Speed Kills - The Very Best In Speed Metal. Music For Nations compilation MFN 54

Speed Kills - The Very Best In Speed Metal
Label: Music For Nations
Catalog#: MFN 54
Format: Vinyl, LP
Country: UK
Released: 1985
Style: Thrash, Speed Metal
compiled by Dave Constable and Mark Palmer

Tracklisting:
A1 Hallows Eve Metal Merchants (4:22)
A2 Exodus A Lesson In Violence (3:52)
A3 Destruction Bestial Invasion (4:25)
A4 Bulldozer Insurrection Of The Living Damned (5:26)
A5 Metallica Fight Fire With Fire (4:44)
A6 Slayer Evil Has No Boundaries (Live) (3:10) [unreleased live song]

B1 Possessed Pentagram (3:32)
B2 Exciter Riders From Darkness (5:37) [unreleased song]
B3 Venom Black Metal (New Version) (4:38)
B4 Voïvod War And Pain (4:55)
B5 Megadeth Rattlehead (3:39)
B6 Celtic Frost Into The Crypts Of Rays (4:15)

Great album from start to finish;
This is worth getting for the unreleased Exciter track Riders From Darkness as well as Venoms remake of Black Metal, tracks that are unavailable anywhere else as far as I know.
Back in 1985, Metallica and Slayer were the "big names" of the bands on this compilation, with Exciter, Megadeth, Exodus and Venom right behind them.

24 years later and untold millions of records sold by Metallica and Megadeth alone, this compilation stands as a testimonial to what was then the new genre of "speed metal"; those who would beome the successors to the metal gods of the past.