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Heavy Metal
Participated by Various Artists
Studio : Rhino / Wea
by Rhino / Wea
Release Date : 2007-10-02
Publisher : Rhino / Wea
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0081227998004
UPC : 081227998004
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 16 reviews)
List Price : $64.98
Our Price : $44.88
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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. |
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The trouble with a genre as sprawling as heavy metal--and one as identified with brawn and intensity--is that its adherents certainly won't agree on the shape of their obsession. And the disagreement won't necessarily be polite. Halfway through disc two, you find one of the precise moments that can split metalheads into two camps: Judas Priest's "You Got Another Thing Comin'," whose crossover success set the table for the likes of Y&T, Dokken, Ratt, Stryper, and Skid Row as they took metal into the primping realm of pop music. Metal purists will want disc one, with Hawkwind, UFO, and even Dio-era Black Sabbath reveling in their status as early headbangers. The question is: Are their heirs truly Dokken and their ilk or are the heirs Pantera, Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax? It might be an academic point only, but across the back half of this 4-CD set, the "truer," faster, thornier metal lies intermingled with the more vapid, hair-teased stuff of the 1980s, before Nirvana nuked the whole genre. And people who love Metallica won't want Skid Row polluting the chugging air. One thing certainly is true: The physical box, with its Marshall amp vibe, is impressive, something any self-respecting metalhead would cherish. It's the track list that'll make 'em kick and scream. --Andrew Bartlett |
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Great box with a excellent booklet! |
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This rhino set is actually a very good represention of metal from the last 40 years or so.It includes songs by Blue Cheer,Alice Cooper, UFO,Judas Priest,Angel Witch,Girlschool,Iron Maiden,Motorhead,Venom, Raven,Mercyful Fate,Metallica,Accept,Slayer,Metal Church,Prong,and Sepultura.Which is a huge span of metal,on the bad side it includeds to much Glam and non metal acts(Ted Nugent,Living Colour ,Kiss,Stryper,and Skid Row).If this were cut down to three disks and other bands such as Bathory ,Candlemass and Death were added to make a fourth disk, you would have a great metal set.Some stuff which is needed such as Early Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin isn't in here because of copywrite ownership issues.The 77 page book is great with alot of pictures ,a story about each song and small articules on metal and it's history makes up for some of the bad song choices. |
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Couldn't resist the box |
I'll admit it, I'm always a sucker for cool packaging. That said, I was mostly pleased with selection with my negatives being the Hawkwind and the Sepultura tracks. I'm not a Hawkwind aficionado, but didn't they have something better that could have been used instead? Lost Johnny is just awful. And Sepultura gets a thumbs down because I just don't dig non-melodic, growling kind of metal, which most thrash is.
Otherwise, it's all good.... 70's originals, NWOBHM, 80's hair bands, glam, power metal, I love it all! But they should have thrown a couple other goodies to sweeten it, a guitar pick or something. Buy! |
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A great collection to take you back in time |
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I purchased this on a lightning deals offer back in December for the outrageous price of $18.97. I've been taking my time listening to the CD's and months later I have no complaints. This is a nice compilation of a wide range of artists. I remember listening to most of this music in my early teens and so it has been fun to relive some memories. This has also been a huge conversation piece at parties, both the music and the box are memorable. |
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GREAT! |
first off i'm actually 17, i just don't want to screw up my friends account, the one im using. secondly this is a great box set.
i have no complaints about this product at all. the music is great, the amp styled box looks cool, and the book has over 75 pages of great pictures and biographies of the bands. also it speaks of the history of metal, interviews some great ions (like Ronnie James Dio, and Lita Ford) of the metal world who help augment the lifestyle, and it also has some great quotes by some of the bands/bandmates (like Alice Cooper, Geezer Butler, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, and Vinnie Paul, just to name a few). Also another bonus is that there is a great full page picture of Lita ford, a back shot, and D4NM does she have a great 4SS.
to sum it up i would give this a five stars, but the amazon priece is a bit too expensive even for this, so i gave it a four stars. i would recommend buy it from an independent seller for about $40 or less. i got mine brand new for $25, a great buy. good luck in your quest to find a cheap one.
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Jon A. Waverly |
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A Really Nice Box |
The music selections may not be the best representations of the genre; I guess a REAL fan would know by the titles listed, or would be enough of a fan to like them from the start.
The set came in a box that was made very well, of a strong cardboard (like particle board or wood panelling) and made to look like an old time radio. But being that it is about the size of a shoebox, and only holds the 4 CD set, it takes a LOT of room for just 4 CD's, so I do not use it.
I guess I'm not a "True Fan" |
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