 NEW YORK (Eidos press release) - Eidos, one of the world's leading publishers and developers of entertainment software, today announced the hard hitting in-game soundtrack for Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood. The sequel to the genre-bending phenomenon Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This At Home, Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood offers a soundtrack featuring contributions from legendary artists, today's hottest acts, and tomorrow's industry leaders.
The in-game soundtrack delivers a direction that further refines and voices the sound of Backyard Wrestling and today's youth.
"With the soundtrack for Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood we are building on the nearly unanimous positive feedback that the original Backyard Wrestling soundtrack received," says Kevin Gill, global brand manager/soundtrack supervisor at Eidos.
"This time around we are drilling even deeper into the past with the music that inspired today's bands, the present with today's hottest acts, and looking to the future to break the next big groups NOW. The BYW2: There Goes the Neighborhood soundtrack is THE DEFINITIVE hard rock soundtrack." The Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood soundtrack boasts a healthy selection of over 50 hard hitting tracks. The ample list balances the melodic, yet urgent "punky" sounds of today's youth, a strong selection of modern music's heaviest bands, and a healthy sampling of dynamic hip hop that thinks outside the box. Many legendary artists that have influenced much of the sound of today's generation will make their FIRST EVER appearance on an in-game soundtrack. The following is the list of confirmed artists lending their talents to the official in-game soundtrack:
 * Body Count - There Goes the Neighborhood
* Andrew WK - Your Rules
* Kool Keith feat. Kut Masta Kurt and Motion Man - Serve 'Em A Sentence
* T.S.O.L. - Serious
* Hoobastank - Out of control
* Insane Clown Posse - Juggalo Paradise
* Mudvayne - Silenced
* Dizzee Rascal - Just a Rascal
* KRS-One - Get Your Self Up
* Gwar - Gor Gor
* Hazen Street - Are you Ready?
* Murphy's Law - Vicky Crown
* Gorilla Biscuits - New Direction
* Shadows Fall - Destroyer of Senses
* Sick of It All - On The Brink
* Bad Brains - Soulcraft
* Kjell Vistad - Wicked Style
* ABK - Gang Related
* Thousand Foot Krutch - Rawkfist
* Twiztid - On The Other End
* Stamping Ground - Don't Need A Reason To Hate
* Six and Violence - Die for Fun
* Hazen Street - All That
* Boys Night Out - I Got Punched in the Nose for Sticking My Face in Other People's Business
* Every Time I die - Godspeed Us to Sea
* Fall Out Boy - Granade Jumper
* Lexicon - Rock
* Andrew WK - Party Hard
* Insane Clown Posse - F#*k The World
* Insane Clown Posse - We Gives No F*#k
* Strike Anywhere - Infrared
* Biohazard - Shades of Grey
* Chimaira - Pure Hatred
* Red Tape - Stalingrad
* Clutch - The Mob Goes Wild
* Mudvayne - Not Falling
* Amen - Money Infection
* No Redeeming Social Value - Clueless
* Vision of Disorder - Through My Eyes
* Nora - I Should Have Sent Flowers
* Vaux - Set it to Blow
* Bloodsimple - Path to Prevail
* Late Night Sneaky - The Metal
* Channel 3 - Whine of Youth
* D.R.I. - Tear It Down
* Dark Lotus - That's Me
* K-Love - Backyard Wrestling!
* Pint Size - My Fist, your face Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood is currently in development by Paradox Development and will be available for the PlayStation2 computer entertainment system & the Xbox video game system from Microsoft in October of 2004 in North America.
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