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Alton Towers Scarefest

Alton Towers Resort · Scarefest· 2015

Sub Species: The End Games

The soundtrack to the groundbreaking Scarefest maze that put live-action horror and score on the same timeline.

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Sub Species: The End Games remains the project Nick is most often asked about. The 2015 Scarefest attraction asked for audio that could survive being heard in fragments, in the dark, by people who are moving at a speed nobody can predict.

The answer was to score environments rather than moments: a queue-line bed that establishes the world before a guest is inside it, a laboratory loop, an alien nest and a blackout cue with almost nothing in it. Scare beats sit on top of that bed rather than inside it, so a scare that lands late still lands in tune.

Some of the material written for the maze never made it in. The Kill Room cue is published on Nick's channel as an unused track.

The cues

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