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Depending on what you're looking for, you may just find it on OZZFEST 2001, the latest in the seemingly never-ending series of the mega metal live-show compilation discs.

Ozzfest, a headbanger's ultimate dream of the commercial melding of aggro-rock mayhem and nu-metal combustion, began in the mid-nineties and has been making an annual eruption ever since. Although only marginally different in overall sound and style from Ozzfest releases of years past, the current live recording serves up the ever-consistent Black Sabbath (haven't those guys officially retired already, again, yet?), as Ambassadors In Arms, welcoming onto the playing field pretenders to the throne Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Papa Roach (unloading the tortured groove and cutting delivery of "Blood Brothers") and, in a puzzling stretch of the imagination, Linkin Park.

In a budding bid to join past with present, neo-metal with rap-metal, goth-lite metal with hard pop-metal, and to showcase (for the first time on any Ozzfest disc) second and third stage acts from the tour, Systematic brings on "Deep Colors Bleed" with a fresh nu metal/ Soundgarten-like/post grunge fury. Drowning Pool presents their seminal debut "Bodies", while Disturbed offers "Fear" and non-point contributes " What A Day".

This is the kind of release you listen to, basically knowing what's in store, taking what you want from it and expecting no surprises. Ozzfest 2001 is a fair and decent catalogue of the Ozzfest concert, representing enough of the best, the good, the fair and the "how did they get on the bill?" to give any heavy music fan a good case of whiplash.