Mortal Kombat:
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack album by
Various artists
ReleasedAugust 15, 1995
Genre
Length68:28
LabelTVT
Mortal Kombat chronology
Mortal Kombat: The Album
(1994) 		Mortal Kombat (1995):
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(1995) 		Mortal Kombat (1995):
Original Motion Picture Score
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Mortal Kombat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the compilation album that accompanied the 1995 film Mortal Kombat. Three songs by Stabbing Westward were included in the movie, but were omitted from the soundtrack: "Lost", "Lies" and "Can't Happen Here", all of which appear on the album Ungod. Metal vocalist Burton C. Bell is the only artist on the album to appear twice; once with his primary band Fear Factory, and again with side-project GZR. The album features primarily electronic dance music (EDM) along with rock music.

Reception

Mortal Kombat was nominated for the Motion Picture Sound Editors, USA Golden Reel Award. It won the BMI Film & TV Awards BMI Film Music Award.[2] The soundtrack went Platinum[3] in less than a year reaching No. 10 on the Billboard 200,[4] and was included in the 2011 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition as the "most successful video game spin-off soundtrack album".[5] It was the first electronic dance music (EDM) record to receive a Platinum certification in the United States.[6] Its popularity inspired the album Mortal Kombat: More Kombat.

Track listing

Mortal Kombat
No.TitleArtistLength
1."A Taste of Things to Come"George S. Clinton0:49
2."Goodbye (Demo Version)"Gravity Kills3:10
3."Juke-Joint Jezebel (Giorgio Moroder Metropolis Mix)"KMFDM5:17
4."Unlearn (Josh Wink's Live Mix)"Psykosonik7:29
5."Control (Juno Reactor Instrumental)"Traci Lords6:26
6."Halcyon + On + On"Orbital9:24
7."Utah Saints Take on The Theme from Mortal Kombat"Utah Saints3:00
8."The Invisible"GZR3:43
9."Zero Signal"Fear Factory5:57
10."Burn"Sister Machine Gun4:45
11."Blood & Fire (Out of the Ashes Mix)"Type O Negative4:34
12."I Reject"Bile2:47
13."Twist the Knife (Slowly)"Napalm Death2:51
14."What U See/We All Bleed Red"Mutha's Day Out4:16
15."Techno Syndrome (Mortal Kombat)"The Immortals3:21
16."Goro Vs. Art"George S. Clinton feat. Buckethead2:59
17."Demon Warriors/Final Kombat"George S. Clinton3:49

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[12] Platinum 100,000^
United States (RIAA)[13] Platinum 1,000,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine (August 15, 1995). "Mortal Kombat [Original Soundtrack] - Original Soundtrack | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  2. ^ Awards for Mortal Kombat at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ "Search Results for Mortal Kombat". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved April 12, 2017.
  4. ^ "Mortal Kombat [Original Soundtrack] - Original Soundtrack | Awards". AllMusic. August 15, 1995. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  5. ^ J.C. Reeves (February 10, 2012). "'Mortal Kombat' Franchise Boasts Numerous Guinness World Records". Game Rant. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  6. ^ Couch, Aaron (August 18, 2015). "'Mortal Kombat': Untold Story of the Movie That "Kicked the Hell" Out of Everyone". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  7. ^ "Australiancharts.com – Soundtrack – Mortal Kombat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  8. ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Soundtrack – Mortal Kombat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  9. ^ "Charts.nz – Soundtrack – Mortal Kombat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  10. ^ "Soundtrack Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  11. ^ "Top Billboard 200 Albums – Year-End 1995". Billboard. Retrieved June 13, 2021.
  12. ^ "Canadian album certifications – Various Artists – Mortal Kombat - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack". Music Canada. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  13. ^ "American album certifications – Soundtrack – Mortal Kombat". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
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