High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock

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High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock
Studio album by various artists
Released	31 May 2006
Genre	Alternative rock, alternative metal, hardcore punk
Length	61:41
Label	Kerrang!
Various artists chronology
Master of Puppets: Remastered (2006) High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock (2006) Kerrang! Awards 2006 (2006)

High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock is a Kerrang! covermount CD released on 31 May 2006, featuring many older rock songs, covered by newer rock artists.

Track listing[]

1. "Start Today" - Fall Out Boy (Originally by Gorilla Biscuits) (2:01)
2. "Die, Die My Darling" - Aiden (Originally by The Misfits) (3:17)
3. "Walk" - Avenged Sevenfold (Originally by Pantera) (5:15)
4. "Holy Diver" - Killswitch Engage (Originally by Dio) (4:05)
5. "Buddy Holly" - Biffy Clyro (Originally by Weezer) (5:15)
6. "My Own Summer (Shove It)" - Fightstar (Originally by Deftones) (3:36)
7. "Jesus Christ Pose" - The Dillinger Escape Plan (Originally by Soundgarden) (5:43)
8. "Head Like a Hole" - Still Remains (Originally by Nine Inch Nails) (5:07)
9. "Simple Man" - Deftones (Originally by Lynyrd Skynyrd) (6:15)
10. "Sweet Emotion" - The Answer (Originally by Aerosmith) (3:50)
11. "Crazy Train" - Bullet for My Valentine (Originally by Ozzy Osbourne) (4:50)
12. "Digging the Grave" - 36 Crazyfists (Originally by Faith No More) (2:55)
13. "Symphony of Destruction" - Arch Enemy (Originally by Megadeth) (3:56)
14. "You Give Love a Bad Name" - Atreyu (Originally by Bon Jovi) (3:23)
15. "Straight Edge" - NOFX (Originally by Minor Threat) (2:13)

• The only band on the album to cover a song, and have one of their own songs covered is Deftones. They covered "Simple Man", by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Fightstar covered their song "My Own Summer (Shove It)".
• Killswitch Engage released a video for their version of "Holy Diver" on 1 August 2007. The song is also on the re-release of their fourth album As Daylight Dies. In 2014 "Holy Diver" was featured on the Ronnie James Dio Tribute Album, This Is Your Life.
• "Start Today", covered by Fall Out Boy, was featured in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
• NOFX's cover of "Straight Edge" was originally released on their 1992 album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean.
• A year after this was released, Kerrang! released another covermount CD similar to this one, Higher Voltage!: Another Brief History of Rock.
• Atreyu's cover of "You Give Love a Bad Name" was a bonus track on their album The Curse.

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