VA Speaker Death!(Heavy Metal Head-Bangers)(Promo)1981 ak

VA Speaker Death!(Heavy Metal Head-Bangers)(Promo)1981 ak
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Label:Columbia ‎– AS 993
Format:Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Promo
Country:US
Released:1981
Genre:Rock

With the early '80s hard rock and heavy metal revival in America, Columbia Records pieced together a nine song compilation album under the title Speaker Death! (Heavy Metal Head-Bangers) (Columbia AS 993 / 1981). The album was only available as a free demo, for a short period of time, with the purchase of any LP by one of the group's represented on Speaker Death! The majority of the acts on the nine song collection are not what I consider heavy metal, save Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne. Journey and Loverboy aren't even my idea of hard rock, let alone heavy metal!

The limited edition sampler LP, pressed with a white promotional label, includes the following tracks:

Side One:
01 Judas Priest / "Hot Rockin'" (Point of Entry album)
02 Frank Marino / "The Power of Rock & Roll" (The Power of Rock & Roll album)
03 Blue Öyster Cult / "Heavy Metal: The Black & Silver" (Fire of Unknown Origin album)
04 The Joe Perry Project / "No Substitute for Arrogance" (I've Got the Rock 'N' Rolls Again album)
05 Ted Nugent / "The Flying Lip Lock" (Intensities in 10 Cities album)

Side Two:
01 Journey / "Dead or Alive" (Escape album)
02 Ozzy Osbourne / "Crazy Train" (Blizzard of Oz album)
03 Whitford/St. Holmes / "Whiskey Woman" (Whitford/St. Holmes album)
04 Loverboy / "Teenage Overdose" (live version)

As a tie-in, the Columbia marketing group also supplied free posters, T-shirts and buttons, to assist in the sales push of the individual groups.

Clueless idiots,Ozzy yes Priest Hell yes, The BOC Track was a Surprise of course it was the hardest track from Fire of Unknown Origen But the rest were Rock at best and Journey at worst JOURNEY? METAL WTF LOL !
But I came across this and I felt compelled to share the compilation LOL
As A Rock compilation its OK But that was not the target