Damn, This Stuff Is Heavy, Vol. 2 If you look at today‘s heavy metal scene, you quickly realize that modern trends come and go, while traditional metal is constantly appreciated and celebrated even by younger generations of fans. Because traditional metal not only upholds values like the physical product, but also pays respect and admiration to the history of the music. The times that hard rock of the seventies and speed metal are mutually exclusive have been over for several years. The band logos belonging to the tracklist of this double CD could adorn every metalheads dress! Already part 1 of „Damn, This Stuff Is Heavy“, released in spring 2019, underlined this phenomenon. In the middle of this scene is already since the eighties Neudi. He is a drummer, journalist, presenter, studio technician, A&R, music salesman in a store and, of course, fan and crazy collector. So Neudi has a 360° view of everything metal. „There have always been festivals where the mix was very colorful, think of the Metal Hammer event at the Loreley in 1985, but the new spectrum really struck me at the Sweden Rock Festival at the end of the 2000s. Electric Light Orchestra on stage 1 and a thrash band on stage 2, and the fans found it hard to choose,“ says Neudi, whose musical taste starts in the late sixties and ends with thrash metal. Another challenge is to always make drums absolutely real. So they have to be recorded with microphones and should also not be edited on a PC under any circumstances afterwards. „I‘ve been fighting against plastic sounds for years, even if I don‘t just make friends in the process“. On part 1 Hawkwind and Satan are probably the best known bands. Volume 2 surprises now with really big names. Among them also Kiss, a group that is very difficult to inspire for a sampler contribution. But of course this is a rather obscure track from the 74 album „Hotter Than Hell“. „I love the song ‚Strange Ways‘ because it shows that Kiss were and are more than just glam rock‘n‘roll. It sounds almost as dark as Black Sabbath!“. Equally notable are Anthrax, Jag Panzer, Angel (1975), Rage, Demon, Candlemass, Tiamat, Coroner or Meshuggah. In addition, and as usual, Neudi has dug deeper. Therefore, cult acts like the bizarre soundtrack band Sorcery (1978) ennoble the double CD as well as the share of NWOBHM and some current newcomers. The booklet contains liner notes and many illustrations. Thus, it additionally upgrades „DTSIH2“ as a physical product. This time there is no burning record player on the cover, but a discarded tape machine. The old advertising slogan „hot music“, or rather „hot metal“, was again implemented without Photoshop tricks topping off the musical content and Volume One!