Celebrating the music culture behind the movie THREAT, Kings Mob has pitted an all-star cast of the most beloved hardcore and metal bands against some of the world’s most notorious digital hardcore musicians. Genre-mashing soundtracks are not a new idea, with such hallowed predecessors as the Judgment Night and Spawn soundtracks, but THREAT breaks new ground both in this album’s organic evolution (THREAT is the first indie movie produced by young people in the NYC hardcore punk, underground hip hop, and breakcore scenes) and in its unparalleled ferocity. Masterminded by THREAT’s writer-director Matt Pizzolo with score contributors Alec Empire & David R. Fisher, "THREAT: Music That Inspired The Movie" is a brutal assault that matches the film’s nihilistic philosophy and terrifying ultraviolence.
Brooklyn's hardcore heroes Most Precious Blood join Berlin's Alec Empire of Atari Teenage Riot for the leadoff track: a gloves-off, no-holds-barred barrage of fist-pumping NYHC and pummeling riot beats… if this was a live show, you’d be picking your teeth up off the floor. Things move in a different direction for the collaboration between Zack de la Rocha’s iconic hardcore band Inside Out and Oktopus of the experimental-hip-hop outfit Dalek: Zack’s screams of "no surrender" and Oktopus’ brooding beats coalesce into a soundscape reminiscent of THREAT’s more despair-filled moments, especially the doomed-love saga of Jim and Mekky. Grammy-nominated metallers Killswitch Engage team-up with Edgey for an epic metal-breakcore anthem, igniting the flames of aggression that continue to burn through the album with brutal firefights between Terror vs. Enduser, Agnostic Front vs. Schizoid, and Bleeding Through vs. Hecate, complemented by forays into the bizarre courtesy of Eighteen Visions vs. Otto Von Schirach, Today Is The Day vs. darph/nadeR, Glassjaw vs. Enduser, and Gorilla Biscuits vs. Defragmentation. The drilling beats and crunching guitars climax in an apocalyptic collision of seminal, old-school straightedge with next-gen, digital-straightedge in the form of Minor Threat vs. Holocaust, an unforgiving barrage of hardcore that mirrors THREAT’s boot-in-the-face cinematic finale.
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Threat: Music That Inspired The Movie
