Who Dares Wins is a compilation of various rare Bolt Thrower

Bolt Thrower (band)

Bolt Thrower are a British death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. The band then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling bands on that label. Their current label is Metal...

 tracks from EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

s and other sources: Tracks 1–4 are from the Cenotaph

Cenotaph (album)

Cenotaph is an EP by Bolt Thrower. Track 1 and 2 are recorded at Slaughterhouse studios in September 1990, Track 3 is recorded at Slaugherhouse studios in July 1989. All three are produced by Colin Richardson and Bolt Thrower. Track 4 is recorded live at Kilbum National, November 16, 1989...

 EP, tracks 5–8 are from the Spearhead

Spearhead (album)

Spearhead is an EP by Bolt Thrower. It is recorded at Sawmill studios, produced by Colin Richardson and Bolt Thrower, engineered by John Cornfield. Mixed at Fon studios September 1992, engineered by Alan Fisch and Steve Harris...

 EP and the tracks 9 and 10 are from the same session as "...For Victory

...For Victory

…For Victory is a Bolt Thrower album. It was recorded at Sawmill studios in 1994, produced by Colin Richardson and Bolt Thrower. A limited edition contains a live CD titled Live War....

", previously released on "Rareache" (the anniversary compilation boxset of Earache Records) and the Japanese version of ...For Victory. It is released on Earache Records

Earache Records

Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988-1994.-History:...

, Mosh 208 on 14 September 1998. The cover art is also taken from the Spearhead EP.

The release coincided with the release of the album Mercenary, which was Bolt Thrower's first album for Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music...

. The band have hence accused Earache of trying to cash in on the band. Also, the album was originally intended to be titled No Guts, No Glory; however because that is the title of a song on Mercenary Earache had to scrap that title. The band recommends not to buy this as they would never agree on releasing a compilation album.

Track listing

All songs written by Bolt Thrower

1. "Cenotaph" – 4:05
2. "Destructive Infinity" – 4:14
3. "Prophet of Hatred" – 3:53
4. "Realm of Chaos" (live) – 2:46
5. "Spearhead" (Extended Remix) – 8:42
6. "Crown of Life" – 5:29
7. "Dying Creed" – 4:17
8. "Lament" – 5:37
9. "World Eater '94" – 6:09
10. "Overlord" – 4:29

Credits

• Karl Willetts – vocals
  Singing
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• Gavin Ward
  Gavin Ward (musician)
  Gavin Ward is one of the two founding members of Bolt Thrower. He started out as the bass player early on in the band in 1986, and so can be heard on the first demo. For the second demo, he switched to playing lead and rhythm guitar. He plays lead and rhythm guitar on all albums, save Mercenary and...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
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• Barry Thompson
  Barry Thompson
  Barry Thompson plays lead and rhythm guitar in Bolt Thrower on all albums. He co-founded the band in 1986. He is also the main songwriter of the band. Thompson also did some backing vocals on the Benediction album, Grind Bastard.-Equipment:...
  
   – guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
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• Andrew Whale – drums
  Drum kit
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• Jo Bench
  Jo Bench
  Jo-Anne Bench is a death metal bass player from Leamington Spa, England. She plays bass in Bolt Thrower on all albums, but not on the demos. She has been vegetarian since 1984....
  
   – Bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  

External links

• Interview with Jo Bench in which she discusses the release of this album.