Mtv2 Headbangers Ball (2003) (Godsmack/Static-X/Anthrax/)

Product Summary Label: Roadrunner Records/universal UPC: 00016861832728 Release Date: 10/7/2003 Buy.com Sku: 60615295 Item#: M59M65 Buy.com Sales Rank: 25079 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Straight Out Of Line - Godsmack ~ Various Artists 2. This Is Now - Hatebreed ~ Various Artists 3. Price To Play - Staind ~ Various Artists 4. Stupid Girl - Cold ~ Various Artists 5. Hexagram - Deftones ~ Various Artists 6. This Is The New S**t - Marilyn Manson ~ Various Artists 7. Separate - Sevendust ~ Various Artists 8. When It Cuts - Il Nino ~ Various Artists 9. World's So Cold - Mudvayne ~ Various Artists 10. Smothered - Spineshank ~ Various Artists 11. Destroy All - Static-X ~ Various Artists 12. Fixation On The Darkness - Killswitch Engage ~ Various Artists 13. Inhale - Stone Sour ~ Various Artists 14. Pride - Soil ~ Various Artists 15. Safe Home - Anthrax ~ Various Artists 16. Reign In Blood - Slayer (live) ~ Various Artists 17. Dead In Hollywood - Murderdolls ~ Various Artists 18. Destroyer Of Senses - Shadow's Fall ~ Various Artists 19. Sun Doesn't Rise - Mushroomhead ~ Various Artists 20. House Of 1000 Corpses - Rob Zombie ~ Various Artists Disc 2 Song Title Sample 1. Ruin - Lamb Of God ~ Various Artists 2. We Will Rise - Arch Enemy ~ Various Artists 3. Clouds Connected - In Flames ~ Various Artists 4. Down Again - Chimaira ~ Various Artists 5. You Broke Like Glass - Eighteen Visions ~ Various Artists 6. Heaven's A Lie - Lacuna Coil ~ Various Artists 7. I Could Care Less - Devildriver ~ Various Artists 8. Sworn Enemy - Sworn Enemy ~ Various Artists 9. At The End Of August - 36 Crazyfists ~ Various Artists 10. Mannequin - Cradle Of Filth ~ Various Artists 11. Infected - Demon Hunter ~ Various Artists 12. March Of The Fire Ants - Mastodon ~ Various Artists 13. Down - Motograter ~ Various Artists 14. Mandibles - E.Town Concrete ~ Various Artists 15. Botchla - Poison The Well ~ Various Artists 16. Rejection Role - Soilwork ~ Various Artists 17. Endless - Unearth ~ Various Artists 18. Relentless - Strapping Young Lad ~ Various Artists 19. Forever - As I Lay Dying ~ Various Artists 20. Rational Gaze - Meshuggah ~ Various Artists   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Personnel: Howard Jones (vocals). Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; Colin Richardson; Cradle of Filth; Daniel Bergstrand; David Bottrill; Frank Gryner; Fredrik Nordstr?m ; Greg Koller; Greg Reely; Orjan Ornkloo; J.R. McNeely; James Barton ; Jay Baumgardner; Jeremy Staska; Adam Dutkiewicz; Joey Jordison; Lamb of God; Matt Bayles; Matt Hyde ; Matt Sepanic; Matt Wallace ; Meshuggah; Michael Barbiero; Mike Fraser; Anders Frid?n; Andy Sneap; Andy Wallace; Poison the Well; Randy Staub ; Scott Humphrey; Shaun Thingvold; Soilwork; Steve Russell; Terry Date; Toby Wright; Ulrich Wild; Waldemar Sorychta ; Zeuss; Ben Grosse; Rob Caggiano; Charlie Benante. Illustrator: Derek Hess. MTV2 and Roadrunner teamed up to issue the competitively priced two-disc MTV2 Headbangers Ball set. But while it's designed to promote a Headbangers Ball-branded tour featuring Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, and Shadows Fall, this isn't just a cross-promotional tchotchke. With the formidable strength of Roadrunner and its associated labels behind it, and drawing also from numerous other loud rock imprints, MTV2 Headbangers Ball is an effective sonic guidebook for the state of metal circa 2003. Disc one features mainstream acts as well as a few up-and-comers from the same vein. Disc two is more ambitious, delving into the heavy music underground for some killer material. Surrounded as it is by the tame breast-beating of Staind and Cold, Hatebreed's staccato "This Is Now" stands out immediately. It kicks off the first CD with a sickening thud and sets up the cerebral art-metal of Deftones' "Hexagram" and a live version of "Reign in Blood" taken from the Slayer DVD War at the Warfield. There isn't much to say about appearances by acts like Mudvayne and Static-X; if their more casual metal fan base discovers some of the more challenging material here, then their presence on Headbangers Ball is forgiven. That lesson begins in earnest with disc two, which is all over the map both stylistically and geographically. Its opening salvo -- featuring Lamb of God ("Ruin"), Arch Enemy ("We Will Rise"), and Sweden's In Flames ("Clouds Connected") -- showcases classicist, progressive, and death metal influences in different but equally visceral ways, while Italy's Lacuna Coil turns in "Heaven's a Lie," which should appeal to those enamored of Evanescence's mixture of goth, metal, and female vocals. Newcomers DevilDriver and the promising Demon Hunter bring some measured yet no less heavy pain to the proceedings, and things just get completely crazy with Mastodon's bewildering "March of the Fire Ants." "Ants" is the kind of unclassifiable, weird, and totally wonderful piece of music that will make nuns and mothers believe in the regenerative powers of heavy metal. It's essential listening for fans of disc one's more populist sounds. Headbangers Ball hurdles into the station with a final, furious section featuring the experimentation of Poison the Well, Unearth's hardcore and Euro-metal synthesis, and the aptly named "Relentless" from Strapping Young Lad. Appropriately, its final act of violence is from Meshuggah, whose throbbing, surgically precise music makes minced meat out of disc one's sanitized soul bearing. Over its 40 tracks, Headbangers Ball effectively travels both the main thoroughfares and twisting, shadowy trails of heavy metal. Besides its few weak moments, the album's only drawback is the content editing. Why separate clean and regular versions weren't released is unclear. At the same time, the edits -- while mildly irritating for veteran listeners -- will ensure the participation of protected ears, and expose those metal greenhorns to a wider, wilder, and weirder array of sounds. And isn't that what a show like Headbangers Ball is supposed to be about? ~ Johnny Loftus In ye olde days of the 1980s, true metalheads hoping to catch videos of their favorite bands had to stay up late for the original HEADBANGERS BALL, MTV's bastion of all things long-haired, leather-clad, and too heavy for the network's regular rotation. In the new millennium, when extreme metal of every sort reached the mainstream on a weekly basis, the faithful ironically still turned to HEADBANGERS BALL, this time on MTV's music-intensive--and, oddly enough, less popular--sister network MTV2. As the title suggests, MTV2 HEADBANGERS BALL collects the program's best moments, which range from the chart topping alt-rock metal of Staind (here represented by "Price to Play," the first single from 12 SHADES OF GREY) to lesser known, far more demanding fare such as Unearth's pile-driving "Endless." The two-disc set even gives a nod to a few of metal's most influential pioneers, Anthrax and Slayer (the latter contributes an absolutely ferocious live version of the classic speed metal anthem "Raining Blood"), acknowledging both the roots of the genre and the artists that made the original HEADBANGERS BALL so compelling. Producer: Cradle Of Filth; Dan Certa; Daniel Bergstrand; Dave Chavarri; David Bottrill; Deftones; Demon Hunter; Devin Townsend; Christina Machado; Doug Cook; Mike Sarkisyan; Evan White; Steve Holt; Tom Decker; GGGarth; Greg Koller; Howard Benson; James Barton; Jame Engineer: Ben Schigel   Technical Info Release Date : 10/07/2003 Original Release Date : 2003 Catalog ID : 618327 Label : Roadrunner Records (USA) Number of Discs : 2 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00016861832728    Product Image