Various Artists "Nuclear Blast All-Stars: Out Of The Dark (Germany, Nuclear Blast, NB 1800-2)"

Out of the Dark is a two disc compilation album from Nuclear Blast Records to commemorate their 20 years as a record label. Produced by Peter Wichers, who is also the only songwriter on the album, it features a variable collection of "All Stars" much in the same vein as Roadrunner United. The album includes 11 different singers, with Wichers playing bass and guitar, and drums by Dirk Verbeuren and Henry Ranta. It also includes a second disc which includes 10 songs from thrash metal, death metal and black metal bands signed to Nuclear Blast. While its "twin" album Into the Light focuses more on the power metal side of the label, Out of the Dark is rather devoted to the genre of melodic death metal.

Track listing:

Disc 1

All music is composed by Peter Wichers from Soilwork

1. "Dysfunctional Hours" (with Anders Fridén of In Flames) Anders Fridén 04:23
2. "Schizo" (feat. Peter Tägtgren of Hypocrisy and Pain) Peter Tägtgren 03:32
3. "Devotion" (feat. Jari Mäenpää of Wintersun) Jukka Koskinen 03:40
4. "The Overshadowing" (feat. Christian Älvestam formerly of Scar Symmetry) Henrik Ohlsson 03:43
5. "Paper Trail" (feat. John Bush formerly of Anthrax) John Bush 04:19
6. "The Dawn of All" (feat. Björn "Speed" Strid of Soilwork) Björn Strid 04:10
7. "Cold Is My Vengeance" (feat. Maurizio Iacono of Kataklysm) Maurizio Iacono 03:46
8. "My Name Is Fate" (feat. Mark Osegueda of Death Angel) Mark Osgueda 04:02
9. "The Gilded Dagger" (feat. Richard Sjunnesson and Roland Johansson; both formerly of Sonic Syndicate) Richard Sjunnesson 04:30
10. "Closer to the Edge" (feat. Guillaume Bideau of Mnemic) Guillaume Bideau 04:36

Total length: 40:48

Disc 2

1. Dimmu Borgir – The Heretic Hammer (US Bonus "In Sorte Diaboli") (04:38)
2. Immortal – Tyrants (06:18)
3. Nile – As He Creates, So He Destroys (04:38)
4. Exodus – Purge the World (Japan Bonus "Shovel Headed Kill Machine") (04:02)
5. Anthrax - Ghost (01:56)
6. Meshuggah – Futile Bread Machine (Campfire Version) (Taken from "The True Human Design" EP) (03:30)
7. Chimaira - Kingdom of Heartache (Japan Bonus "Resurrection") (04:09)
8. All Shall Perish – Prisoner of War (04:44)
9. Agnostic Front – All is Not Forgotten (01:55)
10. Threat Signal – Counterbalance (05:39)

Recording information:

Mixed at Fascination Street Studios, Örebro, Sweden.

Recorded at Wichers Studios, Los Feliz, CA.

Drums Recorded at Track Record Studios, North Hollywood, CA.

Various Artists "Anthems For The Rotten (Germany, Steamhammer, SPV 076-76652)"

Anthems For The Rotten is a Extreme Metal compilation, released in 1993.

Tracklist:

1. Warpath  "Massive"  3:04
2. Biohazard  "Justified Violence"   4:09
3. Flipper  "May The Truth Be Known" 2:53
4. Morgoth   "Under The Surface"   5:24 
5. Solstice "Abberation" 4:21
6. Gorefest  "False"   4:38
7. Sodom   "Ausgebombt (German Version)"   3:06
8. Baffdecks  "Von Leidenschaft" 4:04
9. Cro-Mags  "You Know It's True" 2:15
10. Bluuurgh   "Rancid Orchid" 4:48
11. Impaled Nazarene "Mortification / Blood Red Razorblade"   3:26
12. Samael  "After The Sepulture"    4:27
13. Pyogenesis   "Underneath Orions Sword" 5:30
14. Benediction  "Blood From Stone"   5:18
15. EyeHateGod   "Depress" 4:58
16. Hypocrisy  "Infant Sacrifices"   4:43
17. Demigod  "Dead Soul"  3:44
18. Graveyard Rodeo "The Truth Is In The Gas Chamber" 4:35
19. Anarchist Academy  "Wer Das Geld Hat ..." 3:33

Compiled: Carsten Messerschmidt

The Abyss "The Other Side/Summon The Beast (Russia, Irond Records, IROND CD 01-88)"

The Other Side/Summon The Beast is a compilation album by Swedish Black Metal band The Abyss, released in 2001.

Tracklist:

1. Marutukku 02:47  
2. Tjänare af besten 04:25  
3. Psycomantum 02:52  
4. Massacra (Hellhammer cover) 02:30   
5. Mörkrets vandring 04:13  
6. Sorgens dal 04:23  
7. Slukad 04:27  
8. Förintelsens tid äro kommen 03:36  
9. Satan's Majestic Empire 03:41  
10. Blessed with the Wrath of Evil 03:54  
11. Damned 03:32  
12. Summon the Beast 03:03  
13. The Hymn 03:11  
14. Cursed 04:16  
15. Feasting the Remains of Heaven 03:20  
16. The Arrival 03:43  

Time:  57:53  

English translations of Swedish song titles:

2. Servant of the Beast

5. Darkness Wandering

6. The Valley of Sorrow

7. Devoured

8. The Time of the Holocaust Has Come

"The Other Side" recorded at The Abyss Studio 7-10 October 1994.

"Summon The Beast" recorded at Abyss Studio July 1996.

Track 4 is a cover song originally performed by Hellhammer.

℗&© 2001 Nuclear Blast. ℗ 2001 Irond Ltd. under the license from Nuclear Blast.

℗ 2001 ООО "Айронд" по лицензии Nuclear Blast.

Hypocrisy "Worship"

Hypocrisy's thirteenth studio album, and first in eight years, Worship was released on November 26, 2021. The album was preceded by a music video for the first single "Chemical Whore". It was later elected by Loudwire as the 32nd best metal song of 2021.

Track list:

1. Worship 04:43   
2. Chemical Whore 05:19   
3. Greedy Bastards 04:03
4. Dead World 04:09   
5. We're the Walking Dead 05:19   
6. Brotherhood of the Serpent 04:23  
7. Children of the Gray 05:16  
8. Another Day 03:11   
9. They Will Arrive 04:25  
10. Bug in the Net 04:51   
11. Gods of the Underground 04:48

Total time:   50:27  

Comes with a 16-page booklet. European issue.

Official music videos:

- Chemical Whore

- Dead World

- Children of the Gray

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at Abyss Studio AB, Pärlby, Sweden.

Mastered at Chartmakers Audio Mastering, Espoo, Finland.

Hypocrisy "Virus (Japanese Edition)"

Virus is the tenth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Hypocrisy. It was released on 19 September 2005 by Nuclear Blast. This is the first Hypocrisy album recorded with their new drummer, Horgh, from the black metal band Immortal and second guitarist, Andreas Holma. A video was made for the song "Scrutinized".

Early pressings of the CD were sold with a thirteen-song limited edition live DVD, with 12 songs recorded in Strasbourg on Hypocrisy's 2004 tour as support of Cannibal Corpse, and from a different show they play the song "Total Disaster" by Destruction along with the band's vocalist and bass guitar player Marcel 'Schmier' Schirmer. Some CDs have a bonus track, "Watch Out", which appears to be a demo of a song recorded in 2000.

Some early pressings have an error where a scratch sound can be heard on tracks 6 and 11. The Nuclear Blast record label said it would mail a replacement to anyone who had one of these glitched discs.

Track list:

1. XVI 00:16  
2. War-Path 04:23   
3. Scrutinized 04:25   
4. Fearless 04:24   
5. Craving for Another Killing 03:50   
6. Let the Knife Do the Talking 04:15
7. A Thousand Lies 04:52   
8. Incised Before I've Ceased 04:28  
9. Blooddrenched 03:42   
10. Compulsive Psychosis 04:14   
11. Living to Die 05:42   
12. Watch Out (demo) 03:35  

Total time:   48:06

Recording information:

Recorded at Abyss Studio in November / December 2004. Engineered by Hypocrisy.

Mastered at Cuttingroom.