Tenacious D: The Pick of Destiny : Music Reviews : Rolling Stone

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Any album that begins with the line "A long-ass fucking time ago in a town called Kickapoo" can't be all that bad, but somehow the soundtrack to Tenacious D's long promised movie The Pick of Destiny never quite takes off. The fifteen tunes here tell the fictitious story of how Jack Black met Kyle Gass, formed Tenacious D and later fought some sort of demon to obtain the mythical pick of destiny. Many of the songs, such as "Break In City (Storm the Gate)" and "Car Chase City," exist solely to advance the plot and will be funny only to tweeners who have watched the movie eight times (not that there's anything wrong with that). The music is Tenacious D's trademark overwrought Seventies folk metal, featuring cameos by Meat Loaf, Dave Grohl and, of course, metal god Ronnie James Dio. This soundtrack would be a great bonus disc for the movie's eventual DVD release, but as a stand-alone it falls way short of their vastly superior debut album.