Forbidden Zone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack album to Forbidden Zone, the 1982 cult film directed by Richard Elfman, with music by his brother Danny Elfman and performed by The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo.
The album marked the soundtrack debut of composer Danny Elfman, who was frontman to the Mystic Knights at time of recording.
Initial tracks were recorded by the Mystic Knights before their disbanding and completed by members of Oingo Boingo a year later, resulting in the mix of musicians credited on the album.
[1][4] In the liner notes, Danny Elfman writes that "sixty minutes of original music in a dozen different styles needed to be created in and around various older, and often uneven, pre-recorded pieces," and were composed, arranged and recorded in a period of two weeks.
[7] All music is composed by Danny Elfman and the Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, except where otherwise indicatedPrincipal musicians are:[1]