#cd compilation

YOU COULD SENSE MUSIC WAS CHANGING. THINGS WERE GETTING HEAVIER GENERALLY..."

"...but musicians were also drawing on types of music too." So says Jimmy Page reflecting on the sea change that occured in 1968 and which presaged the outpouring of heavy music that defined the following decade."

-- "HEAVY NUGGETS" III opening CD liner notes, c. May 2014, by Phil Alexander

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on "MOJO" magazine coverage for Heavy Nuggets III (15 Gems From The Hard Rock Underground) CD compilation, given away free with "MOJO" [magazine], c. July 2014. A 23 Ears production for "MOJO" magazine.

EXTRA INFO: Artwork by "Wagron," inspired by the sleeve art to 1970's "Led Zeppelin III."

LABEL: Mojo Magazine – July 2014

SERIES: Heavy Nuggets – III

FORMAT: CD, Compilation

COUNTRY: UK

RELEASED: May 27, 2014

GENRE: Rock, Blues

STYLE: Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues Rock, Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock

PAID $30 FOR THIS ON CD JUST TO OWN THE TITLE TRACK -- GET THIS ALBUM YESTERDAY IF YOU'RE A REAL ONE.

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on CD package design for the compilation album "For a Few Dollars More/A Fistful Of Dollars," c. 1965 & 1964, conducted by Ennio Morricone and his Orchestra, pressed in Germany ["Fabrique en Allemagne"] and released on Compact Disc by the RCA label in 1989.

THE FIRST COMP IN THE "REALITY" SERIES TO BE RELEASED ON CD -- GET THIS IF YOU'RE ABLE TO.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on "REALITY" Part #2, the second in the "REALITY" series of compilations by the American grindcore/powerviolence/hardcore/ sludge/extreme music label, Deep Six Records, released in 1997 on both CD and 7 inch vinyl media formats.

All your mid to late '90s fucked-up favorites are on here, including:

ASSHOLE PARADE, EXCRUCIATING TERROR, DYSTOPIA, INFEST, DESPISE YOU, LACK OF INTEREST, GASP, SUPPRESSION, NOOTHGRUSH, NO COMPLY, PURGATORIA, MAN IS THE BASTARD, CAPITALI$T CASUALTIES, STAPLED SHUT, ENEMY SOIL, EVOLVED TO OBLITERATION, BAD ACID TRIO, & C:###.

"THE ULTIMATE BLACK METAL COLLECTION. 16 TRACKS OF SHEER HELL PRESENTED BY FENRIZ FROM DARKTHRONE."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a music CD compilation no extreme metal/music maniac should be without -- "Fenriz Presents… The Best of Old-School Black Metal," a compilation album by DARKTHRONE co-founder and drummer Fenriz, and featuring mostly first and second wave black metal bands. The album was released by Peaceville Records in 2004.

"One can analyse a piece of music and deduct that it is black metal, but black metal is a feeling. And that feeling cannot be analysed."

-- FENRIZ, drummer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and co-founder of Norwegian black/extreme metal band DARKTHRONE

TRACK LIST:

1.) BLASPHEMY – "Winds of the Black Godz"

2.) SARCOFAGO – "Satanic Lust"

3.) CELTIC FROST – "Dawn of Megiddo"

4.) NATTEFROST – "Sluts of Hell"

5.) MERCYFUL FATE – "Evil"

6.) SODOM – "Burst Command Til War"

7.) TORMENTOR – "Elisabeth Bathory"

8.) AURA NOIR – "Bloody Unity"

9.) DESTRUCTION – "Curse the Gods"

10.) SAMAEL – "Into the Pentagram"

11.) BULLDOZER – "Whisky Time"

12.) MAYHEM – "The Freezing Moon"

13.) HELLHAMMER – "The Third of the Storms"

14.) BURZUM – "Ea, Lord of the Deeps"

15.) VENOM – "Warhead"

16.) BATHORY – "Dies Irae"

"This compilation is dedicated to the memory of Quorthon's BATHORY."

-- FENRIZ (CD liner notes)