It’s always nice when artists of respectable indie stock do something nice for the kids, giving cool parents hope that their progeny might grow up to like decent music. Take Jarvis Cocker’s contribution to Fantastic Mr. Fox, for example. Maybe a kid starts by hearing Cocker as a puppet on the banjo, but ends up exploring 1990s Britpop at age 11.
Nic Endo, Alec Empire, and Atari Teenage Riot did a similar deed for the kiddies by writing the soundtrack to the forthcoming animated feature/”illustrated film” Godkiller. Okay, so maybe this isn’t exactly a family Disney flick. The movie, directed by Matt Pizzolo, was adapted from his own graphic novel, in which a teen goes on an epic, bloody quest to find a replacement heart for his moribund sister (of course, the setting is post-apocalyptic and seedy as all hell). YouTube users must affirm that they are 18 before they can even play the trailer. “The audio palette [Nic Endo and Alec Empire are] bringing to Godkiller is like Goblin’s Suspiria hammered into Gene Moore’s Carnival of Souls and strained through a filter of digitaldoomcore and riot beats,” Pizzolo claims, setting the bar pretty damn high.
In addition to Nic and Alec, there are voice performances from Lydia Lunch, A.F.I.’s Davey Havok, and Justin Pierre of Motion City Soundtrack. It may just be me, but something about the whole thing makes me think that Korn should’ve been asked to help out.
• Godkiller: http://halo8.tv
