VINYL

The eighth compilation album by legendary American Rock/Pop singer.
As National Album Day 2021 celebrates women in music, Belinda Carlisle has chosen a selection of her recordings that illustrate the theme for this special limited edition release. Bespoke compilation, featuring a brand-new recording – fabulous version of The Youngbloods’ 1966 appeal for unity, “Get Together”, recorded in Los Angeles in July 2021, plus eight further tracks taken from her albums “Heaven On Earth”, “Live Your Life Be Free” and “Real”.
Limited Edition National Album Day release, 180g White Vinyl.
Demon Records, 2018 (DEMREC964). Made in UK. First press.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. I Feel Free 4:51
2. Nobody Owns Me 3:25
3. You’re Nothing Without Me 3:44
4. Emotional Highway 4:55
5. Get Together (The Youngbloods cover / new 2021 song) 4:42

Side 2
1. Live Your Life Be Free 4:57
2. Little Black Book 4:07
3. Wrap My Arms 4:28
4. Goodbye Day 4:35

First re-release of the fifth full-length studio album by legendary American Rock/Pop singer.
After four solo albums of polished Pop sounds, and looks, Belinda Carlisle decided to strip down her sound to showcase some raw music and Rock out a little. Quite a daring move, but it also shows a maturing artist who is comfortable in her own skin. The album has a genre of mainly Pop songs and suffers from a lack of memorable songs and while the record sounded good, it had nothing to support the state-of-the-art production. It was also a departure from her previous solo albums, having more in common with Carlisle's the Go-Go's sound rather than her own, typical, solo Pop themes. Dealing with what Carlisle termed the "dark side of relationships", the album is mature and intentionally lacks the slick production of her other solo albums. Carlisle won over many critics who had previously reviewed her for her sensed lack of progression and willingness to take a chance with some edgier material.
This is probably Belinda's most comfortable yet loudest album yet. She would follow 'Real' with the slick and more successful Adult Contemporary "A Woman and a Man" which is closer to her original sound, but "Real" would stand firm as a memorable highlight in the singer's career where she chooses to experiment with her image and sound.
"Real" debuted on the UK Albums Chart at number nine on October 18, 1993, becoming Carlisle's fifth consecutive top-10 album there. In Sweden, the album became her fifth top-30 album, peaking at number 23. Australia was the last place the album charted, where it charted at number 61.
"Big Scary Animal" Single reached number 12 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Carlisle's seventh top-20 Single, and a top 60 hit in Australia. This is also the most successful song co-written by Belinda Carlisle. "Lay Down Your Arms" was released as the second Single and failed to gain much success, peaking at number 27 in the UK.
180g Heavyweight Clear Vinyl.
Demon Records, a division of Demon Music Group Ltd., a BBC Studios Company, 1993/2018 (DEMREC309). Made in UK for the world. Pressed in Czech.


Tracklist:

Side Two
1. Goodbye Day 4:39
2. Big Scary Animal 4:18
3. Too Much Water 5:16
4. Lay Down Your Arms 4:38
5. Where Love Hides 4:57

Side Two
1. One With You 5:11
2. Wrap My Arms 4:27
3. Tell Me 5:32
4. Windows Of The World 3:26
5. Here Comes My Baby 4:37

Total playing time: 46:51 min.

The third full-length studio album by legendary American Rock/Pop singer.
Carlisle's last album to chart in the United States. The album contains an array of guest artists, including George Harrison and Bryan Adams.
After the great success of "Heaven on Earth", Belinda Carlisle released her third solo album, which included even more radio hits. While it'e easy to hear three songs from "Heaven On Earth" while listening to radio, "Runaway Horses" carried four big radio hits.
"Leave A Light On" has an amazing melody, Belinda's beautiful voice, great breathtaking lyrics and also George Harrison's guitar solo. It has stayed a live stable for all of these years.
"La Luna" is a Spanish-type song. This is one of those few songs ever written with a couplet better than the chorus is. Although the chorus is catchy and beautiful, and the couplet brings Belinda's voice into another dimension.
"Summer Rain" is a song with a very long chorus and definitely has been a live favourite through the years. The melody is pure gold.
"We Want the Same Thing" was not a hit with the album version, but the remix did it. The album version is Poppier than the remix but still very good.
"Vision of You" is a slow song. It is a great song, although not one of favourites from this album.
"Runaway Horses" is a perfect Pop song and one of her most underrated songs. The story of the song is fascinating.
"Shades of Michaelangelo" is one of the greatest songs of the album. It was overlooked because there are many other good songs too. It is one of the greatest songs Belinda has ever been writing. Just like "Love Never Dies" on "Heaven On Earth", "Shades of Michaelangelo" is a beautiful and perfect album closer.
There are many good songs we often forget while discussing this album. "Whatever It Takes" has a guest vocal of Bryan Adams, an amazing song too. "Deep Deep Ocean" is a beautiful and relaxing song. The quality of the songs is very high. Without a doubt, this is one of the best Pop albums of the 80s!
The album spent a total of 25 weeks on the Billboard 200 and certified Gold by the RIAA. It reached number four in the United Kingdom and was certified Platinum. The album was also a success in Australia; it peaked at number six and certified double Platinum, becoming the 24th best-selling album of 1990.
Virgin Records Ltd., 1989 (V 2599 | 210 303). Made in UK. First press. Used (cover/disc): NM/NM-.


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Leave A Light On 4:37
2. Runaway Horses 4:42
3. Vision Of You 4:37
4. Summer Rain 5:26
5. La Luna 4:43

Side Two
1. (We Want) The Same Thing 3:57
2. Deep Deep Ocean 4:03
3. Valentine 5:03
4. Whatever It Takes 4:49
5. Shades Of Michaelangelo 5:46

Total playing time: 47:54 min.

The eighth full-length studio album by legendary American Rock/Pop singer.
The first studio album in ten years, since the release of "Voila" (2007), a collection of Chansons performed by Carlisle in French. Unlike her previous releases, which have largely been characterized as Pop music, it consists of a series of Sikh chants performed by Carlisle in Gurmukhi and is inspired by her practice of Kundalini yoga.
In the first decade of her post-Go-Go's solo career, Belinda Carlisle delivered six albums as a mainstream Pop artist, notching hits with songs like "Mad About You" and "Heaven Is a Place on Earth". Following 1996's "A Woman and a Man", Carlisle largely abandoned her solo pursuits, participating in a handful of Go-Go's reunions and battling a drug addiction that lasted until 2005. Newfound sobriety and the influence of living in France yielded 2007's "Voila", an unexpectedly high-quality collection of French Pop songs and classic Chansons, which she sang entirely in French.
With another decade in the books, the California native returns with yet another personal passion project in 2017's "Wilder Shores". Like "Voila", "Wilder Shores" eschews any attempt at mainstream Pop, nor does it offer more than a handful of English-language tracks. A long-time devotee of the practice of Kundalini Yoga, Carlisle and her producer/collaborator Gabe Lopez have set to music a collection of Buddhist chants and mantras, the bulk of which are sung in the ancient Gurmukhi language. Though Pop-oriented in structure, the mostly acoustic arrangements are adorned with Eastern instrumentation like tabla, harmonium, and sitar, and Carlisle's increasingly smoky voice handles the tricky chants surprisingly well. Although it suffers somewhat from the inherent blandness that often comes with this type of New Age Fusion, the album's tone is generally uplifting and the acoustic piano rendition of "Heaven Is a Place on Earth" that closes out the collection slots in well with the overall vibe and intention.
Carlisle commented on her inspiration behind making the album, specifically her practising of Kundalini yoga: "I have been practising Kundalini Yoga for over twenty-five years and in the last twelve years I have built up a serious practice routine and begun studying the mantras that are used in classes much more closely. I’ve always wanted to do an album like this, but I never felt I was ready until early in 2015. It’s not just music on this album, it’s a science that requires an element in the voice called the Naad. Naad is almost a transference of energy through the voice, and it wasn’t easy for me to learn. That being said, I am a Pop singer, so I could never be a traditional chant or Kirtan artist as it would not be true to who I am. "Wilder Shores" is therefore still a Pop album with the same structure of verse, bridge and chorus as my previous records, but it is done with repetitive chanting". 
Wilder Shores is a genre-busting album of eastern and western influences, fusing the worlds of energizing Pop music and elevating Kundalini mantras. The powerhouse voice of Pop superstar Belinda Carlisle soars over these chant tracks with precision and grace. "Wilder Shores" is deeply authentic to the genre of Kirtan, but deftly translated into an ultra-current sound that makes these mantras sound like chart-toppers. The power of the mantras themselves to bring peace, balance and strength to the heart is supported by powerful English tracks, including a new acoustic version of Carlisle's international hit "Heaven is a Place on Earth" that fans will not want to miss. "Wilder Shores" is filled with music equally at home, in yoga studios and rock stadiums, leading the wave of spirituality in the music mainstream! indulgence, give Carlisle credit for once again challenging herself as a singer and artist!
Exclusive release for Records Store Day 2018, 180g Blue 12” LP + “Why / Superstar” 7” Single with two new tracks recorded in 2017.
Demon Records, 2018 (DEMREC 244 | BELCAR 1). Made in UK. First press.


Tracklist:

LP
Side A
1. Adi Shakti 7:17
2. Ek Ong Kar Sat Gur Prasad 6:29
3. Light Of My Soul 4:27
4. Rakhe Rakhan Har 4:48
Side B
5. Har Gobinday 5:55
6. Humee Hum Brahm Hum 4:42
7. Aad Guray Nameh 5:02
8. Long Time Sun 2:27
9. Heaven Is A Place On Earth (2017 Acoustic Version) 4:00


Single
Side A
1. Why 4:13
Side B
2. Superstar 3:57

The second full-length studio album by legendary Scottish Rock band.
Big Country came out of one of the less dominant parts of the United Kingdom with an anthemic sound and vaguely revolutionary-sounding lyrics to captivate the British listening public and at least interest Americans. Big Country continued their winning ways at home with this, its second album, which topped the charts and produced three Top 40 hits: "East of Eden", "Where the Rose is Sown", and "Just a Shadow". But in the U.S., the album was perceived as proving that the band's sound, guitars-as-bagpipes, courtesy of the E-Bow, was a one-time novelty, while Stuart Adamson's lyrics, full of British socialist working-class fervour, seemed jingoistic and pretentious. Nevertheless, much of the music, as on the first album, made for stirring Rock & Roll.
Clanging and crackling with energy, this album from Big Country rings natural evolutionary changes on the band's stirring twin-guitar sound even as it frames still better news: bandleader Stuart Adamson has rapidly matured into a songwriter capable of bringing meticulous craft to his obvious passion.
"Steeltown" is the band's only UK number 1 album, topping the chart for 1 week in October 1984. "East of Eden" was the only Top 20 Single from the album, reaching number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.
Phonogram Ltd., London/Mercury, 1984 (822 831-1). Pressed in Netherlands. First press. Used (cover/disc): NM/EX+.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Flame Of The West 4:57
2. East Of Eden 4:30
3. Steeltown 4:39
4. Where The Rose Is Sown 4:57
5. Come Back To Me 4:37

Side 2
1. Tall Ships Go 4:38
2. Girl With The Grey Eyes 4:46
3. Rain Dance 4:19
4. Great Divide 4:50
5. Just A Shadow 5:40

Total playing time: 48:33 min.

Chrysalis Records, 1982 (CHR 1377). Made in USA. Used (cover/disc): EX/EX+.

 
Tracklist:

Side A:
1. Come On, Come On
2. White Wedding (Part 1)
3. Hot In The City    
4. Dead On Arrival
5. Nobody's Business
    
Side B:
6. Love Calling
7. Hole In The Wall
8. Shooting Stars
9. It's So Cruel
10. Congo Man

The second full-length studio album by German/Turkish Progressive Blackened Post-Metal band.
Hurtling into life in 2020, Bipolar Architecture is a project born from the smouldering ashes of stalwart Death Metal band Heretic Soul. Having retained all the nihilistic fury of their former outfit, Bipolar Architecture introduced the forward-thinking ferocity of Djent and Hardcore as well as the Atmospheric dynamism of Post-Rock and Shoegaze, before debuting their searing new sound on their first EP, "The Tragic Protagonist", which quickly turned heads and left ears ringing.
By mixing classic Death Metal aggression and with cutting-edge production and processing techniques, Bipolar Architecture have created a balance of sound that is raw, frenzied, and extreme, whilst also nuanced, refined and pliable. On "Depressionland", the band’s 2022 debut full-length, this truly Progressive approach was realized in full as frontman, rhythm guitarist and principal songwriter Sarp Keski’s unmistakable banshee, howl soars over Fatih Kanık’s punishing blast beats and delay-soaked euphoria courtesy of lead guitarist Marcus Sander and bassist Enes Akovalı; unifying Bipolar Architecture’s diverse influences whilst simultaneously holding them poles apart for maximum, abrasive impact.
Two years after releasing "Depressionland", that brought together elements of Blackened Metal, Djent and panoramic, Post-Rock Ambience; Berlin-based collective unleashed the next brutal evolution of their ground-breaking, genre-defying sound…
If "Depressionland" was a distillation of Bipolar Architecture’s signature sonics, though, 2024’s "Metaphysicize" is alchemical gold. Still determined to drive at the bleeding edge of Extreme Metal, "Metaphysicize" uses the existentialist, introspective themes of "Depressionland" as fuel for an even deeper, more haunting exploration of the human condition. Tracks such as "Immor(t)al" and "Dysphoria" resound with a musical maturity and patience testament to experience gained and lessons learned, whilst "Disillusioned" and "Alienated" shake with all the full-throttle, apocalyptic indignation of the band’s Blackened Metal origins. Significantly, "Metaphysicize" is also Bipolar Architecture’s first work to feature lyrics in Keski’s native Turkish; sitting at the heart of the record, the swirling Post-Rock suspense and white-knuckle Thrash Metal of "Kaygi" is a perfect embodiment of the album’s dichotic balance of culture, genre, calm, and chaos.
The compositional confidence and sheer scale of "Metaphysicize" is complex, even daunting at times, and yet also empowering. By defying the presumptive restriction of lazy labels and genre pigeonholing, Bipolar Architecture leaves their shape unfixed and their future ripe with potential, because life at the edge of extreme is so much better without limits.
Pelagic Records, 2024 (PEL 248-V). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:

Side A
1. Metaphysicize 05:25
2. Disillusioned 04:16
3. Death of the Architect 05:51
4. Kaygı 06:55

Side B
1. Alienated 05:42
2. Immor(t)al 06:11
3. Dysphoria 06:16

Total playing time: 40:36 min.

The seventh full-length studio album by German Melodic Death/Thrash Metal band.
Nearly 20 years in business and not tired of delivering ‘into-the-face’ Metal! The trio from Southern Germany premiered in 2002 with "Dawn Of Golden Blood" and released five more records to date.
The long play features nine Thrash Metal anthems full of impressive Metal tunes with a lot of riff power. Inspired by bands like Exodus and Kreator, the trio fires on all cylinders with their music. There isn’t a real weak spot on this track list! Bang your head!!
Radioactive Black Yellow Vinyl.
G.U.C., 2020 (G.U.C. 037-20 LP). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:

Side A
1. The Last Sunrise 0:44 
2. A Bullet a Day 3:59
3. Dead World Order 6:07
4. Idiocracy 6:00
5. Let God Sort 'Em Out 4:28

Side B
1. Forward into the Past 3:57
2. Blood Feud 7:31
3. None More Black 4:03
4. Darkest Times 5:41

Total playing time: 42:30 min.


Samples: https://bitterness-thrash.bandcamp.com/

The nineteenth full-length studio album by the legendary British Heavy Metal band.
The album was released on 10 June in Europe and 11 June in North America, via Vertigo Records and Republic Records in the US, and via Vertigo Records worldwide. It is the first studio album released by Black Sabbath since “Forbidden” (1995), and their first studio recording with original singer Ozzy Osbourne and bassist Geezer Butler since the live album “Reunion” (1998), which contained two new studio tracks. It is also the first studio album with Osbourne since “Never Say Die!” (1978), and with Butler since “Cross Purposes” (1994).
The original lineup of Black Sabbath first began work on a new studio album in 2001 with producer Rick Rubin. The album's development was delayed because Osbourne was in the middle of finishing his eighth solo album “Down to Earth”, and the rest of the band members eventually went on to pursue other projects, including GZR and Heaven & Hell. When Black Sabbath announced their reunion on 11 November 2011, the band announced that they would restart work on a new album with Rubin. In addition to original members Osbourne, Butler and guitarist Tony Iommi, they were joined at the recording sessions by drummer Brad Wilk, of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, following original drummer Bill Ward's decision to not participate in the reunion, due to a "contractual dispute".
For the cover artwork for was created an 8-foot-tall "13" from wicker, which was then set on fire in the Buckinghamshire countryside. The flames were visible for miles. The image was shot for album's cover.
Album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart after its first week of sales. It is the band's first album to top the UK chart since “Paranoid” (1970). Osbourne was said to be "in shock" at the album's success, remarking that the band has "never had a record climb the charts so fast" before. The album also reached No. 1 on the US Billboard 200 charts, selling over 155,000 copies in the first week. Osbourne said, "There have been so many amazing highlights in our long career. To finally have our first #1 album in the U.S. is another incredible milestone for Black Sabbath." In its second week of release, the album fell to No. 5 in the US, selling 46,000, totaling 201,000 copies, and in its third week, 13 sold over 26,000 bringing its total sales to 227,000 copies in the US. The album also debuted at No. 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart with 25,000 units sold.
BS Productions/Universal Music/Vertigo, 2013 (3734960). Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:

Side A
1. End Of The Beginning 08:02
2. God Is Dead? 08:48
3. Loner 05:00
4. Zeitgeist 04:34
Running time: 26:24 min.

Side B
1. Age Of Reason 06:57
2. Live Forever 04:42
3. Damaged Soul 07:48
4. Dear Father 07:18
Running time: 26:45 min.

Total playing time: 53:09 min.

50th Anniversary re-release of the debut full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
Black Sabbath's debut album is the birth of Heavy Metal as we now know it. Compatriots like Blue Cheer, Led Zeppelin, and Deep Purple were already setting new standards for volume and heaviness in the realms of Psychedelia, Blues Rock, and Prog Rock. Yet of these Metal pioneers, Sabbath were the only whose sound today remains instantly recognizable as Heavy Metal, even after decades of evolution in the genre.
The album is widely regarded as the first Heavy Metal album. Additionally, the opening track, "Black Sabbath", has been referred to as the first Doom Metal song. According to Black Sabbath's guitarist and founding member Tony Iommi, the album was recorded in a single twelve-hour session on 16 October 1969. Aside from the bells, thunder and rain sound effects added to the beginning of the opening track and the double-tracked guitar solos on "N.I.B." and "Sleeping Village", there were virtually no overdubs added to the album. The key to the band's new sound on the album was Iommi's distinctive playing style that he developed after an accident at a sheet metal factory where he was working at the age of 17 in which the tips of the middle fingers of his fretting hand were severed. Iommi created a pair of false fingertips using plastic from a dish detergent bottle and detuned the strings on his guitar to make it easier for him to bend the strings, creating a massive, heavy sound.
"Black Sabbath" is a revolutionary debut whose distinctive ideas merely await a bit more focus and development. Henceforth, Black Sabbath would forge ahead with a vision that was wholly theirs.
Upon release, the album reached number eight on the UK Albums Charts and number 23 on the US Billboard 200. In 1989, Kerrang! Magazine ranked "Black Sabbath" number 31 on their "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". In 1994, it was ranked number 12 in Colin Larkin's Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums. In 2000, Q Magazine included "Black Sabbath" in their list of the "Best Metal Albums of All Time". In 2003, it was ranked number 241 on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, 243 in a 2012 revised list, and 355 in a 2020 revised list. Rolling Stone Magazine ranked "Black Sabbath" number 44 in their list of the 100 Best Debut Albums of All Time, describing the title track as the song that "would define the sound of a thousand bands". Additionally, in 2017, the magazine ranked it 5th on their list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". The album was also included in Robert Dimery's 2005 musical reference book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
Remastered re-release on 180g Heavyweight Black Vinyl.
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1970/2015 (BMGRM053LP). Made in Germany. 


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Black Sabbath 6:21
2. The Wizard 4:25
3. Behind The Wall Of Sleep 4:19
4. N.I.B. 5:25

Side Two
1. Evil Woman (Don't Play Your Games With Me) (Crow cover) 3:25
2. Sleeping Village 3:46
3. Warning (Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation cover) 10:32

Total playing time: 38:13 min.

The third full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal/Stoner band.
It is regarded by some critics as the foundation of Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, and Sludge Metal.
The shortest album of Black Sabbath's glory years, "Master Of Reality" is also their most sonically influential work. Here Tony Iommi began to experiment with tuning his guitar down three half-steps to C#, producing a sound that was darker, deeper, and Sludgier than anything they'd yet committed to record. This trick was still being copied 25 years later by every Metal band looking to push the limits of heaviness, from trendy Nu-Metallers to Swedish Deathsters. Much more than that, "Master Of Reality" essentially created multiple Metal subgenres all by itself, laying the sonic foundations for Doom, Stoner and Sludge Metal, all in the space of just over half an hour.
The album peaked at number five on the UK Albums Chart and number eight on the US Billboard 200, where it achieved Gold status on advance orders alone. Negatively received by critics on release, the album is now considered one of the greatest Heavy Metal albums of all time. It was certified double Platinum after having sold over two million copies in US.
In 1994, "Master Of Reality" was ranked number 28 in Colin Larkin's Top 50 Heavy Metal Albums. In 2001, Q included it in their list of the 50 Heaviest Albums of All Time. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 298 in their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, 300 in a 2012 revised list, and 234 in a 2020 revised list. The same magazine also ranked the album 34th on its "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time".
180g Heavyweight Black Vinyl in Embossed Cover.
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1971/2015 (BMGRM055LP). Made in Germany. 


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Sweet Leaf 5:05
2. After Forever 5:27
3. Embryo 0:28
4. Children Of The Grave 5:18

Side Two
1. Orchid 1:31
2. Lord Of This World 5:26
3. Solitude 5:02
4. Into The Void 6:12

Total playing time: 34:29 min.

40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition remastered re-release of the tenth full-length studio album by legendary British Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band.
The second and the final album to feature lead singer Ronnie James Dio until the "Mob Rules"-era line-up reunited for 1992's "Dehumanizer", and the first with drummer Vinny Appice, who had replaced original member Bill Ward in the middle of the Heaven And Hell Tour. Neither musician would appear on a Black Sabbath studio album again until the 1992 album "Dehumanizer".
After a steady decline in both inspiration, mental stability, and commercial appeal throughout the second half of the '70s, metal icons Black Sabbath were reborn with 1980s "Heaven And Hell". The album would be their first with new vocalist Ronnie James Dio, whose passionate, controlled wail broke new ground for the band and helped drive a comeback. 1981's "Mob Rules" was a quick follow-up to "Heaven And Hell", continuing the momentum of that record's energy as well as its shift away from Dark Metal to more commercial Hard Rock. Tony Iommi's signature guitar playing takes on new forms throughout the album, with Zeppelin-esque riffing on "Slipping Away", slithering Bluesy Rock playing on "Voodoo", and a strikingly different approach to soloing, shifting from the laser-focused slow burn of early Black Sabbath albums to a more frenetic, technically showy style on some tracks.
"Mob Rules" delved more into experimentation with keyboards and synthesizers, with auxiliary player Geoff Nicholls, adding cinematic synth bedding to the epic churn of "The Sign of the Southern Cross" and spacey atmosphere to "Falling Off the Edge of the World", among other synth contributions. New drummer, Vinny Appice, pushed the sound even further from the band's original sludgy approach. These changes, along with Dio's fantasy-based lyrics and a red-lined mix by producer Martin Birch, put "Mob Rules" closer in line with the emerging New Wave Of British Heavy Metal than the druggy "Devil-worshiping" Doom Metal, Black Sabbath first built their name on.
"Mob Rules"  reached #9 in the U.K. and #28 in the U.S.A., where it was also certified Platinum.
Singer Ronnie James Dio joined Black Sabbath in 1979 which resulted in two back-to-back classic albums: "Heaven And Hell" and "Mob Rules". On those memorable albums, Dio's soaring tenor and gothic songwriting were the perfect foil for the band's bone-crushing mix of razor-sharp riffs, intense grooves, and dark imagery. Here you can find the long shadow cast by this short-lived line-up with a newly remastered version of the album expanded with rare and unreleased music!
Deluxe Edition 180g 2LP in gatefold cover-sleeve includes bonus disc with rarities & live versions.
Warner Records Inc., a Warner Music Group Company/Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company, 1981/2021 (R1 599497 / 603497850716). Made in USA. Pressed in Czech.


Tracklist:

LP One “Mob Rules” (2021 Remaster)
Side One
1. Turn Up The Night 3:42
2. Voodoo 4:32
3. Sign Of The Southern Cross 7:50
4. E5150 2:49
5. Mob Rules 3:15
Side Two
1. Country Girl 4:03
2. Slipping Away 3:46
3. Falling Off The Edge Of The World 5:03
4. Over And Over 5:31
Running time: 40:25 min.

LP Two “Bonus Tracks”
Side Three
1. The Mob Rules (Heavy Metal Soundtrack Version) 3:14
2. Die Young (Live B-Side Of The Mob Rules)* 4:04
3. The Mob Rules (New 2021 Mix)** 3:24
4. The Sign Of The Southern Cross / Heaven And Hell - Reprise (Live In Portland, OR, U.S.A., April 22, 1982)** 7:30
Side Four
“Live at Hammersmith Odeon, London, U.K., December 31, 1981 - January 2, 1982”
1. Country Girl 3:59
2. Slipping Away 3:16
3. The Mob Rules 3:22
4. Voodoo 5:46
Running time: 34:35 min.

Total playing time: 75:00 min.

* Previously unreleased in U.S.A. & Canada.
** Previously unreleased.

Remastered re-release of the eighth full-length studio album by legendary British Hard Rock/Heavy Metal band.
The last studio album with the band's original line-up and the last studio album to feature original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne until the 2013 album "13".
At the time of the recording of "Never Say Die!", the members of Black Sabbath were all heavily involved in drug and alcohol abuse. Prior to recording, vocalist Osbourne briefly quit the band and was temporarily replaced by Dave Walker, former vocalist of Savoy Brown and Fleetwood Mac.
The album was certified Gold in the U.S. on 7 November 1997 and as of November 2011 sold 133,000 copies in the United States since the SoundScan era.
Vertigo/Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company 1978/2015/2020 (BMGRM60LP). Made in UK. Pressed in Czech. Re-press 2020.


Tracklist:

LP
Side 1
1. Never Say Die 3:50
2. Johnny Blade 6:28
3. Junior's Eyes 6:43
4. A Hard Road 6:06
Side 2
1. Shock Wave 5:16
2. Air Dance 5:18
3. Over To You 5:25
4. Breakout 2:35
5. Swinging The Chain 4:06
Total playing time: 45:47 min.

Remastered re-release of tthe sixth full-length studio album by legendary British Heavy Metal band.
The album was recorded in the midst of a legal battle with the band's former manager, Patrick Meehan. The stress that resulted from the band's ongoing legal woes infiltrated the recording process, inspiring the album's title. It was co-produced by guitarist Tony Iommi and Mike Butcher.
"Sabotage" peaked at the Billboard 200 at number 28 and number 7 in the United Kingdom. The album was certified Silver (60,000 units sold) in the UK by the BPI on 1 December 1975 and Gold in the US on 16 June 1997, but was the band's first release not to achieve Platinum status in the US. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked it 32nd on their "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" list.
Due to the band's expanding use of orchestras and other new sounds in the studio, the tour in support of "Sabotage" was the first in which Black Sabbath used a full-time keyboardist onstage, Gerald "Jezz" Woodroffe. Black Sabbath toured with openers Kiss but were forced to cut the tour short in November 1975 after vocalist Osbourne was injured in a motorcycle accident.
Track “Blow On A Jug” is not mentioned anywhere, but it is definitely there to be heard.
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1975/2015/2022 (BMGRM058LP) Made in Poland.


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Hole In The Sky 4:01
2. Don't Start (Too Late) 0:49
3. Symptom Of The Universe 6:30
4. Megalomania 9:43

Side 2
5. The Thrill Of It All 5:56
6. Supertzar 3:44
7. Am I Going Insane (Radio) 4:17
8. The Writ 8:43
9. Blow On A Jug 0:30

Total playing time: 43:44 min.

The fourth full-length album by legendary British Heavy/Doom Metal band.
"Vol. 4" is the point in Black Sabbath's career where the band's legendary drug consumption really starts to make itself felt. And it isn't just in the lyrics, most of which are about the blurry line between reality and illusion. "Vol. 4" has all the messiness of a Heavy Metal Exile on Main St., and if it lacks that album's overall diversity, it does find Sabbath at their most musically varied, pushing to experiment amidst the drug-addled murk. As a result, there are some puzzling choices made here, and the album often contradicts itself. Ozzy Osbourne's wail is becoming more powerful here, taking greater independence from Tony Iommi's guitar riffs, yet his vocals are processed into a nearly textural element on much of side two.
Parts of "Vol. 4" are as ultra-heavy as "Master Of Reality", yet the band also takes its most blatant shots at accessibility to date, and then undercuts that very intent. The effectively concise "Tomorrow's Dream" has a chorus that could almost be called radio-ready, were it not for the fact that it only appears once in the entire song. "St. Vitus Dance" is surprisingly upbeat, yet the distant-sounding vocals don't really register. The notorious piano-and-Mellotron ballad "Changes" ultimately fails not because of its change-of-pace mood, but more for a raft of the most horrendously clichéd rhymes this side of "moon-June". Even the crushing "Supernaut", perhaps the heaviest single track in the Sabbath catalog, sticks a Funky, almost danceable acoustic breakdown smack in the middle. Besides "Supernaut", the core of "Vol. 4" lies in the midtempo cocaine ode "Snowblind", which was originally slated to be the album's title track until the record company got cold feet, and the multi-sectioned Prog-leaning opener, "Wheels of Confusion". The latter is one of Iommi's most complex and impressive compositions, varying not only riffs but textures throughout its eight minutes.
Many Doom and Stoner Metal aficionados prize the second side of the album, where Osbourne's vocals gradually fade further and further away into the murk, and Iommi's guitar assumes center stage. The underrated "Cornucopia" strikes a better balance of those elements, but by the time "Under the Sun" closes the album, the lyrics are mostly lost under a mountain of memorable, contrasting riffery.
Add all of this up, and "Vol. 4" is a less cohesive effort than its two immediate predecessors, but is all the more fascinating for it. Die-hard fans sick of the standards come here next, and some end up counting this as their favorite Sabbath record for its eccentricities and for its embodiment of the band's excesses!
Kerrang! Magazine listed the album at No. 48 among the "100 Greatest Heavy Metal Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone ranked it 14th on their 2017 list of "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time". The album was also included in the book "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die".
Sanctuary Records Group Ltd., a BMG Company, 1972/2015 (BMGRM056LP). Made in EU. 180g vinyl.


Tracklist:

Side One
1. Wheels Of Confusion 8:14
2. Tomorrows Dream 3:12
3. Changes 4:46
4. Fx 1:43
5. Supernaut 4:46

Side Two
1. Snowblind 5:32
2. Cornucopia 3:55
3. Laguna Sunrise 2:53
4. St. Vitus Dance 2:30
5. Under The Sun 5:50

Total playing time: 43:31 min.

The second full-length studio album by legendary German Pop/Disco project.
BMG Ariola München GmbH/Hansa, 1988 (60 399 3). Made in Germany. First press. Club Edition. Used (cover/disc): VG+/B (warp).


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Under My Skin 3:31    
2. Do You Wanna Be My Girlfriend 3:55
3. Titanic 650604 3:23
4. Love Suite 3:17
5. Body Heat 3:04

Side 2
My Bed Is Too Big 3:13
7. Too Young 3:39
8. Sorry Little Sarah (New York Dance Mix) 5:56
9. Silent Water (Aus dem Schimanski-Tatort "Moltke") 3:34
10. I Want To Be Your Brother 3:12

Total playing time: 36:44 min.

The second full-length studio album by legendary German Pop/Disco project.
Hansa/BMG Ariola München GmbH, 1988 (209 436). Made in Germany. First press. 


Tracklist:

Side 1
1. Under My Skin 3:31    
2. Do You Wanna Be My Girlfriend 3:55
3. Titanic 650604 3:23
4. Love Suite 3:17
5. Body Heat 3:04

Side 2
1.My Bed Is Too Big 3:13
2. Too Young 3:39
3. Sorry Little Sarah (New York Dance Mix) 5:56
4. Silent Water (Aus dem Schimanski-Tatort "Moltke") 3:34
5. I Want To Be Your Brother 3:12

Total playing time: 36:44 min.

The seventh Single by legendary German Pop/Disco solo project of Dieter Bohlen (ex- Modern Talking).
It’s a fourth Single from Blue System’s second studio album, “Body Heat”, and it was released in April 1989. The song was written, arranged and produced by Dieter Bohlen.
BMG Ariola München GmbH/Hansa, 1989 (612 138). Made in Germany. First press. 45 RPM. Used (cover/disc): EX/NM.


Tracklist:

Side A
Love Suite (Remix '89) 5:34

Side B
Titanic 650604 3:22
Love Suite (Radio Version) 3:17

Total playing time: 12:15 min.

The first and the lead Single from the forthcoming fifth full-length studio album, "Seeds Of Heaven", by legendary German Pop/Disco project.
The Single debuted at number 91 in Germany for the week of April 15, 1991, re-entered at number 25 two weeks later and stayed there for one more week before dropping to number 26.
Hansa/BMG Ariola München GmbH, 1991 (614 115-213). Made in Germany. First press. Used (cover/disc): EX+ (cut-out)/EX+.



Tracklist:

Side A
1. Lucifer (Devil-Mix) 6:17

Side B
1. Lucifer 3:45
2. Lucifer (Instrumental) 3:45

Total playing time: 13:47 min.

The eighth Single by legendary German Pop/Disco band.
It’s a second Single from the third full-length studio album, “Twilight”.
Hansa/BMG Ariola München GmbH, 1989 (612 664). Made in Germany. First press. 45 RPM. Used (cover/disc): EX+/EX.


Tracklist:

Side A
1. Magic Symphony (Long Version) 5:31

Side B
1. Magic Symphony (Radio Version) 3:35
2. Magic Symphony (Instrumental) 3:35

Total playing time: 12:43 min.