Record Store Day 2023 will take place on April 22 and, as always, sees a solid showing from the rock and metal crowd. Among this year's heavier releases are live albums from Dio, Motörhead, Van Halen, and Undeath; some reissues from the now-classic bands like Kittie, Taproot, and Shadows Fall; and even the first vinyl pressing of Death's Fate: The Best Of Death compilation in over 30 years.
Some of the stranger releases this year include Porcupine Tree's IA / DW / XT, which is a selection of In Absentia and Deadwing bonus tracks; a 12" of The Mars Volta's single "Frances The Mute" (which wasn't on the album of the same name); and a reissue of HORSE the band's 2005 album The Mechanical Hand. The latter of which feels random given HORSE the band has largely been absent aside from a brief 2020 comeback with an EP.
The full list of all records, metal and not-metal, can be found here and the rock and metal selections below.
- Agnostic Front – United Blood
- Brownout – Brownout Presents: Brown Sabbath Vol. 1
- Death – Fate: The Best Of Death
- Dio – Live In Fresno 1983
- Dope – Group Therapy
- Earshot – Letting Go
- Enslaved – Hordanes Land
- Hawkwind – The Iron Dream – Live 1977
- HORSE the band – The Mechanical Hand
- Kittie – Until The End
- Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
- Lacuna Coil – Dark Adrenaline
- Mötley Crüe – Helter Skelter
- Motörhead – Lost Tapes, Vol. 4 (Live In Heilbronn 1984)
- OFF! – FLSD EP
- Pearl Jam – Give Way
- Pearl Jam – Give Way
- Porcupine Tree – IA / DW / XT
- Queensrÿche – Operation Mindcrime II
- Ramones – Pleasant Dreams (The New York Mixes)
- Shadows Fall – The War Within
- The Sword – Gods Of The Earth
- Taproot – Welcome
- The Mars Volta – Frances The Mute
- Undeath – Live… From The Grave
- Underoath – Voyeurist: Digital Ghost
- Van Halen – LIVE: Right Here, Right Now
- Scott Weiland – 12 Bar Blues
