Slash Rocks “Deathstalker”
“Deathstalker (Songs from the Motion Picture),“ a three-track single, is available digitally. The title track features Slash (Guns N’ Roses guitarist) and vocalist Brendon McCreary, whose older brother Bear wrote the track with Slash and original “Deathstalker” composer Chuck Cirino.
Deathstalker
“Deathstalker” is a reboot led by writer-director Steven Kostanski and executive producer Slash. The original “Deathstalker,” a sword and sorcery film, was released in ’83.
“I loved (the original) ‘Deathstalker’. It was sort of tongue-in-cheek, exaggerated, and low budget, and it had this great theme song,” recalled Slash. “My whole interest in getting to do this new one — which isn’t a remake; it’s sort of another version of it — was really nostalgic for me. It was really a passion project.”
“I spent every weekend in high school watching cult movies with my buddies,” explained Bear McCreary. “The night we watched ‘Deathstalker II’, I was immediately struck by the catchy melodies in Chuck Cirino’s score. I picked up a little Casio keyboard I had lying around and played along. Years later, my friend Slash told me he was developing a new feature film version of ‘Deathstalker’, and I knew right away that my worlds were about to collide!”
“Deathstalker” (the film) is in theaters.
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