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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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