THE DEATH RIDE OF OROSI
The Soundtrack to a Satanic Biker Cult Film That Doesn’t Exist
My Mixtape’s A Masterpiece is a weekly feature in which a guest compiles a playlist around some theme. This week, Jerry Smith assembles 10 songs for a soundtrack to the perfect satanic biker film never made. Read Jerry’s outline of the film, thoughts on each song, and listen along to the Spotify and YouTube playlists below.
I love biker films. Classic ones such as EASY RIDER and THE WILD ANGELS, all the way to ‘90s action flicks like STONE COLD or BEYOND THE LAW—my adoration for all things biker film is one I hold with passionate fervor.
I’m also a massive fan of Satanic Cult films, so whenever the two subgenres can co-exist in one movie, it’s like a perfect stew I’m champing at the bit to consume. When I was in awful metal core bands in the early 2000s, I wrote a song called “The Death Ride of Orosi” which told the story of a small community, forever haunted by a Satanic Cult on wheels, sacrificing their residents once a decade. I thought it would be a blast to share the soundtrack to the film that doesn’t and most likely will never exist: THE DEATH RIDE OF OROSI.
1. “Cutter” by Converge
I will forever be a member of the Converge cult. One of my favorite bands for over 20 years now, this track from the Salem, MA legends is a perfect track to start the story of a Satanic biker gang, riding into Orosi with the intentions of slaughtering those in their vicinity.
2. “Feral Love” by Chelsea Wolfe
This track, from easily one of the most unique artists around, would fit right in with the haunting atmosphere of an entire community living in fear that they and/or their children will fall prey to the seemingly unstoppable cult.
3. “People Disappear Here” by Halsey
Taken from the deluxe edition of the Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross-produced If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power record by Halsey, this track serves as the bar music for a small pub that the community’s residents spend their nights self-medicating out of fear. The drugs and booze serve as temporary escapes from the horror that will inevitably arrive.
4. “Decimate the Weak” by Winds Of Plague
The title says it all. When the biker cult arrives, nothing is left. Houses burn down, people are slaughtered, and only a few survivors remain, inhabiting a now ghost town, knowing that the cult will return for their blood.
5. “Tomorrow, Wendy” by Concrete Blonde
The horror of knowing your fate is just around the corner puts a large cloud of hopelessness upon the survivors, but a small glimpse of hope appears, when the daughter of the murdered town sheriff decides that if the survivors will be hunted, they’ll go out with a fight. This track serves as the soundtrack to the surviving townspeople making whatever they can into weapons, a somber yet sad montage of people who do not expect to survive deciding to go down fighting.
6. “Underwater Bimbos From Outerspace” by Every Time I Die
The quiet dark skies. The wind, blowing with fervor. The townspeople are ready, as the cult appears in a cloud of fire and smoke. The fight begins and hell is on both sides. We see the hunted become just as dangerous as the hunters.
7. “Edge Of The Blade” by Prayers
Our small band of fighters brutally attack the cult, severing heads from shoulders, gouging eyeballs and even in the case of the sheriff’s daughter, faces are bitten off. The townspeople stand alongside the entire cult, having turned the tables.
8. “Exorcism (Piano Version)” by Kat Von D
With blood-stained faces and now just as vicious as their once attackers the townspeople burn the bodies of the cult members, in something very ritualistic, giving an ominous amount of foreshadowing.
9. “Screams” by IAMX
Something is wrong, as the survivors begin to exhibit a thirst for blood, leading to an orgy of death and sex, enjoying each other’s bodies before heading to their respective homes to eat their children, in an evil ritual.
10. “Beelzebub” by Cancer Bats
Ten years later, A family of five arrive in town, hoping to grab a bite to eat. They’re created by the sheriff’s daughter and her townspeople.
