Artist: V. A.
Album: MONSTERS OF METAL VOL. 3 (2DVD)

Year: 2004
Media type: DVD

“Metal goes commercial - the sell out has already started: Here comes the new kind of pop music”. I've heard statements like this more and more often within the last couple of months. Well, to be honest - I don't think so! Let's call it like it is: Our favorite bands have faded out of the chart shows of big TV-stations. They do not even play the video clips and, as if this is not enough, little narrow-minded VJs are making fun of the so called metal-aesthetic. Looking for shows with hard and heavy music? Almost nowhere to be found! The best you can find is a 30-minute show in the middle of the night. And on radio? German folk music versus Majorcan holiday songs. Cheers for that! But, on the other side, You will find more and more themes from the MONSTERS OF METAL collection on top of the official German charts over and over again - and that is achieved without the support of the great mass-media. Bands like Nightwish, Edguy, Machine Head, Apocalyptica and Iced Earth, all to be found on this DVD, can really stand their ground against their pop colleagues. If these video clips can not be found on TV, then the congenial DVD-series brings it to your screen. Nothing that can not be shown, every metal genre essential release, and no act too small. That is what I call a perfect co-existence. But let me tell you: before I start the congratulations round I will switch on the TV and have a look by myself.

“Some Kind Of Monster” - that's the hot stuff the good folks at Nuclear Blast gave the world with their compilation. Maximum Metal!
Thorsten Zahn / Metal Hammer Germany

TRACKLIST DVD 1:

1. NIGHTWISH - Nemo
2. EDGUY - Lavatory Love Machine
3. DEATH ANGEL - Thicker Than Blood
4. PRIMAL FEAR - The Healer
5. WINTERSUN - Beyond The Dark Sun
6. APOCALYPTICA feat. N. HAGEN - Seemann
7. ANTHRAX - What Doesn't Die
8. EKTOMORF - Destroy
9. HYPOCRISY - Eraser
10. SENTENCED - Killing Me Killing You
11. ICED EARTH - When The Eagle Cries
12. HAMMERFALL - Renegade
13. SOILWORK - As We Speak
14. DESTRUCTION - Ravenous Beast
15. CHILDREN OF BODOM - Downfall
16. EXODUS - Throwing Down
17. NEVERMORE - I, Voyager
18. AMORPHIS - Against Windows
19. MONSTER MAGNET - Unbroken (Hotel Baby)
20. FIREBALL MINISTRY - King
21. AGATHODAIMON - Serpent's Embrace
22. MISERY INDEX - The Great Depression
23. MORBID ANGEL - Enshrined By Grace
24. IMPERANON - Sold
25. FINNTROLL - Trollhammaren

Studio Chapter:
MNEMIC @ Antfarm Studios Denmark

Live Chapter:
1. GRAVE DIGGER - Valhalla
2. CRYSTAL BALL - Hellvetia
3. DEATH - Scavenger Of Human Sorrow
4. DARKANE - Violence Fom Within (Death Angel Tour 2003)
5. GRAVEWORM - Demonic Dreams (X-Mass Festivals 2003)
6. KATAKLYSM - Where The Enemy Sleeps (No Mercy Festivals 2004)

TRACKLIST DVD 2:

1. NIGHTWISH - Wish I Had An Angel
2. SONATA ARCTICA - Don't Say A Word
3. MNEMIC - Deathbox
4. DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER - Eruption
5. AGNOSTIC FRONT - Peace
6. LIFE OF AGONY - Weeds
7. CHIMAIRA - Down Again
08. IN FLAMES - Touch Of Red
10. SEPULTURA - Roots Bloody Roots
11. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE - Rose Of Sharyn
12. SOULFLY - Prophecy
13. VOIVOD - We Carry On
14. DEVIL DRIVER - I Could Care Less
15. ARCH ENEMY - Ravenous
16. CREMATORY - Revolution
17. LACUNA COIL - Swamped
18. XANDRIA - Ravenheart
19. IMMORTAL - One By One
20. DEICIDE - Scars Of The Crucifix
21. SUSPERIA - The Bitter Man
22. OMNIUM GATHERUM - Writhen
23. MYSTIC PROPHECY - Burning Bridges
24. SINERGY - Midnight Madness
25. STRATOVARIUS - Hunting High And Low