Various: Dracula 2000

(Dimension/Sony)

Herald rating: * * * *

Review: Graham Reid

The band names alone tell you the kind of soundtrack Wes Craven wanted for his neck-suckin' horror flick: Disturbed, Slayer, Pantera, Flybanger ...

Yep, this is heavy and hard out. Marilyn Manson guests with Godhead (the first band off the rank at his new label); Linkin Park (who are being billed as the new Limp Bizkit) weigh in with a blistering techno-metal thrash on One Step Closer, which includes the throat-searing yell of "shut up."

Saliva get away the best song title with Your Disease.

A noisy, dark parent-baiting racket which suggests Dracula in 2000 hung around with the smokers behind the bike shed and probably didn't play well with others.