Posted by Metallifreak on 28.09.2007 at21:27:
Box full of metal
Rhino Entertainment is releasing what seems to be the so far best and most complete heavy metal CD box so far, and our heroes in Metallica is of course incuded. 4 CDs with all the good bands and songs, no fillers, just raw meat.
It starts with "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" by Iron Butterfly sometimes called "the first heavy metal band" as a result of this song, and continues with every band worth mentioning. Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Anthrax and two songs by Metallica - "One" and "Whiplash".
70 songs. All the best tracks from all the best artists. Packed in a nice box and comes with a full color book.
Be prepared to raise your mano cornuta salute for Rhino's new four-disc HEAVY METAL BOX (LIMITED EDITION PACKAGING), the biggest, loudest and most comprehensive anthology of metal mayhem ever assembled. Featuring an all-star line-up of metal and hard rock legends, the box's size more than lives up to the thunder of its sound - it collects 70 influential tracks tracing the evolution of metal through its first golden age, 1968-1991, for a total of over five hours of remastered music. Head-banger's heaven never was so devilishly great!
To honor HEAVY METAL BOX with fittingly impressive visuals, Rhino's special LIMITED EDITION PACKAGING presents this unprecedented 4-CD set in a cool grey box designed and shaped to resemble a guitar amplifier. And, in a tip of the hat to Spinal Tap - whose song “Big Bottom” can be heard on Disc 3 - the faux-amp package features an authentic, turn-able Marshall knob that really does let you crank it to 11.
Metal's embrace of diverse styles more than gets its due with HEAVY METAL BOX's far-reaching repertoire. Towards the end of his detailed liner notes on the music's origins and development, Mick Wall writes of the most recent years covered by the box that, “metal had come full circle to the point where it was simultaneously riven by so many new categories and subgenres that you needed an encyclopedia to make sense of it all-and yet it was more universally popular than ever before.” To that end, the gargantuan track listing encompasses proto-metal progenitors, hard rock icons, thrashers, progressive acts, speedsters, pop-metal MTV favorites, new metal and other incarnations of the genre's sweep.
In addition to Wall's compelling history, the box's immense booklets features rare photos plus essays from metal icon Ronnie James Dio (on metal's infamous “mano cornuta” devil horns salute), “first lady of metal” Lita Ford, Lars Ulrich, metal radio godfather Eddie Trunk, UK journalist Chris Welch on metal and black magic and more.
For the official press release and a complete track listing, please see below:
RHINO'S HEAVY METAL BOX LITERALLY GOES TO 11
Four-Disc Boxed Set, Packaged to Resemble an Amplifier With an Authentic Marshall Knob, Will Be Available October 2 From Rhino
LOS ANGELES - Heavy metal is not for the faint of heart. The songs don't want you to dance, shake, spin, or jump. They insist that you bang your head. Forget nuances or subtlety, heavy metal's main concern is kicking your ass. Rhino dives into the mosh pit with a four-disc collection of musical wickedness that packs more fire and brimstone than an Aleister Crowley barbeque. THE HEAVY METAL BOX will be available October 2 at all retail outlets and at www.rhino.com for a suggested price of $64.98. The set will be offered in limited edition packing that resembles an amplifier. In a nod to Spinal Tap - whose song "Big Bottom" is included in the set - the faux-amp box features an authentic, turn-able Marshall knob allowing you to literally turn it up to 11.
Arranged chronologically, the compilation gathers 70 choice selections from various record labels tracing the evolution of metal during its first golden age between 1968 and 1991. THE HEAVY METAL BOX presents more than five hours of blistering fury guaranteed to send devil horn salutes in the air.
The genre's progenitors get their due with the supreme heaviness of Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" and the hoodlum metal mania of Blue Cheer's cover of "Summertime Blues." "From that point on," renowned metal journalist Mick Wall writes in the boxed set's meticulous liner notes, "the floodgates were thrown wide open as a whole slew of next-generation rock bands, disenchanted by the empty promises of the so-called love generation, arrived like drunken, rabble-rousing gate-crashers at the party, intent on ripping up the rulebook, throwing love out the window - along with all the flowers - and replacing them with a distinctly unsettling ambience all their own. From here on in, rock music would no longer be a dance. It would be an arena to do battle in."
Along with Wall's detailed history of metal, the boxed set's exhaustive liner notes also include rare photos, a track-by-track commentary, Ronnie James Dio discussing metal's infamous mano cornuta salute (aka "The Horns"), Lita Ford reflecting on her role as the "first lady of metal," multiple artist tributes, and more.
Metal is an immense genre and this collection spotlights its many offshoots including progressive metal (Rush's "Working Man," Mercyful Fate's "Black Funeral," Queensryche's "Queen Of The Reich," and Prong's "Beg To Differ"); black metal (Angel Witch's "White Witch" and Venom's "Witching Hour"); thrash/speed metal (Testament's "Trial By Fire," Raven's "Star War," Overkill's "Wrecking Crew," and Anthrax's "Caught In A Mosh"); boogie metal (Rose Tattoo's "Nice Boys"); Christian metal (Stryper's "To Hell With The Devil"); party metal (Fastway's "Say What You Will" and Krokus' "Midnite Maniac"); and death metal (Sepultura's "Dead Embryonic Cells").
While America and Britain were metal's primary foundries, they were certainly not the only ones. Australia birthed the fast 'n' nasty Rose Tattoo while Germany proffered newly minted, power-first outfits like the Michael Schenker Group and Accept. From the deceptively sleepy Switzerland came the manic Krokus while Sweden yielded a genuine guitar god in the Ritchie Blackmore-obsessed Yngwie J. Malmsteen. Even Japan came up with their own version of the phenomenon in the aptly-named Loudness.
In the '80s, MTV helped bring the hair metal movement into homes across the nation making bands such as Dokken, Ratt, Hanoi Rocks, Skid Row, Whitesnake, Cinderella, Poison, Twisted Sister, and Quiet Riot famous hitmakers. "By the end of the '80s," Wall writes, "heavy metal had come full circle to the point where it was simultaneously riven by so many new categories and subgenres that you needed an encyclopedia to make sense of it all - and yet it was more universally popular than ever before."
Disc 1
1. "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" - Iron Butterfly
2. "Summertime Blues" - Blue Cheer
3. "Easy Livin" - Uriah Heep
4. "Highway Star" - Deep Purple
5. "Billion Dollar Babies" - Alice Cooper
6. "Lost Johnny" - Hawkwind
7. "Bad Motor Scooter" - Montrose
8. "Working Man" - Rush
9. "Man On The Silver Mountain" - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
10. "Detroit Rock City" - Kiss
11. "The Ripper" - Judas Priest
12. "Cat Scratch Fever" - Ted Nugent
13. "Lights Out" - UFO
14. "Godzilla" - Blue Oyster Cult
15. "Demolition Boys" - Girlschool
16. "White Witch" - Angel Witch
17. "The Phantom Of The Opera" - Iron Maiden
18. "Neon Knights" - Black Sabbath
Disc 2
1. "Ace Of Spades" - Motorhead
2. "Am I Evil?" - Diamond Head
3. "Nice Boys" - Rose Tattoo
4. "Attack Of The Mad Axeman" - Michael Schenker Group
5. "Denim And Leather" - Saxon
6. "Blitzkrieg" - Blitzkrieg
7. "Gangland" - Tygers Of Pan Tang
8. "Witching Hour" - Veno
9. "You've Got Another Thing Comin" - Judas Priest
10. "The Number Of The Beast" - Iron Maiden
11. "Star War" - Raven
12. "Say What You Will" - Fastway
13. "Black Funeral" - Mercyful Fate
14. "Animal (F**k Like A Beast)" - W.A.S.P.
15. "Mean Streak" - Y&T
16. "Holy Diver" - Dio
17. "Queen Of The Reich" - Queensryche
18. "Whiplash" - Metallica
Disc 3
1. "Rock You Like A Hurricane" - Scorpions
2. "Metal Health" - Quiet Riot
3. "Into The Fire" - Dokken
4. "Balls To The Wall" - Accept
5. "Round And Round" - Ratt
6. "I Wanna Rock" - Twisted Sister
7. "The Boulevard Of Broken Dreams" - Hanoi Rock
8. "Big Bottom" - Spinal Tap
9. "Midnite Maniac" - Krokus
10. "I'll See The Light, Tonight" - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force
11. "Crazy Nights" - Loudness
12. "Shake Me" - Cinderella
13. "Watch The Children Pray" - Metal Church
14. "To Hell With The Devil" - Stryper
15. "A Little Time" - Helloween
16. "Wrecking Crew" - Overkill
17. "Caught In A Mosh" - Anthrax
18. "Peace Sells" - Megadeth
Disc 4
1. "Still Of The Night" - Whitesnake
2. "Rock Me" - Great White
3. "Talk Dirty To Me" - Poison
4. "Bathroom Wall" - Faster Pussycat
5. "Hall Of The Mountain King" - Savatage
6. "Kiss Me Deadly" - Lita Ford
7. "Hail And Kill" - Manowar
8. "Trial By Fire" - Testament
9. "Welcome Home" - King Diamond
10. "South Of Heaven" - Slayer
11. "One" - Metallica
12. "Cult Of Personality" - Living Colour
13. "Youth Gone Wild" - Skid Row
14. "Cowboys From Hell" - Pantera
15. "Beg To Differ" - Prong
16. "Dead Embryonic Cells" - Sepultura´
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