Metal Massacre series...

Back in the early & mid 1980's I use to discover most of the new metal bands I got into from compilations such as Metal Massacre. Some of the most well known bands in metal started life on these Metal Blade compilations. Below is a list of the bands and songs from each. If you were to make a "Best of Metal Massacre" collection containing about 15 songs or so, what would your compilation consist of?

Metal Massacre (1982)
1. "Cold Day in Hell" - Steeler (4:17)
2. "Live for the Whip" - smurfette (5:19)
3. "Captive of Light" - Malice (3:21)
4. "Tell The World" - Ratt (3:16)
5. "Octave" (instrumental) - Avatar (3:48)
6. "Death of the Sun" - Cirith Ungol (3:56)
7. "Dead of the Night" - Demon Flight (2:35)
8. "Fighting Backwards" - Pandemonium (3:44)
9. "Kick You Down" - Malice (4:28)
10. "Hit the Lights" - Metallica (4:25)

Metal Massacre (Second pressing 1984)
(Released in 1984)

1. "Chains Around Heaven" - Black 'N' Blue (3:45)
2. "Live for the Whip" - smurfette (5:19)
3. "Captive of Light" - Malice (3:21)
4. "Octave" (instrumental) - Avatar (3:48)
5. "Death of the Sun" - Cirith Ungol (3:56)
6. "Dead of the Night"- Demon Flight (2:35)
7. "Fighting Backwards" - Pandemonium (3:44)
8. "Kick You Down" - Malice (4:28)
9. "Hit the Lights" (re-recorded) - Metallica (4:12)

Metal Massacre II – 1982

1. "Lesson Well Learned" - Armored Saint – 2:51
2. "Mind Invader" - 3rd Stage Alert – 3:51
3. "Rivit Head" - Surgical Steel – 3:03
4. "Shadows of Steel" - Obsession – 4:31
5. "Scepters of Deceit" - Savage Grace – 3:45
6. "No Holds Barred" - Overkill – 4:12
7. "Lucifer's Hammer" - Warlord – 3:18
8. "Such a Shame" - Trauma* – 2:53
9. "It's Alright" - Dietrich – 3:26
10. "Inversion" - Molten Leather – 4:04
11. "Kings" - Hyksos – 6:11
12. "Heavy Metal Virgin" - Aloha – 3:01


Metal Massacre III – 1983

1. "Aggressive Perfector" - Slayer – 3:29
2. "Riding in Thunder" - smurfette – 3:57
3. "Armagedon" - Tyrant* – 5:14
4. "Piranahs" - Medusa – 2:11
5. "Bite the Knife" - Test Pattern – 5:25
6. "Blitzkrieg" - Black Widow – 2:56
7. "Mrs. Victoria" - Warlord – 5:55
8. "Let's Go All the Way" - Virgin Steele – 3:12
9. "Fire and Wind" - Sexist – 3:00
10. "Hell Bent" - Znowhite – 1:49
11. "The Kid" - Marauder – 3:01
12. "Fist and Chain" - La Mort – 2:37


Metal Massacre IV – 1983

1. "The Alien" - Sacred Blade – 3:39
2. "Cross My Way" - Death Dealer – 3:40
3. "The Last Judgement" - Trouble – 5:03
4. "Taken by Force" - Sceptre – 2:44
5. "Speed Zone" - Zoetrope – 2:41
6. "Forbidden Evil" - War Cry – 4:37
7. "Screams from the Grave" - Abattoir – 3:24
8. "I Don't Want to Die" - Witchslayer – 4:59
9. "Rod of Iron" - Lizzy Borden – 4:29
10. "Fear No Evil" - August Redmoon – 3:52
11. "Destructer" - Thrust – 4:13
12. "Medieval" - Medieval – 3:19


Metal Massacre V – 1984

1. "Torture Me" - Omen (3:26)
2. "Condemned to the Gallows" - Voivod (5:09)
3. "Call on The Attacker" - Attacker (3:35)
4. "Nightmare" - Future Tense (3:50)
5. "Death Rider" - Overkill (3:52)
6. "Soldier Boy" - Fates Warning (6:20)
7. "The Brave" - Metal Church (4:27)
8. "Destroyer" - Lethyl Synn (3:27)
9. "The Warrior" - Final Warning (3:49)
10. "Crucifixion" - Hellhammer (2:50)
11. "Marching Saprophytes" - Mace (4:07)
12. "End of Time" - Jesters Of Destiny (3:20)


Metal Massacre VI – 1985

1. "Swing of the Axe" - Possessed – 3:50
2. "XXX" - Nasty Savage – 5:26
3. "Executioner" - Steel Assassin – 5:02
4. "Tear Down the Walls" - Mayhem – 5:44
5. "Easy Way Out" - Hades – 4:46
6. "Metal Merchants" - Hallow's Eve – 4:27
7. "Bombs of Death" - Hirax – 2:01
8. "Fountain Keeper" - Pathfinder – 3:52
9. "Welcome to the Slaughterhouse" - Dark Angel – 5:22
10. "Concrete Cancer" - The Obsessed – 3:16
11. "En Masse – Stand or Die" - Martyr – 5:10


Metal Massacre VII – 1986

1. "Impulse" - Heretic – 4:18
2. "Sentinel Beast" - Sentinel Beast – 5:20
3. "I Live, You Die" - Flotsam and Jetsam – 6:19
4. "Rented Heat" - Krank – 4:09
5. "Backstabber" - Mad Man – 2:53
6. "Widow's Walk" - Détente – 2:20
7. "High 'n' Mighty" - Commander – 4:16
8. "In the Blood of Virgins" - Juggernaut – 4:13
9. "Reich of Torture" - Cryptic Slaughter – 2:33
10. "The Omen" - Have Mercy – 4:18
11. "The Awakening" - Titanic – 4:42
12. "Troubled Ways" - Lost Horizon – 4:31


Metal Massacre VIII – 1987

1. "Ignorance" - Sacred Reich – 3:50
2. "Hellbound" - Viking – 2:58
3. "Keeper of the Flame" - Overlorde – 4:07
4. "Violence Is Golden" - Fatal Violence – 4:58
5. "Spare No Lives" - Tactics – 2:43
6. "Nothing Left" - Sanctum – 4:26
7. "Into the Darkness" - Gargoyle – 3:44
8. "Death Awaits You" - Ripper – 5:43
9. "Take 'Em Alive" - E.S.P. – 3:53
10. "Intimate with Evil" - Wargod – 4:46
11. "Deadly Kiss" - L.S.N. – 2:58
12. "Bullets" - Cobalt Blue – 3:34


Metal Massacre IX – 1988

1. "We Want You" - Banshee
2. "Old World Nights" - Oliver Magnum
3. "Wasteland" - Toxik
4. "Blood Under Heaven" - Dissenter
5. "Random Violence" - Redrum
6. "Definitive Apology" - Pedifile
7. "Needle Damage" - Chaos Horde
8. "Dehumanize" - Faith or Fear
9. "Midnight Madman" - The Wrath
10. "Children of War" - Overdose


Metal Massacre X – 1989

1. "Sick or Sane?" - Betrayal
2. "Typhoid Mary" - Solitude
3. "Mirage of Blood" - Murdercar
4. "The Secret" - Confessor
5. "Egyptian Falcon" - Dan Collette
6. "Infected" - Nihilist
7. "Visions In Secret" - R.O.T
8. "Mercy" - Wench
9. "The Fourth Dimension" - Slaughter
10. "Stayed Up 4 Daze" - I.D.K

A short best of because I haven't pulled these out in years. These tracks stand out in my memory though. I think MM IV was the last one I scored. By '84 we were trying to get on a Metal Massacre.
"Captive of Light" - Malice
"Death of the Sun" - Cirith Ungol
"Fighting Backwards" - Pandemonium
"Kick You Down" - Malice
"Hit the Lights" - Metallica
"Live for the Whip" - smurfette
"Lesson Well Learned" - Armored Saint
"Aggressive Perfector" - Slayer
"Piranahs" - Medusa (my personal fave)
"Speed Zone" - Zoetrope
"Rod of Iron" - Lizzy Borden

I think I already have a best-of, released by Metal Blade. If I cn finf it, i'll put the track-list here.

I used to get these up until the sixth or seventh one. I liked 'em discovered a lot of cool bands from these albums. I missed the first one, I didn't know that was where Black and Blue or Ratt got some space. They were a different style than most of metal blades bands.

Warlord was a dang good band from that period.

I never heard of the band smurfette!

man, I havent heard these in maybe 20 years. I had MM 1-9 (I had the first 5 on picture disc LP's). From what I remember most of the best tracks were by bands that went on to bigger things like Overkill, Metal Church, Metallica, Slayer, etc...

Like you, I used these as a springboard to purchasing albums if I liked the track(s) that I heard from here like Detente, Zoetrope, Malice, Obsession, Fates Warning, Savage Grace, Dark Angel, Possessed, and tons of others.....and the afforementioned big bands.

Back in the early to mid 80's MM made a HUGE impact in feuling the metal scene, even on me way up here in Alaska. Me and by friend would call eachother when we got the new MM and we would race over to the others' house just to hear the brand new Metal Massace album to find a a few new bands to love!! It was awesome!!

steel assassin
pathfinder

How weird this topic is I was just thinking about this the other day and was gonna burn them all to mp3 form for my Ipod.

I have the whole set on cd all from Metal Blade. I happen to come across this on a site not sure what site it was and the price was like $40 for all the cds and the box so I bought it.

Glad I did it is quite rare nowdays.

Wargod49

syrus wrote:

steel assassin
pathfinder

That's a very short best of compilation.

I just got all these recently. Or up to number 9, at least. I need a few that came after. I know Forte had a killer tune on number 11, I think.

But since I just got all these, I can't pick. Some great tunes on them, though. Sexist stands out, only because while researching them I came across Letchen Grey, and that little EP is killer.

bummer, I just looked in the jacket of my original Metal Massacre with Ratt and Steeler and there was no vinyl inside. Gonna have to go on a hunt. My collection only goes up to VI (all vinyl...no cds)

A lil help....on number two... I recall a rumor that Marty F. of Megadeth played on the song "heavy metal virgin" by Aloha. Any validity to that at all ?

James B. wrote:

A lil help....on number two... I recall a rumor that Marty F. of Megadeth played on the song "heavy metal virgin" by Aloha. Any validity to that at all ?

yep...
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=125366

mc666 wrote:

James B. wrote:

A lil help....on number two... I recall a rumor that Marty F. of Megadeth played on the song "heavy metal virgin" by Aloha. Any validity to that at all ?

yep...
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thanks... the singer must of been his girlfriend perhaps?

i dunno... she is listed as Lisa Ruiz on the demo.

[quote="James B."]

mc666 wrote:

James B. wrote:

A lil help....on number two... I recall a rumor that Marty F. of Megadeth played on the song "heavy metal virgin" by Aloha. Any validity to that at all ?

yep...
http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=125366[/quote]

thanks... the singer must of been his girlfriend perhaps?

well, actually the same tracks changed hands from deuce to aloha and vixen, then to hawaii, malisha and v.rumors....way too long story....(before marty desided to be a puppet)

Mine would be a 3-Disc collection best of/box set. There were some great bands, artists and songs to come out of this series. Some of the most well known musicians saw their first songs put out to the public on the Metal Massacre collection. The list below almost reads like a who's who of heavy metal and thrash.

DISC ONE
1. "Cold Day in Hell" - Steeler (4:17)
2. "Tell The World" - Ratt (3:16)
3. "Octave" (instrumental) - Avatar (3:48)
4. "Death of the Sun" - Cirith Ungol (3:56)
5. "Dead of the Night" - Demon Flight (2:35)
6. "Hit the Lights" - Metallica (4:25)
7. "Chains Around Heaven" - Black 'N' Blue (3:45)
8. "Lesson Well Learned" - Armored Saint – 2:51
9. "Shadows of Steel" - Obsession – 4:31
10. "Scepters of Deceit" - Savage Grace – 3:45
11. "Lucifer's Hammer" - Warlord – 3:18
12. "Such a Shame" - Trauma – 2:53
13. "Heavy Metal Virgin" - Aloha – 3:01
14. "Aggressive Perfector" - Slayer – 3:29
15. "Armagedon" - Tyrant* – 5:14
16. "Let's Go All the Way" - Virgin Steele – 3:12
17. "Hell Bent" - Znowhite – 1:49
18. "The Last Judgement" - Trouble – 5:03

DISC TWO
1. "Speed Zone" - Zoetrope – 2:41
2. "Screams from the Grave" - Abattoir – 3:24
3. "Rod of Iron" - Lizzy Borden – 4:29
4. "Torture Me" - Omen (3:26)
5. "Condemned to the Gallows" - Voivod (5:09)
6. "Call on The Attacker" - Attacker (3:35)
7. "Death Rider" - Overkill (3:52)
8. "Soldier Boy" - Fates Warning (6:20)
9. "The Brave" - Metal Church (4:27)
10. "Destroyer" - Lethyl Synn (3:27)
11. "Crucifixion" - Hellhammer (2:50)
12. "Swing of the Axe" - Possessed – 3:50
13. "XXX" - Nasty Savage – 5:26
14. "Executioner" - Steel Assassin – 5:0
15. "Easy Way Out" - Hades – 4:46
16. "Metal Merchants" - Hallow's Eve – 4:27
17. "Bombs of Death" - Hirax – 2:01
18. "Welcome to the Slaughterhouse" - Dark Angel – 5:22

DISC THREE
1. "Concrete Cancer" - The Obsessed – 3:16
2. "Impulse" - Heretic – 4:18
3. "Sentinel Beast" - Sentinel Beast – 5:20
4. "I Live, You Die" - Flotsam and Jetsam – 6:19
5. "Rented Heat" - Krank – 4:09
6. "Widow's Walk" - Détente – 2:20
7. "High 'n' Mighty" - Commander – 4:16
8. "Reich of Torture" - Cryptic Slaughter – 2:33
9. "Ignorance" - Sacred Reich – 3:50
10. "Hellbound" - Viking – 2:58
11. "Keeper of the Flame" - Overlorde – 4:07
12. "Wasteland" - Toxik
13. "Blood Under Heaven" - Dissenter
14. "Dehumanize" - Faith or Fear

I would just go with V. Lots of GREAT stuff on the other ones, but I wore that tape out in '84. I think I could recite every word of that album, even now! Jesters of Destiny should have done more.

Am I on crack or was there a metal blade compilation that featured TROUBLE doing a cover of 'Come Together"?

A pal at college had the cassette and I always remembered it being a METAL MASSACRE volume...But I guess not...

Someone enlighten me....