Verarsche? Not this time!

Re-releases are often an annoying thing. Especially Roadrunner Records has made unpopular to bring in the past dozens of times so that an album a few months after the official release on the market again, but this time with a few, for the fan but mostly essential bonus tracks. Correctly, which was seen as Verarschung and rip off.
Now, the re-release of Machine Heads »The Blackening" is there a completely different story. Sure, already considered metal classics traded album is only little more than one year on the market, but here it makes the mass and the class of bonus material that fully justifies a purchase:
Enveloped in an optically excellent package there are in addition to the album, the double full-service: on the one hand a bonus CD with 13 song rarities from the entire history of the band: about the cool original mix of 'Ten Ton Hammer "with a mighty intro, interesting Demos of "Blackening" rhythm song, the brilliant "Through the Ashes" bonus "Seasons Wither", "My Misery" (much richer than on the "Demon Knight" soundtrack), and an abundance of excellent Covers: by "Alan's on Fire "(Poison Idea) on" Negative Creep "(Nirvana) and" Colors "(Ice-T) up to the brand new and quite divine" Hallowed Be Thy Name "(Iron Maiden). As well dust off a great opportunity like all rarities of the band, only Metallica's "Battery" unfortunately strikes me as missing eye.
The second bonus disc is a DVD with all "Blackening" videos, making-ofs, and 10 live songs of occasions such as the Wacken Open Air and the Download Festival. Particularly outstanding, also in terms of sound quality: the material of the show for the 10th anniversary of "Burn My Eyes". "A Thousand Lies" about destroying everything!
Finally, I can only hope that the current, escalating toured as opening act of the likes of Metallica and Slipknot, and this re-release help sales finally hochzuschrauben in regions that are the class of the band justice.