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QUEEN OF THE DAMNED - Motion Picture Soundtrack
So, is this part of the reason that Korn's
latest album took so long to be completed? This hard punching soundtrack
album features songs by Korn
frontman Jonathan Davis and Richard Gibbs, with guest artists lending
their voices, from new metal acts like Disturbed,
Static-X,
to the likes of Orgy
and even Marilyn
Manson
(though not his best moment)! The songs have a dark tone with mystical
keyboard passages amid the hard guitar riffs and varied intense vocal
renditions with slight vampire themes, some closely related to the narrative
(of the vampire Lestat becoming a rock star, the cool track Forsaken
one of his songs). The ever-effective Deftones
get included with their fantastic number, Change (In The House Of Flies).
Full band tunes from Disturbed
and Static-X
also get included with its basic but very effective simplicity. Papa
Roach
and Earshot
throw in their slice of rock whereas Godhead
and Kidneythieves
inject a Nine
Inch Nails
flavoured dose. The only non-metal/hard rock song is that of Tricky,
the dreamy but quite dark tune from BlowBack called Excess.
Whether the hardcore-soundtrack-horror-movie connection will maintain
or dissipate remains to be seen. (Check out Resident
Evil and
Scorpion
King,
for more heavy soundtracking). It's great for those of us who love both
of these genres, but it's also a blessing when the soundtrack is in fact
more interesting than the movie, as in the case of this Damned Goddess!
It does worry me though that where this brand of music used to be a fringe
art, only appealing to a segment of us, it has now become publicly acceptable
- in effect stripping it of a lot of its impact and losing a lot of its
danger…
4 / A
- PB
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