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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Interscope Records
Salesrank: 69761
Released: November 9, 1999 |
| Our Price: $1.95 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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End of Days Track Listing:
1. Camel Song - Korn
2. So Long - Everlast
3. Slow - Professional Murder Music
4. Crushed - Limp Bizkit
5. Oh My God - Guns N' Roses
6. Poison - Prodigy
7. Superbeast (Girl On A Motorcycle Mix) - Rob Zombie
8. Bad Influence - Eminem
9. Nobody's Real - Powerman 5000
10. I Wish I Had - Stroke
11. Sugar Kane - Sonic Youth
12. Wrong Way - Creed
Editorial Review:
Any movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger is bound to have a soundtrack designed to match his brawn at every turn. The big hype here is the first Guns N' Roses track since 1993 (if Axl Rose alone can be GNR). While the track "Oh My God" alone probably isn't solid enough to distinguish this soundtrack, unreleased cuts from Korn and Limp Bizkit and notable contributions from Sonic Youth, Rob Zombie, Prodigy, and Creed make this an impressive collection of hard rock at the millennium's end. For those interested in subtler moves, Everlast contribute the previously unreleased "So Long," which was allegedly written before the Columbine High School shootings in 1999 and serves as a haunting premonition of the tragedy. Its moody introspection is a suitable counterbalance to the over-the-top rhythms and rage sported throughout. Rapper Eminem is incredibly heated with the aptly named "Bad Influence." --Rob O'Connor
End of Days Reviews:
just wondering 
2006-10-19 - i believe it is this movie, although i haven't seen it in a while, that has a really good techno/piano song in it that i can't seem to find again. once i heard the song i really liked it but can't come up with anything when i search for it. please help.
Most strong, some weak but overall it's impressive 
2006-02-10 - I'm not a Guns N' Roses fan so the hype over their first studio effort since 93' was not what got me to buy this album. Actually, as imbarassing as this may be, what drew me to the album was an unreleased song by Limp Bizkit which turned out to be like the worst song here. The opener, Korns 'Camel Song' is great, an awsome track with some cool eerie guitar work. Everlast, one of my personal favorites, gives another great song with his unreleased track 'So Long' with haunting lyrics and great musicianship. As I said, a low point is Limps 'Crushed', even 'Oh My God' is better, and I don't really even like that song. Love Prodigy, just wish it were a new or unreleased track and not 'Poison' which was also used on the 'Jackel' soundtrack I believe. Still an awsome song. The Rob Zombie remix is killer, as is the original. Eminems track may not belong on a rock album but it's welcome. He blazes through offensive lyrics to a killer in your face beat and proves he is a master of the tongue. 'Bad Influence' is my favorite track here. Awsome. 'Nobodys Real' is decent, but again, nothing new...Falls a little short and then closes with Creed. Creed may not fit either but 'Wrong Way' is not entirly terrible and so it's forgiven. For the most part this album will not dissapoint, but it may not utterly impress if you get my drift.
Don't buy just for the gun n roses track 
2005-10-29 - If u like the other artists on this album, by al means buy this album. But if u just want the new gnr track... DONT BUY IT!!!
O My God is the worst gnr song i have ever heard, except maybe for My World. If your looking for classic gnr, you will be greatly dissapointed with O My God. O My God is an annoying 3 or so minutes of annoying industrial noise. It is incrediably annoying and it sounds nothing like Axl Rose. It is a pathetic excuse for gnr. Whoever said it sounded like appetite is wrong. This song is so bad it could never be up to par with any song on appetite. It is HORRIBLE!!! It sounds nothing like the original guns n roses. I purchased this album just for the new gnr, but it was a waste of money because i didn't really like any of the other bands that much.
If you like any of the other bands on this soundtrack buy it, but if u just want gnr, im sorry you will probably be greatly dissapointed.
Feeling nostalgic for the late 90s?
2005-10-25 - 3.5 Stars
The fall of 1999 saw the release of the film "End of Days" and its accompanying soundtrack.
The late 90s saw the tail end of the post-grunge era and the emergence of Nu-Metal or rap/metal. This soundtrack is a still shot or time capsule of that time. With a few exceptions, the "End of Days" soundtrack is more or less what you would hear if you tuned into a modern rock station in the late 90s. Nu-Metal was dark, masculine, and angry. Post-Grunge was a watered down version of the real thing.
"The Camel Song" by Korn is fairly representative of the whole Nu-Metal movement. It's heavy, has grueling guitars, screaming rap verses and tortured choruses, and not much melody. It sounds, as guitarist Slash once commented, like the "inside of a meat grinder." It is what it is; you'll either love it or hate it.
"So Long" by former House of Pain frontman Everlast, sounds derivative of his late 90s hit "What it's Like." "So Long" is actually just as good, and probably didn't get the attention of "What it's like" because the two sound alike. This dark, brooding song has a good hook and haunting melody.
"Slow" by "Professional Murder Music" is largely forgettable dance/metal filler.
Limp Bizkit's excellent "Crushed" is one of the band's best songs. The band had not yet slipped into mediocrity and self-parody. "Crushed" has a haunting, eerie beat and creepy background vocals.
The album's real selling point and highlight is the Guns N' Roses comeback single "Oh My God." It was the band's first new song in eight years, although it featured only original member W. Axl Rose. Rock fans are largely mixed on this song. People either seem to love it or hate it. Personally, I absolutely love it. It sounds a lot like Marilyn Manson or "The Downward Spiral" era Nine Inch Nails. It's an industrial tinged rocker, but still has the GN'R sound and structure. It has a very infectious, pounding disco beat and full throttle vocal assault. There is some confusion as to who plays on this track. It is: W. Axl Rose (vocals), Tommy Stinson (bass), Josh Freeze (drums), Robin Finck (guitar), Dave Navaro (guest guitar), Paul Huge (guitar), and Dizzy Reed (keyboards).
The inclusion of the Prodigy's "Poison" makes for a little variety and although released several years earlier, doesn't sound too out-of-place.
"Superbeast" by Rob Zombie sounds like every other White Zombie/Rob Zombie song. It's good, but not great.
Eminem's "Bad Influence" is one of the rapper's earliest singles. It has an infectious groove and rap-along verse. This was before Eminem became overexposed. It was a time when he was genuinely interesting.
Poweman 500's catchy "Nobody's Real" was the band's one big hit and enjoyed frequent airplay back in the late 90s. Although Powerman 500 wasn't the most memorable band, this song has stood up well.
Although Stroke (not "The Strokes") never got off the ground, their single "I Wish I Had" is one of the soundtrack's most memorable songs. This spacey mid-tempo number is akin to Pink Floyd.
"Sugar Kane" by Sonic Youth is a great song, but it seems a little out-of-place on a CD dominated by the likes of Creed, Limp Bizkit, and Korn.
Creed's "Long Way" is derivative of "Ten" era Pearl Jam. While this track isn't awful, it's a little dull and a rather anticlimactic way to end the album.
While the "End of Days" soundtrack isn't quite up there with the "Lost Highway," "Natural Born Killers" or "The Crow" soundtracks, it's still a good collection of songs. If you are an Axl Rose/Guns N' Roses fan, it's worth buying for "Oh My God" alone. Or, if you are already feeling nostalgic for the days of when Scott Stapp and Fred Durst dominated the radio, this CD is a good trip down memory lane.
Gave me faith in Chinese Democracy. 
2005-02-26 - I don't care about the other songs. Limp Bizkit, Rob Zombie, Eminem, Everlast, Sonic Youth - fine artists but that's not why I paid attention to this soundtrack (or anyone else for that matter). There's a reason a special preview is included on the DVD just for the soundtrack.
There's a reason the preview features the NEW Guns N' Roses song "Oh My God" whilst scrolling text across the screen: "NEW MUSIC BY GUNS N' ROSES."
There's a reason fanboys were drooling on the Internet before the MTV Movie Awards because they knew there was going to be a 15-second clip commercial for End of Days featuring...yep, you guessed it..."Oh My God" by Guns N' Roses.
Wow, a dream come true. At the time (1999) it was the first original song in eight years.
Before then everyone had been speculating as to whether Chinese Democracy was in the works at all.
Well, it is. It's 2005 now and I truly, firmly believe it will be released soon. Geffen isn't going to waste their $13 million + by throwing out the tracks. And after a while they're going to make Axl cough up his material. I'm betting they won't pass $20 million.
The good news here is that "Oh My God" is one of the best Guns N' Roses songs ever recorded - ironic considering the departure of Slash, Matt and Duff.
However if you're not a GN'R snob and not completely against Axl, try opening your ears and really listening to this song. It's great. No, it doesn't have an awesome guitar solo. But it's really hard and gritty - what Appetite for Destruction would sound like had it been processed in the day and age of Manson and Reznor.
I think this is better than most of the stuff Manson's done and a helluva lot better than anything Trent's done. "Industrial rock" tends to give me a headache - just lots of noise. However this song proves Axl is not only still able to write good lyrics (read the words - pretty deep all considered!) but still able to sing, which I doubted after hearing him perform "Madagascar" and other songs in Rio. (His voice sounded awful then, but if it's any consolation the edited Oh My God track sounds like he did back in '93, only a bit edgier given the nature of the song.)
This is GN'R/Axl once again showing us that they/he are able to be more than "just" rock musicians. They did hardcore metal, they did rock, they did country-western, they did rap-metal, they did rock ballads, soft ballads, and now this.
I love Guns N' Roses.
