VA - End of Days Soundtrack [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (1999)

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Any movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is bound to have a soundtrack designed to match his brawn at every turn. The big hype here is the first Guns N' Roses track since 1993 (if Axl Rose alone can be GNR). While the track "Oh My God" alone probably isn't solid enough to distinguish this soundtrack, unreleased cuts from Korn and Limp Bizkit and notable contributions from Sonic Youth, Rob Zombie, Prodigy, and Creed make this an impressive collection of hard rock at the millennium's end. For those interested in subtler moves, Everlast contribute the previously unreleased "So Long," which was allegedly written before the Columbine High School shootings in 1999 and serves as a haunting premonition of the tragedy. Its moody introspection is a suitable counterbalance to the over-the-top rhythms and rage sported throughout. Rapper Eminem is incredibly heated with the aptly named "Bad Influence." –Rob O'Connor

End Of Days Soundtrack Album Notes
With an apocalyptic story such as this you need a dark, unrelenting soundscape to match it. This is unquestionably the case with the END OF DAYS soundtrack. The disc opens with "Camel Song," where Korn sets the mood with their trademark extremist sense of dynamics. Everlast's dark tale of revenge is smoothly delivered over the musical backdrop of his acoustically driven hip-hop in "So Long." Taking an unexpected approach, Limp Bizkit offers up "Crushed." Never launching into riotous mode, the song is subtle and melodic, and cleverly borrows a line from Steve Miller's "Fly Like an Eagle."

The focal point of END OF DAYS is the hard rock/techno epic, "Oh My God," the first new music to be released by Guns N' Roses in eight years. Prodigy injects some "Poison" into the mix, offering old-school drum sounds and eerie atmosphere. We are drawn into the cartoonish reality of Rob Zombie as he growls the legend of the "Superbeast." Eminem puts the PMRC back in business with "Bad Influence." In his gangster anti-hero guise, he boasts "I don't promote violence, I just encourage it." As we face the fictional END OF DAYS, this collection of music is the perfect companion for it.

End Of Days Soundtrack CD Review
Rolling Stone (11/25/99, p.102) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "…Terrific songs by the new hard-asses…"
Entertainment Weekly (11/12/99, p.83) - "…long on bone-crushing, muscle-bound, steroid-injected 'rawk'. A headbanger's smorgasbord…it doubles as a primer on the state of pre-millennial heavy muisic…" - Rating: B+
Q (1/00, p.112) - 3 stars out of 5

Tracklist:

01 - Korn - Camel Song
02 - Everlast - So Long
03 - Professional Murder Music - Slow
04 - Limp Bizkit - Crushed
05 - Guns N' Roses - Oh My God
06 - Prodigy - Poison
07 - Rob Zombie - Superbeast (Girl On A Motorcycle Mix)
08 - Eminem - Bad Influence
09 - Powerman 5000 - Nobody's Real
10 - Stroke - I Wish I Had
11 - Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane
12 - Creed - Wrong Way