Continuing the massive, and massively acclaimed, Collector's Guide To Heavy Metal series, Volume 4: The `00s weighs in at 3367 reviews from the decade that saw metal's second chart- topping golden age, a commercial renaissance that rivaled even the mighty 1980s. The `00s also witnessed metal's extensive splintering into subgenres and niches previously unimaginable, all of which are reviewed and analyzed here along with the `00s' immense explosion of death metal, black metal, grindcore, thrash, doom, power, progresseve, traditional, stoner rock, metalcore and hair metal/hard rock. The exclusive full-length CD Sampler provided by Metal Blade Records graphically surveys the many styles metal in the `00s encompassed, through songs by bands such as Behemoth, Amon Amarth, Goatwhore, God Dethroned, Hail Of Bullets, The Crown, Winter Solstice, Hate Eternal, Psyopus, As I Lay Dying, Disillusion, The Black Dhalia Murder, Gorerotted and Fates Warning.
