While we highlighted Slipknot’s long-awaited, rumored collection, Look Outside Your Window, will get a Record Store Release, there are many more for 2026 to explore. Highlights include records from Megadeth, Meshuggah, Puscifer, Babymetal, Motorhead, and more. Metal Insider took some time to look over the entire catalog and made a few selections in the rock and metal categories. You can search for participating record stores at this location and view the full catalog here

Artist/Album: A-Ha, Analogue 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 2500
Includes: A celebration of the 20th anniversary of the group’s eighth record, the deluxe edition will feature 21 bonus tracks, 15 of which are previously unreleased.

Artist/Album: Against Me!, New Wave B-Sides

Format: 12″ Vinyl EP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3000
Includes: A collection of B-Side’s from the group’s New Wave sessions. 

Artist/Album: Air, AIR Moon Safari – The Athens Concert

Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 4500
Includes: First live album released by the band celebrating their 2024-2025 touring cycle.

Artist/Album: Babymetal, Live At The O2 Arena – Highlights

Format: 12″ Vinyl EP
Label: Capitol Records
Quantity: 3000
Includes: Recorded at London’s world-famous O2 Arena, the vinyl release marks a Record Store Day exclusive. 

Artist/Album: Bad Brains, Live

Format: LP
Label: Org Music
Quantity: 2500
Includes: Marks the album’s first vinyl reissue since SST’s original 1988 pressing.

Artist/Album: Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi, Seventh Star

Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 5400
Includes: The new remastered vinyl edition of Black Sabbath’s 1986 twelfth studio album includes the single remix of “No Stranger To Love.” 

Artist/Album: Blur, Live at the Budokan

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Parlophone/Warner
Quantity: 2000
Includes: Live Album

Artist/Album: David Bowie, Hallo Spaceboy

Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 7500
Includes: Featuring mixes by the Pet Shop Boys compiled on vinyl for the first time. 

Artist/Album: David Bowie, Excerpts From Outside

Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 7500
Includes: Originally a cutdown of Bowie’s 20th studio album, featuring remastered audio for the first time. 

Artist/Album: Bring Me The Horizon, Lo-files

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Columbia Records
Quantity: 1500
Includes: Features 23 tracks of lo-fi reinterpretations from the band’s catalogue. 

Artist/Album: The Cars, Heartbeat City Live

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3500
Includes: The record celebrates over 40 years since its original release. 

Artist/Album: Collective Soul, Touch and Go

Format: LP
Label: Fuzze-Flex Records
Quantity: N/A
Includes: A special colored vinyl for the band’s latest album made exclusively for RSD.

Artist/Album: Alice Cooper, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper – Limited Picture Disc

Format: 2 x LP
Label: earMUSIC
Quantity: 1000
Includes: A limited picture disc pressing of the reunion album.  

Artist/Album: Cream, Wheels Of Fire: Live At The Fillmore Auditorium & Winterland Ballroom

Format: 3 x LP
Label: UMR/Polydor
Quantity: 4500
Includes: A special expanded edition of the group’s third album. 

Artist/Album: King Crimson, Live – Penn State University 29 June 1974

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Dgm
Quantity: 2000
Includes: Live from 1974.

Artist/Album: Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Solo Albums

Format: 4 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 1950
Includes: Debut solo albums from David Crosby, Stephen Stills, and Graham Nash along with an LP of rarities from demos and sessions from all three albums. 

Artist/Album: The Cult, Weapon of Choice

Format: LP
Label: Cooking Vinyl
Quantity: 1500
Includes: This RSD edition comes pressed on silver effect vinyl and a mirrorboard sleeve.

Artist/Album: The Cure, Greatest Hits

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 7300
Includes: A remastered edition by Robert Smith to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Greatest Hits album, originally released in 2001. 

Artist/Album: The Cure, Acoustic Hits

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 7200
Includes: The Greatest Hits companion, also released in 2001, this exclusive edition was remastered by Robert Smith featuring acoustic reimaginings of all tracks on the Greatest Hits album. 

Artist/Album: The Darkness, One Way Ticket To Birmingham (Live at the NEC)

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 2000
Includes: Double live album of the group’s show during the One Way Ticket to Hell…And Back arena tour. Remixed by guitarist Dan Hawkins and available on vinyl for the first time.  

Artist/Album: Deafheaven, KEXP Sessions

Format: 12″ Single
Quantity: 6500
Includes: The band’s performance in the KEXP studio, recorded exclusively for RSD, featuring tracks from their 2025 album, Lonely People With Power

Artist/Album: Def Leppard, Slang

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: UMR / Mercury (Virgin)
Quantity: 5000
Includes: The exclusive RSD release is curated by Joe Elliott and features B-sides and rarities from the time around their 1996 sixth studio album. 

Artist/Album: The Doors, Strange Days 1967: A Work In Progress, Part 2

Format: LP 
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 7830
Includes: Includes previously unreleased material from the group’s 1967 album sessions, pressed on Transparent Turquoise Vinyl. 

Artist/Album: Dropkick Murphys / The Outlets, Knock Me Down

Format: 7″ Vinyl 
Label: TAANG!  
Quantity: N/A
Includes: An Outlets track from 1980, alongside a 2000 cover by the Dropkicks. 

Artist/Album: Fear Factory, Digimortal (REMASTERED, EXPANDED, 25TH ANNIVERSARY)

Format: 2 x LP  
Label: Real Gone Music 
Quantity: 1000
Includes: The exclusive 25th anniversary edition made for Record Store Day, comes with four bonus tracks, and never before on vinyl pressed on black & blue splatter vinyl within a gatefold jacket.   

Artist/Album: Foreigner, Foreigner 4 Live Tour 1981-82

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 2500
Includes: The RSD double LP includes shows at Anaheim Stadium in California, The Odeon in Birmingham, England, and Westfalenhalle in Dortmund, Germany. 

Artist/Album: Goblin, The Singles Collection 1975 – 1979

Format: LP 
Label: Cinevox
Quantity: 1000
Includes: Features all the singles released by Goblin between 1975 and 1979.

Artist/Album: Judas Priest, Live in Los Angeles ’90

Format: LP
Label: Legacy Recordings 
Quantity: 4900
Includes:  Originally available on CD, part of the 50 Heavy Metal Years of Music boxset, now for the first time, available on transparent purple vinyl showcasing Judas Priest’s performance at the Foundations Forum in Los Angeles, CA on September 13, 1990 during their Painkiller tour. 

Artist/Album: King Crimson, Live – Penn State University 29 June 1974

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: Dgm 
Quantity: 2000
Includes: Live from 1974

Artist/Album: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Big Fig Wasp

Format: Vinyl 
Label: Having Fun
Quantity: 2500
Includes: Bootleg series with a bug/bee shaped record. $1 from every record sold will benefit pollinator charities.   

Artist/Album: KISS, A Special KISS Tour Album

Format: 12″ Vinyl EP
Label: Mercury Records
Quantity: 10000
Includes: First time on black & white splattered vinyl. 

Artist/Album: Look Outside Your Window, Look Outside Your Window

Format: LP
Label:  LOYW
Quantity: 2300
Includes: Corey Taylor, Jim Root, Sid Wilson, and Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan, who in the downtime during recording sessions for Slipknot’s 2008 album All Hope Is Gone. 

Artist/Album: Megadeth, Hidden Treasures

Format: LP 
Label: Capitol/UMe 
Quantity: 6500
Includes: First time available on vinyl EP featuring 8 tracks, with the RSD edition to include 4 extra tracks that were exclusive to the Japanese version. 

Artist/Album: Meshuggah, Destroy Erase Improve: Remastered Anniversary Edition

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: Reigning Phoenix Music
Quantity: 1600
Includes: 30th Anniversary special edition remastered 2025 version of the original album featuring a forward from the band a re-imagined version of the original album artwork. 

Artist/Album: Meshuggah, Catch Thirtythree : Remastered Anniversary Edition

Format: 2 x LP  
Label: Reigning Phoenix Music 
Quantity: 1600
Includes:  20th Anniversary special edition remastered 2025 version of the original album featuring a forward from the band. 

Artist/Album: Misfits, Famous Monsters

Format: LP 
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 4000
Includes: Limited edition color vinyl reissue of the original 1999 album and overall fifth record. 

Artist/Album: Motley Crue, Live Wire EP (45th Anniversary)

Format: 12″ Vinyl EP 
Label: BMG
Quantity: 2500
Includes:  45th Anniversary

Artist/Album: Motorhead, On Parole Steve Wilson Remix

Format: LP 
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 5000
Includes:  First recordings made by Motorhead between 1975 & 1976. 

Artist/Album: Motorhead, The Lost Tapes, Vol. 7 (Lemmy’s 50th Birthday, Live in West Hollywood, 1995)

Format: 2 X LP 
Label: BMG 
Quantity: 3000
Includes: A RSD tradition, the seventh edition in the live series featuring previously unreleased tracks.   

Artist/Album: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Sinister Whisperz – The Wax Trax! Remixes

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: Wax Trax! Records
Quantity: 1750
Includes: Originally released in 2010, the remixes, and alternative versions have been out of print for over a decade and now available on vinyl.   

Artist/Album: New York Dolls, One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: Rhino 
Quantity: 3000
Includes: Color vinyl reissue of the long out of print 2006 reunion album.

Artist/Album: Ozzy Osbourne, Ozzy Osbourne – Handmade By Robots

Format: Novelties 
Label: Handmade by Robots 
Quantity: 2000
Includes: A limited edition handmade robots debut.   

Artist/Album: Pavement, Perfect Sound Forever

Format: 10″ EP 
Label: Matador 
Quantity: 2000
Includes: First repress of the 1991 EP.

Artist/Album: Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam React/Respond – Dark Matter Tour Photographed by Geoff Whitman (with exclusive live 7″)

Format: 7″ + Book 
Label: Monkeywrench
Quantity: 1500
Includes: More than125 photographs over 224 pages, chronicling the Dark Matter tour.  

Artist/Album: Pink Floyd, Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975

Format: 4 x LP 
Label: Legacy Recordings 
Quantity: 15400
Includes: Restored and remastered audio from the Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26th, 1975.   

Artist/Album: Pink Floyd, Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975

Format: 2 x CD 
Label: Legacy Recordings
Quantity: 7100
Includes:  Restored and remastered audio from the Los Angeles Sports Arena on April 26th, 1975.   

Artist/Album: Pixies, Live in Newport

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Demon Records
Quantity: 2500
Includes:  First physical audio-only release from the group’s first-ever live acoustic performance at the Newport Folk Festival in 2005. 

Artist/Album: Porcupine Tree, We Lost The Skyline

Format: LP
Label: Transmission
Quantity: 3500
Includes:  In-store performance on October 4, 2007 at the Park Avenue Records in Orlando, FL in support of the Fear of a Blank Planet album. 

Artist/Album: Primal Scream, 1987 EPs

Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3500
Includes:  Two EPs from their 1987 debut album, Sonic Flower Groove. 

Artist/Album: Puscifer, Normal Isn’t (Live)

Format: 2 x LP
Label: BMG
Quantity: 2500
Includes: Live performance of their new album.

Artist/Album: Ramones, Live In San Francisco

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 6000
Includes:  Recorded live at the Summer in the City music festival. 

Artist/Album: Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow, Live From Koln 1976

Format: 3 x LP
Label: Demon Records 
Quantity: 1200
Includes:  On vinyl for the first time of the live concert at Cologne’s Kölner Sporthalle on September 25, 1976.  

Artist/Album: Robert Plant, Saving Grace: All That Glitters… with Suzi Dian

Format: 12″ Vinyl EP
Label: Nonesuch 
Quantity: 3500
Includes: A continuation of the Saving Grace album.   

Artist/Album: RUNT w/ Todd Rundgren, The Necessary Cosmic Frenzy

Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3000
Includes: Performance at Philadelphia’s Sigma Sound Studios on June 30th, 1971. 

Artist/Album: Scott Weiland, Live

Format: LP
Label: Scott Weiland
Quantity: 2000
Includes: First live album from the 2009 Happy In Goloshes tour. 

Artist/Album: Sex Pistols, Jubilee (25th Anniversary Edition)

Format: LP
Label: UMR
Quantity: 3000
Includes: First time on vinyl from the 2002 singles collection, which now celebrates the band’s 50th Anniversary.   

Artist/Album: Skid Row, Live at the Moscow Music Peace Festival

Format: 12″ Picture Disc 
Label: BMG 
Quantity: 2800
Includes: 6 track live EP from their first tour in 1989.  

Artist/Album: Sleep Token, Caramel 

Format: 12″ Vinyl 
Label: RCA
Quantity: 3000
Includes: Limited edition liquid filled 12” single.

Artist/Album: Sonic Youth, Diamond Seas 

Format: 12″ Vinyl 
Label: Geffen 
Quantity: 3500

Artist/Album: Steely Dan, Alive in America

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Rhino 
Quantity: 4000
Includes: First time on vinyl. 

Artist/Album: Stone Temple Pilots, Live at Rolling Rock 2001 

Format: 2 x LP 
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 4000
Includes: Previously unreleased live set from the 2001 Rolling Rock Festival. 

Artist/Album: T. Rex, Songs from “Marc”

Format: LP
Label: Demon Records
Quantity: 2500

Artist/Album: Talking Heads, The CBS/Columbia Demos

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 7000
Includes: First vinyl release of the demo sessions. 

Artist/Album: The Rolling Stones, Big Hits (HIGH TIDE & GREEN GRASS) – Japanese Edition 

Format: Vinyl – Import 
Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 
Quantity: 3500
Includes: Originally released in 1966 as the band’s first hits compilation.  

Artist/Album: The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones RSD3 Mini-Turntable

Format: Turntable
Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 
Quantity: 2500
Includes: RSD3 Mini Turntable 

Artist/Album: The Rolling Stones, Get Off of My Cloud 

Format: 3″ Record 
Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 
Quantity: 1500
Includes: Picture sleeve reproducing the art from the original single.   

Artist/Album: The Rolling Stones, Honky Tonk Women

Format: 3″ Record
Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 
Quantity: 1500
Includes:  Picture sleeve reproducing the art from the original single.

Artist/Album: The Rolling Stones, Play With Fire

Format: 3″ Record 
Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc.
Quantity: 1500
Includes: Picture sleeve reproducing the art from the original single.

Artist/Album: The Rolling Stones, Heart of Stone

Format: 3″ Record
Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 
Quantity: 1500
Includes: Picture sleeve reproducing the art from the original single.

Artist/Album: The Rolling Stones, Mother’s Little Helper 

Format: 3″ Record
Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 
Quantity: 1500
Includes: Picture sleeve reproducing the art from the original single.

Artist/Album: The Rolling Stones, Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?

Format: 3″ Record
Label: ABKCO Music & Records, Inc. 
Quantity: 1500
Includes: Picture sleeve reproducing the art from the original single.

Artist/Album: The Sisters Of Mercy, First And Last and Always “The Japanese Edition”

Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3000
Includes: The LP marks the first time the mix will be available on vinyl outside of Japan.

Artist/Album: The Sword, Three Songs

Format: 12″ Vinyl EP
Label: Kemado 
Quantity: 5500
Includes: Three songs originally released in 2005.

Artist/Album: The Who, A Quick One

Format: 2 x LP
Label: UMR/Polydor
Quantity: 5000
Includes: Originally released in December 1966.

Artist/Album: Thievery Corporation, Culture of Fear

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Thievery Corporation
Quantity: 2000
Includes: The limited edition red and black vinyl for their sixth album.

Artist/Album: Thin Lizzy, Live in Cleveland 1976

Format: 2 x LP
Label: UMR/Vertigo
Quantity: 4000
Includes: Performance in Cleveland on 11/5/1976.

Artist/Album: Third Eye Blind, Rarities & First Drafts

Format: LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3090
Includes: A collection of rare and unreleased rarities to celebrate the band’s 30th anniversary. 

Artist/Album: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, July 16, 1978 – Paradise Theater, Boston, MA

Format: LP
Label: UMe
Quantity: 8000
Includes: Recorded from the You’re Gonna Get It Tour at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston, MA. 

Artist/Album: Van Halen, Live in New Haven, CT 1986

Format: 2 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 5000
Includes: First time on vinyl. 

Artist/Album: Weezer, 1192   

Format: LP 
Label: Ernest Jenning Record Co.
Quantity: 3000
Includes: Named after the month and year it was recorded, the record includes songs from the band’s debut album. 

Artist/Album: Yes, Tales From Topographic Tours

Format: 3 x LP
Label: Rhino
Quantity: 3500
Includes: Live performances from the 1973-1974 tour of Tales from Topographic Oceans era. 

Feature Image Photo Credit: Chris Loomis

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