Resident Evil Apocalypse Resident Evil: Apocolypse Soundtrack CD

Slipknot/Cradle Of Filth/Cure/ Rob Zombie/Killswitch Engage++

Composer: Jeff Danna.
Personnel: Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull (vocals); Branden Steineckert (drums).
Audio Mixers: Colin Richardson; Robert Smith ; David J. Holman; David Bendeth; Greg Fidelman; Greg Reely; J.R. McNeely; John Feldmann; John Fryer; Mark "Spike" Stent; Andy Sneap; Andy Wallace; Ross Robinson; Steve Evetts; Terry Date; Waldemar Sorychta ; Dani Filth; Stefan Glaumann; Chad I. Ginsburg.
Audio Remixers: Critter; Danny Lohner; Josh Freese; Joshua Eustis.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse cows predictably to the film's target audience, unleashing a torrent of teenage boy-friendly alt metal. As a moneymaker, it's unscrupulous. And yet the aggression, mania, and generally apocalyptic tone of this material fits well with a movie based on a video game about blowing away crazy zombies. The usual suspects populate dark corners, including professional scary guys like Slipknot and Rammstein, as well as middling work from types like the Used and Cold. But there are also previously unreleased remixes from A Perfect Circle ("Outsider") and Rob Zombie ("Girl on Fire"). Underappreciated Italian goth metal outfit Lacuna Coil contributes "Swamped" from their 2002 effort Comalies, and even if Cradle of Filth's "Nymphetamine" is as cheesy and decadent as you'd expect with a name like that, it's bolstered by guest vocals from Leaves' Eyes frontwoman Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull. After all, what horror/actioner would be complete without a Krull reference? Other notable inclusions on Resident Evil: Apocalypse include "Join Me In Death" from Finnish goth poppers H.I.M., Deftones covering Duran Duran's "Chauffeur" quite capably, and a typically chilly trip-hop piece from Massive Attack. ~ Johnny Loftus
A highly anticipated entry in the science-fiction/horror genre, RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE is the sequel to the 2002 video-game-based blockbuster film RESIDENT EVIL. Like its predecessor, the attendant soundtrack is jam-packed with extremely heavy and dark music. Slipknot, DevilDriver, and Rammstein represent the harsher, growling vocal-fueled, death metal-influenced contingent, while the Cure and HIM's sinewy doom-and-gloom reflects the movie's gothic, smoke-and-fog atmosphere. The APOCALYPSE album also includes a bit of raging emo-core from Thrice, and veteran trip-hop ensemble Massive Attack fits in nicely, closing the disc with the suitably creepy "Future Pool." That rare soundtrack that admirably collects songs completely appropriate to the picture in question, RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE works both as aural cinema and as a thoroughly engaging compilation.