Album Review: Various Artists - Saw VI (Soundtrack)

The most hotly anticipated Horror of the Halloween season has spawned a fitting devilish soundtrack of haunting proportions. This comes courtesy of global indie metal label giants Trustkill records.

The album is split into three sections. This I can only assume echoes a theme that runs throughout the film and with titles like “In The Ashes They Shall Reap”, “Your Soul Is Mine” and “Cut Throat” the song choices seem like a no brainer but collectively they create the imagery you would expect from a Saw soundtrack. Thick in concrete layered metal mutilation this music inspired by the motion picture (or whatever they call a collection of songs which don’t actually feature in the film!) proves to be quite a cool metal compilation.

Horror soundtrack veterans Hatebreed set the pace with a thick slice of metal core and what better way to kick off a Saw soundtrack than with a song title like “In Ashes They Shall Reap”

The record offers a good selection of metal spanning most of the sub genres you would expect to be associated with a film of this nature; for hardcore fans you have Hatebreed and converge, for heavy metallers you have Shadows Fall and Chimaira, Goth metal addicts can appreciate the likes of Suicide Silence and theres even a bit of electro industrial metal thrown in with Nitzer Ebb and Mushroomhead.

There are only a few tracks I think this album could do without and for me those tracks are “Code of the Road” from Danko Jones and Type O Negative “Dead Again” They just don’t sit well with the other tracks but saying that they still meet the criteria for the album.

All in all this is a pretty consistent collection of heavy music, which will appeal to the people that appreciate all types of the metal spectrum.

4/5

Track Listing:

6 CHANCES:
01. Hatebreed "In Ashes They Shall Reap"
02. Lacuna Coil "The Last Goodbye" *
03. It Dies Today "Reckless Abandon"
04. Mushroomhead "Your Soul Is Mine" *
05. Chimaira "Warpath" *
06. Danko Jones "Code Of The Road"
6 LESSONS:
07. Suicide Silence "Genocide / Saw VI Remix" *
08. Memphis May Fire "Ghost In The Mirror"
09. Outbreak "The Countdown Begins" *
10. Shadows Fall "Still I Rise / Saw VI Remix" *
11. Type O Negative "Dead Again"
12. Converge "Dark Horse"
6 CHOICES:
13. Kittie "Cut Throat"
14. Nitzer Ebb "Never Known" *
15. Every Time I Die "Roman Holiday"
16. My My Misfire "The Sinatra"
17. The Flood "Lethal Injection"
18. James Brothers "More Than A Sin"
BONUS DIGITAL TRACKS:
19. 69 Eyes "We Own The Night"
20. Ventana "Watch Us Burn"
21. Miss May I " Forgive & Forget"
* UNRELEASED

'Saw VI (Soundtrack) is available now on Trustkill.

Ben Bridges