In 1985, King Diamond struck out for the first time on his own, with, shockingly, a Christmas-themed picture disc. In 2012, Metal Club stores bring you a new, limited edition pressing of that original picture disc, complete with the original B-side, “Charon.” Limited to 2000, and only available at record stores, starting on Black Friday–the ideal day to buy a King Diamond record.
THIRTY YEARS! That’s how long we’ve had this killer JUDAS PRIEST record in our lives. And to mark that anniversary, the band is releasing a picture disc of the album, and the only place to get it this year? That’s gonna be at a record store, like the Metal Club stores you can find on this site. That’s a PICTURE DISC edition of SCREAMING FOR VENGEANCE, coming to a record store starting on Black Friday. Black Friday–the best day ever to buy metal. 
For the first time ever, VOLBEAT fans can put a special, limited edition picture disc version of THREE classic Volbeat records on their holiday wish list. (And by limited, we mean LIMITED: only 500 of each!) That includes THIS Volbeat record. And the only place to get these this year is at a record store.
And THIS Volbeat record too! On picture disc for the first time, and limited to 500! The only place to get it this year is at a record store, starting on Black Friday.
And THIS Volbeat record too– A limited edition (500!) picture disc of the full record. The only place to get it this year is at a record store, starting on BLACK FRIDAY.
Is the double 180g vinyl version of MAYHEM’s DE MYSTERIIS DOM SATHANS on your wish list this year? Well, make sure everyone who owes you a gift knows that the only place to get it this year is at a record store, including Metal Club locations. Starting on Black Friday. BLACK FRIDAY–no better day to buy metal.
Coming to Metal Club stores on BLACK FRIDAY (11/23)! Get THE OLDEN DOMAIN from BORKNAGAR on 180g vinyl exclusively at independent record stores through the end of the year. BLACK FRIDAY–no better day to buy metal.
The new Book Burner from PIG DESTROYER is in stores now, and this week, in an effort to encourage the reading of the books before the burning, participating Metal Club stores have a Pig Destroyer bookmark free with purchase, while they last. BUT WAIT! Don’t run away because, ugh, books! This bookmark gets you a access to a SPECIAL DIFFERENT VERSION OF THE RECORD (mastered for a WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE) via download. See, book(marks) are good for you. *not all Metal Club stores will participate in this promotion. Check with yours.
The new album from THE SWORD is out this week, and those of you who pick it up at participating Metal Club stores will get TWO copies of the record… your purchase of it (vinyl, CD) and the cassette (!) copy that they’ll give you for free, while they last. No Walkman or older vehicle should be without THE SWORD! *not all Metal Club stores will have the cassette, check with your store. Limited supply–get going.
The new album from AS I LAY DYING is at Metal Club stores today, on CD and a special Deluxe CD Edition. Metal Blade has given participating stores a PATCH version of the cover art, so you can let the world know, via your backpack, vest or jacket, how much you dig AWAKENED. Free with purchase while they last, at participating Metal Club stores.
The first new studio tracks from Philip Anselmo, PepperKeenan, Kirk Windstein and Jimmy Bowery. That’s what you’ll find on DOWN IV–PART 1 THE PURPLE EP, the first of four new EPs from DOWN. This first one is in stores now, and while they last, participating Metal Club stores will give you both a can koozie and a guitar pick emblazoned with the Down logo, so you can enjoy the new EP to its fullest, with a cold beverage and air-guitaring right along.
The legends are back. We don’t think legendary is too strong a word for TESTAMENT, who return, heavy as ever, with the new record DARK ROOTS OF EARTH, available now on CD and Vinyl at Metal Club stores everywhere. And while they last, get a free TESTAMENT patch, featuring the Dark Roots of Earth cover art, for free, at participating Metal Club stores when you buy the new record. This one’s going fast–get in today.
Wolves at the Gate have a new record, and Metal Club stores are the place to get it. Why? Because when you buy CAPTORS at a participating Metal Club store, you can get a free set of buttons, useful because there’s that blank spot on your jacket/vest/bag/whatever. Free buttons while they last at participating Metal Club stores.
Hard to believe it was twenty years ago when Pantera first unleashed VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER. To celebrate, a special deluxe CD/DVD edition has just been unveiled at record stores, letting us all go back and experience the POWER again, along with brand new videos and a song called “Piss”, recorded for the record, but which was lost until Vinnie Paul came across it in the Pantera vault. And while they last, participating Metal Club stores have a little something special when you buy the new record–a sheet of Pantera stickers, perfect for marking your territory and letting everyone know just which band is the most kick-ass.
The new album comes out soon and Metal Club has some exclusive video with the guys. Check out the new record at Metal Club stores May 8 and check out the video interview down below (right hand side of the page under the news) right now!
One of the ‘newer’ crop of metal bands, Lamb of God is rapidly taking on speed as a favorite, destined to become one of the classics. So we decided to put them in the Metal Club Collectors Card series. Now, with the release of their new album RESOLUTION, you can continue your collection with the Lamb of God Metal Club Collectors card, free with purchase, while they last, at participating Metal Club stores.
The SCORPIONS are back…. with COMEBLACK! The brand new album is available at Metal Club stores now, and the Scorpions are the latest legendary metal band to get the Metal Club Collectors Card treatment. While supplies last, get a SCORPIONS Collectors Card when you buy Comeblack at participating Metal Club stores!
Lacuna Coil’s new record, DARK ADRENALINE, is out on 1/24, and if you’re picking yours up at a participating Metal Club store you could be getting an extra special, extra cool edition. That’s because the version made exclusively for the record stores who make up METAL CLUB has EXCLUSIVE artwork done by band member Marco Coti Zelati. That means the Metal Club version is the vision the band had for the look of DARK ADRENALINE. NEED SOME MORE? How about checking out a special acoustic performance and Q&A the band is doing at Metal Club store Vintage Vinyl in Fords, NJ. We can’t fly everyone there, but we’ve teamed up with participating stores across the country and if you pick up the new album on street date, they’ll give you a special “ONLINE TICKET” to check out our broadcast of this once-in-a-lifetime Lacuna Coil event. And if you have a [Read More]
Anthrax is getting the Behind the Music treatment this weekend when VH1 Classic airs BEHIND THE MUSIC REMASTERED: ANTHRAX. (The first airing is Satrday 12/3 at 9 PM Eastern, but if history tells us anything, it’s that there will be multiple airings in the next week or so). To celebrate, Metal Club stores are bringing out the third in our special series of Metal Club Collectors Cards, this time featuring ANTHRAX, of course. Just head into a participating Metal Club store starting Saturday and pick up WORSHIP MUSIC to get a free collectors card full of Anthrax Fax (while they last!) *Not all Metal Club stores will participate in all promotions, check with your nearest store to see if they have this free Collectors Card
ONLY AVAILABLE AT PARTICIPATING METAL CLUB STORES, STARTING ON BLACK FRIDAY. The vinyl box includes all Roadrunner released Type O Negative material contained within one collector’s box. Each album will be issued on double green vinyl, with the album art recreated, including the controversial, rarely seen original cover of The Origin of the Feces. Type O fans know all about that cover and the anatomy which it features. Each album will also have new, branded liner notes documenting the genesis and completion of each album. An exclusive sticker sheet with six mini bumper stickers will also be included in this “must own” set for Type O Negative diehards. It’s an instant collector’s item. This set includes the following releases: Slow, Deep and Hard, The Origin of the Feces, Bloody Kisses, October Rust, World Coming Down, Life Is Killing Me
Black Friday sounds like the most metal shopping day of the year, so it only seems right that it’s the day The Misfits have chosen to bring out a special version of their latest record. You can only get this special vinyl version of The Devils Rain with a lenticular cover at an indie record store starting on Black Friday. Check with the Metal Club stores near you.
Jasta (Jamey’s band) and All That Remains have joined forces for a split 7″. There are only 1000 of them and you can only get them at a record store. Check with the Metal Club stores near you!
Starting Black Friday (a pretty metal-sounding day, if you ask us), folks who buy the remastered special editions of DIARY OF A MADMAN or BLIZZARD OF OZZ at a participating Metal Club store can get a limited edition OZZY card in the Metal Club Collectors Card series. For you or someone on your gift list, there’s nothing better than the gift of Ozzy, and now you’ll get a little something special while they last. *Collectors Cards at participating stores, with purchase, while they last. Check with a Metal Club store near you to see if they have Metal Club Collectors Cards.
The Day That Goes To 11! Join us on this special day, over at our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/metalclub) because we’re giving away one awesome metal prize every hour for 11 hours, starting at 11 AM Eastern.
The new Megadeth hits today (their thirteenth studio album, conveniently called Th1rt3en) and we figured it was a great time to kick off our METAL CLUB COLLECTORS CARD series. They’re like baseball cards, only more METAL. They’ll be popping up randomly as a free gift (with purchase) to celebrate some classic and new masters of the metal pantheon. Your first chance to start your collection is right now, when the Megadeth card makes its debut at participating metal club stores. Find yours at participating Metal Club stores, while they last… and look for the next in the METAL CLUB COLLECTORS CARD SERIES, coming soon!
The new Skeletonwitch has some crazy artwork on the cover, and when the band offered to expand it into a supersize litho for us to give you, Metal Club said “Hell YES!” So tomorrow, while supplies last, get your expanded kick-ass Skeletonwitch lithograph when you buy the new FOREVER ABOMINATION at participating Metal Club stores, while they last.
So the new Five Finger Death Punch album, AMERICAN CAPITALIST (timely, huh?), is in stores tomorrow. And participating Metal Club stores have a kick-ass, color-ful poster for you too, just right to cover up that hole in the wall you made with your own Five Finger Death Punch.
Brand new Opeth out now, and over there in the bottom right of this very page you can hear the band themselves talking about the new record, HERITAGE, and the importance of color on a record sleeve (it is in fact a very different cover look for Opeth). The band visited Metal Club store Vintage Vinyl recently and talked their way through the shopping spree. Be sure to check it out before you head into your own Metal Club store and pick up the new HERITAGE from Opeth.
If you were one of the smart Anthrax fans who got yourself the limited edition, glow-in-the-dark, comes-with-a-new-Anthrax-song rosaries that Metal Club stores were selling earlier this summer, now’s the time to take it back into the Metal Club store from whence it came. Because you get to keep your rosary, but you ALSO get $1 off WORSHIP MUSIC which is out today. For the first time in over two decades, Joey Belladonna is back with Anthrax. Don’t you want to hear it NOW? Get to a Metal Club store. GO!
Joey Belladonna is back with Anthrax, for the first time in more than twenty years, and to celebrate there’s a new ANTHRAX record coming! Unfortunately, there’s still more than a month to wait before WORSHIP MUSIC hits Metal Club stores, but starting today, participating stores will have a little sneak peek piece for you, to tide you over. It’s a unique glow in the dark ANTHRAX rosary and every Anthrax fan is gonna need it. It includes special access to the download of a new Anthrax track (“The Devil You Know”) and a discount off WORSHIP MUSIC in September. The glow-in-the-dark Anthrax beads are very limited and available only at select Metal Club stores. Check with a store near you and start Worship-ing!
Oakland represent! New All Shall Perish finally hits stores today and they’ve given Metal Club stores an EXCLUSIVE, VERY LIMITED All Shall Perish t-shirt, and participating stores will be handing it out until they’re gone–when you run in and buy the new THIS IS WHERE IT ENDS record starting today. Find the band on the Extreme Stage of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour, find the record at your local Metal Club store!
Thirty years on, Ozzy Osbourne’s classic solo albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman still rock the worlds of music fans of all genres. And there’s just no counting the number of bands who have been influenced by them. May 31 gives everyone a reason to rock again, with expanded reissues of both classics. Blizzard of Ozz Expanded Edition includes the original album, plus three bonus tracks: “You Looking At Me, Looking At You” (a non-LP B side); “Goodbye to Romance (2010 Guitar and Vocal Mix); and “RR” a previously unreleased outtake guitar solo from the session tapes. Diary of a Madman Legacy Edition features a previously unreleased bonus disc called Ozzy Live, bringing the intensity of a live Ozzy show (with Randy Rhoads by his side) onto a shiny bonus disc.
THE JUGGERNAUT HAS BEEN RELEASED! Anvil’s new record, JUGGERNAUT OF JUSTICE is in stores today! If you were one of the smart people who picked up the Anvil CD single at a participating Metal Club store earlier this month, now is the time to whip out that $2 coupon inside, charge back to the store and get yourself a Juggernaut.
Together for a short but memorable time – a trio of studio albums, a classic live album, and a couple of tours – the second coming of BLACK SABBATH began in 1979 when founding members Tony Iommi, Terry“Geezer” Butler and Bill Ward were joined by Ronnie James Dio. The former singer of Elf (and later Rainbow and Dio) added his fiery, demonic howl to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame group’s crushing mix of iconic riffs, gloomy grooves and doom-soaked imagery. This gatefold triple album features Dio, Iommi, Butler and Appice LIVE at Hammersmith Odeon in January 1982 during SABBATH’S tour for The Mob Rules. Now available for the first time on LIMITED EDITION NUMBERED vinyl, the concert spotlights SABBATH as they storm through 14 of the Dio-era’s best including, “Neon Knights”, “Heaven And Hell”, “Children Of The Sea” and “Country Girl.” The band also performs several pre-Dio classics [Read More]
The cool doesn’t stop when it comes to Mastodon. They’re releasing a super deluxe, super-limited edition of Crack The Skye to Metal Club stores on Black Friday. Only 600 of these puppies are being made. This wicked version will come housed in a hard box case featuring a third-dimension wormhole design that contains exclusive and additional album art by long-time Mastodon artist Paul Romano. Inside is a full length Crack The Skye CD plus a DVD on the Making of Crack The Skye with photo gallery, track-by-track band commentary and more, by director Jimmy Hubbard.
Slayer continues their onslaught with this special translucent red vinyl 7″ single of the title track from the album World Painted Blood. The B-side is an unreleased track called “Atrocity Vendor.” Only 2500 made, and sold exclusively at participating Metal Club stores on Black Friday
The Space Lord is back!!! Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf is back with their eighth album, and participating Metal Club stores have a special deluxe box edition of it on 10/26. Monster Magnet celebrate their Napalm Records debut by continuing to bring the larger-than-life riffs and killer grooves, and only 1000 copies of the special Box Set Edition of Mastermind are being created. What’s in it? Glad you asked: Mastermind special digi-book CD edition with TWO bonus tracks and a USB stick with Monster Magnet extras like ringtones, an interview with Monster Magnet’s own ‘Mastermind’ Dave Wyndorf, desktop wallpapers, an MP3 version of Mastermind, and an 18-track Napalm Records sampler. *Not all stores listed on www.mymetalclub.com will choose to carry all releases, promotional or commercial. See stores for details. All limited edition promotional and commercial pieces are available as long as they last.
Titans in the world of metal, The Sword have proved themselves to be one of the most revered bands of the past ten years. Following up the release of their latest album, Warp Rider, the band have teamed up with Metal Club for the early release of a special 12″ hexagonal picture disc featuring the Warp Rider track “(The Night The Sky Cried) Tears of Fire” and a b-side of the Bron-y-maur stomp of “Farstar.” Only 3000 of these are being created by Kemado Records and you can get it at Metal Club stores starting on 10/26. *Not all stores listed on www.mymetalclub.com will choose to carry all releases, promotional or commercial. See stores for details. All limited edition promotional and commercial pieces are available as long as they last.
On June 12, 2008 Metallica took the day before their Bonnaroo performance and did a special show at The Basement, a club in Nashville located downstairs from Grimey’s New and Preloved Music. Ecstatic fan club members, Grimey’s staffers and a few friends. Now the explosive energy of that hot and sweaty, bursting to the rafters show will finally be released on LIVE AT GRIMEY’S and ONLY at Metal Club stores. LIVE AT GRIMEY’S, which includes “Welcome Home (Sanitarium),” a blistering “Master of Puppets,” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” will be released on standard CD plus as a limited-edition two-disc set on regular-weight 10” vinyl with a gatefold jacket.
The Damned Things, the band formed by Scott Ian and Rob Caggiano of Anthrax, Joe Trohman and Andy Hurley of Fall Out Boy and Keith Buckley of Every Time I Die, have their first release out on Black Friday, 11/26 and it’s through Metal Club! A CD single and a 7″single with the tracks “We’ve Got A Situation Here” and “Ironiclast” will be available at participating Metal Club stores and be followed on 12/14 by the full length IRONICLAST album. Trohman and Hurley share roots in pre-Fall Out Boy heavy metal bands; Caggiano soon joined his bandmate Scott in the new venture. The Damned Things were whole when Buckley accepted their invitation to front the group. One listen to “We’ve Got A Situation Here” answers all the questions. “Musically, it’s a good representation of the band,” says Trohman. “It has the sludgy riffs, but there’s a catchy chorus, a tempo [Read More]
Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Pantera’s Cowboys From Hell album with the special Limited Edition Collectors vinyl release of COWBOYS FROM HELL: THE DEMOS*. This special piece has a custom cover and demos of the Cowboys From Hell tracks, as well as “The Will To Survive”. Limited to 3000 copies and available only at participating Metal Club stores starting Black Friday November 26. True Pantera fans will also want to check out PANTERA’S COWBOYS FROM HELL ULTIMATE BOX SET on November 22. The three-cd box set includes custom artwork and a 60-page booklet with rare photos, expanded liner notes and replicas from the Cowboys era including New Years Puke Party T-shirt – designed by Dimebag Darrell (XL), multiple flyer reproductions, laminated passes, sticker, button and a newly remastered copy of the original COWBOYS album along with unreleased and rare live performances from the era, and unreleased demos for nearly every [Read More]
Anthrax sold over 20 million albums worldwide while Joey Belladonna was their vocalist. 20 years later, Joey returns to Anthrax for their most anticipated album to date. Metal Club is proud to offer Anthrax fans their first recording in over 20 years featuring Joey. The band have a new album coming in early 2011 and as a precursor the band will be on tour with Slayer and Megadeth in the US this fall. The tracks featured on this Metal Club exclusive include: “Medusa” and “Only.”
Job For A Cowboy The “RUINATION” COLLECTORS EDITION 10 INCH VINYL BOX SET includes JOB FOR A COWBOY’s latest Metal Blade Records release “Ruination” split on two separate colored 10 INCH vinyl LP’s. The third LP (also colored) contains RARE and UNRELEASED LIVE and COVER SONGS. Only 1500 made of this Metal Club exclusive! Here is a complete run-down on the track listing of this amazing Metal Club exclusive. a. LP #1: Vinyl color: green i. SIDE A 1. Unfurling a Darkened Gospel 2. Summon the Hounds 3. Constitutional Masturbation ii. SIDE B 1. Regurgitated Disinformation 2. March to the Global Enslavement b. LP #2: Vinyl color: orange i. SIDE A 1. Butchering the Enlightened 2. Lords of Chaos 3. Psychological Immortality ii. SIDE B 1. To Detonate and Exterminate 2. Ruination c. LP #3: Vinyl color: red i. SIDE A 1. The Matter of Splatter (Exhumed cover song) 2. [Read More]
Pick up your Peaceville New Dark Classics Vol. 4 CD Sampler at participating Metal Club stores starting October 12th (while supplies last). This special edition will include the following tracks! Cradle of Filth – Lilith Immaculate (from the new studio album ‘Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa’) Autopsy – The Tomb Within (new studio track!) My Dying Bride – The Snow in My Hand Barren Earth – The Leer Darkthrone – Stylized Corpse Katatonia – The Longest Year Abscess – Torn From Tomorrow Gallhammer – Beyond the Hate Red Madder Mortem – Where Dream & Day Collide Behemoth – As Above So Below Candlemass – Solitude (*) the Cradle Of Filth – ‘Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa’ CD is Out Nov. 9th 2010 on Nuclear Blast Records (licensed from Peaceville Records)
Sometimes our love for quasi-musical extremes has a flattening effect on the diversity of material we hear. Dynamics traverse the vast range from loudest to loudest-er, wanton mayhem and terror begin to appear tame enough for family breakfast conversation. It can be refreshing to hear an album like Slidhr’s Deluge try to save black metal [Read More]
Adam McGrath plays by his own rules, nobody else’s, not even his own. So when he sent over a list that simply included five “sweet” songs, who were we to argue? Not only does his time in Zozobra (guitarist/vocalist) and Cave In (guitarist) give him more than enough cred, judging by his selections (the first [Read More]
Things always come full circle. And when they do it’s either super-rad or pretty depressing. For Repulsion’s first visit to Stockholm, Sweden, it’s super-rad. Why? Let’s just say, the extremely extremes of Sweden’s early metal scene influenced Flint, Michigan’s grindcore/death metal revolutionaries Repulsion and, in turn, the dudes from the city whose motto is “Strong, [Read More]
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