Slap
13. Glyphs
14. Somebody's Gonna Take You Out
15. You've Gotta Learn to Pull the Trigger
16. Stakeout
17. High Tech Lair
18. Translation Completed
19. Pearl Fries
20. Book of Erebus
21. Blade Captured
22. Whistler's a Mother
23. Subway
24. History
25. Sunblock
26. Last Dawn
27. Pain in the Neck
28. Man in the Street
29. Top of the Food Chain
30. Beating
31. Death of Whistler
32. Hurricane's Coming
33. Intruder
34. One Big Happy Family
35. Temple of Light
36. Curtis Isn't Himself Today
37. Blood Relations
38. Bleeding Stone
39. Ritual Continues
40. Thirst Always Wins
41. Wraiths Emerge
42. Defrosted
43. Quinn Loses His Head
44. Blood God
45. It's Not Over

UPC: 888072590038
Label: VARESE SARABANDE
Release Date: 11.7.25
Format: CD