Not only have I never seen the movie aside from a few clips, I'm really only familiar with Fastway from the videos for "All Fired Up" (pretty good tune) and "Tell Me" (the video is far more interesting than the song itself, though it can't compare to Priest's earlier guitar-aided bank robbery in the "Breaking the Law" vid).
One of the Trick or Treat scenes I have seen is the main character's mom going through some of his LPs, which all happen to be Combat releases. Any of these bands would have made for a far better soundtrack--obviously Possessed had no chance of being on the soundtrack for a commercially-released film, but I think Impaler would have been particularly appropriate thematically. I'd even gladly take Unveiling the Wicked-era Exciter.
Disappointingly, this disc only has hard rock tunes, with no metal at all. Given that it's a movie soundtrack, more accessible music is to be expected, but I figured they'd throw on at least one fast and heavy tune. No such luck. The music has much more of a slick L.A. hair band-y sound than those previous Fastway videos I was familiar with. The guitar licks often remind me of AC/DC, although I fully realize that comes from Fast Eddie's sharing boogie influences with the Young brothers rather than any direct influence.
So yeah, definitely not my kind of thing, and since I have no real history with the movie, there's not even a nostalgia or familiarity factor here for me. I would even say I prefer some of the songs King Kobra did for the Black Roses soundtrack than any of the songs here.
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