Heavy metal box from Rhino!

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THE HEAVY METAL BOX Coming from Rhino Entertainment

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 bunghole. 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 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 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."

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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" -- Venom
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 Rocks
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

Wargod48

NP: Black Betty - S/T, stonerish dOOm.

Cool collection.

Hmm...Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple, but no Ozzy-era Sabbath? Not even frigging "Paranoid"? I usually have nothing but the highest respect and regard for the tracklisting on the comps that Rhino puts out, but that's quite a glaring omission.

Oh, for the record, I also would have included the cover of "House of the Rising Sun" by FRIJID PINK.

This looks real good. Rhino did a cool series on Blues (I think 16 volumes in total) a few years back touching on the different styles (electric, acoustic, harmonica, Chicago, women, etc.). I think it would be cool to do the same with metal, like the roots from the late 60's, then early 70's, late 70's, NWOBHM, early thrash from the 80's, then beginings of death metal, the new doom of the 80's, early black, hair, power, etc., you get the point. That would be cool to come out in 16 or so volumes, as long as a real metalhead was put in charge to do it.

Look's cool but, I have most of this stuff already.

yeah of the stuff featured that i like, i already have the originals.

Yeah I saw that last day. Sound great! With the amp who goes to 11!

TrogDawn wrote:

Hmm...Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple, but no Ozzy-era Sabbath? Not even frigging "Paranoid"? I usually have nothing but the highest respect and regard for the tracklisting on the comps that Rhino puts out, but that's quite a glaring omission.

Oh, for the record, I also would have included the cover of "House of the Rising Sun" by FRIJID PINK.

You can thank Sharon for that. I know a guy that used to work with Rhino and he told me about this box set back in July. Long story, short...in order to use Ozzy-era Sabbath, Sharon wanted big money and approval of pics, what songs, what the packaging would look like, etc. She was so difficult, the Rhino people said forget it.

Looks like a cool box set, however any self respecting metal-head should have most of that stuff already.

cool!

allot of cheese in there too.

TrogDawn wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

TrogDawn wrote:

Hmm...Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly and Deep Purple, but no Ozzy-era Sabbath? Not even frigging "Paranoid"? I usually have nothing but the highest respect and regard for the tracklisting on the comps that Rhino puts out, but that's quite a glaring omission.

Oh, for the record, I also would have included the cover of "House of the Rising Sun" by FRIJID PINK.

You can thank Sharon for that. I know a guy that used to work with Rhino and he told me about this box set back in July. Long story, short...in order to use Ozzy-era Sabbath, Sharon wanted big money and approval of pics, what songs, what the packaging would look like, etc. She was so difficult, the Rhino people said forget it.

Oh, ok. That makes sense then. That sucks. It just didn't compute that they would leave that version of the band off of something like this.

Did you notice that there's no solo Ozzy either? A Box of Metal and no "Crazy Train"?

Seems like alot of rehashing of those "Masters of Metal" comps from the early 90's.

There's some Spinal Tap!

TrogDawn wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Did you notice that there's no solo Ozzy either? A Box of Metal and no "Crazy Train"?

Yep, you're right! Lame-o!

I appreciate Sharon's "Iron Woman" status and her arse-kicking business abilities, but geez - there's a point when it gets to be counter-productive!

I agree. She was fine when she was more "behind-the-scenes". Since the tv show, she's gotten too big & mouthy for her own good. She needs to be taken down a few pegs.

Looks real cool, but like alot of you guys have already stated, I have almost (about 90%) all of this stuff already. I like the way it seems to be perfectly chronological though.

Seems like an ok collection, i trust Rhino to put together good compilations but if I was going to purchase a rhino boxset right now it would be the 70's punk one or the 50's rockabilly.

Sweet!!

Got one in the mail today!! My connection at Rhino sent me one!! Free is good. Along with a copy of Twisted Sisters A Twisted Christmas Live dvd. My week just got a little better (LOUDER too!!)

looks like a cool package but i would rather spend my money on other albums by other bands (interpret nightwish) than some boxset

still it could be a good introduvtion to new bands

I saw the boxset at Best Buy very nice boxset but to pricey for me!

Wargod48

how much is it?

mc666 wrote:

yeah of the stuff featured that i like, i already have the originals.

Same here.

I find it pretty sad that a compilation box set has its own myspace.

EvyMetal wrote:

I find it pretty sad that a compilation box set has its own myspace.

that is pretty sad