Track Listing

1. Not Meant for Me - Wayne Static
2. Forsaken - David Draiman
3. System - Chester Bennington
4. Change (In the House of Flies) - Deftones, Marilyn Manson
5. Redeemer - Marilyn Manson
6. Dead Cell - Papa Roach
7. Penetrate - Deftones, Godhead
8. Slept So Long - Disturbed, Jay Gordon
9. Down With the Sickness - Disturbed, Static-X
10. Cold - Earshot, Static-X
11. Headstrong - Earshot, Godhead
12. Body Crumbles - Dry Cell,
13. Excess - Tricky
14. Beføre I'm Dead - kidneythieves

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #130040 in Music
• Released on: 2005-03-28
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Soundtrack, Import

Customer Reviews

"We walk amongst you..."
Transforming an Anne Rice novel into a film was always going to be hard, and collecting music for the soundtrack was always going to be even harder. But they pulled it off!

With some of the best rock artists around adding their contributions, QOTD makes, in my opinion, one of the best sound tracks of the year.

The haunting "Not meant for me" by Wayne of Static-X opens this with a bang and the listener is kept entranced right up until the end with "Before I'm Dead" by Kidneythieves and "Body Crumbles" by Dry Cell.

All varieties of rock are catered for with artists like Disturbed, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, Deftones, Papa Roach and Orgy being just some of the headliners. Each one of the songs is excellently penned- "Slept So Long" by Jay Gordon being one that stands out- and composed with the utmost melodic accuracy.

The Queen Of The Damned soundtrack hasn't left my hi-fi since I got it! Buy it, it's well worth the money!

A royally majestic soundtrack
From the opening grind of Wayne Static's "Not Meant For Me," you know that the Queen of the Damned soundtrack is gonna be good. Like the film, the soundtrack delves into impenetrable depths of rock and cool and it's just impossible not to have fun. The songs as written by Korn's Jonathan Davis for the soundtrack itself are all hauntingly beautiful: just listen to the music of David Draiman's "Forsaken" to hear Eastern traditional music blend with heavy rock. The vocals throughout these songs range from the throaty growls of Draiman and Marilyn Manson to the angry post-pubescent choirboy sound of Chester Bennington from Linkin Park. All of these tracks are above and beyond what Davis has previously offered with Korn, but despite the lacking of his own distinct voice, each artist captures the mood of the song in their own way. The rest of the soundtrack consists of the same swinging, rocking sounds that seem to capture the hip-swaying sleaze of Aaliyah's titular character in the eponymous movie. Deftones' "Change (In The House Of Flies)" is a wonderful song in itself, but incorporated into this conglomerate of music, it shines. David Draiman and Disturbed strike home again with "Down With The Sickness" and both Kidneythieves and Dry Cell's contributions build up to awesome finales in the respective styles of Jack Off Jill meeting Snake River Conspiracy, and a more mature Linkin Park. Papa Roach's "Dead Cell", Tricky's "Excess" and Godhead's "Penetrate" are great songs, don't get me wrong, but they lack the fire of the other tracks present here. As soundtracks go, Queen of the Damned is as diverse as you can get without including too many genres: if you like one song, you'll like them all, and that's exactly what you will do, especially if you liked the film. If you came out of Queen of the Damned thinking "I want more" then this is for you.