Finally, this albums get the release it deserves. Considered to be the last album of Hawkwind's Golden Era and the last to feature Lemmy, this is an incredible follow-up to their masterpiece "Hall of the Mountain Grill". This was also their first album where they went into the studio cold without any material that had been tested in a live setting. The results are a bit different; the arrangements were as a whole more solid and not as "free-form" as some of the others had been. With a load of input from Simon House (who's presence greatly dominates the album in the best way possible), writer/author Michael Moorcock and bandleader David Brock helped lead to tracks such as "Assault and Battery", "Standing at the Edge" and the foreshadowing "Motorhead" (written by bassist/vocalist/icon Lemmy), this is without question a classic record and a stunning testament as to how talented and diverse this band was at the time. Other tracks such as "Warriors", "Kings of Speed" and Nik Turner's "Dying Seas" are fine examples of just how many cool and different ideas were coming together at the time and the dynamic sounds that it produced. It's such a shame that this incarnation of the band fell apart during the infamous 1975 U.S. Tour which resulted in the arrest of Lemmy at the Canadian border. Sadly, this would kill the momentum built up by the band in the States and the band never did recover, but they did continue to make incredible music in the aftermath while Lemmy went on to form the mighty Motorhead. The bonus cuts on here are spectacular with alternate versions of several tracks such as "The Wizard Blew His Horn" and "Soldiers at the Edge of Time" with different vocals and three live tracks from the Watchfield Free Festival in August of '75. This is one of the essentials in the saga of Hawkwind. Get it and love it for life and beyond.

Well, this is a fantastic and awsome definitive edition of one of the best Hawkwind's cataloge albums. Warrior of the Edge of Time CD versions were a little-bit issue in terms of edition. The album had been originally released on a separate contract with the original record label and its rights were not held by the great EMI 1996 remasters catalogue. Some labels release the album on CD format, however, even its very acceptable edition and good sound mastered from vinyl, a big gap still existed regarding a definitive remastered and reliable CD edition. I think this complete box set edition fill this problem in terms of getting a well presented album's edition, in both analogue (vinyl with its original design) and digital (LPCM, Dolby Surround and DTS) sound formats; and of course, their awsome graphic and design presentation (photographs, poster, scrapbook, memorabilia) make the product so attractive. Highly Recommended.

As a HAWKWIND fan for over 40 years I have to say that Warrior on the Edge of Time is still my favorite. This release by the ATOMHENGE label is a real treat.
The sound quality is much better than the ROCK FEVER label release I (we) have had to settle for.
The violin/synthesizer(?)leading into The Golden Void is much easier on the ears. I give the remixes by Steve Wilson a big "Thank You !"
One example is the track Magnu. The track length is extended almost 2 minutes...and better yet...the 5.1 surround mix is fantastic.
This really brings out the individual instruments, particularly Nik Turner on sax. Check it out. I recommend this 3 disc package to
all HAWKWIND fans. ABSOLUTE MUST HAVE!!!

This review is ONLY about the 3-disc 2013 UK release version which contains 2 CDs and a DVD-Audio.

I am a relative newcomer to Hawkwind and now that I've "been bitten by the bug", I have now collected recent remastered reissues of all their classic LPs from their
debut through 1980s "Levitation" and a couple of live shows including "1999 Party". I opted out of some of the weaker mid-70s Charisma ones except "Quark". So I have now been a seasoned listener all of 6 months or so!

That said, I won't go into much of a critique or history of this LP so much as to let people know about this latest release many have been waiting for, since the original CD release is rumored to come from an actual vinyl LP as the master tapes at the time were "missing"!

Turns out they have apparently located most of them except for the original session multi-tracks for the songs "Spiral Galaxy 28948" and "Kings Of Speed". The good news is this really only affects the 5.1 mix on the DVD. More about that later.

I will have to admit even though I like most of the songs on the original LP (which I never owned) some are over-long at times (just like on many Hawkwind LPs). Even worse, the original CD release I heard of songs from this came from the multi-disc "Epocheclipse" which was an earlier analog-digital transfer. I found the songs from this LP on it cool, but harsh-sounding and eventually fatigued my ears at any volume. NOW comes THIS release.

The first CD is a new 24-bit digital remaster from the original analog stereo album mix tape by Ben Wiseman at the Audio Archiving Company. I only have heard it on my car stereo so far but it sounds more dynamic than the one I heard before, yet still a bit on the harsh and ear-fatiguing side. Eight bonus studio tracks are included including the original "Motorhead" plus alternate versions and demos but I'll have to critique them later.

The second CD is "new stereo mixes" by Steven Wilson at No Man's Land. Now this sounds great on my home stereo (one worthy of analysis). Not only more dynamics than the older CD master I heard but way smoother and easier to listen to, at any volume. I can LISTEN to this. Highly recommended. Especially fun is the song "Magnu", which is truly a Hawkwind classic. But "Assault and Battery" also is way easier and clearer to listen to, ready for this millenium. I like the song better from this source. Five bonus tracks are included that are different than the first disc and previously unreleased including an instrumental demo of "Motorhead", a less-than stellar studio jam of "Dawn", and 3 live tracks from the Watchfield Festival in August 1975. The instrumental of "Motorhead" really is, on my listen, the original studio back-up tape without vocals, fiddle, or horn. Still head-banging, though! The 3 live tracks include an opening festival jam (fades out), then the elusive "Circles" and "I Am The Eye", all in typical lo-fi live sound, but not un-listenable.

The 3rd disc is a DVD with 5.1 Surround mix by Steven Wilson of just the original LP's songs, and two 96 kHz/24-bit stereo versions of the first 2 discs (no bonus tracks) for your DVD player's sampling rate. I will have to listen to it later and update my review on it but I have high expectations for it.

The booklet is a 15-page photo-laden bio history of this period of the band complete with the story of the final days with Lemmy on-board.

Recommended for neophytes as a first-buy as well as casual or dedicated fans. Some of these songs truly are classics but overall just a notch below a few other LPs that I just happen to like better.

Oh well, to each Hawkwind fan their own!

REVIEW UPDATE: I finally was able to play the DVD-Audio disc that comes with the set. I had trouble getting it to play on my Pioneer DV-610AV All Regions DVD player the first couple of times I tried to play it several weeks apart. I figured out later it's because the menu portion of the disc had errors which caused the disc to quit play after selecting the audio option and other goofy issues. I tried to play it using DTS but for some reason, my 10-year old Yamaha A/V receiver didn't recognize the audio properly so the DTS sound field didn't work properly, although I did get multi-channel sound to come out, but I am not confident it was playing in true DTS. I don't know what's up with it but I sorta gave up on trying to get it to work with DTS. The sound field options on it include MLP Lossless 5.1 Surround, MLP Lossless Stereo, DTS 96/24 5.1 Surround, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, and Original Stereo Master (96 kHz 24 bit). Perhaps it has something to do with my old receiver or player but I don't have that problem with any other DVD-Audio discs so far. My other option with my receiver is Dolby Digital 5.1 but I could never get it to play correctly, although my DVD player showed songs to be clocking along, no sound would come out of my receiver, even with the sound fields set up correctly on it.

So I then tried it out on my LG Blue Ray player and I didn't have any of the menu/navigation errors I had with the Pioneer player. Interestingly the Audio options didn't show the MLP surround options but it isn't an All Regions player. I did get the player to properly play it in DTS surround but it has a bunch of reverb which I didn't care for. I just wasn't impressed.

I'd be curious to get some feedback from anyone else who tried to play the DVD-Audio disc and their success level and opinion on surround sound quality. Doesn't matter that much to me as the new mix stereo CD disc is good enough for me but I am rather unimpressed with the DVD-Audio disc so far.