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 After the Marvelous First Album, a Major Letdown Mar 12, 2009
"Underworld: Evolution" is the follow-up to the amazing "Underworld" soundtrack. After the originality and beauty of the first album, I purchased "Evolution" with eager anticipation - only to have my expectations fall horribly short. While "Evolution" features some amazing songs, those songs only serve to barely save the album from complete mediocrity and accentuate as good notes in a jarring song.
The album begins with some promise, Puscifer returning to the Underworld franchise to deliver an original remix of "The Undertaker," and continuing with Chester Bennington's "The Morning After" remixed by Julien-K. The first of the badness begins, however, with the inclusion of Emo-King contenders Hawthorne Heights, followed by one of their chief rivals My Chemical Romance. Both of these tracks are quickly skipped every time I play the CD.
Slipknot next comes in with an excellent, slinky remix of their lovely track "Vermilion," which I had hoped would save the CD. However, the next few tracks tend to slip in one ear and out the other, mixing between hard metal and emo (or scremo, as the case may be) and making my ears bleed. Thank God Lacuna Coil came in to bring with them an excellent track by Gosling to save the day...until the CD slipped right back in to trivial nonsense.
The album wrapped up with Cradle of Filth murdering a cover of "Halloween II" after the thoroughly annoying "Suicide" by Meat Beat Manifesto. After the shining first album, I was rather disgusted with this CD and its jarring inclusions. The few good tracks were just enough to make the CD an enjoyable listen, but not enough to save it - and the screamer-emo tracks were enough to make my skin crawl. "Where Do I Stab Myself in the Ears" indeed!
2.5 out of 5 Stars
 EXCELLENT MOVIE...EXCELLENT SOUNDTRACK Sep 11, 2007
I absolutely loved this movie and what's not to love about the soundtrack? Cradle Of Filth, Slipknot, Puscifer, Atreyu, Trivium. HELL YEAH I BOUGHT and HELL YEAH I LOVE IT!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Fantastic!!!!Almost Perfect... Nov 03, 2006
This cd was great!I really enjoyed it.Most of the songs were perfect...and if not perfect they were very close.My favorite would have to be Undertaker(Renholder Remix) by Pusifer.
PS-Does anyone know which song played in the movie trailers?I really liked that one too.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
This album was probably better than the movie...ha Sep 03, 2006
When I first bought and listened to this album, I thought "hmmm, lots of 'emo-labeled' bands." That didn't stop me from enjoying this soundtrack though. I liked the first two songs on this soundtrack quite a bit at first, but they got pretty old.
However, I loved Hawthorne Heights's remixed "Where Can I Stab Myself In the Ears" (my friend loved it, too), Aiden's "Last Sunrise" (which had a lot of references to Anne Rice's Interview With The Vampire), Lacuna Coil's "Our Truth" (have since became a fan of theirs), Atreyu's "Her Portrait is Black," and Cradle of Filth's "HW2"/"Halloween."
Oh, I also liked Trivium's "Washing Away Me In The Tides," Senses Fail's "Bite To Break Skin," and Slipknot's "Vermillion pt 2."
So, pretty much the producers took good songs and made them even better. I think I just named 8 of the 16 songs as being favorites, not to mention the other songs weren't bad. What does that say to you?
So, I guess that 4 is actually more like a 4.5.
1 of 7 found the following review helpful:
OK,nothing more Aug 08, 2006
This is an acceptable rock soundtrack.The songs are unmemorable,
but they suit the film.OK if you like this sort of thing.
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