Tooth and Nail gave birth to many influential and big bands. Their 14th release was MxPx's first cd. Now they are signed to a major label and did a commercial for a soda company. Zao spent the majority of their career on Solid State (they are now on Ferrett Records) and have widely influenced the metalcore genre in addition to having been Brett Detar's first major band (who would go on to form another Tooth and Nail money maker, the Juliana Theory). On the indie side, both Pedro the Lion and Damien Jurado have released an album on Tooth and Nail. Blindside, a hardcore band who released the critically acclaimed album "Silence" on a major label had called Tooth and Nail/Solid State home for their two previous full lengths.

Have you heard of P.O.D.? Well, Tooth and Nail helped release their "Warriors EP". Are you a Dashboard Confessional fan? Well, Carrabba began his stardom by being vocalist for Further Seems Forever on their first cd on Tooth and Nail.

Of course, it's not been all good times for the label. There was a stretch where the only thing Tooth and Nail signed was pop-punk bands. The downside being that none of them sold well because the label missed the boat and caught the downward spiral of the pop-punk craze. Or maybe they didn't sell well because they were sub-par and didn't deserve to sell. It was during this time that many past fans of the label started to tune out and started milking hatred for Tooth and Nail.

This box set compiles 124 songs from 124 different releases out of the 250+ Tooth and Nail releases. There is a definite focus on Tooth and Nail and Solid State releases. Only the rare BEC band gets represented, and there isn't a single appearance by Uprock. The 124 songs are spread out on six cds and each cd is chock full of music (actually, there is one unlisted track at the end of disc six. It is a latin-flavored song which I believe came from the Latin Praise cd that BEC released, though I may be wrong. There are no clues in the packaging). The order is generally chronological on a broad scale, however, on a closer look that breaks down. But the recent releases are at the end of disc six. And the earliest releases are at the beginning of disc one.

Kind of.

Due to some reasoning that fails to completely pacify me, there is no release in this box set from before 1997. Nevermind that there were around 100 releases on Tooth and Nail before that point. Nevermind those 100 releases were some of the best stuff released on the label. They are not here. Believe it or not, however, there is a logical reason to it. Back in '97 Tooth and Nail released a 4th Anniversary box set. That one contained a track from each release up to that point. I do not own that set so I can't comment on it beyond that, however, it seems that Tooth and Nail decided to just continue on from there, instead of creating an overlap.