Metal Generation: The Steeler Anthology was released by majestic rock records in 2005 as a compilation album of the US heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Steeler

Steeler

Steeler was an early 1980s American heavy metal band from Nashville. Band members included: Ron Keel on vocals and guitar, Michael Dunigan on lead guitar, Bobby Eva on drums and Tim Morrison on bass. In 1982, they released the single Cold Day in Hell....

. The album was co-produced by a former band member, Ron Keel

Ron Keel

Ron Keel is a Heavy metal vocalist and guitarist for a number of bands from the 1980s to the modern day, including the glam metal band Keel.-Biography:...

, as he believed there was a public desire for such an album (as he wrote on the album inserts). In the album unreleased, live and single songs were added with a few of the songs of the bands only album Steeler

Steeler (American album)

Steeler is an album by the band of the same name. It was largely recorded at Prairie Sun Studios in Cotati, California, about fifty miles north of San Francisco. It was the only album released by the band until a 2005 compilation album released by Ron Keel. After the album was released the band...

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Track listing

1. "Cold Day in Hell" **
2. "Take Her Down" **
3. "Ready to Explode" *
4. "Hot on Your Heels" **
5. "On the Rox" (Live)
6. "Backseat Driver" (Live)
7. "Victim of the City (Live)*
8. "Yngwie is God" (Live)
9. Band Introduction (Live)
10. "Excited" (Live)*
11. "Dying in Love" *
12. "Last chance to Rock" *
13. "Metal Generation" * (bonus track, not present in all albums)
14. "Serenade" (acoustic
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    version by Ron Keel, recorded in 2005)

* Previously unreleased

** Original version