Roadrunner Records celebrates over thirty years as one of the most highly regarded labels in heavy metal and hard rock history by releasing a four-CD boxed set spanning the Roadrunner legacy, with tracks from dozens of the genre's most legendary artists.

The package, set for release on 30th September, includes 54 tracks spread across four discs, packaged in a deluxe fold-out digipak box. Veteran US metal scribe Chris Dick has written the liner notes, which trace Roadrunner's entire history and include quotes from the label's founder, Cees Wessels; its legendary A&R guru, Monte Conner; and artists such as Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, King Diamond, Sepultura/Soulfly/Cavalera Conspiracy mastermind Max Cavalera, Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt, Trivium frontman Matt Heafy, and more.

'XXX: Three Decades of Roadrunner Records' delivers a blistering overview of the formidable label's three decades of existence to date, spread across four carefully assembled CDs. The first disc, 'Foundations,' highlights the label's early, reputation-building years with seminal tracks by Mercyful Fate, Carnivore, Deicide, Brujeria, Suffocation, Biohazard, Type O Negative and more. The second disc, 'Horns Up,' sums up Roadrunner's indelible impact on the 90's metal scene with genre-defining anthems from Slipknot, Machine Head, Sepultura, Coal Chamber, Fear Factory, and many others. The third disc, 'And Metal For All,' brings the listener into the 2000's and up to the present with the pounding sounds of Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Dream Theater, Opeth, Gojira, as well as a track from 2005's 'all-star' 'Roadrunner United' album. The final disc, 'Rock For The Ages,' focuses on Roadrunner's hard rock contingent with tracks from mainstays such as Rush, Nickelback, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Airbourne, Black Stone Cherry, and Korn featuring Skrillex, among others.

A documentation of not just Roadrunner's history but metal itself, this four disc set is testimony to the fact that as metal and heavy rock have morphed and changed over the years, Roadrunner was always, and continues to be, at its epicenter.

TRACK-LISTING

Disc 1 - FOUNDATIONS
MERCYFUL FATE Evil
WHIPLASH Power Thrashing Death
KING DIAMOND Abigail
CARNIVORE Carnivore
OBITUARY Slowly We Rot
ANNIHILATOR Alison Hell
DEICIDE Sacrificial Suicide
SUFFOCATION Infecting The Crypts
BIOHAZARD Punishment
TYPE O NEGATIVE Christian Woman
BRUJERIA Matandos Güeros
CYNIC Veil of Maya
LIFE OF AGONY Through and Through
TREPONEM PAL Excess and Overdrive

Disc 2 - HORNS UP
NAILBOMB Wasting Away
MACHINE HEAD Imperium
DOG EAT DOG No Fronts (Jam Master Jay's Main Edit)
DEATH Crystal Mountain
SEPULTURA Roots Bloody Roots
COAL CHAMBER Loco
SOULFLY Eye For an Eye
FEAR FACTORY Shock
SLIPKNOT Spit it Out
SPINESHANK New Disease
CHIMAIRA Pure Hatred
36 CRAZYFISTS Bloodwork
ILL NINO What Comes Around

Disc 3 - AND METAL FOR ALL
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE My Last Serenade
TRIVIUM Pull Harder on the Strings of Your Martyr
DEVILDRIVER I Could Care Less
CRADLE OF FILTH Nymphetamine Fix
HATEBREED Destroy Everything
CAVALERA CONSPIRACY Inflikted
ROADRUNNER UNITED The Dagger
PORCUPINE TREE Fear of a Blank Planet
DREAM THEATER On the Backs of Angels
OPETH Heir Apparent
MEGADETH Headcrusher
DOWN Witchtripper
HEAVEN & HELL Bible Black
GOJIRA L'enfant sauvage

Disc 4- ROCK FOR THE AGES
NICKELBACK Side Of A Bullet
JERRY CANTRELL Anger Rising
STONE SOUR 30/30 150
KARMA TO BURN Ma petite mort
GLASSJAW Pretty Lush
THE DRESDEN DOLLS Girl Anachronism
AIRBOURNE No-One Fits Me (Better Than You)
MURDERDOLLS Dead In Hollywood
THEORY OF A DEADMAN Bad Girlfriend
BLACK STONE CHERRY Lonely Train
KORN feat. SKRILLEX Get Up!
RUSH Headlong Flight
LYNYRD SKYNRD Still Unbroken


You can pre-order it via Amazon at the following link: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Xxx-Three-Decades-Roadrunner-Records/dp/B00EELBR62/


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