Vampires

In 2002, if you had asked me who my favorite bands were I would've said Linkin Park, Static-X, Orgy, Korn, and Disturbed. So finding out there was a movie soundtrack where Jonathan Davis of Korn wrote a bunch of songs about vampires and got the lead singers of Linkin Park, Static-X, Orgy, and Disturbed to sing those songs? I was ecstatic. I loved everything about it. And Marilyn Manson was there too... that's fine.

Apparently the original plan was for Jonathan Davis to sing all of the songs on the soundtrack but his contract with Sony prevented him from providing vocals on another label's release. Since the movie was distributed by Warner Bros, the soundtrack was released on Warner Music. So while Jonathan Davis' vocals are in the movie, they aren't on the soundtrack. And I've listened to the soundtrack so many times that hearing Jonathan Davis' voice in the movie is just... weird. It sounds wrong.

Oh yeah, there's a movie associated with this soundtrack. It's fine. I don't hate it like some people, but it's definitely just a story attached to some vampire songs to me.

The movie is from Anne Rice's series of novels and stars the vampire Lestat, so I can understand why people might be annoyed at how loosely it plays with the source material. But I was ignorant to all of that 20 years ago and just wanted to see a vampire rockstar. On that front, the movie delivers. It's still a dumb movie, but I'm not comparing it to anything so I just think it's dumb fun.

Here's a trailer for the movie. But more importantly, here's the soundtrack. I love how the songs aren't about vampires, they're introspections as if written by a vampire. I'm only talking about the songs written for the movie of course; I don't care about the other songs on the soundtrack.