Thanks for taking the time to upload that, MB. Mine worked in VLC.
After seeing these most recent advertisements, my excitement for this project has actually waned a great deal.
But I think what really got me was this... (The top has the spoiler track titles, but if you scroll down to the bottom, you can hear the complete first track (8 mins).)
http://www.soundtrackgeek.com/v2/soundtrack-review-dark-shadows-2012/Where is Cobert's theme? I don't hear it, and they have the whole prologue up. Okay, you can kind of hear influences in it (6:17 sounds familiar), but I don't hear enough of the notes together to satisfy me. Is it too much to ask for 25 seconds of a 50 minute score dedicated to the original theme song?
The music is good, but without the theme or any other whole musical composition from Cobert, it's just not
Dark Shadows to me.
What gives me hope is the track "Shadows Reprise." It's 44 seconds long and it starts with the electronic "waves." Since it's a reprise of a song named "Shadows" which is not included anywhere on the score, I am hoping that said missing music will be in the final film - and whatever "Shadows" is in full form is actually the original theme song (with that dubstep sound). Cobert's theme would work great with that sound. And I don't think it's asking too much. But I am now 90% certain that the theme is not on this release. And now 60% sure it's not in the film, and that upsets me... to the point of disinterest actually.
Maybe something will come out to change my mind again, but the music was the selling point for me.