Scorpion King Soundtrack CD

"I Stand Alone" (Godsmack) was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song and Best Hard Rock Performance.

This album features a staggering 16 bands of the heavy rock/nu-metal persuasion assaulting the senses with eardrum-decimating aural aggression. Oh yeah, it also happens to be the soundtrack to the cutting-edge film THE SCORPION KING. Whether or not you see the movie, the accompanying disc definitely stands up on its own. Things get off to a bone-crushing start with the pounding riffs of Godsmack's "I Stand Alone." System of a Down's RATM-influenced "Streamline" delivers the requisite mix of melody and thrash. Ozzy Osbourne, one of the men who started all this, collaborates with disciple Rob Zombie on the gothic metal of "Iron Head." Rather than ending with some melodramatic elegy, THE SCORPION exits on an appropriately energetic note with the growling rage of Coal Chamber's "Glow," putting a properly spleen-venting cap on this unrelenting soundtrack.

Godsmack/R.Zombie/Nickelback/ S.O.A.D./Pod/Creed/Flaw/Drowni

Audio Mixers: David Bottrill; Mike Shipley; Paul Leary; Randy Staub ; Rich Costey; Kirk Kelsey.

Audio Remixer: Chris Vrenna.

Photographers: Harry Garfield; Kathy Nelson.

Publisher: Mike Richardson.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Entertainment Weekly (4/19/02, p.73) - "...[The cd] features 10 worthwhile new cuts by hard-rocking chart-toppers..."
CMJ (4/1/2002, p.15) - "...Universal's soundtrack...is filled to the brim with a cornucopia of radio-friendly, mainstram rock tunes..."