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3.0 out of 5 stars
A Rather Special Interest Item, August 5, 2006
This review is from: Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (Audio CD)
This soundtrack CD will likely please those very unusual persons who bought the DVD set out of simple curiosity, got engaged with the metal songs excerpted there and craved hearing the whole of some of them. The more obvious patrons of the film, established metal devotees, would likely go back to the sources for any bands/songs previously unknown to them.
By my count from the film credits there are 22 band songs excerpted for illustrative or background sound in the film (excepting some original stuff and some samples of classical and blues music). *
There are two substitutions: Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast" and "Run to the Hills" have been replaced by "Hallowed be thy Name" and evidently Enslave's "Havenless" was replaced by the Emperor song. Perhaps there was trouble getting releases. The song "Heaven and Hell" is the Black Sabbath version on this CD; in the movie it is the band DIO version.
I am surprised that Van Halen's "Eruption" didn't make it onto this soundtrack CD.
* Find my review of the DVD set "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" to see my list of the songs.
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The CD frontispiece is a foldup page. One side has journal summaries from the six movie locations; the reverse side is the Dunn-Popoff chart of 24 metal subgenres. This would be valuable in the DVD package. If I were reviewing this CD item today I would give it more stars than three.
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