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The resulting lyrics are an inversion of the Roman Catholic rite of the consecration and elevation of the body and blood of Christ during the Mass. A version of the song has been produced by the band Fantômas , who altered some of the lyrics to mean "smallest blood, body spirit" rather than "we drink the blood, we eat the flesh," and added the ...
In addition to the score, Goldsmith penned and composed the original song "Ave Satani" which served as the film's theme song. [5]He wanted to create a kind of Satanic version of a Gregorian chant and came up with ideas with from Norton, something like a Black Mass, inverting Latin phrases from the Latin Mass. [6]
The Omen is a 1976 supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer.An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens (in his film debut), Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern.
The Latin version Ave Satanas (in its variant spelling Ave Sathanas), often appears in literature at least from the 1800s, notably in the popular 1895 faustian novel The Sorrows of Satan, [6] and earlier in an 1862 play St. Clement's Eve [7] (in reference to satanic undertakings supposed to take place at midnight in a district of Paris).
The Omen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2006 film The Omen, a remake of the 1976 film of the same name directed by John Moore.The film score was composed by Marco Beltrami, who reuses themes from the original film's score composed by Jerry Goldsmith.
The score was successful among critics and garnered Goldsmith his only Academy Award for Best Original Score and a nomination for Best Original Song for "Ave Satani". [22] His wife, Carol Heather Goldsmith, also wrote lyrics and performed a vocal track titled "The Piper Dreams" released solely on the soundtrack album. [21]
On the Limited Edition, the song Engel , featuring vocals by Marjan Shaki, is between the tracks Gregorian Anthem and Ave Satani (The Omen), making it the eleventh track: Hurt (Nine Inch Nails) (6:19) My Immortal (Evanescence) (5:26) The Four Horsemen (Aphrodite's Child) (4:52) Unbeliever (4:20)
True to the style of his first two scores, Goldsmith used an orchestral/choral blend with light electronic elements to create the film's sound, though unlike the soundtrack to Damien, The Final Conflict makes no pronounced reference to the original Omen theme "Ave Satani", which had earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song ...