Mortal Kombat - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

"Sonya Blade"

You may be thinking to yourself that this is not a legitimate album to be reviewing... and you may be right if the only song you knew from it was the Mortal Kombat theme. You know, the one that played in the commercial for Mortal Monday (September 13th 1993), the day that was just as good as Christmas for this 11 year old, as I could then play the game on my Super Nintendo. So anyway, I loved the game, so inevitably I would love the movie that came out in 1995 and everything associated with it including the soundtrack. In retrospect, this album gave me my first taste of real heavy music. I thought that "Twist the Knife Slowly" by Napalm Death was going to steal my soul by listening to it, turns out it didn't but I felt cool listening to something so heavy. I knew kids who listened to Korn and bands of that ilk couldn't touch the heaviness of a band like Fear Factory. In my musical genealogy, the Mortal Kombat soundtrack introduced me to Napalm Death which begat my interest in Jesu which begat Isis which begat Godflesh which begat Ministry, just to name a few. There are some cheesy,  NIN clone type bands on here, but as a whole, it is a solid roster of heavy music pioneers... and yes, there are two versions of the Mortal Kombat theme.

3/5
Favourite Track- Burn by Sister Machine Gun
Also Favourite track - Twist the Knife (Slowly)
by Napalm Death

Also, the Mortal Monday commercial