The Crow: Salvation

(Koch)
by Scott Hefflon

The Crow: Salvation, as non-suck as this collection of hotshots is, it’s just another example of flogging a very, very dead horse and raping the remains. While neither the Scream nor The Crow series seemed to learn their lesson after having horrible sequels, I hear Scream3 ain’t bad. But I have zero faith in The Crow ever coming close to matching the original, which purists say was crap, but purists always say that. I find myself strangely drawn to The Matrix and its soundtrack again and again, but that could just be a lesser-of-two-evils scenario (meaning, duh, that while not perfect, The Matrix – both the movie and the soundtrack – offered a fresh take, some new ideas, and will probably be beaten into the ground with lousy sequels cuz that’s the way of the world).

The Crow: Salvation is smart enough to offer rock as well as dark metal and electronic music. And as with everything else, the gems are pretty easy to pick, as are the piles of steaming dogshit. You be the judge of which is which. Searching for salvation: Filter, Rob Zombie, The Infidels featuring Juliette Lewis (lyrics from Natural Born Killers kinda randomly layered over a throbbing beat – cool idea, but rather dull zone-out driving music when you get down to it), Kid Rock, Hole, The Flys, Monster Magnet, Sin, Tricky, Days of the New, Pitchshifter, Stabbing Westward, The Crystal Method, Static X featuring Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory covering Ministry’s early ’90s industrial metal hit “Burning Inside” (powerful at the time – though kinda boring when you think about, which we didn’t – and it’s weakened here), New American Shame (Atlantic’s version of Dreamwork’s Buckcherry), and Danzig.
(kochint.com)