Queen of the Damned [Soundtrack]

1	Not Meant For Me / Wayne Static of Static-X
2	Forsaken / David Draiman of Disturbed
3	System / Chester Bennington of Linkin Park
4	Change / Deftones
5	Redeemer / Marilyn Manson
6	Dead Cell / Papa Roach
7	Penetrate / Godhead
8	Slept So Long / Jay Gordon of Orgy
9	Down With The Sickness / Disturbed
10	Cold-Static / X
11	Headstrong / Earshot
12	Body Cumbles / Dry Cell
13	Excess / Tricky
14	Before I'm Dead / Kidney Thieves

All Music Guide

An hour's worth of contemporary metal constitutes the soundtrack for the vampire movie Queen of the Damned. The unusual element that lifts this collection beyond being a typical various-artists album masquerading as a soundtrack is the inclusion of five specially written songs by Jonathan Davis and Richard Gibbs that relate, at least slightly, to the film. Davis and Gibbs have persuaded a who's who of metal vocalists -- Wayne Static of Static-X ("Not Meant for Me"), David Draiman of Disturbed ("Forsaken"), Chester Bennington of Linkin Park ("System"), Marilyn Manson ("Redeemer"), and Jay Gordon of Orgy ("Slept So Long") -- to sing their songs. The rest of the album is dominated by tracks from Warner metal albums by the likes of Static-X ("Cold"), Disturbed ("Down With the Sickness"), and Deftones ("Change [In the House of Flies]"), plus a few tracks licensed from other labels and metal bands, including Dry Cell, who preview their forthcoming album with "Body Crumbles." The result is an overview of the metal music of the day, with its crunching guitar chords, pummeling drums, and harsh vocals singing desperate lyrics. The gothic, threatening tone of the music is appropriate to a horror movie, but the soundtrack also does double duty as a genre sampler. William Ruhlmann

Entertainment Weekly

Korn's Jonathan Davis and composer Richard Gibbs put together five of this nu-metal compilation's 14 tracks. Josh Tyrangiel