This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Considering its name, the soundtrack for the 1981 animated feature Heavy Metal wasn’t exactly a headbanging affair from start to finish.
Sure, there was Black Sabbath, Blue Öyster Cult and Grand Funk. But even back in those pre-Metallica days, Donald Fagen, Don Felder and Stevie Nicks weren’t exactly headbanger fare. On the companion disc to the new sequel, however, the entrance requirements seem a little stricter. Still, the dozen-and-a-half tunes do manage to cover the full range of modern metal, from the comic-book space-rock of Monster Magnet and the disco grind of MDFMK to the sludge-rawk of Pantera, the raunchy rap-metal of Insane Clown Posse, the riffy punk of System Of A Down and even the Latino thrash of Puya. If the movie rocks half this hard, save me a seat.
