Metal Anarchy: The Best of Warfare

Metal Anarchy: The Best of Warfare Artist: Warfare
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2
EAN: 5050159144624
ASIN: B0000632KO


Release Date: 2002-07-05

Metal Anarchy: The Best of Warfare


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Tracks:

  1. Warning
  2. Total Armageddon (Full Scale Attack)
  3. Burn Down the Kings Road
  4. New Age of Total Warfare
  5. Noise, Filth and Fury
  6. Let the Show Go On
  7. Breakout
  8. Collision
  9. Rabid Metal
  10. Dance of the Dead
  11. Limit Crescendo
  12. Electric Mayhem
  13. Warfare
  14. Death Vigilance
  15. Wrecked Society
  16. Living for the Last Days
  17. Disgrace
  18. Military Shadow
  19. Metal Anarchy

Tracks:

  1. Psycho Express
  2. Addicted to Love
  3. Machine Gun Breath
  4. Murder on Melrose
  5. Blown to Bits
  6. Revolution
  7. Dancing in the Flames of Insanity
  8. Evolution
  9. Deathcharge (Doomsday)
  10. Order of the Dragons
  11. Elite Forces
  12. Rejoice the Feast of Quarentine
  13. Noise, Filth and Fury

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Album Description

Maybe it was their punk pedigree which made the difference, but nobody's metal was tougher in the 80s than Warfare. No wonder Lemmy agreed to produce their legendary Metal Anarchy album, the best of which forms the core of this first-ever compilation. Singles, prime LP cuts and other rarities are joined by one of the loudest sessions ever broadcast by Radio One. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

3 out of 5 stars Not a great compilation, but the best we've got........2005-12-30

If you're a big '80s metal fan, you may have at some point encountered someone trying to turn you on to Amebix claiming they are more metal than crust or that they sound like a non-Satanic Venom with more punk trappings or a metallicly supercharged Motorhead or any such nonsense (I assume these are the same kinds of morons responsible for slowly turning "grindcore" and "death metal" into synonymous terms). And if you were like me, when you first heard Amebix, it was just heavy crust/punk; perhaps at times similar to or approaching metal, but not there at all. Instead, the band they were really describing was Warfare. Compared to Tank, Venom, or Motorhead, the individual songs are often less distinctive and less memorable, although some odd covers (Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Robert Palmer?!?!?) and songs such as "New Age of Total Warfare" and "Metal Anarchy" stand out.

While nothing is wrong musically with this 2CD compilation, it has the unfortunate and ill-fated task of trying to span 4 albums, and some material is missing from each of the 4 first LPs. Sanctuary/Neat is somewhat covered since this is touted as a "Best of" and not a retrospective, but still--since this compilation is only of the band's Neat Rec. years, there's no material that's really overly bad, so getting more tracks from the first 1st, 2nd, and 4th albums while Mayhem F'kin Mayhem gets rather shafted isn't such a great victory.

It's unfortunate that some of the other Neat Rec. bands like Raven and Venom got individual CD reissues as well as 2-CD retrospectives/compilations. And unfortunately unlike the Atomkraft and Venom compilations, you can't buy other NWOBHM compilations or other releases by the artists to fill in the gaps, except for some EP tracks. Since I don't think the first and third albums were ever on CD (I believe I saw a "Metal Anarchy" bootleg, but if I'm wrong, add it to the list too) this is quite unfortunate.

At first I thought maybe Warfare might be too obscure or unpopular to warrant full reissues (from what I've seen, most old-school metalheads seem to like them, but don't count them as one of their particularly favorite bands), but Neat have been re-releasing some pretty obscure NWOBHM material that can't be more well-known. If you like Warfare and want to see individual album reissues, I would urge you to contact Sanctuary about taking some action. Certainly they would have ample live bonus tracks to choose from.

In summary, good material but a bad compilation; sadly, it's all that's being offered right now.

And I just wanted to quickly mention that I had also heard of a version with extra tracks as the first reviewer mentioned. Can anyone confirm if a version of this 2-CD with more than 32 tracks really does exist?

3 out of 5 stars

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