Roadrunner Records announce box set out September
on August 19th, 2013Roadrunner Records will celebrate its three-decades-plus legacy as one of the most highly regarded labels in heavy metal and hard rock history by releasing ‘XXX: Three Decades of Roadrunner Records‘. The release, out on September 27th includes 54 tracks, packaged in a deluxe fold-out box. Veteran metal scribe Chris Dick has written the liner notes, which trace Roadrunner’s entire history and include quotes from the label founder, Cees Wessels, A&R guru Monte Conner, and artists such as King Diamond, Sepultura / Soulfly / Cavalera Conspiracy mastermind Max Cavalera, Trivium frontman Matt Heafy, Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt, Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, and more. Expand this post for the track listing.
Disc 1 – FOUNDATIONS
1. MERCYFUL FATE – Evil
2. WHIPLASH – Power Thrashing Death
3. KING DIAMOND – Abigail
4. CARNIVORE – Carnivore
5. OBITUARY – Slowly We Rot
6. ANNIHILATOR – Alison Hell
7. DEICIDE – Sacrificial Suicide
8. SUFFOCATION – Infecting The Crypts
9. BIOHAZARD – Punishment
10. TYPE O NEGATIVE – Christian Woman
11. BRUJERIA – Matandos Güeros
12. CYNIC – Veil of Maya
13. LIFE OF AGONY – Through and Through
14. TREPONEM PAL – Excess and Overdrive
Disc 2 – HORNS UP
1. NAILBOMB – Wasting Away
2. MACHINE HEAD – Imperium
3. DOG EAT DOG – No Fronts (Jam Master Jay’s Main Edit)
4. DEATH – Crystal Mountain
5. SEPULTURA – Roots Bloody Roots
6. COAL CHAMBER – Loco
7. SOULFLY – Eye For an Eye
8. FEAR FACTORY – Shock
9. SLIPKNOT – Spit it Out
10. SPINESHANK – New Disease
11. CHIMAIRA – Pure Hatred
12. 36 CRAZYFISTS – Bloodwork
13. ILL NINO – What Comes Around
Disc 3 – AND METAL FOR ALL
1. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – My Last Serenade
2. TRIVIUM – Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr
3. DEVILDRIVER – I Could Care Less
4. CRADLE OF FILTH – Nymphetamine Fix
5. HATEBREED – Destroy Everything
6. CAVALERA CONSPIRACY – Inflikted
7. ROADRUNNER UNITED – The Dagger
8. PORCUPINE TREE – Fear of a Blank Planet
9. DREAM THEATER – On the Backs of Angels
10. OPETH – Heir Apparent
11. MEGADETH – Head Crusher
12. DOWN – Witchtripper
13. HEAVEN & HELL – Bible Black
14. GOJIRA – L’enfant sauvage
Disc 4- ROCK FOR THE AGES
1. NICKELBACK – Side Of A Bullet
2. JERRY CANTRELL – Anger Rising
3. STONE SOUR – 30/30 150
4. KARMA TO BURN – Ma petite mort
5. GLASSJAW – Pretty Lush
6. THE DRESDEN DOLLS – Girl Anachronism
7. AIRBOURNE – No-One Fits Me (Better Than You)
8. MURDERDOLLS – Dead In Hollywood
9. THEORY OF A DEADMAN – Bad Girlfriend
10. BLACK STONE CHERRY – Lonely Train
11. KORN feat. SKRILLEX – Get Up!
12. RUSH – Headlong Flight
13. LYNYRD SKYNRD – Still Unbroken
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