High Voltage!: A Brief History of Rock

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 August 1, 2007. The song is also on the re-release of their fourth album As Daylight Dies.
  • Start Today, covered by Fall Out Boy was featured in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.
  • A year after this was released, Kerrang! released another covermount CD similar to this one, Higher Voltage!: Another Brief History of Rock.