Artist: ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Album: RESIDENT EVIL (CD)

Year: 2002
Media type: CD

With a splatter-filled zombie/mutant video-game-cum-horror-film providing the inspiration, all corners of the aggro-rock nation pulled together to serve up seething songs for the RESIDENT EVIL soundtrack. Filled with plenty of previously unreleased material, much of the music is characterized by guttural growling, trip-hammer time signatures, and teeth-rattling guitar playing by groups like Slipknot ("My Plague [New Abuse Mix]"), Mudvayne ("Dig [Everything And Nothing Remix]"), and Static-X ("Anything But This"). Other participants chose to take an equally dark but more melodic approach, including vets Fear Factory ("Invisible Wounds [The Suture Mix]") and Rammstein ("Halleluja") along with rookies Five Pointe O ("The Infinity").

Electronica mavens Crystal Method even pump up the testosterone on "Name Of The Game (Clean Game)," featuring crunchy riffing by guest guitarist Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello. The only other departures from the nu-metal content of this collection come via Depeche Mode's previously unreleased, slithering cover of The Stooges' "Dirt" and Method Man's Prodigy Mix of "Release Yo' Delph" complete with sampled fanfare and chock-a-block rhythms. Most impressive is Marilyn Manson's quartet of murky instrumentals co-written with Tim Skold that include the main title theme and the equally sinister "Seizure of Power."

"My Plague" (Slipknot) was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Metal Performance.

Original score composed by Marilyn Manson.
Personnel: Ryu (vocals); Tom Morello (guitar); DJ Swamp (scratches).
Audio Mixers: Colin Richardson; Frank Gryner; John Goodmanson; Alan Moulder; Mike Plotnikoff; Ross Hogarth; Scott Humphrey; Steve Fitzmaurice; Terry Date; Crystal Method; Ulrich Wild; Stefan Glaumann.

TRACKLIST:

1. Red Queen
2. My Plague - Slipknot (New Abuse Mix, previously unreleased)
3. The Fight Song - Marilyn Manson (Slipknot Remix, Slipknot remix, previously unreleased)
4. Something Told Me - Coal Chamber (previously unreleased)
5. Name of the Game - Crystal Method (previously unreleased)
6. Everyone - Adema
7. Invisible Wounds - Fear Factory (The Suture Mix, previously unreleased)
8. Anything But This - Static-X (previously unreleased)
9. Halleluja - Rammstein
10. Dirt - Depeche Mode (previously unreleased)
11. What Comes Around - Ill Nino (Day of the Dead Mix, previously unreleased)
12. Dig - Mudvayne (Everything and Nothing Remix, everything and nothing remix)
13. Release Yo' Delf - Method Man (Prodigy Mix)
14. 800 - Saliva (previously unreleased)
15. The Infinity - Five Pointe O
16. The Umbrella Corporation