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Rating: "... These days in the best Italian cinemas": that's how ideally every good trailer for a respectable film should end.
But in the case of Underworld, it's in music stores that you should rush, because the soundtrack of this Hollywood movie curated by Danny Lohner of Nine Inch Nails is definitely worth more than the film itself. Just take a look at the parade of artists featured in this splendid compilation to realize you are facing the worthy heir to the soundtrack of The Crow, now more than a decade away.
Lohner manages to perfectly blend decidedly ambivalent music, highlighting on one hand the typical aggressiveness of names like Page Hamilton (Helmet), Skinny Puppy, Richard Patrick (Filter) and on the other the sensuality of delicate and new female voices, such as Milla Jovovich (her Rocket Collecting is splendid), Lisa Germano, and Johnette Napolitano. But Lohner hits the jackpot with his friendship with the true lord of alternative music of these years, Maynard James Keenan, who leaves his indelible mark on four tracks, two of which are from A Perfect Circle (the remix of Weak and Powerless is sensational), and one under the name Puscifer, in the company of Danny Lohner himself, in a delightful and probable preview of what (if ever) will be the Tapeworm project.
But it doesn't end there: Maynard also embellishes, together with John Frusciante, a song by the legendary David Bowie, which gains a lot compared to the original present in his latest work Reality: a gem.
Trust Company, Finch, and The Damning Well (where Wes Borland also reappears) add nu-metal sounds of a decent level for once, and the ambient intermissions by Renholder perfectly achieve the aim of giving continuity to a compilation that would otherwise be too heterogeneous.
In conclusion, a collection of great new music for a nocturnal film that might become more famous for its soundtrack than for its cast, direction, special effects, or the story itself.
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