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Oscar Winning Composer Steven Price FURY Movie Score Available October 14

By Michelle McCue | September 16, 2014

Oscar winning composer Steven Price (Gravity) scores Columbia Pictures’ World War II epic FURY, in theaters October 17th, 2014. The film will be closing the 58th BFI London Film Festival this year.

Directed by David Ayer, FURY stars Brad Pitt as “Wardaddy,” a Sherman tank commander who must guide his men into the heart of Nazi Germany during the last month of World War II. The film features a star-studded cast, including Shia LeBeouf, Logan Lerman, Michael Peña and Jon Bernthal. Fresh off of his Oscar win for Gravity’s high-energy, out-of-this-world score, Price strikes a musical balance with an emotionally resonant, action-packed score for Fury.

The Fury Original Motion Picture Soundtrack will be available on Varèse Sarabande Records October 14th, 2014.

Steven Price was drawn to FURY in the script stages, sensing the power of the characters and their plight, and how it portrays the heroism of World War II veterans.

Price comments, “I sought to honor their bravery; to create a score that was honest and true. At the same time, for a film accurately portraying mechanized warfare, the score needed to be primal and guttural. We used armory and weaponry as instruments to give a sense of a constant grinding forward whilst the orchestra carried the emotion.”

Price utilized actual World War II weaponry, including a .50 caliber machine gun, along with a bag filled with dog tags, to create the industrial, treading percussion sounds that echo the bombast of tank warfare. Price wrote parts of the score with cellos and a small, intimate choir, to portray the inner angst and bond between the war-torn soldiers. The choir motif was used for high-energy battle scenes and calmer, as well as more introspective passages of the score, a humanism element in a score that seeks to portray the harrowing mechanizations of war.

Steven Price is an Oscar winning composer and musician who previously worked as an award winning music editor. Price won the Academy Award for Best Score for Alfonso Cuarón’s GRAVITY. Price is currently nominated for both Discovery of the Year and Composer of the Year at the World Soundtrack Awards being held in Gent, Belgium in October.

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Price has written additional music for films including Pirate Radio and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, collaborating with Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich. Price also scored 2013’s THE WORLD’S END, directed by Edgar Wright, with whom Price collaborated with on Scott Pilgrim.

Price has also written music for several productions on major UK television networks as well as advertising campaigns in both the UK and the US. His accolades include the Film Critic’s award for his original Attack the Block score, for which he also received several film festival awards.