I guess Rob Halford and his after-Judas-Priest-band Fight doesn’t need a deeper introduction to our readers. Where JP was one of the definers of metal from the very early days, Fight was a band that tried to take metal a step further into a new era. Unfortunately most of the focus from the bigger press (MTV and so on) was on Grunge in those days, and there wasn’t that much room for the real metal (I never could stand Nirvana!), and Fight never became a big success, although especially the War Of Words album in my opinion should be counted as a very important metal-album of those days.

This box consists of the three CDs Fight made from ’93 to ‘95, all remixed and/or remastered, and one DVD with an early live recording (and some other stuff).

One of them, the remixed and remastered version of the debut War Of Words, has already been reviewed on this page earlier, so I won’t go further into that here (look for review of that in the 2007 reviews section).

The second CD is a remastered version of the Mutations album, an album with live versions and remixes of different kinds of numbers from the first album, made for radio programmers in the US, supporting the bands first world tour. I must admit I’m not familiar with the original version of this album (the original was released in 1994 in a limited 5000 copies), so I can’t really evaluate if the sound is very much improved on this re-issue, but it’s funny/interesting to hear alternate mixes of the originals from War Of Words.

The third CD is a remixed and remastered version of A Small Deadly Space, the third (second studio) release from Fight, and the one, that was to be their last. It was more experimental, groovier and with Rob Halford NOT singing the high-pitched stuff we’re used to on other albums with both JP, the first Fight and the later Halford albums. In my opinion A Small Deadly Space was not nearly as strong a release as the first, but then again, it’s of course difficult to follow up on an album that is close to being a metal classic of the 90’s.

The last disc in the box is a DVD, with the second (club)performance by Fight from August 1993 as the primary content. This concert is a complete live version of “War Of Words”, made for press and label executives, prior to the release of the WOW album. Contrary to the one that circulated the net, this is a two camera and original stereo version, that has been restored, and supposedly one of the best recordings to survive from the bands earlier performances, not great, but very authentic and dynamic...

In addition you get some “rare and previously unreleased” footage on the DVD, from and about The Metal God from between ’93 and ’95, commercial, release party and bungee jumping(!) – filling if you ask me, maybe something for ultrahardcorefans...