Underworld: Rise of the Lycans [Soundtrack]

Performer: Original Soundtrack/Paul Haslinger
Artist: Maynard James Keenan; Milla Jovovich; Puscifer; Matt Skiba
Producer: Danny Lohner; Junior Sanchez; Perry Farrell; Wes Borland; Carl Restivo; Danny Lohner (Compilation)
Distributor: n/a

Notes: Personnel: Davey Havok, Etty Lau Farrell, Matt Skiba, Maynard James Keenan, Perry Farrell (vocals); Jade Puget , Wes Borland, Carl Restivo (guitar); Geno Lenardo (strings); Junior Sanchez (keyboards); Adam Carson, Josh Baldwin (drums). Audio Mixers: Jeff Stuart Saltzman; Junior Sanchez. Audio Remixers: Danny Lohner; Junior Sanchez; Ronan Harris; Wes Borland; Joshua Eustis. The war between the Death Dealers and the Lycans rages on in this third installment of the UNDERWORLD film series. The movie's marriage of gothic horror and pulse-pounding action is accented by a hypnotic soundtrack of aggro, gothic, industrial, and psycho-alternative rock music, spotlighting a host of current and classic tracks from the likes of the Cure, Thrice, Deftones, Perry Farrell, and many others. Featuring several remixes by Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit, Black Light Burns) and Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle), UNDERWORLD: RISE OF THE LYCANS is an unsettling blend of schizophrenic intensity and docile ambience. After two installments of the vampires vs. werewolves horror movie franchise, Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, director Len Wiseman and his wife, star Kate Beckinsale, have bowed out, paving the way for the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which teams returning Bill Nighy (who had his head sliced off in the first movie) and Michael Sheen with Rhona Mitra, standing in for Beckinsale as the series' resident black-sheathed hottie. This soundtrack album does not feature Paul Haslinger's score, but instead provides more than an hour's worth of rock, goth, and industrial tracks by a variety of artists including Alkaline Trio (whose "Over and Out" is a rare ballad), the Cure, and Perry Farrell. There are no deathless classics among them, but several are effective and in the mood of the film, notably William Control's "Deathclub," a catchy synth pop track; Combichrist's "Today We Are All Demons"; Drop Dead, Gorgeous' "Two Birds, One Stone" (with its chorus, "You'll sleep in hell"); and From First to Last's "Tick Tock Tomorrow" (with a hook that goes, "I'm just waiting for the future to swallow me whole"). ~ William Ruhlmann Former Tangerine Dream member Paul Haslinger, who composed the background score for the first film in the Underworld franchise (the one just called Underworld) returns for the third one, a prequel called Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. (There is also a soundtrack album full of heavy metal music.) Haslinger's accompaniment to this tale of the conflict between vampires and werewolves is predictably full of fast-paced chase music, loud action music, and slow, quiet interludes that have practically an ambient feel. Even in those quiet passages, however, there is an ominous tone; it's like the sound of percussive industrial noise being made a couple of floors below or a couple of doors down. Like the monochromatic look of the films, the music all comes in one tonal color, as much echoey, sustained soundscapes and electronically enhanced percussion as music, and in that sense, consistent with the film's sound effects and its other industrial and goth contributions. ~ William Ruhlmann After two installments of the vampires vs. werewolves horror movie franchise, Underworld and Underworld: Evolution, director Len Wiseman and his wife, star Kate Beckinsale, have bowed out, paving the way for the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, which teams returning Bill Nighy (who had his head sliced off in the first movie) and Michael Sheen with Rhona Mitra, standing in for Beckinsale as the series' resident black-sheathed hottie. This soundtrack album does not feature Paul Haslinger's score, but instead provides more than an hour's worth of rock, goth, and industrial tracks by a variety of artists including Alkaline Trio (whose "Over and Out" is a rare ballad), the Cure, and Perry Farrell. There are no deathless classics among them, but several are effective and in the mood of the film, notably William Control's "Deathclub," a catchy synth pop track; Combichrist's "Today We Are All Demons"; Drop Dead, Gorgeous' "Two Birds, One Stone" (with its chorus, "You'll sleep in hell"); and From First to Last's "Tick Tock Tomorrow" (with a hook that goes, "I'm just waiting for the future to swallow me whole"). ~ William Ruhlmann

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