Metal Massacre

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''Metal Massacre'' – 1982

First pressing

1. "Cold Day in Hell" – Steeler – 4:17
2. "Live for the Whip" – Bitch – 5:19
3. "Captive of Light" – Malice – 3:21
4. "Tell the World" – Ratt – 3:16
5. "Octave" – Avatar – 3:48
6. "Death of the Sun" – Cirith Ungol – 3:56
7. "Dead of the Night" – Demon Flight – 2:35
8. "Fighting Backwards" – Pandemonium – 3:44
9. "Kick You Down" – Malice – 4:28
10. "Hit the Lights" – Metallica – 4:25

    Second pressing

11. "Chains Around Heaven" – Black 'n Blue – 3:45
12. "Live for the Whip" – Bitch – 5:19
13. "Captive of Light" – Malice – 3:21
14. "Tell the World" – Ratt – 3:16
15. "Octave" – Avatar – 3:48
16. "Death of the Sun" – Cirith Ungol – 3:56
17. "Dead of the Night" – Demon Flight – 2:35
18. "Fighting Backwards" – Pandemonium – 3:44
19. "Kick You Down" – Malice – 4:28
20. "Hit the Lights" – Metallica – 4:12

    Third pressing

21. "Chains Around Heaven" – Black 'n Blue – 3:45
22. "Live for the Whip" – Bitch – 5:19
23. "Captive of Light" – Malice – 3:21
24. "Octave" – Avatar – 3:48
25. "Death of the Sun" – Cirith Ungol – 3:56
26. "Dead of the Night" – Demon Flight – 2:35
27. "Fighting Backwards" – Pandemonium – 3:44
28. "Kick You Down" – Malice – 4:28
29. "Hit the Lights" – Metallica – 4:12

• Note: The first pressing was released on Metal Blade Records, a second pressing on Metalworks Records, both in 1982. Black 'n Blue's "Chains Around Heaven" replaced Steeler's "Cold Day in Hell", which was the first track on the original version of the compilation. Version 2 of Metallica's "Hit the Lights" is a new recording as James Hetfield was unhappy with the original version. The second pressing features Dave Mustaine on lead guitar instead of Lloyd Grant. Ratt's "Tell the World" was omitted on subsequent pressings, starting with Metal Blade's 1984 re-issue.

  ''Metal Massacre II'' – 1982

1. "Lesson Well Learned" – Armored Saint – 2:51
2. "Mind Invader" – 3rd Stage Alert – 3:51
3. "Rivet Head" – Surgical Steel – 3:03^
4. "Shadows of Steel" – Obsession – 4:31
5. "Scepters of Deceit" – Savage Grace – 3:45
6. "No Holds Barred" – Overkill* – 4:12
7. "Lucifer's Hammer" – Warlord – 3:18
8. "Such a Shame" – Trauma** – 2:53
9. "It's Alright" – Dietrich – 3:26
10. "Inversion" – Molten Leather – 4:04
11. "Kings" – Hyksos – 6:11
12. "Heavy Metal Virgin" – Aloha*** – 3:01

    ''Metal Massacre III'' – 1983

13. "Aggressive Perfector" – Slayer – 3:29
14. "Riding in Thunder" – Bitch – 3:57
15. "Armageddon" – Tyrant* – 5:14
16. "Piranahs" – Medusa – 2:11
17. "Bite the Knife" – Test Pattern – 5:25
18. "Blitzkrieg" – Black Widow – 2:56
19. "Mrs. Victoria" – Warlord – 5:55
20. "Let's Go All the Way" – Virgin Steele – 3:12
21. "Fire and Wind" – Sexist – 3:00
22. "Hell Bent" – Znowhite – 1:49
23. "The Kid" – Marauder – 3:01
24. "Fist and Chain" – La Mort – 2:37

    ''Metal Massacre IV'' – 1983

25. "The Alien" – Sacred Blade – 3:39
26. "Cross My Way" – Death Dealer – 3:40
27. "The Last Judgement" – Trouble – 5:03
28. "Taken by Force" – Sceptre – 2:44
29. "Speed Zone" – Zoetrope – 2:41
30. "Forbidden Evil" – War Cry – 4:37
31. "Screams from the Grave" – Abattoir – 3:24
32. "I Don't Want to Die" – Witchslayer – 4:59
33. "Rod of Iron" – Lizzy Borden – 4:29
34. "Fear No Evil" – August Redmoon – 3:52
35. "Destructer" – Thrust – 4:13
36. "Medieval" – Medieval – 3:19

    ''Metal Massacre V'' – 1984

37. "Torture Me" – Omen – 3:26
38. "Condemned to the Gallows" – Voivod – 5:09
39. "Call on the Attacker" – Attacker – 3:35
40. "Nightmare" – Future Tense – 3:50
41. "Death Rider" – Overkill – 3:52
42. "Soldier Boy" – Fates Warning – 6:20
43. "The Brave" – Metal Church – 4:27
44. "Destroyer" – Lethyl Synn – 3:27
45. "The Warrior" – Final Warning – 3:49
46. "Crucifixion" – Hellhammer – 2:50
47. "Marching Saprophytes" – Mace – 4:07
48. "End of Time" – Jesters of Destiny – 3:20

    ''Metal Massacre VI'' – 1985

49. "Swing of the Axe" – Possessed – 3:50
50. "XXX" – Nasty Savage – 5:26
51. "Executioner" – Steel Assassin – 5:02
52. "Tear Down the Walls" – Mayhem – 5:44
53. "Easy Way Out" – Hades – 4:46
54. "Metal Merchants" – Hallow's Eve – 4:27
55. "Bombs of Death" – Hirax – 2:01
56. "Fountain Keeper" – Pathfinder – 3:52
57. "Welcome to the Slaughterhouse" – Dark Angel – 5:22
58. "Concrete Cancer" – The Obsessed – 3:16
59. "En Masse – Stand or Die" – Martyr – 5:10

    ''Metal Massacre VII'' – 1986

60. "Impulse" – Heretic – 4:18
61. "Sentinel Beast" – Sentinel Beast – 5:20
62. "I Live, You Die" – Flotsam and Jetsam – 6:19
63. "Rented Heat" – Krank – 4:09
64. "Backstabber" – Mad Man – 2:53
65. "Widow's Walk" – Détente – 2:20
66. "High 'n' Mighty" – Commander – 4:16
67. "In the Blood of Virgins" – Juggernaut – 4:13
68. "Reich of Torture" – Cryptic Slaughter – 2:33
69. "The Omen" – Have Mercy – 4:18
70. "The Awakening" – Titanic – 4:42
71. "Troubled Ways" – Lost Horizon – 4:31

    ''Metal Massacre VIII'' – 1987

72. "Ignorance" – Sacred Reich – 3:50
73. "Hellbound" – Viking – 2:58
74. "Keeper of the Flame" – Overlorde – 4:07
75. "Violence Is Golden" – Fatal Violence – 4:58
76. "Spare No Lives" – Tactics – 2:43
77. "Nothing Left" – Sanctum – 4:26
78. "Into the Darkness" – Gargoyle – 3:44
79. "Death Awaits You" – Ripper – 5:43
80. "Take 'Em Alive" – E.S.P. – 3:53
81. "Intimate with Evil" – Wargod – 4:46
82. "Deadly Kiss" – L.S.N. – 2:58
83. "Bullets" – Cobalt Blue – 3:34

• Note: Re-released on CD in 1994 as a two-in-one, along with Metal Massacre IX.

  ''Metal Massacre IX'' – 1988

1. "We Want You" – Banshee
2. "Old World Nights" – Oliver Magnum
3. "Wasteland" – Toxik
4. "Blood Under Heaven" – Dissenter
5. "Random Violence" – Redrum
6. "Definitive Apology" – Pedifile
7. "Needle Damage" – Chaos Horde
8. "Dehumanize" – Faith or Fear
9. "Midnight Madman" – The Wrath
10. "Children of War" – Overdose

• Note: Re-released on CD in 1994 as a two-in-one, along with Metal Massacre VIII. Songs by Redrum, Pedifile, The Wrath, and Overdose were omitted in order to fit both albums onto one CD.

  ''Metal Massacre X'' – 1989

1. "Sick or Sane?" – Betrayal
2. "Typhoid Mary" – Solitude
3. "Mirage of Blood" – Murdercar
4. "The Secret" – Confessor
5. "Egyptian Falcon" – Dan Collette
6. "Infected" – Nihilist
7. "Visions in Secret" – R.O.T.
8. "Mercy" – Wench
9. "The Fourth Dimension" – Slaughter
10. "Stayed Up 4 Daze" – I.D.K.

    ''Metal Massacre XI'' – 1991

11. "Shipwrecked with the Wicked" – Mystic Force
12. "Circle of Fools" – Epidemic
13. "Dementia by Design" – Forte
14. "Authority Lies" – My Victim
15. "Tormented Souls" – Havoc Mass
16. "The Dream Turns to Dread" – Divine Right
17. "The Great Escape" – Ministers of Anger
18. "Resurrected" – Dominance
19. "Sorcery of the Wicked" – Mortal Reign
20. "Eternal Call" – Nightcrawler
21. "Bad Habits" – Harum Scarum
22. "Consumed by Hate" – Chemikill
23. "Excuses" – Tynator
24. "The Monkey Beat-Man" – Spudmonsters

    ''Metal Massacre XII'' – 1995

25. "Paingod" – Paingod – 4:02
26. "Sweething" – Crisis – 3:45
27. "Exhume Her" – Pist.On – 4:14
28. "Godlessness" – Avernus – 7:37
29. "Det Glemte Riket" – Ancient – 6:56
30. "The Allknowing" – Level – 5:12
31. "Wolf" – Tipper Gore – 3:55
32. "Rain Dance" – Gunga Din – 3:52
33. "Cry to Heaven" – Divine Regale – 3:58
34. "#3" – Pervis – 3:01
35. "Anti " – And Christ Wept – 4:03
36. "The Wounded" – Amboog-a-Lard – 4:52
37. "Human Harvest" – Eulogy – 4:57
38. "Twodegreesbelow" – Overcast – 4:48
39. "Arizona Life" – Big Twin Din – 3:13

    ''Metal Massacre XIII'' – 2006

40. "Leaving All Behind" – Cellador
41. "Miasma" – The Black Dahlia Murder
42. "Shadow of the Reaper" – Six Feet Under
43. "Swarm" – Torture Killer
44. "Vagrant Idol" – Demiricous
45. "Alien Angel" – 3
46. "The Killchain" – Bolt Thrower
47. "Dead Before I Stray" – Into the Moat
48. "Fixation on Plastics" – The Red Chord
49. "Sterling Black Icon" – Fragments of Unbecoming
50. "Bleed the Meek" – Paths of Possession
51. "From Your Grave" – The Absence
52. "Sigma Enigma" – God Dethroned
53. "The Pursuit of Vikings" – Amon Amarth
54. "Kiss Me Now Kill Me Later" – Machinemade God
55. "One with the Ocean" – The Ocean
56. "His Imperial Victory" – And the Hero Fails
57. "Cult" – Gaza
58. "Echo of Cries" – End It All

    ''Metal Massacre XIV'' – 2016

59. "The Traveller" – Metalian
60. "Until Then...Until the End" – Noctum
61. "Bell of Tarantia" – Gatekeeper
62. "The Demented Force" – Assassin's Blade
63. "Denim Attack" – Cobra
64. "The Siege of Jerusalem" – Stone Dagger
65. "Will of the Ancient Call" – Crypt Sermon
66. "The Ripper in Black" – Savage Master
67. "No Tomorrow" – Outcast
68. "Brothers" – Corsair
69. "Cold Cold Ground" – Walpyrgus
70. "Final Spell" – Visigoth
71. "Into Depths" – Ravencult