Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel signs Slipknot and other heavy metal acts

January 10, 2004

With the January 13 release date for Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel on the PlayStation 2 and Xbox rapidly approaching, Interplay Entertainment Corp. has announced deals with a variety of metal bands to provide an intense atmosphere to the gameplay experience. The wildly popular nine-member sound machine Slipknot (brandishing uniform boiler suits and individual horror masks) is along for the ride.

Slipknot’s credentials include two platinum-selling albums -- each has changed the face of aggressive music as we know it today. They have left hundreds of thousands of fans bloodied and they spearhead an unstoppable music movement, as well as sales for Roadrunners Records.

"We are very excited to get Fallout out to the public. We wanted this game to feel very cohesive in the sense that all of the music was composed and/or arranged by musicians from the same genre of music; it's unlike anything we've seen before with metal music in a game. The dark and aggressive nature of this music, like the Fallout game itself, gives the sound track a feeling of honesty and depth from the musicians who do this best." states Gene Semel, Audio Director of Interplay Entertainment Corp.

Below is a full list of the soundtrack, with information hot off the press release:

• Killswitch Engage (Roadrunner Records) - providing a driving rhythm section and a dual guitar assault with music that both crushes and soothes, and Chimaira, with an almost-impenetrable sonic din and paint-shredding vocals.
• Devin Townsend (Heavy-Devy Music) of Strapping Young Lad (Century Media Records) contributes 30 minutes of ambient and battle music.
• Skinlab (Century Media Records) contributes two new songs and a premiere music video from their upcoming album - "The Nerve Damage Sessions" as well as some battle music from their current album "reVolting Room".
• (Earache Records) Society 1, an industrial-metal wrecking crew fronted by the shaman of debauchery, Matt Zane, and Cult of Luna, a crushing, hypnotic noise-core band from Sweden. Other groups include Celldweller (Position Music) and Craig "Stuart" Garfinkle (Midiot Music).

Join post-apocalyptic warfare waged on your PS2 on January 13, 2004. With an “M” for Mature ESRB rating, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel will retail for an MSRP of $49.95.

-Ramón V.

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