“For starters, leave all expectations of what a(nother) collaboration between Boris and Merzbow might sound like, because Rock Dream is nothing like Sun Baked Snow Cave, which was released [...]
“Initially released in 2002, the first Heavy Rocks album was the first Boris release to consist primarily of normal-length rock songs rather than expansive noise/drone epics. Though albums [...]
“Japan’s overdriven avant-metal power trio Boris and industrial noise pioneer Merzbow (Masami Akita) have been working together intermittently since 2002. This is their fifth studio [...]
Classic 1980’s melodic heavy metal. RIYL: Iron Maiden, Dio Condition: VG+/VG+ *Image in the listing is stock. There may be variation in the actual product.
“A sketchy and underfocused debut, Rocka Rolla nonetheless begins to delineate the musical territory Judas Priest would explore over the remainder of the decade: frighteningly dark in its [...]
“The departure of Ronnie James Dio gave Ritchie Blackmore a chance to reinvent Rainbow, which he does to a certain extent on Down to Earth. Adding former Deep Purple colleague […]
The Goblin King’s debut album. Label: Dark Dungeon Music USA – DD01 Format: CD, Album, Reissue Country: US Released: 1997 VG+/VG+. Holepunch in barcode *Image in listing is stock there […]
Celestial Lineage was written and recorded over the first six months of 2011. The Weaver brothers worked with producer/mystic Randall Dunn (Earth, Boris, SUNN 0))), Cave Singers, Bjork/Omar [...]
Debut album by the Richmond-based sludge hounds. Label: Forcefield Records – FFR029 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Repress, White With Purple Haze Vinyl Country: US Released: 2012 VG+/VG+
‘ORAKULUM was originally composed for a live performance collaboration with the New York sculptor Banks Violette at the Maureen Paley Gallery in London, June of 06. Violette created [...]
Old Man Gloom is a supergroup (containing members of Converge, ISIS, Cave In, Zozobra, Doomriders, Mamiffer, etc.), but instead of making shitty records like other “supergroups”, Old [...]
“By the release of Old Man Gloom’s third long-player, Christmas, in late 2004, their fans knew exactly what to expect: violent emotional release through impossibly heavy yet, at the [...]
I and Dog Days in one convenient 2LP package. Label: Southern Lord – SUNN34LP Format: 2x Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue Country: USA & Europe Released: 2010 VG+/VG+
Primitive And Deadly, is EARTH’s tenth studio collection. Dylan Carlson and long term cohort, drummer Adrienne Davies, manage to pull off the trick of completing an Ouroborean creative cycle, [...]
“Judas Priest rebounded from the shaky Point of Entry with Screaming for Vengeance, arguably the strongest album of their early-’80s commercial period. Having moved a bit too far into [...]
Live at Civic Arena, Pittsburgh PA. December 8th 1976. Label: no label – no cat number Format: Vinyl, LP, Unofficial Release Country: Europe Released: 2016 VG+/VG+
Live recording from Borealis Festival 2007 concert in Bergen’s Domkirke Label: Southern Lord – sunn94 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition Country: US Released: 2008 VG+/VG+
“Këkht Aräkh is the Ukrainian project founded in 2018 by Dmitry Marchenko. The sophomore album Pale Swordsman follows yet expands on what Dmitry was already experimenting with in the debut [...]
“Originally released at the end of last year in a small pressing for the band’s native Colombia, Trap the Witch is perhaps the penultimate WITCHTRAP experience. The foundation of [...]
“At its best, Pig Destroyer recalls Brutal Truth’s most inspired moments (see Need to Control or Sounds of the Animal Kingdom), trading heavily in funeral-blast grindcore spasms. [...]
Polish hard-rock/heavy metal. In similar zone as Scorpions. Label: Polton – PLP-002 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: Poland Released: 1982 VG+/VG. Noticeable edgewear/spinewear
“Eight years, seven singles, three albums, three bass players, two drummers and God knows how many shows later -Zig Zags has continually evolved, mutated, transitioned and transformed, [...]
Good metal of loud and brash variety. Label: Island Records – 7 91072-1 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1989 VG+/VG+. Some corner creasing to sleeve
“On nearly all counts, the debut from Los Angeles heavy metal quartet Steeler is an unremarkable, even generic release; but what makes the album important is the presence of Swedish […]
Fastway’s fun and campy shredder soundtrack to the equally campy 1986 film, Trick Or Treat. Label: Columbia – PC 40549 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1986 VG+/VG+. In […]
80’s Australian Heavy Metal, in similar zone as Ratt/Judas Priest Label: Columbia – BFC 40018 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1985 VG+/VG+
“Unfortunately, this concert album is often overlooked when discussions of the great live rock albums of the ’70s arise. UFO’s Strangers in the Night deserves to be right up [...]
The debut album by Glam-metal band Keel. Label: Shrapnel Records – SH-1014 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1984 VG+/VG. Corner creasing/sleevewear
The second live album by Judas Priest, from their Turbo tour. Label: Columbia – C2 40794 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Album Country: US Released: 1987 VG+/VG+
“Recorded in two hours as the cheapest studio in the phone book, White Zombie’s sophomore single Gods On Voodoo Moon is back in print on 45 (Zombie Black, Zombie Puss, […]
Killer comp featuring Hellion, Vice, Assassin and more Label: New Renaissance Records – NR-01 Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Red Translucent Vinyl Country: US Released: 1985 VG+/VG. Sleeve has [...]
“It’s been speculated that this album, taped in front of an enthusiastic Tokyo audience in the early ’70s, was recorded without UFO’s knowledge. When it was issued, [...]
Radical Documents is amped to announce the debut LP from LA, CA’s PHOBOPHLYPTIX. In 10 songs, clocking just over 9 minutes, ZZ, JJ, Paully, and Sammy thrash, grind, chug, and […]
Label: Crippled Sound Records – CSR 018, Tyr Records – TYR001 Format: Vinyl, 7″, Limited Edition, Mint Green, Glows In The Dark Country: US Released: 2013 VG+/VG+
“There have been dozens and dozens of Motörhead compilations released over the decades, but the first one remains definitive, even if it’s not perfect. Released in 1984 as a [...]
“Featuring songs written mostly between 1976 and 1983, Mythical & Magical is Pagan Altar’s third album and is, without a doubt, the pinnacle of their career. This grandiose, [...]
“A question popular among followers of Thrash Metal is undeniably this, “Which is considered the fastest Thrash Metal album of all time?”. There would be a high percentage of answers […]
““Malleus Maleficarum” is the debut album of PESTILENCE; a band’s whose input – that stretches across nearly 40 years – blazed the trail for generations of progressive death metal artists. [...]
After several years in the making, it is Nuclear War Now’s honor to finally present this split album from Bunkur and Mordor, two of the most extreme and unorthodox bands […]
Six years since Finland’s Lie in Ruin’s last full-length (2014’s Towards Divine Death), “Floating in Timeless Streams” sees a more streamlined approach from the [...]