Record Store Day 2020 was originally slate for April 18, but was pushed to June 20 thanks to COVID-19. Now Record Store Day is pushing the event back yet again and splitting it into three separate "drop" days. Record Store Day is now scheduled for August 29, September 26, and October 24.
RECORD STORE DAY IS SOCIAL DISTANCING!
2020 is different. So what we're doing this year is going to be different too.
No one knows what kind of party we'll all be in the mood for, or able to hold safely, at any time this year, in any part of the world. So we're focusing this year not on the party aspect of Record Store Day, but on getting the great releases on the RSD 2020 List into your local record store, and then into your collection.
RSD DROPS! Three street dates when titles from The List will be available only at participating indie record stores. We're working on getting the new version of The List — with new RSD Drops dates — all nice and pretty for you. Look for that on the Record Store Day site on June 1.
No word on what the new list will entail now that manufacturing has become an issue during the pandemic. However, this is what the list looked like for rock and metal at the original announcement back in March.
- Asking Alexandria – Stand Up And Scream (Sumerian) (LP) (limited to 1,500)
- August Burns Red – Bones (Fearless) (7″) (limited to 1,000)
- Badflower – The Jester/Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Big Machine) (12″ picture disc) (limited to 2,000)
- The Black Crowes – Jealous Again (UMe) (12″) (limited to 7,500)
- CHON – Grow (Sumerian) (LP) (limited to 1,500)
- Clutch – The Obelisk (Weathermaker Music) (16-LP box set) (limited to 550)
- Alice Cooper – Live From The Apollo Theatre Glasgow February 19, 1982 (Rhino/Warner Records) (2xLP) (limited to 7,000)
- Denzel Curry – Bulls On Parade (Loma Vista Recordings) (7″) (limited to 2,500)
- Def Leppard – Rock N Roll Hall of Fame (UMe) (limited to 4,000)
- DevilDriver – Winter Kills (Napalm) (2xLP) (limited to 1,400)
- Dio – Annica (Niji Entertainment/BMG) (12″ picture disc)
- Entombed – Clandestine – Live (Sound Pollution) (2xLP) (limited to 500)
- Fight – A Small Deadly Space (Real Gone Music) (limited to 2,200)
- Graves At Sea – History Of Sickness (NecroCave Recordings) (12″) (limited to 750)
- Hawkwind – At The BBC 1972 (Parlophone) (2xLP) (limited to 5,000)
- Hawkwind – Quark, Strangeness & Charm (Atomhenge) (2xLP) (limited to 1,500)
- Ice Nine Kills – The Silver Scream: Killer Cuts (Fearless) (10″) (limited to 2,500)
- Infectious Grooves – Take You On A Ride (ORG Music) (12″) (limited to 1,500)
- Judas Priest – British Steel (40th Anniversary Edition) (Legacy) (2xLP) (limited to 3,500)
- Judas Priest – Sad Wings Of Destiny (eOne) (2xLP) (limited to 2,700)
- Motörhead – Ace Of Spades/Dirty Love (12″ shaped picture disc) (limited to 4,000)
- My Chemical Romance – The Murder Scene (Reprise) (LP) (limited to 8,000)
- The Obsessed – Incarnate Ultimate (Blues Funeral Records) (2xLP) (limited to 1,250)
- Pink Floyd – Arnold Layne Live 2007 (Legacy) (7″) (limited to 7,400)
- Primus – Suck On This (Prawn Song) (LP) (limited to 5,000)
- The Ramones – It’s Alive II (Rhino/Warner) (2xLP) (limited to 8,000)
- Refused – Not Fit For Broadcast – Live At The BBC (Spinefarm) (12″) (limited to 3,500)
- Skid Row – Slave To The Grind (Expanded Edition) (Run Out Of Groove) (2xLP) (limited to 2,500)
- Jimmy Urine & Serj Tankian – Fuktronic Soundtrack (Music On Vinyl) (LP) (limited to 2,000)
- Various Artists – Nativity In Black (Real Gone Music) (limited to 2,500)
