Earth Shaker Rock | ||||
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Released | 20 September 1999 | |||
Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
Length | 64:13 | |||
Label | Connoisseur Collection | |||
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Earth Shaker Rock is a compilation album,containing songs of the German heavy metal band Warlock and the last four songs coming from Warlock singer Doro Pesch's first two solo albums. It is the last album issued under the Warlock moniker and was released on CD in 1999 by the British label Connoisseur Collection,specialized in compilation albums of various recording artists. [2]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | From the album | Length |
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1. | "Burning the Witches" | Rudy Graf | Burning the Witches (1984) | 4:26 |
2. | "Metal Racer" | Graf | Burning the Witches | 3:47 |
3. | "Hellbound" | Peter Szigeti, Henri Staroste, Doro Pesch, Frank Rittel, Michael Eurich, Graf | Hellbound (1985) | 3:40 |
4. | "Earthshaker Rock" | Graf, Rittel, Pesch, Szigeti, Eurich | Hellbound | 3:25 |
5. | "Time to Die" | Graf, Staroste, Pesch, Rittel, Szigeti, Eurich | Hellbound | 4:29 |
6. | "Love in the Danger Zone" | Szigeti, Staroste, Pesch, René Maué | True as Steel (1986) | 4:13 |
7. | "True as Steel" | Niko Arvanitis, Staroste, Pesch, Maué | True as Steel | 3:30 |
8. | "All We Are" | Pesch, Joey Balin | Triumph and Agony (1987) | 3:13 |
9. | "Three Minute Warning" | Pesch, Balin | Triumph and Agony | 2:30 |
10. | "I Rule the Ruins" | Pesch, Balin | Triumph and Agony | 4:01 |
11. | "Metal Tango" | Pesch, Arvanitis, Balin | Triumph and Agony | 4:19 |
12. | "Für Immer" | Pesch, Balin | Triumph and Agony | 4:46 |
13. | "Hellraiser" | Pesch, Tommy Henriksen, Balin | Force Majeure (1989) | 4:48 |
14. | "Angels with Dirty Faces" | Pesch, Balin | Force Majeure | 3:58 |
15. | "Under the Gun" | Pesch, Jon Levin, Henriksen, Balin | Force Majeure | 3:51 |
16. | "Something Wicked This Way Comes" | Gene Simmons | Doro (1990) | 5:17 |
Total length: | 64:13 |
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