Threat (film)
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Threat is an award-winning independent film
about a straightedge
"hardcore kid" and a hip hop revolutionary
whose friendship is doomed by the intolerance of their respective street tribes. It is an ensemble film of kids living in New York City
in the aftermath of 9-11
, each of them suffering from a sense of doom brought on by dealing with HIV
, racism
, sexism
, class struggle
, and general nihilism
. The intellectual issues are played out amid an aesthetic of raw ultraviolence that has earned director Matt Pizzolo
both accolades and condemnations (such as Film Threat's rave review stating "great art should assail the status quo, and that is what Pizzolo and Nisa’s film has skillfully accomplished" http://www.filmthreat.com/reviews/8831/ in contrast to Montreal Film Journal's scathing review saying the film "openly glorifies murderous revolt, literally telling the audience to go out and beat up random people, just because").http://www.montrealfilmjournal.com/article.asp?A=A0000133 Unlike past urban dramas, the film does not outright condemn its characters' violent outbursts. Although it does show harsh consequences for acts of violence, numerous critics have pointed out that it is unclear whether or not the film intends to glorify violence and/or class conflict
.
, a team of neophyte filmmakers in their late teen and early 20s. Director Matt Pizzolo
was the eldest member of the crew: 21 years old when he wrote the script and 22 when shooting commenced. Pizzolo met filmmaking partner Katie Nisa at NYU
's Tisch School of the Arts
. Both were enrolled in the school's Dramatic Writing Program. Pizzolo left the program and lived out of a backpack in Manhattan's Lower East Side
while writing the first draft of Threat. Still at NYU, Nisa recruited film student Benjamin Brancato to join the project as cinematographer
and NYU business school student Carlos Puga to play the lead role. Pizzolo recruited fellow Long Island native Ben Knight
who was still a teenager at the time and put him to work as a production designer
for the film. Nisa also cast Keith Middleton when she saw him walking on St. Mark's Place
. Unknown to Nisa, Middleton was on his way to perform in the popular dance show Stomp
.
Kings Mob shot the film in a DIY
style that sharply contrasted with other more polished independent films of the mid 90s (sometimes referred to as Indiewood
). The DIY style focused less on aesthetic and more on authenticity. This style later picked up traction with various DiY-Video movements including the mumblecore
scene of the 2000s. Unlike most movies of the DIY-Video era to follow, Threat was shot on 16mm film.
Pizzolo interned at NYC film co-op Film/Video Arts, where he cleaned up after film classes in exchange for free access to cameras and lights while not in use. Nisa waitressed at East Village
diner 7A to pay for production supplies that "couldn't be borrowed or stolen." Initially, sound recording was to be handled by one of Nisa's film student friends. When he couldn't make it to the first day of production, he instead gave Nisa a 15 minute lesson on how to run the nagra
. She went on to be the film's sole sound recordist for the first months of production.
At the start of production, the crew consisted solely of Pizzolo, Nisa, Brancato, and Knight but over the course of production it grew to include over 200 young people from 5 different countries.
Although shot without permits on a shoestring budget by a team of non-professional first-time filmmakers, some critics have compared Threat to such iconic films as The Warriors http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/2006/threat/?OpenDocument http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/entertainment-today.html, Do the Right Thing
http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/entertainment-today.html, American History X
http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/2006/threat/?OpenDocument http://hour.ca/2006/02/02/itty-bitty-indie/, Slacker
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/020206/film2.html, Clerks
http://hour.ca/2006/02/02/itty-bitty-indie/, Romper Stomper
http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/2006/threat/?OpenDocument, Kids
http://blog.moviefone.com/2006/03/29/new-on-dvd-final-fantasy-vii-king-kong-memoirs-of-a-geisha/ http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/21456/threat/http://hour.ca/2006/02/02/itty-bitty-indie/ http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/urbmagazine.html http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/entertainment-today.html, Doom Generation http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/urbmagazine.html, and Suburbia
http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/urbmagazine.html. Critical response ranged from "easily one of the most important films of the decade" http://earcandymag.com/filmreviews02-06.htm to "there is no explanation, no logic, and no reckoning." http://www.thereeldeal.co/reviews/threat.html
Produced largely in the New York metalcore and hardcore punk scene
, Threat features guest appearances by members of Most Precious Blood from the Trustkill Records
label. Trustkill also contributed music to the film's score from Most Precious Blood, Bleeding Through
, Eighteen Visions
, and Terror
. Most of the film's score, however, was composed by Alec Empire
and his band Atari Teenage Riot
. The score was constructed by jungle-music
producer queque.
In keeping with the punk
and DiY
ideologies of the movie and their production company, Pizzolo and Nisa eschewed distribution offers from Hollywood studios. Initially, the film was released as an underground VHS tape and toured across the US and Europe, playing at non-traditional venues such as record stores, hip hop clubs, skateparks, and music festivals. One of the more notable non-traditional screenings took place during the Sundance Film Festival
at a Doc Martens shoe store across the street from Sundance's flagship Egyptian Theater. International press for the Sundance screenings launched years of touring which culminated with an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
, where music-video distributor HIQI Media signed on to distribute the film to theaters. Soon after, Pizzolo formed the punk rock cinema label HALO 8 Entertainment
and released Threat on DVD.
in Lausanne
, Switzerland
. http://www.luff.ch
In April 2007, Threat won the "First Feature Film - Special Mention" prize at the Rome Independent Film Festival in Rome
, Italy
. http://www.riff.it
courtesy of Alec Empire's DHR
label, and metalcore
courtesy of Trustkill Records
. The soundtrack was released by HALO 8 Entertainment
in January 2006.
and Judgment Night
, the album consists of mashups of hardcore punk
and metalcore
with breakcore
. The album was released by HALO 8 Entertainment in January 2006.
Independent film
An independent film, or indie film, is a professional film production resulting in a feature film that is produced mostly or completely outside of the major film studio system. In addition to being produced and distributed by independent entertainment companies, independent films are also produced...
about a straightedge
Straight edge
Straight edge is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs. It was a direct reaction to the sexual revolution, hedonism, and excess associated with punk rock. For some, this extends to not engaging in promiscuous sex, following a...
"hardcore kid" and a hip hop revolutionary
Revolutionary
A revolutionary is a person who either actively participates in, or advocates revolution. Also, when used as an adjective, the term revolutionary refers to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor.-Definition:...
whose friendship is doomed by the intolerance of their respective street tribes. It is an ensemble film of kids living in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
in the aftermath of 9-11
September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...
, each of them suffering from a sense of doom brought on by dealing with HIV
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome , a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening opportunistic infections and cancers to thrive...
, racism
Racism
Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
, sexism
Sexism
Sexism, also known as gender discrimination or sex discrimination, is the application of the belief or attitude that there are characteristics implicit to one's gender that indirectly affect one's abilities in unrelated areas...
, class struggle
Class struggle
Class struggle is the active expression of a class conflict looked at from any kind of socialist perspective. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote "The [written] history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle"....
, and general nihilism
Nihilism
Nihilism is the philosophical doctrine suggesting the negation of one or more putatively meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value...
. The intellectual issues are played out amid an aesthetic of raw ultraviolence that has earned director Matt Pizzolo
Matt Pizzolo
Matt Pizzolo is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early works were created in New York City's Lower East Side, where he lived for eight years before moving to Los Angeles...
both accolades and condemnations (such as Film Threat's rave review stating "great art should assail the status quo, and that is what Pizzolo and Nisa’s film has skillfully accomplished" http://www.filmthreat.com/reviews/8831/ in contrast to Montreal Film Journal's scathing review saying the film "openly glorifies murderous revolt, literally telling the audience to go out and beat up random people, just because").http://www.montrealfilmjournal.com/article.asp?A=A0000133 Unlike past urban dramas, the film does not outright condemn its characters' violent outbursts. Although it does show harsh consequences for acts of violence, numerous critics have pointed out that it is unclear whether or not the film intends to glorify violence and/or class conflict
Class conflict
Class conflict is the tension or antagonism which exists in society due to competing socioeconomic interests between people of different classes....
.
Summary
White, straight edge hardcore kid, Jim (Carlos Puga), and black, hip-hop radical, Fred (Keith Middleton), become friends living on New York's Lower East Side - both of them with the hope that their newfound brotherhood will bring solidarity to their disparate communities. Instead, the alliance triggers a violent race riot that spills into the city streets with devastatingly tragic consequences.Production
The film was produced by Kings MobKings Mob Productions
Kings Mob Productions is a DiY filmmaking and agitprop media-making "anti-corporation" dedicated to creating "new, dangerous, and thought-provoking media."-Background:...
, a team of neophyte filmmakers in their late teen and early 20s. Director Matt Pizzolo
Matt Pizzolo
Matt Pizzolo is an award-winning film director, screenwriter, and producer. His early works were created in New York City's Lower East Side, where he lived for eight years before moving to Los Angeles...
was the eldest member of the crew: 21 years old when he wrote the script and 22 when shooting commenced. Pizzolo met filmmaking partner Katie Nisa at NYU
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
's Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York University ....
. Both were enrolled in the school's Dramatic Writing Program. Pizzolo left the program and lived out of a backpack in Manhattan's Lower East Side
Lower East Side, Manhattan
The Lower East Side, LES, is a neighborhood in the southeastern part of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is roughly bounded by Allen Street, East Houston Street, Essex Street, Canal Street, Eldridge Street, East Broadway, and Grand Street....
while writing the first draft of Threat. Still at NYU, Nisa recruited film student Benjamin Brancato to join the project as cinematographer
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
and NYU business school student Carlos Puga to play the lead role. Pizzolo recruited fellow Long Island native Ben Knight
Ben Knight
Ben Knight is a typographic coordinator for the United Nations. In 2002, Knight joined the UN in New York City where he started working closely with Maxim Zhukov to help with multilingual typographic design teaching, solutions, and co-ordination. Knight took over the responsibility UN typographic...
who was still a teenager at the time and put him to work as a production designer
Production designer
In film and television, a production designer is the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts. Production designers have one of the key creative roles in the creation of motion pictures and television. Working directly with the...
for the film. Nisa also cast Keith Middleton when she saw him walking on St. Mark's Place
St. Mark's Place (Manhattan)
Saint Mark's Place is a street in the East Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is named after St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery on 10th Street at Second Avenue. St. Mark's Place, which is a section of 8th Street, runs from Third Avenue to Avenue A...
. Unknown to Nisa, Middleton was on his way to perform in the popular dance show Stomp
Stomp (dance troupe)
Stomp is a percussion group that uses the body and ordinary objects to create a physical theatre performance.-History and performances:...
.
Kings Mob shot the film in a DIY
DIY ethic
The DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks oneself as opposed to having others who are more experienced or able complete them for one's behalf. It promotes the idea that an ordinary person can learn to do more than he or she thought was possible...
style that sharply contrasted with other more polished independent films of the mid 90s (sometimes referred to as Indiewood
Indiewood
Indiewood is the alternate pathway to creating films other than the Hollywood Studio System. Many exceptional filmmakers have found creative freedom in their work by creating films outside the Hollywood Major Studio System.-Differences from Hollywood:...
). The DIY style focused less on aesthetic and more on authenticity. This style later picked up traction with various DiY-Video movements including the mumblecore
Mumblecore
Mumblecore is an American independent film movement that arose at the turn of the 21st century. Filmmakers associated with the movement include Andrew Bujalski, Lynn Shelton, Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass, Aaron Katz, Joe Swanberg, and Barry Jenkins....
scene of the 2000s. Unlike most movies of the DIY-Video era to follow, Threat was shot on 16mm film.
Pizzolo interned at NYC film co-op Film/Video Arts, where he cleaned up after film classes in exchange for free access to cameras and lights while not in use. Nisa waitressed at East Village
East Village, Manhattan
The East Village is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, lying east of Greenwich Village, south of Gramercy and Stuyvesant Town, and north of the Lower East Side...
diner 7A to pay for production supplies that "couldn't be borrowed or stolen." Initially, sound recording was to be handled by one of Nisa's film student friends. When he couldn't make it to the first day of production, he instead gave Nisa a 15 minute lesson on how to run the nagra
Nagra
Nagra is the trademark referring to any of the series of mostly battery-operated portable professional audio recorders produced by Kudelski SA, based in Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland....
. She went on to be the film's sole sound recordist for the first months of production.
At the start of production, the crew consisted solely of Pizzolo, Nisa, Brancato, and Knight but over the course of production it grew to include over 200 young people from 5 different countries.
Although shot without permits on a shoestring budget by a team of non-professional first-time filmmakers, some critics have compared Threat to such iconic films as The Warriors http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/2006/threat/?OpenDocument http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/entertainment-today.html, Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing
Do the Right Thing is a 1989 American dramedy produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee, who is also a featured actor in the film. Other members of the cast include Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson, Giancarlo Esposito, Bill Nunn, and John Turturro. It is also notably the...
http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/entertainment-today.html, American History X
American History X
American History X is a 1998 American drama film directed by Tony Kaye and starring Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. It was distributed by New Line Cinema....
http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/2006/threat/?OpenDocument http://hour.ca/2006/02/02/itty-bitty-indie/, Slacker
Slacker (film)
Slacker is an American independent film written and directed by Richard Linklater, who also appears in the film. Slacker was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize - Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991.-Plot summary:...
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2006/020206/film2.html, Clerks
Clerks
Clerks is a 1994 independent comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances...
http://hour.ca/2006/02/02/itty-bitty-indie/, Romper Stomper
Romper Stomper
-Awards:The film was nominated for nine Australian Film Institute Awards. It won Best Achievement in Sound, Best Actor in a Lead Role and Best Original Music Score.-Box office and Reception:Romper Stomper grossed $3,165,034 at the box office in Australia,...
http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/2006/threat/?OpenDocument, Kids
Kids (film)
Kids is a 1995 drama film written by Harmony Korine and directed by Larry Clark.The film features Chloë Sevigny, Leo Fitzpatrick, Justin Pierce, Harold Hunter, and Rosario Dawson, all of them in their debut performances...
http://blog.moviefone.com/2006/03/29/new-on-dvd-final-fantasy-vii-king-kong-memoirs-of-a-geisha/ http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/21456/threat/http://hour.ca/2006/02/02/itty-bitty-indie/ http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/urbmagazine.html http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/entertainment-today.html, Doom Generation http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/urbmagazine.html, and Suburbia
Suburbia (film)
Suburbia, also known as Rebel Streets and The Wild Side, is a 1984 film written and directed by Penelope Spheeris about suburban punks who run away from home. The kids take up a minimalist, punk lifestyle by squatting in abandoned suburban tract homes...
http://www.medusapr.com/press/threat/urbmagazine.html. Critical response ranged from "easily one of the most important films of the decade" http://earcandymag.com/filmreviews02-06.htm to "there is no explanation, no logic, and no reckoning." http://www.thereeldeal.co/reviews/threat.html
Produced largely in the New York metalcore and hardcore punk scene
New York hardcore
New York hardcore refers to hardcore punk and metalcore music created in New York City and to the subculture associated with that music. New York hardcore grew out of the hardcore scene established in Washington, D.C., by bands such as Bad Brains and Minor Threat. Hardcore '81 is an album by the...
, Threat features guest appearances by members of Most Precious Blood from the Trustkill Records
Trustkill Records
Trustkill Records was an American record label that started as a hardcore punk fanzine in April 1993. It started releasing hardcore, metal and rock records and merchandise in 1994...
label. Trustkill also contributed music to the film's score from Most Precious Blood, Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1999, the band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore punk, symphonic black metal, and melodic death metal...
, Eighteen Visions
Eighteen Visions
Eighteen Visions was an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in October of 1995, the group was one of the first practitioners involved in the metalcore genre...
, and Terror
Terror (band)
Terror is a hardcore punk band from Los Angeles, California. Their second album One with the Underdogs sold over 40,000 copies. They have also been on tours throughout Europe , Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Mexico and South America...
. Most of the film's score, however, was composed by Alec Empire
Alec Empire
Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
and his band Atari Teenage Riot
Atari Teenage Riot
'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...
. The score was constructed by jungle-music
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
producer queque.
In keeping with the punk
Punk ideology
Punk ideologies are a group of varied social and political beliefs associated with the punk subculture. In its original incarnation, the punk subculture was primarily concerned with concepts such as rebellion, anti-authoritarianism, individualism, free thought and discontent...
and DiY
DIY ethic
The DIY ethic refers to the ethic of self-sufficiency through completing tasks oneself as opposed to having others who are more experienced or able complete them for one's behalf. It promotes the idea that an ordinary person can learn to do more than he or she thought was possible...
ideologies of the movie and their production company, Pizzolo and Nisa eschewed distribution offers from Hollywood studios. Initially, the film was released as an underground VHS tape and toured across the US and Europe, playing at non-traditional venues such as record stores, hip hop clubs, skateparks, and music festivals. One of the more notable non-traditional screenings took place during the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
at a Doc Martens shoe store across the street from Sundance's flagship Egyptian Theater. International press for the Sundance screenings launched years of touring which culminated with an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is a three-day annual music and arts festival, organized by Goldenvoice and held at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, in the Inland Empire's Coachella Valley...
, where music-video distributor HIQI Media signed on to distribute the film to theaters. Soon after, Pizzolo formed the punk rock cinema label HALO 8 Entertainment
HALO 8 Entertainment
HALO-8 Entertainment is a transmedia entertainment company specializing in cinema, genre graphic novels, midnight movies, music-driven lifestyle videos, and animation...
and released Threat on DVD.
Awards
In October 2006, Threat won the Grand Prize for Best Feature at the Lausanne Underground Film and Music FestivalLausanne Underground Film and Music Festival
The Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, or LUFF, is a film festival and music festival devoted to underground film and music. It is held each year in Lausanne, Switzerland. It began with the formation of the LUFF Association For The Promotion of Independent Cinema. The festival thus rests...
in Lausanne
Lausanne
Lausanne is a city in Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland, and is the capital of the canton of Vaud. The seat of the district of Lausanne, the city is situated on the shores of Lake Geneva . It faces the French town of Évian-les-Bains, with the Jura mountains to its north-west...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
. http://www.luff.ch
In April 2007, Threat won the "First Feature Film - Special Mention" prize at the Rome Independent Film Festival in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
. http://www.riff.it
Threat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Threat's soundtrack consists mainly of digital hardcoreDigital hardcore
Digital hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk incorporating influences from electronic music. Digital hardcore fuses elements of hardcore punk with various forms of electronic music...
courtesy of Alec Empire's DHR
Digital Hardcore Recordings
Digital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...
label, and metalcore
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
courtesy of Trustkill Records
Trustkill Records
Trustkill Records was an American record label that started as a hardcore punk fanzine in April 1993. It started releasing hardcore, metal and rock records and merchandise in 1994...
. The soundtrack was released by HALO 8 Entertainment
HALO 8 Entertainment
HALO-8 Entertainment is a transmedia entertainment company specializing in cinema, genre graphic novels, midnight movies, music-driven lifestyle videos, and animation...
in January 2006.
Track listing
- "Night Of Violence" - Alec EmpireAlec EmpireAlec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
- "Start The Riot" - Atari Teenage RiotAtari Teenage Riot'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...
- "Into The Death" - Atari Teenage Riot
- "Rage" - Atari Teenage Riot feat. Tom MorelloTom MorelloThomas Baptiste "Tom" Morello is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist best known for his tenure with the bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, his acoustic solo act The Nightwatchman, and his newest group, Street Sweeper Social Club...
& D-Stroy - "Sick To Death" - Atari Teenage Riot
- "Get Up While You Can" - Atari Teenage Riot
- "Gotta Get Out" - Alec Empire
- "Common Enemy" - Panic DHH
- "Wanna Peel" - EC8OREC8OREC8OR is a German digital hardcore band founded in 1995 by Patric Catani and Gina V. D'Orio and signed by Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings record label...
- "Number Seven With A Bullet" - Bleeding ThroughBleeding ThroughBleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1999, the band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore punk, symphonic black metal, and melodic death metal...
- "The Great Red Shift" - Most Precious Blood
- "One Hell Of A Prize Fighter" - Eighteen VisionsEighteen VisionsEighteen Visions was an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in October of 1995, the group was one of the first practitioners involved in the metalcore genre...
- "Overcome" - TerrorTerror (band)Terror is a hardcore punk band from Los Angeles, California. Their second album One with the Underdogs sold over 40,000 copies. They have also been on tours throughout Europe , Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Mexico and South America...
- "Drone" - Eyes Like Knives
- "mPathik" - Queque
- "heVn" - Queque
- "I Am A Threat" - King David
- "Kids Are United" - Atari Teenage Riot
Threat: Music That Inspired the Movie
In addition to the Threat soundtrack, Halo8 produced and released the compilation Threat: Music That Inspired the Movie. In the tradition of soundtracks featuring collaborations/remixes, from such films as SpawnSpawn (film)
Spawn is a 1997 American superhero film loosely based on the comic book of the same name, by Todd McFarlane and published by Image Comics. Directed and co-written by Mark A.Z. Dippé , the film stars Michael Jai White in the leading role...
and Judgment Night
Judgment Night (film)
Judgment Night is a 1993 action thriller film directed by Stephen Hopkins and starring Emilio Estévez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jeremy Piven and Stephen Dorff as a group of friends on the run from a group of drug dealers after they witness a murder...
, the album consists of mashups of hardcore punk
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
and metalcore
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
with breakcore
Breakcore
Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...
. The album was released by HALO 8 Entertainment in January 2006.
Track listing
- "Pandemic" - Most Precious Blood vs. Alec EmpireAlec EmpireAlec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
- "World At War" - Agnostic FrontAgnostic FrontAgnostic Front is an American hardcore band. The band began playing hardcore similar to their contemporaries, and were thrust to the forefront of the burgeoning New York hardcore scene in the mid-1980s with their widely regarded 1984 classic Victim in Pain before evolving to incorporate thrash...
vs. Schizoid - "Ghost In The Machine" - Inside Out vs. Oktopus from DälekDälekdälek is an American experimental hip hop duo from Newark, New Jersey. The group is composed of MC dälek and the Oktopus...
- "World Ablaze" (Threat mix) - Killswitch EngageKillswitch EngageKillswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999 after the disbandment of Overcast and Aftershock. Killswitch Engage's current lineup consists of vocalist Howard Jones, bassist Mike D'Antonio, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, and drummer...
vs. EdgeyEdgeyEdgey is an experimental music, industrial and breakcore musical project from New York City. Stephen James Knight is the production mind behind the creations, also denoting a side project, for this moniker... - "Overkill" - TerrorTerror (band)Terror is a hardcore punk band from Los Angeles, California. Their second album One with the Underdogs sold over 40,000 copies. They have also been on tours throughout Europe , Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, Mexico and South America...
vs. Enduser - "Champagne Enemaz" - Eighteen VisionsEighteen VisionsEighteen Visions was an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in October of 1995, the group was one of the first practitioners involved in the metalcore genre...
vs. Otto Von SchirachOtto von SchirachOtto von Schirach is an IDM and breakcore artist from Miami, Florida. He is of Cuban/German descent.He has released most of his work on the Schematic and Beta Bodega labels, and was featured in the 2002 documentary Electro-Dziska.... - "Zolobovine" - Gorilla BiscuitsGorilla BiscuitsGorilla Biscuits are a New York City-based vegan straight edge hardcore band consisting of Anthony "Civ" Civarelli, Walter Schreifels, Arthur Smilios, Alex Brown and Luke Abbey. The band is currently signed to Revelation Records.-Early career:...
vs. Defragmentation - "Cannibal Kitten" - The Icarus LineThe Icarus LineThe Icarus Line is an American hard rock band from Los Angeles, California.The Icarus Line was formed out of the ashes of high school punk group Kanker Sores...
vs. The End - "Slapped With An X" - Vision of DisorderVision of DisorderVision of Disorder is a hardcore punk band from Long Island, New York, US. Vision of Disorder disbanded in 2002, but reunited from time to time over the next six years. In October 2008, they announced that they would record a new studio album...
vs. The TyrantThe TyrantThe Tyrant is a 2008 novel by British writer Ryan A. Murray. It chronicles the actions of a secret cabal of heroes fighting to save the world from a malevolent enemy beyond space and time.... - "Bring It" - JudgeJudge (band)Judge was a New York-based straight edge band; formed in 1987 by Youth of Today guitarist, John "Porcell" Porcelly, and former Youth of Today drummer, Mike "Judge" Ferraro.-History:...
vs. Bill Youngman - "Stalwart Carapace" - Youth Of TodayYouth of TodayYouth of Today is an American hardcore punk straight edge band, formed in 1985 and still in activity. The band played a major role in establishing the Youth Crew subculture of hardcore, both espousing and evolving the philosophies of the straight edge and vegetarian lifestyles.-History:Youth Of...
vs. EdgeyEdgeyEdgey is an experimental music, industrial and breakcore musical project from New York City. Stephen James Knight is the production mind behind the creations, also denoting a side project, for this moniker... - "Deathbed" - Bleeding ThroughBleeding ThroughBleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1999, the band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore punk, symphonic black metal, and melodic death metal...
vs. HecateHecate (artist)Hecate is an American/Austrian experimental industrial and breakcore musician who lives in Berlin, Germany. She takes her name from the Greek goddess of sorcery Hecate. She uses sex as a major topic in her music, such as in the tracks "Hecate Jacks Off The Jackal" and "The Magick Of Female... - "I Know That You're Lying" - Today Is The DayToday is the DayToday Is the Day is an experimental noise rock/metal/grindcore band from Nashville, Tennessee. They have a diverse sound that includes influences from alternative rock, grindcore, & progressive rock among other genres...
vs. darph/nadeR - "Star Buried In My Yard" - GlassjawGlassjawGlassjaw is a four-piece rock band from Long Island, New York. The band is fronted by vocalist Daryl Palumbo and guitarist Justin Beck, and have undergone numerous line-up changes since their inception...
vs. Enduser - "Don't Step" - Minor ThreatMinor ThreatMinor Threat was an American hardcore punk band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1980 and disbanded in 1983. The band was relatively short-lived, but had a strong influence on the hardcore punk music scene, both stylistically and in establishing a "do it yourself" ethic for music distribution and...
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External links
- Threat Synopsis and reviews of the movie at threatmovie.com