Review# 332The Roadrunner United All Star Sessions is a collaborative effort from past and present artists on Roadrunner Records for their 25th anniversary. Looking through the line up it is pretty damn stella; there are members of Slipknot, Cradle Of Filth, Fear Factory, Sepultura, King Diamond, Misfits, Teatament etc etc.
The label picked Trivium's Matt Heafy, Slipknot's Joey Jordison, Fear Factory's Dino Cazares and Machine Head's Rob Flynn to be team leaders of a sort as well as producers. They helped contact and pick those they wanted for each track as well as assisting with song writing.
I absolutely thrashed this when it first came out, it had a huge appeal to the younger kids I noticed. While I don't really think the album is particularly pioneering sound wise it really does a great job showcasing the label as well as the great range of sub genre's under the Metal umbrella. For anyone wanting to get a taste on this album you can hear some Death, Black and Classic Metal as well as shock rock in the awesome King Diamond lead track In The Fire, there are also bits of punk and most other genre's tucked in too.
It is an interesting and rather impressive collaboration and definitely a better way to celebrate Roadrunners anniversary than a best of compilation.
In The Fire: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdNi0K2FLek
I Don't Want To Be A Super Hero: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5plfOdDE2U
Annihilation By The Hands Of God: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT5Ktwccnt8
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