‘It absolutely altered my style in music’: bands replicate on the superior energy of the Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater soundtracks | Video games

When hundreds of thousands of fogeys purchased their children a Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater recreation within the late 90s and early 00s, they couldn’t have understood the profound impact it might have on their youngsters’s music style. With bands from Unhealthy Faith to Papa Roach and Millencolin accompanying each failed spin and grind, these trick-tastic video games slyly doubled up as the last word compilation CD.

Whereas the Fifa video games have an equally storied historical past with licensed music, these soundtracks really feel impersonal – a who’s who of whichever artists EA’s related document labels wished to push on the time. Professional Skater’s soundtrack, in contrast, felt like being handed a grubby and barely dog-eared handmade mixtape, nonetheless battered from its final tumble on the native skate park.