The news filtered down through the grapevine the other day that Yosuke Konishi of Nuclear War Now! Productions had entered into a new venture named Helios Press which will manufacture vinyl records in Brady, Texas. This hopes to serve the rising vinyl market which has not only not fizzled but continues to gain strength:
34 CommentsTags: helios press, nuclear war now! productions, vinyl, yosuke konishi
In the metal community, like everywhere else, it is popular to hate on Christ because he is seen as the enemy of the total state simply because conservatives are trying to use Christianity as their competitor and substitute for the overwhelmingly popular idea of equality.
82 CommentsTags: cassette, Headbanger's ball, Naturalism, smr, vinyl
As mentioned in last week’s music industry analysis, metal fans tend to buy discographies. This week, the Billboard charts revealed how much this phenomenon affects physical media sales.
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American music as an industry peaked in 1995, when thanks to the new hip-hop boom, CDs fully taking off, and a record number of Generation X consumers buying music, record sales went through the roof. However, right after that point, something went wrong.
22 CommentsTags: record labels, recording industry, vinyl
Noise Records is reissuing Tankard’s early nineties output on CD and LP.
3 CommentsTags: beer metal, compact disc, German Speed Metal, germany, news, noise records, reissues, Speed Metal, tankard, vinyl
The long awaited vinyl remaster of Kaeck’s Stormkult, The Best Metal Album of 2015, is finally being pressed courtesy of Greek label Heathen Tribes.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Heathen Tribes, kaeck, news, remaster, vinyl
Autopsy have an upcoming 7″ split with Swedish death ‘n’ roll band Bloodbath coming out on Peaceville Records this December.
3 CommentsTags: autopsy, Bloodbath, cash grab, death 'n' roll, death metal, news, peaceville, peaceville records, split, upcoming release, vinyl
Revenant‘s long out of print Prophecies of a Dying World album is being reissued for the first time since its original release back in 1991.
27 CommentsTags: cash grab, Cosmic Key Creations, death metal, hipster bullshit, news, reissue, Revenant, vinyl
Earache Records is reissuing the last decent Morbid Angel record, Formulas Fatal to the Flesh, on vinyl LP for self-professed analog maniacs.
12 CommentsTags: cash grab, death metal, earache records, morbid angel, news, reissue, vinyl
Hammerheart Records is reissuing Pestilence‘s third album, Testimony of the Ancients, on LP in multiple colors.
5 CommentsTags: death 'n' roll, hammerheart, hammerheart records, news, pestilence, reissue, remaster, vinyl
