GREAT!
first off i'm actually 17, i just don't want to screw up my friends account, the one im using. secondly this is a great box set.

i have no complaints about this product at all. the music is great, the amp styled box looks cool, and the book has over 75 pages of great pictures and biographies of the bands. also it speaks of the history of metal, interviews some great ions (like Ronnie James Dio, and Lita Ford) of the metal world who help augment the lifestyle, and it also has some great quotes by some of the bands/bandmates (like Alice Cooper, Geezer Butler, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, and Vinnie Paul, just to name a few). Also another bonus is that there is a great full page picture of Lita ford, a back shot, and D4NM does she have a great 4SS.

to sum it up i would give this a five stars, but the amazon priece is a bit too expensive even for this, so i gave it a four stars. i would recommend buy it from an independent seller for about $40 or less. i got mine brand new for $25, a great buy. good luck in your quest to find a cheap one.

JAWS
Jon A. Waverly

A Really Nice Box
The music selections may not be the best representations of the genre; I guess a REAL fan would know by the titles listed, or would be enough of a fan to like them from the start.

The set came in a box that was made very well, of a strong cardboard (like particle board or wood panelling) and made to look like an old time radio. But being that it is about the size of a shoebox, and only holds the 4 CD set, it takes a LOT of room for just 4 CD's, so I do not use it.

I guess I'm not a "True Fan"

Really good with few flaws
I've been listening to this box set all week, and it is a pretty comprehensive collection of classic metal. The focus of the box set is really from the 70's & 80's, though there are some songs from the 60's and 90's tacked on as well. If you don't see a particular band represented, the liner notes explain that some bands did not want to contribute to the box. The booklet included in the set is pretty cool, including a History of Heavy Metal by journalist Mick Wall. You also get a track by track summary which is pretty cool, as well as some interviews with Lita Ford and Ronnie James Dio. Here is the breakdown of what is on each of the four disks:
Disk 1:
1.In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly - Great song, but be warned it is heavily edited down from the normal 17 minute running time to under 5 minutes.
2.Summertime Blues - Blue Cheer
3.Easy Livin' - Uriah Heep
4.Highway Star - Deep Purple (Younger listeners will recognize this song as the commercial for the video game "Rock Band")
5.Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
6.Lost Johnny - Hawkwind (featuring Motorheads Lemmy on vocals)
7.Bad Motor Scooter - Montrose (Sammy Hagar on vocals)
8.Working Man - Rush (Early heavier Rush before Neil Peart)
9.Man on the Silver Mountain - Rainbow
10.Detroit Rock City - Kiss (without the intro found on Destroyer)
11.The Ripper - Judas Priest
12.Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
13.Light Out - UFO
14.Godzilla - Blue Oyster Cult
15.Demolition Boys - Girlschool
16.White Witch - Angel Witch
17.The Phantom of the Opera - Iron Maiden
18.Neon Nights - Black Sabbath (the folks who compiled this box set must LOVE Ronnie James Dio as he is present on several tracks with various bands and is featured in an interview in the booklet!!)

Disc 2:
1. Ace of Spades - Motorhead
2. Am I Evil - Diamond Head (It's cool to hear the original, but I prefer Metallica's cover....same goes with Blitzkrieg below)
3. Nice Boys - Rose Tattoo
4.Attack of the Mad Axeman - The Michael Schenker Group
5. Denim and Leather - Saxon
6. Blitzkrieg - Blitzkrieg
7. Gangland - Tygers of Pan Tang (not the most accessible band name??)
8. Witching Hour - Venom
9. You've Got Another Thing Comin' - Judas Priest
10.The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden (where is the spoken intro??)
11.Star War - Raven
12.Say What you Will - Fastway
13.Black Funeral - Mercyful Fate (the first of two tracks featuring the high falsetto of King Diamond??)
14.Animal (F**K Like A Beast) - W.A.S.P. (Tipper Gore's PMRC anthem)
15.Mean Streak - Y&T
16.Holy Diver - Dio (again)
17.Queen of the Reich - Queensryche
18.Whiplash -Metallica

Disk 3: (THE RISE OF THE HAIR BAND!!)
1. Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
2. Metal Health - Quiet Riot
3. Into the Fire - Dokken
4. Balls to the Wall - Accept
5. Round and Round - Ratt
6. I Wanna Rock - Twister Sister
7. The Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Hanoi Rocks
8. Big Bottom - Spinal Tap (yes...a parody metal band makes the set?)
9. Midnite Maniac - Krokus
10.I'll See the Light Tonight - Yngwie Malmsteen
11.Crazy Nights - Loudness
12.Shake Me - Cinderella
13.Watch the Children Pray - Metal Church
14.To Hell With the Devil - Stryper
15.A Little Time - Helloween
16.Wrecking Crew - Overkill
17.Caught in a Most - Anthrax
18.Peace Sell..But Who's Buying - Megadeth

Disk 4:
1. Still of the Night - Whitesnake
2. Rock Me - Great White
3. Talk Dirty to Me - Poison
4. Bathroom Wall - Faster Pussycat
5. Hall of the Mountain King - Savatage (a great metal band that went all holly jolly on us and became the Trans Siberian Orchestra know for their Christmas music?????)
6. Kiss Me Deadly - Lita Ford (in leather g-string naturally)
7. Hail and Kill - Manowar
8. Trial by Fire - Testament
9. Welcome Home - King Diamond
10.South of Heaven - Slayer
11.One - Metallica
12.Cult of Personality - Living Colour
13.Youth Gone Wild - Skid Row
14.Cowboys from Hell - Pantera
15.Beg to Differ - Prong
16.Dead Embryonic Cells - Sepultura (catchy song title there?!)

The only complaints I really have are duplicate tracks by a couple bands like Priest and Maiden. I would like to have seen them throw in a couple more bands like Y&T or Fastway, bands that didn't quite make it through to the next level. Also, and I know I'm gonna catch grief for this, but including bands like Pantera, Prong and Sepultura kind of ends the box set on a down note. Going from great bands like Uriah Heep and Alice Cooper featuring great musicianship and vocals to the 90's metal featuring a few chords played very fast over unintelligble lyrics really shows you how far Metal (and the music world in whole)has fallen.

Good collection, better booklet
This box set was a great collection of music. There are some obvious ommisions like Zeppelin and Ozzy-era Sabbath, but the compilers own up to that in the booklet. The booklet itself contains a great history of metal, band bios and interesting interviews.

The wonderful nostalgia
This is a nice collection of metal. Be it nostalgia to hear some great metal music or when you are having one of those angry, this sucks like high school moments this set should be just what you need.