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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Deftones – Around the FurYear/Genre: 1997, Alternative Metal / Nu MetalCondition: New Cultural Facts: Studio Lore: Cut with Terry Date in a high-pressure label window—late nights, fast decisions, and “keep the take” momentum. Album Art: The cover model was a non-professional from their orbit, photographed spontaneously at a pool party rather than staged like a metal promo. Band Drama: Written while...
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Led Zeppelin – Led ZeppelinYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1969, Rock, Blues Rock / Hard Rock, London, EnglandCondition: New Cultural Facts: Studio Lore: Recorded in about 36 hours of studio time; Page financed the sessions himself before Atlantic signed them, keeping early control. Legal Trouble: Began as the final Yardbirds lineup and rebranded mid-tour after contractual disputes forced a clean break. ...
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! @Title: System of a Down – ToxicityYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2001, Rock, Alternative Metal, Los Angeles, CACondition: New Cultural Facts: Political Science: Armenian-American members folded genocide memory and diaspora politics into a mainstream rock spotlight that rarely made room for it. Media Narrative: Released right before 9/11; songs were briefly pulled from some radio rotation as U.S. culture got hypersen...
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Black Sabbath – Vol. 4Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1972, Metal, Heavy Metal, Los Angeles, CACondition: VG Jacket has heavy wear Cultural Facts: Studio Lore: Recorded in L.A. while the band was living hard; the sessions were notorious for excess and chaotic scheduling that made basic logistics difficult. Band Drama: Internal strain was rising—money, management, and burnout were starting to fracture the “four ...
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Mayhem – The Dawn Of The Black Hearts (RARE Sui...
Year/Genre: 1995 Black MetalMatrix #: DIE 678Condition: MINT (EURO IMPORT) Description:This 1990 ...
Year/Genre: 1995 Black MetalMatrix #: DIE 678Condition: MINT (EURO IMPORT) Description:This 1990 live recording captures Mayhem during the most infamous era of Norwegian black metal—a movement born in Oslo that violently rejected modern society, Christianity, and capitalism. Vocalist Dead's disturbing stage presence and self-harm rituals reflected a scene obsessed with authenticity and extremity. By the early 1990s, members of Mayhem and their circle were linked to a wave of church burnings a...
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Rage Against The Machine – Rage Against The Mac...
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Rage Against the Machine – Rage Against the MachineYear/Genre: 1992, Rap Metal / Alternative MetalCondition: New Cultural Facts: Released right after the 1992 L.A. uprising; early shows functioned like activist gatherings as much as “concerts.” The cover photo (Thích Quảng Đức, 1963) led some stores to hide or refuse it, forcing mainstream retail to confront real protest imagery. The fist logo was design...
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Sleep – Vol 2 (Rare 92 EP!) (Staff Pick)
Title: Sleep – Volume TwoYear/Genre: 1992, MetalCondition: Mint Cultural Facts: Emerging from San...
Title: Sleep – Volume TwoYear/Genre: 1992, MetalCondition: Mint Cultural Facts: Emerging from San Jose, Sleep fused Sabbath worship with the Bay Area’s underground metal culture.2. Volume Two arrived just before their breakthrough Sleep’s Holy Mountain, which cemented them as stoner-doom pioneers.3. Their marathon live sets, often stretching single riffs for 20+ minutes, became legendary in underground circles. 11/11/24-3 added| 12/20/24 +3 EK 1/24/25 BC (1 sold on 2/4/25) (1sold on 3/24/25)...
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Metallica - Metal Up Your Ass! (OG Cover RARE!)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Metallica – Metal Up Your Ass!Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1982, Metal, Thrash Metal, Los Angeles, CACondition: New Cultural Facts: Public Scandal: Planned as the debut title/cover (a dagger-hand coming out of a toilet). Megaforce balked, so the band’s clapback title became “Kill ’Em All.” Band Drama: Dave Mustaine-era material lives here; he was fired right before the first album run, then recycled parts of...
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Mastodon – Leviathan (Rare! (Staff Pick!)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Mastodon - LeviathanYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2004, Progressive Metal, Sludge Metal Stoner Metal, Atlanta, Georgia 10/26Condition: New (BC) | Members: Mastodon (N/A) | Producer: Matt BaylesCultural Facts: Chance Meeting: Mastodon essentially came together after its future members crossed paths at a High on Fire show in Atlanta. Bill Kelliher and Brann Dailor had recently relocated, met Troy Sanders and Bren...
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Black Sabbath – Sabbath bloody Sabbath
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody SabbathYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1973, Metal, Heavy Metal, Birmingham, EnglandCondition: New Cultural Facts: Studio Lore: They hit writer’s block and moved into Clearwell Castle; the change of setting broke the deadlock and the riffs started flowing again. Band Drama: The pressure to keep up with constant touring and fast album cycles was grinding them down, and the sessions...
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Pierce The Veil – Collide With The Sky (COLOR)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Pierce the Veil – Collide with the SkyYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2012, Rock, Post-Hardcore, San Diego, CaliforniaCondition: New Cultural Facts: Studio Lore: Recorded Feb to Apr 2012 at House of Loud (NJ) with Dan Korneff and Kato Khandwala steering the sessions. Media Narrative: The band’s later public story got complicated by drummer Mike Fuentes stepping away after sexual misconduct allegations, reshapin...
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Korn – Follow The Leader (Staff Pick!)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Korn – Follow The LeaderYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1998, Metal, Nu Metal, Bakersfield, CACondition: New Cultural Facts: Studio Lore: Recorded with Steve Thompson and Toby Wright while the band was touring nonstop—sessions were fragmented, built around exhaustion and schedule chaos. Public Scandal: Korn leaned into moral-panic attention, then got hit with real backlash as school-violence debates and c...
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NIN & PETER MURPHY!- Where Darkness Doubles (Co...
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Peter Murphy & Trent Reznor – Where Darkness Doubles, Where Light Pours InYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2026, Rock, Gothic Rock, Northampton, England / Cleveland, OhioCondition: New Cultural Facts: Scene Ecology: A rare bridge between two separate worlds—’80s UK goth infrastructure and ’90s U.S. industrial—built by overlapping fanbases rather than radio formats. Studio Lore: Framed as a true duet, not a “...
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Tool – ÆnimaY...
@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Tool – ÆnimaYear/Genre: 1996, MetalCondition: M Cultural Facts: Built in L.A.’s mid-’90s art-metal ecosystem: Maynard still fronted the band with his back turned, keeping “anti-frontman” theater as a rule. The cover’s lenticular-style design came from Cam de Leon—he later claimed unpaid-use disputes, a rare public crack in Tool’s visuals myth. The “L.A. apocalypse” jokes tie to local 1994–95 shocks (quak...
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Deftones – Diamond Eyes (Staff Pick!)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Deftones – Diamond EyesYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 2010, Metal, Alternative Metal, Sacramento, CACondition: New Cultural Facts: Band Drama: Written after the Eros sessions were shelved following Chi Cheng’s 2008 accident—this became the band’s “keep moving” survival pivot. Studio Lore: Produced by Nick Raskulinecz with a tighter, song-first discipline—partly a reaction to the abandoned, more experimental Er...
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Tool – 72826 (Rare 1991 Staff Pick!)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Tool - 72826Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1991, Metal, Alternative Metal, Los Angeles, California 6/26Matrix #: N/ACondition: New boot (LM) | Members: Maynard K (64' - Alive), Adam J (65' - Alive), Paul D (67' - Alive), Danny C (61' - Alive)Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle: Maynard James Keenan’s mother suffered a paralyzing brain aneurysm when he was young, a family trauma that later fed some of Tool’s most pe...
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Medgadeth -Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Color! 93' Stud...
@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Megadeth – Na...
@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Megadeth – Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Milton Keynes, UK 1993)Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1993, Metal, Thrash Metal, Los Angeles, CACondition: New Cultural Facts: Band Drama: Dave Mustaine started Megadeth after being fired from Metallica in 1983, and the rivalry shaped years of press around both bands. Political Science: Their core themes—war, nukes, corruption, and control—kept a Cold War worldview alive in main...
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Opeth – Blackwater Park (Staff Pick!)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Opeth – Blackwater ParkYear/Genre/City: 2001, Metal / Progressive Death Metal, Stockholm, SwedenMatrix #: N/ACondition: VG+ Cultural Facts: Studio Lore: Co-produced with Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), starting a long-running collaboration that expanded Opeth’s creative network outside metal circles. Scene Ecology: Recorded at Fredman Studio in Gothenburg, a hub that defined much of Sweden’s late-’90s/earl...
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