April 22, 2023 is the biannual spring edition of Record Store Day, bringing together hundreds of titles to provide a guide to every rock and metal release.
Each Record Store Day offers something for fans of all styles of music, but for a community that still appreciates the physical format as much as rock and metal fans, this is truly a sacred event. is. You have the chance to acquire rarities galore, including unarchived live recordings, long-awaited re-releases, and proven true classics that have been sent back to the press many times.
This year we’re leaning more towards classic rock, but there’s still a fair amount of heavy songs from Dio, Lacuna Coil, Kittie, Taproot, Enslaved, Underoath, Dope, Motorhead, and more. Mixed, grunge, alternative—Pearl Jam, The Cranberries…the list goes on.
Here are the rock and metal titles available April 22nd at participating record stores near you. To find all participating merchants, use the Store Locator feature on the Record Store Day website.
Spring 2023 Rock + Metal Record Store Day Releases
- 1975, Live with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra — 2 x LP (2,500) / Cassette (400)
- Addict, Fifth Overture — LPs (2,500)
- agnostic front, United Blood (The Extended Sessions) — LPs (2,000)
- The Allman Brothers Band, allman brothers band recording — 2 x LPs (9,000)
- black keys, Live at Beachland Tavern March 31, 2002 — LPs (5,000)
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Live at Levitations — LPs (2,150)
- blur, Get the Blur Special Collector’s Edition — 2 x LPs (10,000)
- canned fever, vintage — LPs (3,000)
- Eric Carr rock studies — 2 x LPs (4,000) / CDs (500)
- cranberry, wake up and smell the coffee — LPs (4,000)
- Treatment, Show (2023 Remaster) — 2 x LPs (10,000)
- death, Fate: Best of Death — LPs (2,800)
- Dio, Live in Fresno, 1983 — 2 x LPs (8,000)
- The Doors, “Love Her Madly” — 3” Vinyl (1,500)
- The Doors “Hello, I Love You” — 3” Vinyl (1,500 copies)
- The Doors, ‘Break on Through (To the Other Side)’ – 3 inch vinyl (1,500)
- The Doors Limited Edition RSD3 Mini Turntable (500)
- dope, group therapy — 2 x LPs (2,500)
- earshot, let go— Vinyl (1,400)
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer, brain salad surgery — LPs (1,000)
- Brian Eno forever silent—LP (3.000)
- enslaved, Houderness Land — Vinyl (1,550)
- fleetwood mac, Albatross/Jigsaw Puzzle — 12″ Vinyl (2,700)
- garbage, witness of your love EP — Vinyl (1,600)
- gong, Live in Lyon, December 14, 1972 — 3 x LPs (1,500)
- Grateful Dead, Boston Garden, Boston MA 5/7/77 (Live) — 5 x LPs (9,000)
- Hawkwind, Iron Dream – Live 1977 — LPs (2,500)
- hose the band, mechanical hand — 2 x LPs (2,000)
- Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, up your alley — LPs (2,200)
- do you remember, tonite longhorn — 2 x LPs (5,000)
- kitty, until the end — LPs (2,500)
- lacuna coil, shallow life — LPs (1,350)
- lacuna coil, dark adrenaline — LPs (1,350)
- John Lennon, Gimme Some Truth — 10″ Vinyl Box Set (500)
- Paul McCartney, Red Rose Speedway— LPs (5,000)
- Mr Big, Mr. Big — LPs (2,500)
- eddie money covers — LPs (1,500)
- Mötley Crüe “Helter Skelter” — 12” Picture Disc Vinyl
- motor head, Lost Tapes, Vol. 4 (live in Heilbronn 1984) — 2 x LPs (2,250)
- murphy’s law, murphy’s law — LPs (1,800)
- Stevie Nicks bella donna live 1981 — 2 x LPs (10,000)
- Ted Nugent Knife Storage VOL 1 — LPs (4,000)
- off! , FLSD EP — Vinyl (2,300)
- pearl jam, Give Way — CDs (4,000) / 2 x LPs (15,500)
- porcupine tree, AI/DW/XT — Additional Tracks from Vinyl (800)* in case of absence and dead wing album
- Suzie Four, four — 2 x LPs
- queens like, Strategy: Mind Crime II — 2 x LPs (2,500)
- Ramones Pleasant Dream (New York Mix) — LPs (7,500)
- Residents are our finest flowers — LPs (1,500)
- Keith Richards vintage wine — 2 x LPs (4.050)
- rolling stone, beggar’s banquet — LPs (9,000)
- Todd Rundgren Wizard/True Star — LPs (5,500)
- shadows fall, inner war — LPs (2,200)
- Sisters of Mercy, reptile house — LPs (4,500)
- soul asylum, MTV Unplugged — 2 x LPs (3,050)
- specials, work in progress — 10 inch vinyl
- apple star stop smelling roses — 2 x LPs (2,500) / CDs (500)
- strawberry alarm clock, incense and peppermint — LPs (3,000)
- suicide, Way of Life – Rarity EP — 10″ Vinyl (1,300)
- Soon/Boris, altar — LPs (4,500)
- sword, gods of the earth — LPs (4,600)
- T Rex rockin’ and rollin’ — LPs (2,000)
- taproot, welcome — *Format not listed (1,400)
- Mars Volta, Francis the Mute — 12″ Vinyl (6,750)
- Frank Turner tape deck heart — 2 x LPs (1,500)
- twigs time, electric lettuce — LPs (1,000)
- u2, Two Hearts Beat As Once/Sunday Bloody Sunday – War & Surrender Mix — vinyl
- UFOs, Will The Last Man Standing (Turn Out The Light) — 2 x LPs
- immortality, Live…From the Graveyard — LPs (1,050)
- under oath, Voyeur: Digital Ghost— LPs (2,500)
- Van Halen, LIVE: here and now — 4 x LPs (7,500)
- The Verve Pipe, villain — LPs (2,000)
- violent women, Violent Woman (40th Anniversary) — LPs (3,000)
- Scott Weiland 12 bar blues — 2 x LPs (4,000)
- yes, Live at the Knoxville Civic Auditorium — 3 x LPs (6,000)
To see the full list of Spring 2023 Record Store Day titles, click here.
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