Talking about his inspiration for deciding on what bands to include, he added, "Those old recordings captured the vitality and energy of the time: all analog hiss, rattling drums, roaring bass and ...

“This compilation is just one small effort made by a few dozen people who care, who are intimately affected by this, and who love other people who are afraid of what the future will bring,” reads the ...

DARKTHRONE's Fenriz recently spoke to Denmark's Antenna web site about his upcoming compilation of "the most influential and most unholy sounding tracks" of the black metal genre, due on September 20 ...

RidingEasy Records, the label behind the Brown Acid garage-rock and proto-metal compilation series, is delving into the golden age of heavy metal with a new collection titled Scrap Metal, Vol. 1. We ...

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Metal Massacre, Metal Blade Records is reissuing the widely influential 1982 compilation that featured tracks from local Los Angeles groups, including a then ...

A brand new heavy metal collection consisting of current Estonian bands has been made available for free download at this location. The compilation, entitled "The Beast Released", consists of 18 bands ...

Black Metal Rainbows, the group that brought us the book by the same name, have now released a compilation benefitting queer youth. The album, released on Bandcamp Friday, featured contributions from ...

eBay.com (2) Metal compilations have been pumped out in extraordinary numbers since around 1980, but few are worth paying for and listening to regularly. K-Tel put out a comp of mainstream metal ...

Back in June 1982, one of history's seminal heavy-metal compilation albums, Metal Massacre, came out. That record spawned a franchise that's extended to more than a dozen volumes and launched a record ...