If you follow these genres, most of these bands are familiar. They’re mostly the big names, with little “filler,” and omissions were probably licensing issues.
Fans will get hard-ons for Candiria, Iced Earth, Stuck Mojo, and Nevermore while being exposed to Krisiun, …And Oceans, The Forsaken, and other eye-poppers.
18 tracks, maxing out at just over 70 minutes of metal, most sub-genres represented. Groove-oriented nü metal allows the indulgence of black/Goth/dark metal.
It doesn’t suck ass cuz it doesn’t focus on only one time period of RJD, a man who’s sauntered through two great bands and had a great (early) solo career.
With 17 tracks, 76 minutes, there’s something here for anyone into metal: Heavy, power, nü, black, death, doom, epic, Goth, hardcore, and the schools within.
Jag Panzer leapt quickly to the fore with their debut masterpiece back in ’83. But then total drift, bootlegging, comeback records, and now The Age Of Mastery.
I have a huge collection of vinyl from the ’80s, and Jag Panzer’s EP is in there with “Metal Melts the Ice” and other horrendously schlock-metal ditties.