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The Harvest King (2026) is a soundtrack composed by André Foisy and Terence Hannum of Locrian for John Bradburn’s short folk horror film of the same name. Built from layered guitar and synthesizer themes, the score is grounded by the brittle drone of dulcimer and the mechanical throb of drum machines. The music unfolds with restraint and unease, hovering between pastoral tradition and ritualized violence.

Bradburn is a longtime visual collaborator with Locrian, having created videos for "Chronoscapes", "Incomplete Map of Voids", and "Visitation from the Wrath of Heaven". The film presents a modern, social-realist take on sacrifice, closely following both victim and executioner as they move together toward the sacrificial site. Chosen by the stones and unwilling to submit, a teenage boy is offered to an ancestral monster in an act of communal preservation. The soundtrack mirrors this slow procession; oppressive, and heavy with inevitability, capturing the quiet terror of inherited belief.

Foisy and Hannum previously collaborated on the soundtrack to Scott Cummings’ short documentary "The Adversary" (2017), a tension-filled drone work shaped by horror scores and encroaching political dread. With "The Harvest King", they turn that same sense of menace toward ancient rites and collective complicity.