soundtracks

In this new edition of Noise Pollution, Neill reminisces about his favorite video game soundtracks and how they crafted his early music tastes.

Speaking of Vinnie Paul, Pantera collaborated with Judas Priest's Rob Halford on a song for the soundtrack of 1992's Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie. Now, all I know about Buffy is that she fucks up Google searches for the band Slayer (solution: type in "-buffy") ...

The Misanthrope (Peaceville, 2007) is very much misnamed. No teenagers in corpsepaint here - Darkthrone's Nocturno Culto is quite the social creature. He goes ice fishing with his buddies; he goes camping with REI (or in Europe, probably Jack Wolfskin) endorsee Fenriz; he hangs out with an old guy named Knut; he shoots live footage of Gallhammer and Aura Noir; he plays board games with Aura Noir

Speaking of food as drummers, here is an oldie but goodie. For the intro to last year's Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie, Mastodon did a song called "Cut You Up with a Linoleum Knife." It welds King Diamond falsettos to Judas Priest power metal, and is my favorite work by Mastodon since Remission...

The first thing I noticed about There Will Be Blood was how metal its title font was. In this case, though, the black metal was black gold. Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood scored Paul Thomas Anderson's portrait, loosely based on Upton Sinclair's Oil...

I recently saw Resident Evil: Extinction, which I recommend halfheartedly (i.e., one invisible orange). Basically, it's Mad Max with zombies, with the girl from The Ring as an AI hologram (if you program your talking computer to appear as a girl, you'd think you'd make her not so needlessly creepy)...