|
|
Music CD - Various Artists: Heavy Metal
|
Music CD: Heavy Metal
Artist: Various Artists
List Price: $64.98
Our Price: $46.99
Your Save: $ 17.99 ( 28% )
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
|
Average Customer Rating:  
|
|
Tracks:
|
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
|
|
|
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0081227998004
Format: Box set
Label: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Number Of Discs: 4
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Release Date: 2007-10-02
Studio: Rhino / Wea
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great box with a excellent booklet!
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Couldn't resist the box
Comment: 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!
Customer Rating:
Summary: A great collection to take you back in time
Comment: 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.
Customer Rating:
Summary: GREAT!
Comment: 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.
JAWS
Jon A. Waverly
Customer Rating:
Summary: A Really Nice Box
Comment: 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"
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
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.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
