The soundtrack information for SAW 4 was released yesterday. If you want to read the full press release click the more button below, it’s really long so I didn’t want to throw off the main page.

ARTISTSi?? ADDICTION RECORDS UNLEASHES SAW IV ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK

OCTOBER 23, 2007; CD ACCOMPANIED BY DIGITAL, EXTENDED DIGITAL RELEASES

Drowning Pool, Sixx: A.M., Nitzer Ebb, Avenged Sevenfold, From Autumn to Ashes, Submersed, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Charlie Clouser Likely Answers to Question What Would Jigsaw Listen To?

LOS ANGELES, October 1, 2007 i?? i??When we were choosing songs for the i??Saw IVi?? soundtrack, we asked ourselves, i??What kind of music would the i??Sawi?? characters Jigsaw and Amanda listen to?i??i?? reveals Jonathan Scott Miller, principal of Artistsi?? Addiction Records, which will issue Saw IV Original Soundtrack on CD and as a digital release October 23, 2007; an extended digital release will follow in November. Miller served as soundtrack producer alongside Artistsi?? Addiction principals Jonathan Platt and Jonathan McHugh (i??Saw IVi?? producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg are executive soundtrack producers).

The answer to this pivotal question, as any fan of the hit i??Sawi?? film series would guess, are the dangerous, dramatic strains of hard rock, metal and industrial music. These sounds are represented on Saw IV Original Soundtrack by giants of those genres i?? Nitzer Ebb, who unveil highly anticipated new material with the hard-hitting i??Payroll (JohnO Mix),i?? Ministry (i??Life Is Goodi??), Skinny Puppy (i??Spasmolytic [Deftones Remix (Habitual Mix)]),i?? i??Sawi?? composer/Nine Inch Nails alum Charlie Clouser (i??Just Beguni??) and Sixx: A.M., fronted by Mi??tley Cri??e bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx (i??Tomorrowi??) i?? as well as established bands whoi??ve been influenced by them, including Drowning Pool (i??Shamei??) and Avenged Sevenfold (i??Eternal Resti??), and up-and-comers forging a similarly creative path like From Autumn to Ashes (i??On the Offensivei??) and Submersed (i??Better Think Againi??).

Aside from occupying a certain punishing position on the sonic spectrum, many of these acts also have in common an abiding love for all things i??Saw.i?? Attests Miller: i??A lot of these artists are huge fans of the franchise, and their music really relates to it.i?? He points out that Solidium (i??Trappedi??) are also devotees of modern horror films in general and that Oxygen is so enamored of the i??Sawi?? series that their contribution to Saw IV Original Soundtrack, i??Do You Want to Play a Game,i?? takes its title and thematic thrust directly from the films. Moreover, Saw IV Original Soundtrack is itself an i??inspired byi?? collection. Aside from i??Just Begun,i?? an excerpt form Charlie Clouseri??s score, the songs comprising this companion piece are not heard in the film; instead, their selection was inspired by the film.

Joining Clouser and company on Saw IV Original Soundtrack are aesthetically likeminded up-and-comers Saosin (i??Collapsei??), the Newport Beach, California, outfit known for their unrelenting intensity; Jacksonville, Floridai??s post-hardcore quintet The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus (i??Misery Loves Its Companyi??); Buffalo, N.Y., modern metal act Every Time I Die (i??Wei??rewolfi??); Roman industrial darlings Dope Stars Inc. (i??Beatcrusheri??); violin-wielding, Chicago-based singer-songwriter Emilie Autumn (i??Dead Is the New Alivei??); Los Angelesi?? classically inclined metalcore unit The Human Abstract (i??Crossing the Rubiconi??); Revere, Massachusettsi?? death-metallic The Red Chord (i??Dead Prevailedi??); and Fueled by Fire (i??Thrash Is Backi??), whose fast i??ni?? loud ferocity emanates from Norwalk, California.

Those who share Jigsaw and Amandai??s likely taste in music may want to collect all three incarnations of Saw IV Original Soundtrack. i??Just Begun,i?? for instance, is available on the CD and second, extended digital version but not on the first digital release. Avenged Sevenfoldi??s i??Eternal Resti?? and Human Abstracti??s i??Crossing the Rubicon,i?? meanwhile, are exclusive to the CD. Conversely, the tracks i??Just Another Day,i?? from Collinz Room, and i??Dead and Gone,i?? from The Absence, are strictly found on the digital releases.

For Miller, the presence of Clouser, whose indelible work on the i??Sawi?? movies has landed him in the upper echelon of 21st-century film composers, is definitely a selling point of the i??Saw IVi?? soundtrack. In 2004, IGN.com described his work as i??the fine art of composing a bone-chilling, organically enriched industrial score.i?? Says Miller: i??A lot of people who doni??t really know him from his Nine Inch Nails days are now major fans of Charliei??s music. We feel very lucky to have him on the soundtrack.i??

Still, the Saw IV Original Soundtrack entry perhaps closest to the soundtrack produceri??s heart is Nitzer Ebbi??s i??Payroll.i?? i??Hearing something new from Nitzer Ebb is a thrill,i?? Miller confides. i??But getting something new from them for this album is something I never could have imagined.i??

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About Artistsi?? Addiction Records

Artistsi?? Addiction Records, formed in 2005 by principal Jonathan Scott Miller, encompasses Artistsi?? Addiction Music Publishing, Treadstone Records and Stop! Go music supervision. The multifaceted companyi??s mission is to bring consumers and clients the finest in branded entertainment and music supervision. This includes soundtracks to contemporary films and television shows, album releases from established artists, and music supervision of various high-profile films, television programs and commercials.