Heavy Metal Box

Be prepared to raise your mano cornuta salute for Rhino's new four-disc HEAVY METAL BOX (LIMITED EDITION PACKAGING), the biggest, loudest and most comprehensive anthology of metal mayhem ever assembled. Featuring an all-star line-up of metal and hard rock legends, the box's size more than lives up to the thunder of its sound - it collects 70 influential tracks tracing the evolution of metal through its first golden age, 1968-1991, for a total of over five hours of remastered music. Head-banger's heaven never was so devilishly great!

To honor HEAVY METAL BOX with fittingly impressive visuals, Rhino presents this unprecedented 4-CD set in a cool grey box designed and shaped to resemble a guitar amplifier. And, in a tip of the hat to Spinal Tap - whose song "Big Bottom" can be heard on Disc 3 - the faux-amp package features an authentic, turn-able Marshall knob that really does let you crank it to 11.

Metal's embrace of diverse styles more than gets its due with HEAVY METAL BOX's far-reaching repertoire. The gargantuan track listing encompasses proto-metal progenitors, hard rock icons, thrashers, progressive acts, speedsters, pop-metal MTV favorites, new metal and other incarnations of the genre's sweep. In addition to Mick Wall's compelling history, the box's immense booklets features rare photos plus essays from metal icon Ronnie James Dio (on metal's infamous "mano cornuta" devil horns salute), "first lady of metal" Lita Ford, Lars Ulrich, metal radio godfather Eddie Trunk, UK journalist Chris Welch on metal and black magic and more.