All of the Milla Jovovich starring Resident Evil movies leaned toward alt-metal and nu-metal for their soundtracks but it seems like the song that had the most impact was Killswitch Engage’s “The End of Heartache”, which appeared on the Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack in 2004.

Freddy and Jason have had a long history with soundtrack songs from the likes of Dokken, Alice Cooper, The Fresh Prince, The Fat Boys, and more but since 2003 was firmly in the era of Nu-Metal, Ill Niño provided Freddy vs Jason its end credits song and main soundtrack single, “How Can I Live”.

Midway’s highly successful reboot of Spy Hunter back in 2001 was no stranger to that era’s obsession with nu-metal, recruiting Saliva to perform a new version of the Peter Gunn theme along with including the band’s video for “Your Disease” on the game’s disc as a bonus feature.

Sam Raimi’s first Spider-Man movie in 2002 set the standard for a lot of things in the comic book genre, like filling the soundtrack albums with nu-metal/alternative rock songs, as the main single from the first film was the huge hit “Hero”, from Nickelback lead singer Chad Kroeger.

Zach, Chris and Chris Ali head back to the beginnings of the Fast & Furious “family” with 2001’s The Fast and The Furious, where undercover cop Brian O’Connor tries to infiltrate the world of illegal LA street racing and find out which crew is hijacking semi-trucks to steal their valuable cargo of VHS/DVD players.

With access to every song ever uploaded to the internet, rogue AI stealth plane EDI inexplicably prefers early to mid 2000’s nu-metal like Incubus, who had four songs on the Stealth movie soundtrack.

With Punisher and Elektra getting what should hopefully be their greatest live action incarnations this week on Netflix, it’s important to look back at how dark things were in the early 2000’s, especially on the soundtracks for Daredevil, Punisher and Elektra.