Atmospheric music for battle scenes!

Tyler Bates blares a funky and tight score to 300 out! By itself affects the music again quite different when it is detached from the image, even if they did not bother himself much on atmosphere in the film. Bates score is simple, but effective, who can not start so much with such a soundtrack, which will have some fun here. For me is 300 but a crisp and cool mix of rock, orchestra and this Gladiator sound.

Already the first track "To Victory" is a perfect introduction, with bright metal sounds. The recur frequently again, especially in the Actioncues. Especially in "Fever Dream" whips the powerful electric guitar on the ears and underscored the brutal battle scenes in the film. 300 coined this style of music, subsequent films like Clash of the Titans (Remake) oriented strongly to Bates composition.
However, the composer knows how to add sound to not only the action correctly: In quiet and emotional passages, such as "Good Bye My Love" or "Message For The Queen" he uses a wide female voice, creating a wonderful atmosphere of the score survived anyway. The complete 60 minutes one is in the history of the Spartans in it and has (if you know the film) once the images of Leonidas and his Lord of the Spartans in the head.

Stand out the choir passages: "Returns A King" is the best example, and also one of the highlights of the CD. Even the last piece "Remember Us" nice and slowly builds up until it breaks to the climax.
Bates manages the history of film to tell through music and has the tracks luckily also in chronological order, so you "300" can easily be experienced only through music. Overall, we have here an hour of music and pretty much everything that can be heard in the film.

Although it is claimed here that much is stolen I do not know the targeted scores and me is only important that the result is right! And that sounds bombastic.

Conclusion: 300 is anything but a milestone in film music, but I need not reinventing the wheel, it was enough to me when the music served its purpose and can entertain without film! And Bates has clearly managed here, a beautiful and entertaining Score!