![]() ![]() This highlight from The Bug’s Angels & Devils features grime artist Flowdan, who adds some suitably intense verses over Broadrick’s thunderous distortion and Martin’s sparse bass beats. ![]() ![]() Godflesh’s Justin Broadrick and The Bug’s Kevin Martin have collaborated in past projects before, so they’re seasoned vets at combining intense electronic sounds with colossal heaviness. ![]() The Bug with Justin Broadrick and Flowdan – “ Fat Mac“ The weird thing is how fun this is-it loses none of the appeal of Grinderman’s original studio version of the song, but lends some appealing surf-party-USA rhythms and grooves. and his Grinderman side project feels like a natural addition to this mixture of heavyweights of heavy and menacing mixmasters. – “ Hyper Worm Tamer“Īny metal band worth a damn should be indoctrinated in the church of Nick Cave (see SubRosa below, who once wrote a song based on a work of fiction by Cave), so a weirdly groovy big-beat collaboration between U.N.K.L.E. This is a track where it all comes together: ambiance, fearsome distortion and all. Bobby Krlic’s harrowing dark ambient soundscapes-essentially The Shining soundtrack for a modern electronic audience-pairs brilliantly with The Body’s terrifying sludge. In fact, it more or less gave me the idea for the whole Judgment Night 2016 mix. The idea behind The Body and The Haxan Cloak’s collaborative album I Shall Die Here was pretty genius from the get-go. The Body and The Haxan Cloak – “ The Night Knows No Dawn“ It blurs lines and it breaks rules, but it’d make a good movie soundtrack. (Note: I’m realizing now that this is basically a Remake/Remodel, so you can look at it that way if you want.) It’s not all metal. I could keep going! But I don’t actually have to, since some interesting collaborations between those in various fields of rock, metal, electronic and in between already exist. If I were designing my own version of this by playing god with the collaborators, I’d have some real fun with it: The Field with Deafheaven, Prurient with Godflesh, Caribou with Baroness, Blanck Mass with Tribulation. And while heavy rock and rap pairing together still sounded fairly innovative in 1993, now it’s all too familiar. Now, the concept here is probably closer to the Spawn soundtrack than Judgment Night, but the idea isn’t to necessarily recreate the concept of the original soundtrack but to translate the idea into something that actually sounds innovative in 2016. Once I heard that Andy Stott had remixed a Batillus track, I knew that eventually I’d be putting this playlist together. Electronic producers and heavy bands have been collaborating for the better part of a decade on innovative blends of ambiance, density and darkness. Here’s the funny thing: It’s existed right in front of me the whole time. But as a fan of heavy music, I got to thinking about what kind of mix of collaborations would be as innovative right now. That idea, in collaborative spirit if not the literal mix of hard rock and rap, is still being used in soundtracks today, like the similarly panned Suicide Squad, which features Imagine Dragons with Lil Wayne and Skrillex with Rick Ross. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t, but the concept was interesting enough that even people who never saw the film still remember Cypress Hill’s track with Sonic Youth, or the collaboration between Helmet and House of Pain. It has a 31 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, so it’s night like you need to go out and see it right away, or ever, but the film earned a lot of attention for its soundtrack, which found metal bands collaborating with hard rock and metal bands (and Teenage Fanclub, for some reason). as friends trying to get away from drug dealers after witnessing a murder. The film itself was nothing to write home about, featuring Emilio Estevez and Cuba Gooding Jr. Yesterday, we posted a top 10 list of our favorite rap-rock hybrid tracks, and it included a track from the 1993 Judgment Night film soundtrack. ![]()
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