The soundtrack of the new movie Spawn -- featuring a silverchair song of the same name -- is on sale now in North America. Release dates in the rest of the world will follow.

Daniel Johns and Ben Gillies wrote the song and the band recorded it at Festival Studios in Sydney with engineer Wayne Connolly. The track was mixed by a U.K. electronic act called Vitro. All CD's and cassettes of Spawn: The Album include a mini-poster designed especially for the album by Spawn creator Todd McFarlane.

"We're not actually doing the remixing stuff ourselves, but it's still cool to have it", drummer Ben Gillies told Brisbane's Time Out magazine in an interview just after the song was recorded. "You always like to hear the finished product. We only wrote the song today, but the recording went really good. We worked out the different bits of the song, and we hadn't actually run through it from start to finish, and the first or second take we put it down. Daniel had some lyrics worked out because he knew we were going to be mucking around in there. If anyone heard the song without the techno remix they wouldn't think it was us. One section of it has a riff like Sepultura. It's real heavy."

Spawn: The Album was released July 29th in North America by Immortal/Epic Records and Sony Music Soundtrax. The film premiered August 1 in North America.

The Spawn soundtrack brings together artists from the next generation of hard-edged rock bands and electronic/industrial specialists. Among the creative teams assembled for the project are Filter and the Crystal Method, Korn and the Dust Brothers, Henry Rollins and Goldie, Slayer and Atari Teenage Riot, Soul Coughing and Ronnie Size, and Incubus and Greyboy.

The silverchair track was reworked by an underground U.K. hard-core electronic band called Vitro.

Spawn is a big screen adaptation of the action-adventure book series of the same name created by Todd McFarlane. Since its debut in May 1992, Spawn has remained in the Top 10 in U.S. comic sales, reaching an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 readers each month. The film stars Michael Jai White as Spawn, John Leguizamo, D.B. Sweeney, Nicol Williamson and Martin Sheen. Spawn was directed by Mark Dippe, the special effects supervisor on Jurassic Park, The Mask and Terminator 2.