Blood Original Soundtrack (1997)

Composers: Daniel Bernstein, Guy Whitmore, Mike Cody

Tracklist

1. Pestis Cruento 05:11
2. Unholy Voices 07:08
3. Dark Carnival 02:55
4. Infuscomus 04:37
5. Father Time 04:51
6. Waiting For The End 03:11
7. Fate Of The Damned 02:55
8. Double, Double, Toil And Trouble 02:08
9. Cryptic Passage 0:47

Blood is a 3D first-person shooter video game developed by Monolith Productions and published by GT Interactive.

The shareware version was released for MS-DOS on March 6, 1997,

while the full version was later released on May 21 in North America and June 20 in Europe.
The game follows the story of Caleb, an undead early 20th century gunslinger

seeking revenge against the dark god Tchernobog and features occult and horror themes.

Blood includes large amounts of graphic violence, a large arsenal of weapons

ranging from the standard to the bizarre, and numerous enemies and bosses.
Blood received largely positive reviews from critics upon its release, with many praising its creative level designs,

the humor (particularly its use of pop-culture references), atmosphere and its gameplay,

though some criticism was aimed at the game’s challenging difficulty.

It later gained a cult following from reviewers and it is considered to be one of the best games on the Build engine.
The Blood franchise was continued with two official expansion packs

titled Plasma Pak (developed by Monolith) and Cryptic Passage (developed by Sunstorm Interactive).

A sequel titled Blood II: The Chosen was later released on November 25, 1998.
The soundtrack to the game was composed by Daniel Bernstein, Guy Whitmore and Mike Cody.
Daniel Bernstein is a composer for video games and movies.

Born in Leningrad in the Soviet Union, he received a Bachelor in computer science

and an Master Of Arts in music composition from the University of Virginia.

Bernstein started in games in 1996 working in development and sound design.
He has also worked as a composer for Monolith Productions

where he collaborated with Guy Whitmore on titles such as Blood and Claw.

Outside of video games, he also wrote the soundtrack for the short movies "Kansas" in 1998 and "Maid Of Honor" in 1999.

Changing career, he joined WildTangent as the Director of Product Strategy, and later left in 2002 to create Sandlot Games.
While still acting as Sandlot's CEO, he returned to composition with the soundtrack to the film "The Penitent Man" in 2010.
Guy Whitmore is a composer specializing in video game music, notable for creating the soundtracks to Captain Claw,

Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza, Russian Squares, Peggle 2, Shivers, Shivers II: Harvest of Souls,

Blood, Blood II: The Chosen, Shogo: Mobile Armor Division and No One Lives Forever.

He is the co-founder of a music production company called Music Design Network 

and a founding member of the Seattle Composers Alliance.
Guy Whitmore has specialized in creating "adaptive music" for video games, using techniques such as cross-fading,

location-based music, and techniques to render music "on-the-fly" rather than using "pre-rendered" linear tracks.

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