![]() Among Immortal’s major signings were Korn, Incubus, Far, and Thirty Seconds To Mars. The Judgment Night soundtrack was released through Immortal Records, a label founded by Amanda Scheer Demme and Happy Walters. The team responsible for the music of Judgment Night has worked steadily for decades. In turn, below are highlights from those many interviews, altogether providing 25 things which I learned about the Judgment Night soundtrack. Ultimately, I wound up speaking with at least one person from each of the album’s 11 tracks, in addition to the three people primarily responsible for the soundtrack itself. Over the course of the Summer of 2018, I interviewed a mix of the artists and executives involved with the soundtrack. For better and worse, Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and a lot of the rap-rock-melding groups of the late-1990s and early-2000s would never have happened. Without the Judgment Night soundtrack, the musical landscape of the last two decades would undoubtedly be very different. Run-DMC and Aerosmith, Public Enemy and Anthrax), it was arguably the first time that rock and hip-hop artists collaborated for a full-length album. Aside from a few hit collaborations (e.g. While the movie was not a box-office or critical hit, its platinum-selling soundtrack continues to be talked about 25 years later. “It” was Judgment Night, a 1993 action-thriller starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven, Denis Leary and Stephen Dorff. But you most certainly have “heard” it, via the soundtrack. It may be one of the most star-studded movies you have never seen. The big-budget action film sucked, but the album was righteously good and, twenty-five years later, it still sounds good. Mascis, Sonic Youth, Living Colour, Teenage Fanclub) together with rap artists (Run D.M.C., Ice-T, Cypress Hill), to create a full studio album. There's plenty to love about Judgment Night and it's a real shame that got buried so soon after release but I'm glad that this soundtrack has kept it alive, and I love "Fallin'" by Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul.We take a look at the 1993 film that, for the first time, brought rockers (J. It's difficult to find it but well worth it and one of the best thrillers of the 90s. Although director Stephen Hopkins would like to take credit for this initiative, it was actually the idea of the film's music director Happy Walters. There's even material from The Exploited from their Troops of Tomorrow album (you're never too far from Gary McCormack). The soundtrack features a dynamic hybrid of hip-hop and rock artists performing together such as Sonic Youth and Pearl Jam with Cypress Hill, Slayer with Ice-T himself, and Mudhoney with Sir Mix-A-Lot. Meanwhile, the public went nuts over the soundtrack and it became a big hit, despite most fans being unfamiliar with the movie. It was pulled from distribution and later, slowly, found a life on home video. Released in the autumn of 1993 it quickly died a death in theatres after a shooting during a screening in Boston that the alarmist press decided to blame on the movie itself (and here we are all these years later still mired in this nonsense). Judgment Night is one of those movies where the soundtrack managed to eclipse the actual film that inspired it. "Parental Advisory" symbol appears only on North American releases of this album.Īn additional song called "(You Can't Kill The) Revolution" was recorded by Rage Against The Machine and TooL, but neither band was happy with the results and was ultimately abandoned. All of them were originally performed by The Exploited, and were included on Troops Of Tomorrow. Track 5 is medley cover of "War", "UK '82", and "Disorder". This means that only 4 tracks ("Disorder", "Freak Momma", "Come And Die", and "Real Thing") remained in place on all four major physical formats (LP, Cass, CD, MD). Vinyl LP and cassette releases have different track order: 7→4→1→3→5→9→2→8→6→10→11. Another Body Murdered by Faith no More & Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. Fallin' by TeenAge FanClub & De La Soul Just Another Victim by Helmet & House of Pain Judgment Night by BioHazard & ONYX (Promo-Only) Rock/Metal & Grunge and Gangsta Rap & Hip-Hop This and the latter two: Spawn (The Album) / Blade II The Soundtrack (also from Immortal) had all songs designed to be collaborations. This was the first soundtrack album created by Immortal Records. Official soundtrack of the film " Judgment Night"
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