Holocaust will be on your radar courtesy of Metallica and their $5.98 EP (or Garage Days Revisited) with their cover of the classic Small Hours.

Holocaust is a beautiful slice of NWOBHM (although they’re from Edinburgh) and deserves to be mentioned in the same breath as Iron Maiden, Raven and Venom and not the small, albeit an important, footnote that they’ve become.

Holocaust themselves are musically influenced by  Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motörhead, AC/DC, UFO, Led Zeppelin, Rush and Budgie, which is blatantly obvious when you hear the prog tinged proto-punk of such tracks as Long The Bell Will Toll, Jirmakenyerut and No Nonsense

This is an absolutely massive box boasting 6 discs of raw studio and live material. 

All CDS are housed in cardboard sleeves that replicate the original album sleeves and all packaged in a sturdy clamshell box with a lovely booklet that’s full of rare photos and an essay.

The inclusion of a disc that features all their singles along with their respective B sides is just an added bonus along with the studio and live material.  The video audio CD of the Hot Curry & Wine LP is lovely especially as it contains the 1st ever outing of The Small Hours.

This boxset is an absolute bargain. Especially as their album The Nightcomers commands £40 (correct at time of writing) for a decentr copy.

This is a must have in any metal fans CD collection. 

Score 8/10

Track Listing:

DISC ONE
The Nightcomers (1981)
1 Smokin’ Valves
2 Death Or Glory
3 Come On Back
4 Mavrock
5 It Don’t Matter To Me
6 Cryin’ Shame
7 Heavy Metal Mania (re- recorded version)
8 Push It Around
9 The Nightcomers

DISC TWO
Live from the Raw Loud N’ Live Tour (Video Soundtrack) (1983)
1 No Nonsense
2 Push It Around
3 Death Or Glory
4 Bridge Of Impressions
5 Out My Book
6 Jirmakenyerut
7 Heavy Metal Mania
8 The Small Hours
9 Forcedown Breakdown
10 Lovin’ Feelin’ Danger
11 Crying Shame
12 The Nightcomers
13 Smokin’ Valves
14 Long The Bell Will Toll
15 It Don’t Matter To Me

DISC THREE
Hologram: Steal The Stars (1983)
1 Can’t Live Without You Anymore
2 17
3 Expected To
4 Together Again
5 Shoot The Moon
6 African
7 Lost In Love
8 Vigilante Man
9 Desolation Island
10 Cliché Pastiche

DISC FOUR
Live: (Hot Curry & Wine) (Original Album) (1983)
1 No Nonsense
2 Smokin’ Valves
3 Long The Bell Will Toll
4 Jirmakenyerut
5 The Small Hours
6 Forcedown Breakdown
7 Heavy Metal Mania / The Nightcomers

DISC FIVE
No Man’s Land (1984)
1 No Man’s Land
2 We Will Rock And We Will Roll
3 No Time Left
4 Let’s Go
5 On The Ropes
6 Satellite City
7 Power Play
8 By The Waterside
9 Missing Presumed Dead
10 Alone
11 Here Comes The Good Times

DISC SIX
Heavy Metal Mania (The Singles 1980-1982)
1 Heavy Metal Mania
2 Love’s Power
3 Only As Young As You Feel
4 Smokin’ Valves
5 Friend Or Foe
6 Out My Book
7 Lovin’ Feelin’ Danger
8 No Nonsense
9 Death Or Glory
10 Forcedown Breakdown
11 Coming Through
12 Don’t Wanna Be (A Loser)
13 Good Thing

Label – HNE Recordings
Release – 27th January 2023

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