Cold Fear’s setting on a Russian whaling ship shaped the music itself. Metallic sounds, water, whale-song textures and Russian choral colors helped bring the environment into the score.
Four brief excerpts introduce the ship’s atmosphere and its more threatening corners.
Atmospheric excerpt
Horror excerpt
Textural excerpt
Suspense excerpt
The sounds of the ship and the water offered more than background atmosphere: they became musical material. These short selections are an early chapter in Tom’s horror work, years before The Outlast Trials.
