from atn:
Addicted To Noise
Senior Writer Gil Kaufman
reports: In a move echoing the
1993 soundtrack to the Emilio
Estevez/Denis Leary dud
Judgment Night, which featured rock and hip-hop
collaborations from, among others, Sonic Youth and
Cypress Hill, Immortal Records honcho Happy Walters has
assembled a slew of odd rock and electronica pairings for
the upcoming soundtrack to this summer's other comic
book-based movie event, Spawn.
Based on Todd McFarlane's cultish, gloomy graphic novel
(which has also been turned into an HBO animated series)
about an obsessed black CIA operative who returns from
the dead to avenge his murder, the film's soundtrack will
feature appropriately dark collaborations between such
disparate artists as Henry Rollins and Goldie ("T-4
Strain"),
Mansun and 808 State ("Skin Up Pin Up"), Filter and The
Crystal Method ("(Can't You) Trip Like I Do"), Korn and
the Dust Brothers ("P.A."), Marilyn Manson and
trip-hop-band-of-the-moment the Sneaker Pimps ("Long
Hard Road Out of Hell"), Stabbing Westward and DJ Josh
Wink ("Torn Apart"), Slayer and Atari Teenage Riot
("Contempt") and Incubus with Greyboy ("Familiar"). Also
completed is a still unnamed track from Soul Coughing and
Ronnie Size.
More hard rock-meets-electronica collaborations will be
announced in the next few weeks, as tracks are recorded,
including possible match-ups between Metallica and the
Propellor Heads, Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine)
and the Prodigy, and the Butthole Surfers and Future
Sound
of London. The soundtrack is slated for release on July
29.
The movie, which stars newcomer Michael Jai White, Martin
Sheen and John Leguizamo, will hit theaters on Aug. 1.
In other somehow-related matters, McFarlane Toys, one of
the spin-offs from the Spawn family of products, recently
unveiled their new-and-improved KISS action figures.
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