Aural Kombat: The Unexpected Success and Enduring Impact of the 1995 Mortal Kombat Movie Soundtrack

Here’s a fun article: A long look at the soundtrack to the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie and how its incredible mix of fairly underground music inspired generations of young listeners to choose their destinies in the worlds of EDM and metal. This was my personal introduction to death metal at the tender age of ten – this was the music I was longing to hear but didn’t know existed, and it literally redirected the course of my life. More broadly, it was simply a top-tier soundtrack in an era where soundtracks were still important works of art, perfectly encapsulating the gritty action of 90s tech-noir films.

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(I’m not sure why the publisher chose to use images from the recent MK movie instead of the one being discussed but whatever!)