Metal Blade’s 30th Anniversary Sampler. Free on Record Store Day, and my favorite 2012 RCD find.
Here is my favorite Record Store Day 2012 acquisition, Metal Blade Records 30th Anniversary Sampler. The chock-full-of-metal comp includes 30 tracks from Metal Blade heavies like Armored Saint, Flotsam and Jetsam, Lizzy Borden, Sacred Reich, King Diamond, and Mercyful Fate. Did I mention it was a RCD freebie?
I’ve seen a few popping up on eBay for $5, a small price to pay for so much excellent metal. I’ve had the second CD playing constantly, way too loud since last weekend. King’s X Groove Machine sounds as good now as it did in 1998, and the same can be said for the comps other vintage tracks. The two CD’s span the very metal history of Metal Blade music from 1982-2012.
Track listing (which for some reason I can’t find anywhere else) follows.
CD 1
Cannibal Corpse: Demented Aggression (from Torture)
Joe For A Cowboy: Nourishment Through Bloodshed fFrom Demoncracy)
Goatwhore: Collapse In The Eternal Worth (from Blood For The Master)
Whitechapel: Section 8 (from Recorrupted)
The Devil’s Blood: She (from The Thousandfold Epicentre)
In Solitude: Serpents Are Rising (from The World. The Flesh. The Devil)
The Black Dahlia Murder: Moonlight Equilibrium (from Ritual)
Allegaeon: Tartessos: The Hidden Xenocryst (from Formshifter)
Unearth: Watch it Burn (from Darkenss In the Light)
OSI: Cold Call (from Fire Make Thunder)
Battlecross: Push Pull Destroy (from Pursuit of Honor)
Arch/Matheos: Midnight Serenade (from Sympathetic Resonance)
Hammers of Misfortune: Grey Wednesday (from 17th Street)
Pilgrim: Adventurer (from Misery Wizard)
Exumer: Fire & Damnation (from Fire & Damnation)
CD 2
Armored Saint: Reign of Fire (from Symbol of Salvation)
Amon Amarth: Cry of the Black Birds (from With Oden on our Side)
As I Lay Dying: Confined (from Shadows are Security)
Cirth Ungol: Atom Smasher (from King of the Dead)
Gwar: Gor-Gor (from American Must be Destroyed)
Fates Warning: Eye to Eye (from Parallels)
Flotsam and Jetsum: Iron Tears (from Doomsday for the Deceiver)
King Diamond: Never Ending Hill (from Give Me Your Soul…Please)
King’s X: Groove Machine (from Tape Head)
Lizzy Borden: Me Against the World (from Visual Lies)
Mercyful Fate: Egypt (from In The Shadows)
Sacred Reich: American Way – Live (from Still Ignorant (1987-1997) Live)
The Crown: Deathexplosion (from Deathrace King)
Trouble: Thinking of the Past (from Run to the Light)
Voivod: Voivod (from War and Pain)