¡XXX: THREE DECADES OF ROADRUNNER RECORDS[4CD/Import Disc]
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[Machine Translation] 30 years of roaring sound. Thoroughly heavy and loud to the point of perfection. Finally, a 4CD BOX SET tracing the history of Roadrunner Records, a band that has been blasting down the road to the roar! Roadrunner Records was founded in the Netherlands in 1980, and since then has consistently released heavy and loud artists to the scene. This 54-track, 4-CD box set traces the label's 30-year history! Disc 1: Foundations features the ultra-heavy artists who supported the label in its early days and helped create the Roadrunner label color, including Mercyful Fate, Canivore, Deicide, Brujeria, Suffocation, Biohazard, Type O Disc 2: Horns Up features the artists who made Roadrunner a household name in the metal/hardcore scene, including Slipknot, Machine Head, Sepultura, Coal Chamber Disc 3: And Metal For All features the modern Roadrunner breakthrough artists Killswitch Engange, Trivium, Dream Theater, Opeth, Gojira, and more, as well as the 2005 "all-star" album Disc 4: Rock For The Ages features the artists behind the hard rock side of Roadrunner, including Rush, Nickelback, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Gojira, as well as a track from the "all-star" album Roadrunner United, released in 2005. Nickelback, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Theory Of A Deadman, Airbourne, Black Stone Cherry, and Korn feat. In addition, liner notes by veteran metal journalist Chris Dick include the label's founder Cees Wessels, label A&R legend Monte Conner, as well as King Diamond, Sepultura, Soulfly, and Cavalera Conspiracy's Max Cavalera, Trivium frontman Matt Heafy, Opeth leader Mikael Akerfeldt, Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, and many more roadrunners and artists. The album also includes comments from a number of Roadrunner artists, including Joey Jordison, drummer for Slipknot. This is a 30-year history of the Roadrunner Records label and how metal and heavy rock has evolved and developed over the past 30 years. If you call yourself a metalhead or a heavy rock maniac, you must have this box set!
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