"The one element that we didn't get so perfectly [in the 1998 original release] was the orchestral element — more of the film noir orchestral score. That’s what we were really able to do in a big way with Grim Remastered.(...) So between the remixes and the [live] symphony it turned out to be the score the way it was always meant to be heard."
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