Now that [b]MINISTRY[/b] has wrapped up its farewell [b]"C U La TouR"[/b], [b]Al Jourgensen[/b] is concentrating on a myriad of other projects at his El Paso, Texas-based [b]13th Planet[/b] empire. The first of these projects is the release of the [b]"Wicked Lake"[/b] soundtrack, set to arrive in stores on November 24, 2008 in conjunction with the film's October 7 DVD release.
In a rare public appearance, Jourgensen, along with the stars of “Wicked Lake”, will sign advance copies of the DVD on Thursday, Septeber 25 at the Virgin Megastore in Hollywood beginning at 7:00 p.m.
The Grammy-nominated Jourgensen, who produced the soundtrack, wrote, scored and recorded the music at his 13th Planet studios early this year. While “Wicked Lake” is Jourgensen’s debut scoring for a feature film, it’s not his first foray into soundtracks, as he wrote and performed tracks for Steven Spielberg’s “Artificial Intelligence: AI” (2001), Paul Verhoeven’s “RoboCop” (1987) and “The Matrix” (1999) — the soundtrack captured a Grammy.
The “Wicked Lake” soundtrack offers 15 tracks, most from 13th Planet’s stable of artists which includes MINISTRY, REVOLTING COCKS, PRONG, ASCENSION OF THE WATCHERS and FALSE ICONS. One gem is a previously unreleased MINISTRY track, “Cuz U R Next”, one of the last songs written by the late Paul Raven with Jourgensen, and features Raven on bass. Also on the soundtrack are two REVOLTING COCKS tracks, the brand new “Hookerbot3000”, and “Ten Million Ways to Die”, from the 2006 “Cocked & Loaded” CD that features BUTTHOLE SURFERS’ Gibby Haynes. In addition, MESHUGGAH’s “Combustion” and THREAT SIGNAL’s “As I Destruct” are featured. The complete track listing is below.
- “Evading” - ASCENSION OF THE WATCHERS
- “Residual Presence” - ASCENSION OF THE WATCHERS
- “Experiment in Terror” - LAIKA & THE COSMONAUTS
- “10 Million Ways to Die” - REVOLTING COCKS
- “Hookerbot3000” - REVOLTING COCKS
- “Bang A Gong” - MINISTRY & CO-CONSPIRATORS
- “Radar Love” - MINISTRY & CO-CONSPIRATORS
- “Decay” - FALSE ICONS
- “Cuz U R Next” - MINISTRY
- “Can’t Stop the Bleeding” - PRONG
- “No Justice” - PRONG
- “Combustion” - MESHUGGAH
- “As I Destruct” - THREAT SIGNAL
- “Nobody Knows What Killer Looks Like” - HEMLOCK
- “Khyber Pass [Wicked Instrumental]” - MINISTRY
“Wicked Lake”, which Jourgensen described as “‘Faster Pussycat Kill Kill’ gone very, very bad,” is the sordid supernatural tale of a group of four co-ed girls on a weekend getaway tailed by two clans of deranged male predatory perverts. The film was directed by Jourgensen’s good friend, filmmaker Zach Passero. Passero, whose past feature credits include “The Big, Weird and Normal” and “Motel: Glimpse”, directed MINISTRY’s video “Lieslieslies” (2006) as well as hand-rendering the animated video “Fire Engine” for Jourgensen’s side project, THE REVOLTING COCKS. Jourgensen and Passero first met on the set of MINISTRY’s “No W” video at Sonic Ranch, TX in 2004.
“Zach is one of the most talented, driven young artists I’ve met in a long time,” said Jourgensen. “We both have the same twisted penchant for dark humor, so it’s a match made in horror hell.”