CRASH! BANG! WALLOP!

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A compilation of the pioneers of heavy metal from the Netherlands and Belgium, available in three versions:

• double cd (23 tracks), incl. liner notes (English)
• double-vinyl (21 tracks), incl. liner notes (English)
• exclusive box
• double-vinyl, incl. liner notes (English)
• sew-on emblem
• 76 page book with interviews, reports, photos, tour posters etc. (Dutch)

The compilation and the book were put together by writer AHJ Dautzenberg and Vincent Loozen. They deliver a document with great cultural-historical value and concentrate on the Belgian and Dutch scene in the years 1979 to 1984. That was the era in which hard music slowly took shape in the Low Countries.

CRASH! BANG! WALLOP! is a time document of the early days of a new music genre. A period in which there was no subgenres, which made the album very diverse and varied; from more blues-leaning classic rock (Bodine and Teaser), raw garage proto metal (S To S and Vopo's) to early speed metal (Acid and The Rogers).

In addition to a very special early demo release of Bodine's Shooting Dice, the compilation also contains two previously unreleased songs by: Mover, Arjen Lucassen's first band and by the Belgian Victim.

Book (available with the 2LP boxset)

For the book, Dautzenberg and Loozen interviewed Metal Mike, among others, and they tell the story of Aardschok, the magazine that runs like a red thread through the book. But also that of Rave On, the first metal record label of the Low Countries. And the rise and fall of the Belgian Heavy Sound Festival, still acclaimed by Metallica and Slayer, the first metal festival on the European mainland. And who still remembers Hanneke Kappen, the presenter of the radio program Stampij? And an interview with Kate De Lombaert, the first front woman of a metal band. But also a conversation about the years of long hair and wild guitars with the Rowwen Hèze singer Jack Poels, who started out as a hard rocker.

The illustrations are by Maarten Donders (Roadburn, Opeth, Brutus, SUNN O))), Danko Jones).