Releases rumored from All Time Low, Avenged Sevenfold, Thrice, more for Record Store Day
April 22 marks the 10th year of Record Store Day, that awesome of days where we celebrate all of the greatness and community that comes with shops that still sell music in physical form. Diehard and n00b music fans can expect all kinds of exclusive releases, exciting reissues and a whole lot of reasons to hate people who flip things on eBay. While we expect the official RSD list to be confirmed later this month, the rumored titles we’ve heard about sound positively awesome. Now, if you choose not to dig deep on sub-Reddits all day, or maybe you don’t have an extra fuck you could give in your hoodie pocket to wade through the nonsense (classic rock, children’s records, ’80s nostalgia), we’ve extracted the more scene-centric titles for your perusal. Support your local record store (or take a road trip to one) on April 22 and get physical.
ALL TIME LOW
MTV Unplugged
The scene’s furious rockers/pop-punk jesters have their career-marking MTV performance preserved on black-and-white swirled vinyl.
AVENGED SEVENFOLD
Waking The Fallen
Only a thousand diehard metalheads will be able to own this double picture-disc pressing of the LA titans’ second album, first released in 2003.
BALANCE AND COMPOSURE
Slow Heart
This seven-inch is limited to 1,000 copies and consists of two songs, “Run From Me” and “Body Language,” that did not make it onto last year’s v. solid Light We Made LP.
COHEED AND CAMBRIA
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
We were wondering if we were going to see the demo versions of Coheed And Cambria’s debut LP, The Second Stage Turbine Blade, committed to vinyl. This time Columbia Records stepped to reissue the prog-metal unit’s major-label debut for the first time ever on vinyl. The package sounds pretty sweet, with a splatter-design pressing, gatefold album cover and a download code. Now you can really pretend it’s 1976 with C&C’s classic on the turntable, but don’t sleep on it, as the edition is limited to 2,500 copies.
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
“Instrumentalist”/“Fugue”
As the mighty math-metal-prog-hardcore-electronic-whatthafack team wind down, they leave us with a white vinyl single of retooled, instrumental versions of tracks from the chrome-melting LP Dissociation. There are 1,500 copies of this and if you get one and this writer doesn’t, he (and let’s face it ladies, it’s always a dude, right?) will blow up your car.
THE GERMS
“Lexicon Devil”
The late-’70s LA punk-rock avatars have their legendary track pressed across four different vinyl colors (purportedly red, yellow, orange and pink) with each shade limited to 500 copies. Collect them all in a bundle for your punk-rock grandparents, because they were the greatest generation—the one that invented moshing.
INTEGRITY
Humanity Is The Devil
Cleveland hardcore legends Integrity have their 1995 highmark release given a sweet reissue. Did these guys somehow conjure the term “metallic hardcore” from inside the noggins of writers exposed to this masterpiece back in the day? Make up for what you missed over 20 years ago with this remastered version, wrapped in a 2’ X 3’ poster cover and download to feed your hard drive. It’s an edition of 750 copies, so don’t dick around.
SNAPCASE
Lookingglasself
The debut album from the beloved Buffalo, New York, hardcore unit gets new life in a colored vinyl pressing of 2,000. Lookingglasself is Snapcase’s most metal album before the band went in pursuit of a more subtle, artful post-hardcore direction.
THRICE
“Sea Change”/“Black Honey”
The Vagrant label will be releasing a translucent-blue vinyl single featuring “Sea Change,” the only completed song that didn’t make it onto the mighty forward-thinking, post-hardcore outfit’s last album, To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere. The flipside is an acoustic version of “Black Honey” performed by frontman/guitarist Dustin Kensrue and guitarist Teppei Teranishi for a Sirius/XM broadcast.
