by Subcity

Hopeless Records has announced Metal=Life, an upcoming charity compilation of metal and hardcore bands. The album is being produced conjunctively with The Hot Topic Foundation, a charity group benefits a variety of children's music and art organizations. 100% of Hot Topic's profits from the release will go to the charity. Subcity, as with all their releases will contribute 5% of the retail price to charity as well.

The double-disc includes contributions from Giving Chase, As I Lay Dying, Between the Buried and Me, Into the Moat, Day Of Contempt, Horse the Band, Most Precious Blood, Avenged Sevenfold, Break the Silence, He Is Legend, High On Fire and Breather Resist among others. It will be packaged with a DVD including video material from 18 of the bands on the 33-song collection.

Initially, the compilation will be exclusive to Hot Topic stores in the US, but will be followed by a wide release in January.


Disc 1
  1. As I Lay Dying - "Confined"
  2. Between the Buried and Me - "Alaska"
  3. Avenged Sevenfold - "Unholy Confessions"
  4. HORSE The Band - "Birdo"
  5. Yesterday's Rising - "My Body is Like a Metaphor"
  6. Chiodos - "One Day Women Will Become Monsters"
  7. Underoath - "I Don't Feel Very Receptive Today"
  8. Day Of Contempt - "The Ghost of Tragedy"
  9. Bullet For My Valentine - "4 Words (To Choke Upon)"
  10. Stretch Armstrong - "The Sound of Names Dropping"
  11. Nodes of Ranvier - "Glass Half Nothing"
  12. Madball - "Heavenhell"
  13. Vena Amori - "Lady Huskies are one man short"
  14. Haste The Day - "When Everything Falls"
  15. Diecast - "Rise and Oppose"
  16. Crisis - "Blood Burden"
  17. Into the Moat - "Dead Before I Stray"

Disk 2

  1. A Perfect Murder - "Body and Blood"
  2. Versus the Mirror - "Boy Gets What He Wants"
  3. The Banner - "Venom and Hope"
  4. The Absence - "Necropolis"
  5. Heaven Shall Burn - "The Only Truth"
  6. Inked in Blood - "These Sonnets of our Lives"
  7. Most Precious Blood - "Shark Ethic"
  8. Break The Silence - "Comfort in Cold Blood"
  9. Giving Chase - "Simple Self"
  10. Fear Before the March of Flames - "The God Awful Truth"
  11. Fight Paris - "Complete Heat"
  12. He Is Legend - "I Am Hollywood"
  13. Thine Eyes Bleed - "Cold Victim"
  14. High on Fire - "Devilution"
  15. The Number Twelve Looks Like You - "Clarissa Explains Cuntainment"
  16. Breather Resist - "Midas In Reverse"

DVD

  1. As I Lay Dying - "Confined"
  2. Avenged Sevenfold - "Unholy Confessions"
  3. A Perfect Murder - "Body and Blood"
  4. HORSE the Band - " A Million Exploding Suns"
  5. Chiodos - "One Day Women Will Become Monsters"
  6. Underoath - "It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door
  7. Stretch Armstrong - "The Sound of Names Dropping"
  8. Giving Chase - "Simple Self"
  9. Fear Before the March of Flames - "Should Have Stayed in the Shallows"
  10. Fight Paris - "Complete Heat"
  11. He Is Legend - "The Seduction"
  12. Haste the Day - "When Everything Falls"
  13. Diecast - "Rise and Oppose"
  14. Madball - "Heavenhell"
  15. Thine Eyes Bleed - "Cold Victim"
  16. Nodes of Ranvier - "Glass Half Nothing"
  17. High on Fire - "Devilution"
  18. Into the Moat - "Dead Before I Stray"