MTV2 Headbangers Ball Volume 2 is the second in a series of heavy metal compilation albums released in conjunction with the MTV2 program Headbangers Ball.
The 2-disc album continues the theme of featuring mainstream acts on the first disc and brutal, underground styles on the second disc.
It won Metal Edge magazine's 2004 Readers' Choice Award for "Compilation Album of the Year."
This second installment of MTV's HEADBANGERS BALL compilation series features a daunting 40 tracks that splinter off into numerous jagged branches of the metal tree circa 2004. Iowan ensemble Slipknot kicks things off with the riff-loaded yet surprisingly melodic "Duality," revealing (along with their peers Korn) that the rap aspect of nu metal has essentially been buried.
The metal-core sub-genre makes a strong showing with tracks by Killswitch Engage ("Rose of Sharyn") and Eighteen Visions ("Waiting for the Heavens"), while European acts are well represented by the glam-goth of Finland's HIM ("Your Sweet Six Six Six") and the dynamic attack of the Swedish band In Flames ("The Quiet Place"). Elsewhere, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine shows the youngsters how it's done on his band's blistering "Kick the Chair." The true highlight of the double-disc set, however, is the Black Sabbath-inspired "My Tortured Soul," a rare live performance by Foo Fighter Dave Grohl's Probot project, featuring Trouble's Eric Wagner.
Harking back to early-1980s metal, this song effectively provides a bridge from that era to the heavy rock of the 21st century.
Personnel: Eric Wagner (vocals); Scott "Wino" Weinrich (guitar); Dave Grohl (drums).
Audio Mixers: Colin Richardson; Critter; Daniel Bergstrand; Dave Fortman ; Eric Rachel; Zeuss; Frank Filipetti; Fredrik Nordström ; Greg Fidelman; Greg Reely; Himsa; Örjan Örnkloo; Jason Suecof; Jeff Balding; Adam Dutkiewicz; John Fryer; Matt Hyde ; Mikko Karmila; Mudrock ; Anders Fridén; Neil Kernon; Andy Sneap; Andy Wallace; Randy Staub ; Satyr; Steve Carter; Steve Evetts; Steve Thompson ; Terry Date; Todd Fitzgerald; Ulrich Wild; Barry Conley; Zakk Wylde; Ben Grosse; Dani Filth; Josh Wilbur; Machine.
Recording information: MTV Studios (01/28/2004).
Track listing
Disc 1
Slipknot – "Duality" (Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses))
Korn – "Right Now (censored)" (Take a Look in the Mirror)
Killswitch Engage – "Rose of Sharyn" (The End of Heartache)
Megadeth – "Kick the Chair" (The System Has Failed)
Atreyu – "Right Side of the Bed" (The Curse)
Drowning Pool – "Step Up (censored)" (Desensitized (Drowning Pool album))
A Perfect Circle – "Weak and Powerless" (Thirteenth Step)
Shadows Fall – "What Drives the Weak" (The War Within)
Machine Head – "Imperium (censored)" (Through the Ashes of Empires)
Superjoint Ritual – "Waiting for the Turning Point (censored)" (A Lethal Dose of American Hatred)
Kittie – "Into the Darkness" (Until the End)
HIM – "Your Sweet Six Six Six" (Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666)
Avenged Sevenfold – "Unholy Confessions" (Waking the Fallen)
Lamb of God – "Laid to Rest (demo version) (censored)" (Ashes of the Wake)
Soulfly – "Prophecy" (Prophecy)
Black Label Society – "House of Doom" (Hangover Music Vol. VI)
Damageplan – "Breathing New Life" (New Found Power)
In Flames – "The Quiet Place" (Soundtrack to Your Escape)
Fear Factory – "Archetype (censored)" (Archetype)
Probot – "My Tortured Soul (live from Headbangers Ball)" (Probot)
Disc 2
Cradle of Filth – "Medusa and Hemlock" (Nymphetamine)
Unearth – "The Great Dividers" (The Oncoming Storm)
God Forbid – "Antihero" (Gone Forever)
The Agony Scene – "We Bury Our Dead at Dawn" (The Agony Scene)
Children of Bodom – "Needled 24/7 (censored)" (Hate Crew Deathroll)
Bleeding Through – "Love Lost in a Hail of Gunfire (censored)" (This Is Love, This Is Murderous)
Trivium – "Like Light to the Flies (Demo)" (Ascendancy)
Satyricon – "Fuel for Hatred" (Volcano)
Himsa – "Rain to the Sound of Panic" (Courting Tragedy and Disaster)
3 Inches of Blood – "Deadly Sinners" (Advance and Vanquish)
The Black Dahlia Murder – "Contagion" (Unhallowed)
Every Time I Die – "I Been Gone a Long Time" (Hot Damn!)
Blood Has Been Shed – "She Speaks to Me" (Spirals)
Eighteen Visions – "Waiting for the Heavens" (Obsession)
Deicide – "Scars of the Crucifix" (Scars of the Crucifix)
All That Remains – "The Deepest Gray" (This Darkened Heart)
Twelve Tribes – "Venus Complex" (The Rebirth of Tragedy)
The Dillinger Escape Plan – "Panasonic Youth" (Miss Machine)
Martyr A.D. – "American Hollow"
Dimmu Borgir – "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse" (Death Cult Armageddon)
[image=xYDnFvK7p6]