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Melissa is the debut studio album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate, released on 30 October 1983. It was the first album released by Roadrunner Records. -
Conspiracy is the fourth studio album by Danish heavy metal band King Diamond, and the second part of a story that began on the album Them. Conspiracy was released on 21 August 1989 through Roadrunner Records, and is the last album to feature drummer Mikkey Dee who left the group but recorded the album as a session member. -
"Them" is the third studio album by Danish heavy metal band King Diamond, released on 18 July 1988 through Roadrunner Records in Europe, and 13 September 1988 through Roadracer Records in United States. It is the first album to feature guitarist Pete Blakk and bassist Hal Patino. "Them" is the first of two fictional concept albums about King and his mentally ill grandmother, the second of these being Conspiracy. King falls into a harrowing descent into madness via his grandmother and the voices in the House of Amon, known to the listener only as "Them". -
Abigail is the second album by Danish heavy metal band King Diamond, and the band's first concept album. It was released on 29 May 1987 through Roadrunner Records. Abigail is the last album to feature guitarist Michael Denner and bassist Timi Hansen. -
Fatal Portrait is the debut album by Danish heavy metal band King Diamond. It was produced by Rune Hoyer and released on 14 March 1986 through Roadrunner Records. Guitarist Andy LaRocque joined the album recording sessions at the last minute, as the band's second guitarist at the time "wasn't working out" in the studio. As a result, it is the only King Diamond album which does not feature any writing credits from LaRocque. Fatal Portrait has sold over 100,000 copies in North America alone. The title of the album comes from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Wilde describes the painting as "the fatal portrait" several times throughout the novel. -
Formed in Würzburg, Bavaria, in 1986, by friends an ex-Warhead members Axel Blaha (drums) and Charly Steinhauer (vocals/guitar), Paradox quickly developed into one of the most important bands of the second wave of Teutonic speed and thrash metal. The line-up was completed by second guitarist Markus Spyth and Roland Stahl on bass. Their first, untitled demo tape, recorded the same year and containing seven self-penned numbers, took the German metal scene by storm. Gleaming reviews in Metal Hammer and Rock Hard followed, and as a result Paradox were soon hailed as the German answer to Metallica. Product of Imagination is the debut album of the German thrash / speed metal band Paradox. It was released in 1987 through Roadrunner Records. Product of Imagination was generally well received and praised by the media following its release in October 1987. It was voted "LP of the month" in the magazines Rock Hard and Metal Hammer, the latter of which claimed that the album was the best German debut since Helloween's Walls of Jericho. The album was also given high scores in the English magazine Kerrang! and also in Japan's Burrn!.[3] After the release of their debut, Paradox was named "Newcomer #1" by the press in Germany.[4] The band was also ranked as the third best band in Germany in polls conducted by the German editions of Rock Hard and Metal Hammer, being ranked below the Scorpions and Accept. High Roller Records, 180g black vinyl, ltd 400, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert, 12 page booklet, poster. -
Formed in Würzburg, Bavaria, in 1986, by friends an ex-Warhead members Axel Blaha (drums) and Charly Steinhauer (vocals/guitar), Paradox quickly developed into one of the most important bands of the second wave of Teutonic speed and thrash metal. The line-up was completed by second guitarist Markus Spyth and Roland Stahl on bass. Their first, untitled demo tape, recorded the same year and containing seven self-penned numbers, took the German metal scene by storm. Gleaming reviews in Metal Hammer and Rock Hard followed, and as a result Paradox were soon hailed as the German answer to Metallica. Heresy is the second album by German thrash / speed metal band Paradox, released in 1989. The album preaches a conceptual story about the Albigensian Crusade of the 13th century. It is Paradox's best selling album to date, and was the band's last studio album for 11 years, until Collision Course (2000). High Roller Records, 180g black vinyl, ltd 400, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert, 8 page booklet, poster. -
Mercenary is the sixth album by the British death metal band Bolt Thrower. It was recorded at Chapel Studios, Lincoln, England, December 1997 to January 1998. The album was produced by Bolt Thrower and Ewan Davis. It was released on Metal Blade Records in 1998. The cover painting is titled "Contact – Wait Out", which is also the first track on the next album, "Honour – Valour – Pride". "Powder Burns" is a continuation of the song "Embers" from The IVth Crusade, and leads into "The Killchain" on Those Once Loyal. -
Life Knife Death, from the veteran Swedish hardcore punk band Wolfbrigade, is the follow-up album to 2019’s The Enemy: Reality. Formed in 1995 in the small Swedish city of Mariestad by key players from Sweden's legendary hardcore scene, Wolfbrigade (known as Wolfpack until 1999) remain among Scandinavia's most respected, influential and reliable purveyors of real-world brute-force hullabaloo. On this eleventh album, the niftiest skills honed to a fine edge over 30 years are dispatched with greater style and intensity than ever. Most immediately, there's the sheer velocity and barely-controlled rage pumping through dynamic d-beaten blood-shakers like Ways To Die and Your God Is A Corpse, the furious attack assisted to heart-fluttering greatness by a newly loosened sense of raucous spontaneity. "We didn’t really rehearse any of the songs on this album,"the band reveals. "We tend to overwork and overanalyze everything that we do, and sometimes we get lost in that process. This time we wanted to go rough, to capture the raw essence of the song when it’s just out of the womb. All the blood and gore." Mounting global chaos may have us all darkly fearing the end times, but it has also seemingly created the ideal circumstances for a hardcore punk LP as coruscatingly brutal as Wolfbrigade's “Life Knife Death”. -
War Crimes - Inhuman Beings is the 1988 debut release from influential UK Crust act Doom. -
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LTD 50 copies7inch distro is proud to reissue, for the first time, on vinyl the fourth album of Metal giants GRIP INC. (Dave Lombardo, Waldemar Sorychta, Gus Chambers). Four pages booklet with lyrics. Limited 50 copies on black vinyl with extra A3 poster. Release date: September 21, 2020. Previously released on CD through SPV [2004]. One of the most unique entries in the metal music catalogue, Grip Inc. received a fair bit of attention for being the first serious path taken by Dave Lombardo after his definitive demise from Slayer, teamed up with the then less-known guitarist and producer Waldemar Sorychta and vocalist Gus Chambers. “Incorporated” appears after a five year absence from the scene. Sorychta went back to producing. Lombardo went to Testament, Famtomas and back to Slayer. Vocalist Gus Chambers just went away. Getting back together for “Incorporated” is one of the best decisions this core group of individuals has ever made – this is simply their most cohesive and energetic album of their careers. -
Mercyful Fate EP is the band's debut released, isssued in 1982. Metal Blade Records, reissue 2020. -
The Beginning is a compilation album by Danish heavy metal band Mercyful Fate released on 24 June 1987 through Roadrunner Records consisting of the Nuns Have No Fun EP and different versions of 4 tracks from the album Melissa. -
4 Of A Kind is the fourth studio album by the American crossover thrash metal band D.R.I. (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles), which consisted of Spike Cassidy, Josh Pappe, Felix Friffin and Kurt Brech. 4 Of A Kind originally came out in 1988, only six years after the formation of D.R.I., and includes the track “Suit And Tie Guy”, which was the first track to get a music video. -
Spectrum of Death is the debut album by American death/thrash metal band Morbid Saint. It is considered one of the best thrash metal albums of all time and an early influence on the blackened thrash metal and death metal genres. Black vinyl, revised & corrected back cover, ltd 500, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert printed on uncoated paper, poster. -
This album keeps up the spirit of their first album. Fast thrash, delicious riffs and moshing! "Scenarios of Brutality" is a good choice of fast, great quality Thrash music and impeccable production for a band with little financial support. High Roller Records, reissue 2024, swamp green/ blue jay splatter vinyl, ltd 300, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, 4 page insert. -
Teutonic Trash Attack! 180g black vinyl, ltd 300, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, lyric sheet, poster. -
Possessed by Fire is the first album by the German thrash metal band Exumer. It was released on November 8, 1986 through obscure German thrash metal label Disaster Records. This album was a cult classic in the day. 180gr black vinyl, ltd 500, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert, poster. -
Crusher’s debut is a history printed on vinyl. In terms of intentions and driving evolution, the French Metal scene was never the same after that. This great country has given birth to so many huge bands like Sortilege, ADX, Blaspheme and many more but the extreme sound was kinda like walking on the sidewalks. "Corporal Punishment" changed this stereotype once and for all. With great intensity, excellent passion and talent more than obvious even to unfamiliar with extreme genres fans, Crusher's debut album is both effective and addictive in terms of brutality, energy and songwriting. -
Oxblood vinyl, ltd 250, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert, printed inner sleeve, poster, A5 photo, mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony, original 1984 sound. -
Black vinyl, ltd 250, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, insert, printed inner sleeve, poster, A5 photo, mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel at Temple of Disharmony, original 1984 sound.
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Out of stock 7inch distro is proud to reissue, for the first time, on vinyl the fourth album of Metal giants GRIP INC. (Dave Lombardo, Waldemar Sorychta, Gus Chambers). Four pages booklet with lyrics. Limited 390 copies on black vinyl. Release date: September 21, 2020. Previously released on CD through SPV [2004]. One of the most unique entries in the metal music catalogue, Grip Inc. received a fair bit of attention for being the first serious path taken by Dave Lombardo after his definitive demise from Slayer, teamed up with the then less-known guitarist and producer Waldemar Sorychta and vocalist Gus Chambers. “Incorporated” appears after a five year absence from the scene. Sorychta went back to producing. Lombardo went to Testament, Famtomas and back to Slayer. Vocalist Gus Chambers just went away. Getting back together for “Incorporated” is one of the best decisions this core group of individuals has ever made – this is simply their most cohesive and energetic album of their careers.
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Stress returns 11 years after the reissue of “The Sound of Insecurity” with their new E.P. “Think Before It’s Too Late” on 10″ vinyl. All songs come from Stress’s 80s recordings, for a tribute to the meeting of punk with Ska and Dub Reggae sounds, which flirts with the spirit of the 80s. A re-recording of three tracks on a 10″ vinyl edition. A3 is a cover of “Too much pressure” by Selecter, with a free translation of the lyrics by Panagiotis Skordas. -
Originally released circa 1999. Remastered by Brad Boatright. Essential, classic, crucial D-BEAT crust from the masters! -
High Roller Records, reissue 2024, black vinyl, ltd 200, 425gsm heavy cardboard cover, 4 page insert.
