Rhino's 4-disc HEAVY METAL box is the most comprehensive anthology of the influential genre ever. Featuring legendary stars from multiple labels, the box's size lives up its thundering sound arranged chronologically, it collects 70 classic tracks tracing the evolution of metal through its first golden age, 1968-1991. Encompassing proto-metalists, hard rock icons, thrashers, progressive acts, speedsters, pop-metal MTV favorites, and more, a who's who of masters get their due. The box also boasts essays from Ronnie James Dio and Lita Ford, plus and a detailed history of metal by Mick Wall. Surveying the last years covered by the box, Wall concludes, 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 same could be said today so fly your devil horn salutes and crank it to 11 for five hours of musical mayhem.
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's Blockmore'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
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 Coming - 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 - Megadeath
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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