The new, limited vinyl releases set to be available on Saturday, April 18, at independent record stores for Record Store Day 2026 include offerings from Sleep Token, Meshuggah, Motorhead, Judas Priest and Look Outside Your Window, the “lost” album recorded years ago by members of Slipknot.
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Notable hard rock and metal releases for Record Store Day 2026 include the following. The full list of available releases can be found here.
- Babymetal – “Live at the O2 Arena – Highlights”
- Bad Brains – “Live”
- Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi – “Seventh Star”
- Bring Me the Horizon – “Lo Files”
- Alice Cooper – “The Revenge of Alice Cooper” – limited picture disc
- The Cult – “Weapon of Choice”
- Deafheaven – “KEXP Sessions”
- Def Leppard – “Slang”
- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – “Live at the Ritz NYC 1981”
- Judas Priest – “Live in Los Angeles ’90”
- KISS – “A Special KISS Tour Album”
- Bruce Kulick – “Transformer”
- Mark Lanegan – “Bubble Gum (Original Draft)”
- Look Outside Your Window – “Look Outside Your Window”
- Megadeth – “Hidden Treasures”
- Meshuggah – “Destroy Erase Improve: Remastered Anniversary Edition”
- Meshuggah – “Catch Thirtythree: Remastered Anniversary Edition”
- Misfits – “Famous Monsters”
- Motley Crue – “Live Wire EP (45th Anniversary)”
- Motorhead – “On Parole Steve Wilson Remix”
- Motorhead – “The Lost Tapes, Vol. 7 (Lemmy’s 50th Birthday, Live in West Hollywood, 1995)”
- Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow – “Live from Koln 1976”
- Ramones – “Live in San Francisco”
- Michael Schenker Group – “Best of Live MSG – 1980 – 1984”
- Sex Pistols – “Jubilee (25th Anniversary Edition)”
- Skid Row – “Live at the Moscow Music Peace Festival”
- Sleep Token – “Caramel”
- Stone Temple Pilots – “Live at Rolling Rock 2001”
- The Sword – “Four Songs”
- Thin Lizzy – “Live in Cleveland 1976”
- Scott Weiland – “Live”