It's difficult to find it but well worth it and one of the best thrillers of the 90s. Although director Stephen Hopkins would like to take credit for this initiative, it was actually the idea of the film's music director Happy Walters. There's even material from The Exploited from their Troops of Tomorrow album (you're never too far from Gary McCormack). The soundtrack features a dynamic hybrid of hip-hop and rock artists performing together such as Sonic Youth and Pearl Jam with Cypress Hill, Slayer with Ice-T himself, and Mudhoney with Sir Mix-A-Lot. Meanwhile, the public went nuts over the soundtrack and it became a big hit, despite most fans being unfamiliar with the movie. It was pulled from distribution and later, slowly, found a life on home video. Released in the autumn of 1993 it quickly died a death in theatres after a shooting during a screening in Boston that the alarmist press decided to blame on the movie itself (and here we are all these years later still mired in this nonsense). Judgment Night is one of those movies where the soundtrack managed to eclipse the actual film that inspired it. Available on vinyl for the first time since its original release. Ice-T and Slayer manage to thrash it out on an unsurpassed level, while Sonic Youth & Cypress Hill have that slightly paranoid sound on 'I love you Mary Jane'. Judgment Night spawned four singles: Biohazard & Onyx's 'Judgment Night', Helmet & House Of Pain's 'Just Another Victim', Teenage Fanclub & De La Soul's 'Fallin' and Faith No More & Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E.'s 'Another Body Murdered', and it also features highly sought after collaboration between Pearl Jam & Cypress Hill. It turned out to be quite a fruitful collaboration while the film bombed, the soundtrack went gold. And what better music to accompany this middle-class nightmare than a hybrid of the music suburbanites seemed most afraid of Rap and Rock. The 1993 film Judgment Night was basically suburbia's paranoid view of inner-city life, where the slightest misstep (such as trying to take a shortcut to a boxing match) has fateful, if not fatal, consequences. 180 grams audiophile vinyl About the Artist
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