Search - Band of Pain :: Sacred Flesh (2000 Film)

Soundtrack to your nightmares (or fantasies, whichever)

Robert P. Beveridge | Cleveland, OH | 03/17/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Band of Pain, Sacred Flesh (Cold Spring, 2000)Band of Pain (aka Dirter Promotions head man Steve Pittis) scores Nigel Wingrove's ultra-controversial 2000 film Sacred Flesh (which, I might add, no one on this side of the Atlantic seems to have seen). Not at all what I was expecting from Pittis, to say the least; dark, brooding ambient material that could have come from the playbook of Caul. Very much film soundtrack-y work (but then, that's hardly surprising). Moody keyboards in lower ranges coupled with choral female vocals (wordless, as far as I can tell).As one would expect from a film about, well lesbian nuns, there's some moaning and groaning to be found in various tracks (especially "Submission"), but overall nothing you couldn't use in your haunted house this year as a very worthwhile soundtrack. Some clips, e.g. "In Media Vita," also have more, shall we say, quotidian sound clips from the film mixed in very low. Quite nice (and useful for haunted houses).Every once in a while it gets into more Band of Pain-esque territory ("Beat Out Desire"'s industrial drum track with the reversed cymbals, for example, or the white/pink noise underlying "The Cell"), but it fits in with the otherwise conventional keyboard/soundscape thing so common to film soundtracks.Fun stuff, but certainly not for everyone. ***"