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| The Heavy Metal Box [ 8/9/2007 ] |
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Rhino Records will be releasing a four CD box
set, "The Heavy Metal Box" including 70 songs released between 1968 and
1991. The collection will include two Metallica songs, "Whiplash," and
"One," along with music from Iron Maiden, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath,
Pantera, Alice Cooper, Motorhead, Kiss and many others. Released in a
limited edition deluxe package resembling an amplifier, the box
literally goes to 11 with a turn-able Marshall knob. This deluxe amp
package will only be made for the first run....subsequent editions will
be available in a slimmed-down package.
Arranged chronologically, the compilation gathers selections
from various record labels tracing the evolution of metal during its
first "golden age" and includes meticulous liner notes from renowned
metal journalist Mick Wall, 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.
"The Heavy Metal Box" will be available October 2, 2007 at all
retail outlets and at www.rhino.com for a suggested price of $64.98.
For the official press release and a complete track listing, please see below:
RHINO'S HEAVY METAL BOX LITERALLY GOES TO 11
The Heavy Metal Box Features 70 Songs Spotlighting the Genre's
First Golden Age Between 1968 and 1991 Including Music From Iron
Maiden, Deep Purple, Metallica, Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Iron
Butterfly, Pantera, Alice Cooper, Venom, Testament, Motorhead, Slayer,
Rush, Megadeth, Kiss and More
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.
THE HEAVY METAL BOX invokes some of metal''s biggest names with
Alice Cooper's "Billion Dollar Babies"; Black Sabbath's "Neon Knights";
"Highway Star" by "the loudest group in the world," Deep Purple; Iron
Maiden's "The Phantom Of The Opera" with singer Paul Di'Anno and "The
Number Of The Beast" with singer Bruce Dickinson; Judas Priest's "The
Ripper" and "You've Got Another Thing Comin"”; Metallica's "Whiplash"
and uber-
doom-ballad "One"; Megadeth's searing political statement "Peace
Sells"; Slayer's soul crushing "South of Heaven"; and Pantera's
marriage of metal and hardcore on "Cowboys From Hell." The boxed set
also includes songs by Ted Nugent, Kiss, W.A.S.P., Diamond Head, Venom,
Living Colour, and a pair of tracks featuring leather-lunged Lemmy
Kilmister who appears on Hawkwind's "Lost Johnny" and Motorhead's "Ace
of Spades."
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."
THE HEAVY METAL BOX
Track Listing
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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