Quite a mix - and that's just the first three tracks.
"At the Opera Tonight" starts off strong with parts for all the major players, a snarl of guitar and pounding drums underscoring haunting vocals that build and layer within this opera within an opera before drifting into "Crucifixus," a medieval chant crossed with a spooky Christmas Carol that leads into "Things You See In a Graveyard," featuring Paul Sorvino's snarling, cackling Scroogelike character giving away plot points as the chorus cries out over an industrial drum and bass loop.
To that end, the music tells the entire story: there are 57 songs in the film, of which 22 are on the soundtrack (featured slightly out of sequence, if Wikipedia is accurate).
If you want spoilers, check out Wikipedia all you'll get here is the fact that this story is set in the near future, in a world where you can finance your replacement organs and have to hope and pray that the Repo Man doesn't come to get them back. Blade Runner meets Rocky Horror? Perhaps more like Baz Luhrmann meets Black Parade. The Repo! The Genetic Opera Soundtrack features an amalgamation of musical genres, from industrial metal to goth rock, opera to punk, cabaret to jazz. With a cast like that, all performing their own songs, you might expect something eclectic, and that's the understatement of the year. Blade Runner meets the Rocky Horror Picture Show, is how people are describing Repo! The Genetic Opera, a rock opera from the man who gave the world a trilogy of Saw movies that stars the likes of Anthony Stewart Head (of Buffy fame), Alexa Vega (Hairspray), Paul Sorvino (classical opera singer), Sarah Brightman (international recording artist), Paris Hilton (of Paris Hilton fame) and none other than Ogre (Skinny Puppy).
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