High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock

High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock
Studio album by Various Artists
Released	31 May 2006
Genre	Alternative rock, alternative metal, hardcore punk
Label	Kerrang!
Various Artists chronology
Master of Puppets: Remastered (2006) High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock (2006) Kerrang! Awards 2006 (2006)

High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock is a Kerrang! covermount CD released on May 31, 2006, featuring many older rock songs, covered by newer rock artists.

Track listing

1. "Start Today" - Fall Out Boy (Originally by Gorilla Biscuits) (2.01)
2. "Die, Die My Darling" - Aiden (Originally by The Misfits) (3.17)
3. "Walk" - Avenged Sevenfold (Originally by Pantera) (5.15)
4. "Holy Diver" - Killswitch Engage (Originally by Dio) (4.05)
5. "Buddy Holly" - Biffy Clyro (Originally by Weezer) (5.15)
6. "My Own Summer (Shove It)" - Fightstar (Originally by Deftones) (3.36)
7. "Jesus Christ Pose" - The Dillinger Escape Plan (Originally by Soundgarden) (5.43)
8. "Head Like a Hole" - Still Remains (Originally by Nine Inch Nails) (5.07)
9. "Simple Man" - Deftones (Originally by Lynyrd Skynyrd) (6.15)
10. "Sweet Emotion" - The Answer (Originally by Aerosmith) (3.50)
11. "Crazy Train" - Bullet for My Valentine (Originally by Ozzy Osbourne) (4.50)
12. "Digging the Grave" - 36 Crazyfists (Originally by Faith No More) (2.55)
13. "Symphony of Destruction" - Arch Enemy (Originally by Megadeth) (3.56)
14. "You Give Love a Bad Name" - Atreyu (Originally by Bon Jovi) (3.23)
15. "Straight Edge" - NOFX (Originally by Minor Threat) (2.13)

• The only band on the album to cover a song, and have one of their own songs covered is Deftones. They covered "Simple Man", by Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Fightstar covered their song "My Own Summer (Shove It)".
• Killswitch Engage released a video for their version of "Holy Diver" on 1 August 2007. The song is also on the re-release of their fourth album As Daylight Dies. In 2014 "Holy Diver" was featured on the Ronnie James Dio Tribute Album, This Is Your Life.
• "Start Today", covered by Fall Out Boy, was featured in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
• NOFX's cover of "Straight Edge" was originally released on their 1992 album White Trash, Two Heebs and a Bean.
• A year after this was released, Kerrang! released another covermount CD similar to this one, Higher Voltage!: Another Brief History of Rock.
• Atreyu's cover of "You Give Love a Bad Name" was a bonus track on their album The Curse.