March Marks 'Doomsday' For Lakeshore Records On March 18, 2008

Los Angeles, CA. (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) - Lakeshore Records will release the original motion picture soundtrack for DOOMSDAY on March 18th. The album features original music by Tyler Bates (300, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS) and songs by Adam and the Ants, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Ariel Rechtshaid (former member of The Hippos).

With more than forty film and TV scores to his credit, Tyler Bates' inventive style has become associated with projects like Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, and the upcoming release of the animated feature THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO. Bates also composed for director Zack Snyder's blockbuster hits 300 and DAWN OF THE DEAD.

Following the 1997 Atlantic Records album release of his band Pet, Bates began focusing on scoring for movies and television. He continues to score Showtime's dark comedy CALIFORNICATION (starring David Duchovney). His 2008 projects include two major films to be released later this year, WATCHMEN (directed by Zack Snyder) and THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (a remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic.

The Lakeshore Records soundtrack recording features the original score by Tyler Bates plus three songs, "Dog Eat Dog" by Adam and the Ants, "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, and Ariel Rechtshaid's modernized version of "The Can Can".

In the action-packed new thriller DOOMSDAY, from writer/director Neil Marshall (THE DESCENT, DOG SOLDIERS), authorities brutally quarantine a country as it succumbs to fear and chaos when a virus strikes. The literal walling-off works for three decades-until the dreaded Reaper virus violently resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists, captained by Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra), is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare

Rogue Pictures presents DOOMSDAY, in theaters on March 14. The Lakeshore Records recording will be available on March 18, 2008.