The album kicks off in earnest with "Stupid Crazy," an excellent song from Shadows Fall. This gets things off right and is the one song that is most reminiscent of the earlier soundtracks. The driving drums and in your face guitars will make you want to put your fist through a zombie's rotting face.
Next up is the first showdown between rock and tech with "I'm So Sick (T-Virus Remix)" by Flyleaf vs. The Legion of Doom. This is a solid cut that is catchy, if not memorable. Emigrate offers the next song, "My World," an interesting track from this Rammstein side project. The song is more rock than Rammstein, but it still retains a bit of their industrial edge. The singer sounds a bit like a processed Billy Corgan.
It took a few tracks but we have found our first stinker -- Bayside's "Duality (Project Alice String Mix)."
At first I thought this was going to be a cover of Slipknot, silly me. This song sounds really out of place, way too emo and too little rock. Don't even get me started on the strings, ugh, they sounded like someone on a synth. Please tell me that there is a band version and that it sounds better than this.
Next up is emo by way of Legion of Doom as they remix Aiden. The track is called "One Love (Extinction Remix)," and it is definitely on the emo side of life but it definitely is a bit more fitting the setting of the movie with the Legion of Doom work.
Fightstar injects a little more energy with "Deathcar," a screamo/emo cut that kicks off with a blast of noise and screamed vocals before settling down. Perhaps placed to wake you up after that Bayside mistake.
Throwdown keeps the energy going with a heavy blend of hardcore and metal in "I, Suicide." Actually, I am surprised I haven't heard these guys before.
The next song played over the end credits, but appears about halfway through the soundtrack. There goes the idea that the album is somewhat in the sequential order they appear in the film. It is Collide's "White Rabbit (SPC Eco Mix)."
It is an electronic cover of the classic Jefferson Airplane song. There is something trippy and alluring about this take, and while it isn't the original, it is pretty cool. Pair it up with Iron Butterfly's "Ina Gadda Da Vida" that appears in the movie but not on the soundtrack and you have a classic connection.
Article comments
1 - michelle
does anyone know the name of the song played at the first scene where they bring in all characters while driving down the road? some of the lyrics are "in the garden of evil....."
2 - Chris Beaumont
Hi Michelle,
It's "Ina Gadda Da Vida" by Iron Butterfly. It wasn't included on the soundtrack, but is readily available.