The Hammer Guy Is at It Again Lyrics
How Jonathan Davis became "a 400-year-former vampire" to write songs for Queen Of The Damned
A former mortuary banana with a morbid penchant for collecting series killer memorabilia, Korn frontman Jonathan Davis was the perfect person to compose the soundtrack to a movie near an immortal rock star vampire.
The moving picture was 2002'due south Queen Of The Damned, based on the 1988 book of the same name by goth-queen writer Anne Rice, itself a follow upward to her fang-centric blockbusters Interview With A Vampire and The Vampire Lestat.
The movie starred Irish actor Stuart Townsend as vampire-turned stone star Lestat and R&B superstar Aaliyah as his lover/nemesis Akasha, aka the Queen Of The Damned of the championship. Manager Michael Rymer wanted a suitably epic set of songs for Lestat to sing in the motion picture, so he turned to Davis – then riding high on the dorsum of a string of multi-platinum albums with Korn – and songwriting partner, film composer Richard Gibbs.
The pair met with Rymer, but they told him they didn't just want to write Lestat's songs – they also wanted to write the score. "I think the moment when I feel similar we really got the job was… in the books and the movie, the vampire Lestat plays violin, and in the script, it fifty-fifty mentioned 'Paganini-fashion violin' – a classical violinist," Gibbs tells Metallic Hammer. "And I looked at Michael and I said, 'That's kind of been done to death, and we tin can certainly practise that, just I have a different pitch for you.' And Michael said, 'What'south that?' And I said, 'Well, I know this guy Shankar.''
He's referring Indian composer and virtuoso violinist Shankar, who had had worked with Peter Gabriel on the Grammy honour-winning soundtrack for 1988's The Last Temptation Of Christ. "I started explaining who Shankar was, and I just saw Michael's face light up," says Gibbs. "He was a huge fan."
A confirmed night owl, the singer relished the take chances to embody an immortal rock star. "I had to become Lestat, and I read the books, and wrote lyrics about being a fucking 400-yr-quondam vampire, and it was so fucking fun," he says.
Gibbs joined Korn on the road, and the pair would piece of work on songs after each bear witness until the sun came up the side by side morning time. Davis laid down the vocals for Townsend to mime to, enlisting Korn bandmates Head and Munky to play guitar, plus Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers and Shankar on violin. They recorded eight songs, from which Michael Rymer picked five for the movie: Not Meant For Me, Forsaken, Arrangement, Redeemer and Slept And then Long.
The moving-picture show'southward soundtrack was snapshot of the nu metal era. As well as the songs Davis and Gibbs had written, it also featured Papa Roach'due south Dead Cell, Disturbed's Downward With The Sickness and, during i sexual practice scene, Deftones' Modify (In The Business firm Of Flies).
But there was some bad news for Davis. His label gave permission for his voice to appear in the film, but not on the accompanying soundtrack album. Equally a outcome, he and Gibbs were forced to re-record the songs with invitee vocalists including Chester Bennington of Linkin Park and Disturbed's David Draiman. The Korn man was understandably unhappy at the conclusion.
"Oh, that fucking pissed me off!" he says. "I was so fucking mad, like, 'Are you kidding me? You know how difficult I worked on this, right?'"
Davis could take some solace that although the picture show itself was crucified by critics when it was released in the leap of 2002, the soundtrack was one of its few saving graces. More importantly, it allowed the vocalist to step outside of his comfort zone.
"Information technology totally did. It gave me the confidence to reach out and start doing more," he says. "My solo record, [2018'southward] Blackness Labyrinth, is in that slot too. That's simply what I write; I write night, vampiric music."
Read the full story of the making of Queen Of The Damned, including a brand new interview with Jonathan Davis, in the new issue of Metal Hammer, out now .
Source: https://www.loudersound.com/features/jonathan-davis-queen-of-the-damned-unreleased-songs
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