Stone Cold Metal
| Stone Cold Metal | |
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| Compilation album by Various artists | |
| Released | August 25, 1998 |
| Genre | Heavy metal, Hard Rock |
| Label | Spy Records |
Stone Cold Metal is a rock compilation album that was released on August 25, 1998, by Mars Entertainment (known today as Spy Records). Produced by Paul Tarnopol with the help of “Stone Cold Steve Austin” of World Wrestling Entertainment, Stone Cold Metal was the first wrestling CD to ever chart on the “Billboard 200”, and according to Nielsen SoundScan, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies in the United States. Up to that time, Stone Cold Metal had outsold all other wrestling CDs, including RCA’s Wrestlemania album, which was produced by American Idol’s Simon Cowell.
Stone Cold Metal utilized a lenticular CD case, which created a morphing effect between Steve Austin’s face and his trademark human skull. The album consisted of original hit recordings by Scorpions, Deep Purple, Accept, Dokken, Molly Hatchet, Ted Nugent, Dio, Rainbow, The Cult, Foghat, Def Leppard and Kiss. Stone Cold Metal was also the first compilation of any kind to include recordings by Kiss and Def Leppard.