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1995 soundtrack album by Various artists
Mortal Kombat: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Released August 15, 1995 Genre Length 68 :28 Label TVT
Professional ratings Review scores Source Rating 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 .
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 .[citation needed ] The soundtrack went Platinum [ 2] in less than a year reaching No. 10 on the Billboard 200 ,[ 3] and was included in the 2011 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition as the "most successful video game spin-off soundtrack album".[ 4] It was the first electronic dance music (EDM) record to receive a Platinum certification in the United States.[ 5] Its popularity inspired the album Mortal Kombat: More Kombat .
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