Low Price Eagle-Armoury Records 2009 Metal/Hard Rock Sampler [Explicit]

And that is all it is meant to be: a sampler from a record label. Many of the other reviewers here seem clueless about what this is and isn't supposed to be.

Spitfire Records was a label that started putting out a lot of stuff in 1999. They essentially focused on hard rock and heavy metal: Dio, Alice Cooper, Testament, Raven, Twisted Sister, Zakk Wylde's different projects, Overkill, etc. They were eventually rolled into Eagle Records. This sampler is a collection of 10 tracks taken from various albums on the label.

(By the way, there's no fine line that separates "hard rock" from "heavy metal". It's ultimately just a matter of fuzzy logic and marketing. If you're the kind of person who gets that hung up about which band falls in which sub-category, then congratulations: you're a myopic victim of mass-marketing!)

Now then...what kinds of tracks would a record label put on a FREE sampler? Well obviously it's not going to be the best of the best. It would be stupid to include singles, especially from the bands people already know as house-hold names, because that might discourage people from buying the respective single if not the whole album. At the same time, they want a good mix and decent representation of some of the albums they have to offer. So it makes sense that they picked tracks that were obscure but not TOO obscure.

You'll find tracks from Alice Cooper's "The Eyes of Alice Cooper"; Deep Purple's "Rapture of the Deep"; live albums from Dio, Rainbow, and Poison; Twisted Sister's "Still Hungry" (their re-recording of the famous "Stay Hungry" album; re-recorded because the band no longer has the rights to the original recording), TWO tracks from Black Label Society (which makes sense since Zakk Wylde has by far and large the most amount of albums on the label), and a track each from Stratovarius and Napalm Death tossed in for good measure.

Again, considering that this sampler is being offered for FREE, you can't expect to be given the top-of-the-line stuff. But there's still some great stuff on here. You sure can't expect Mtv to keep people up to date on these bands!Get more detail about Eagle-Armoury Records 2009 Metal/Hard Rock Sampler [Explicit].