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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: Black Sabbath – ParanoidYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1970, Metal, Heavy Metal, Birmingham, EnglandCondition: New Cultural Facts: Studio Lore: Recorded quickly in London with producer Rodger Bain; the title track was reportedly written fast as a last-minute filler. Media Narrative: UK critics initially trashed them as a social ill, but U.S. youth press and touring crowds built the legend faster than reviews. ...
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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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System Of A Down – System Of A Down
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: System of a Down – System of a DownYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1998, Rock, Alternative Metal, Los Angeles, CACondition: New Cultural Facts: Political Science: Armenian diaspora identity was baked in early—genocide memory and immigrant politics showed up in how they spoke publicly, not just in lyrics. Studio Lore: Recorded with Rick Rubin, who pushed a stripped, performance-forward approach—less studio...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Samhain – November-Coming-Fire (Staff Pick!)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Samhain – November-Coming-FireYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1986, Rock, Deathrock, Lodi, NJCondition: New Cultural Facts: Band Drama: Danzig treated Samhain as the bridge out of the Misfits—same mythos, more control, and a deliberate step toward his next band identity. Legal Trouble: The catalog’s rights/ownership history has been messy for decades, with reissues often tied up in who controls the masters and ...
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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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Ozzy Osbourne – Bark At The Moon (POST + BLUE V...
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review!Title: Ozzy Osbourne - Bark At The MoonYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1983, Metal, Heavy Metal and Hard Rock, Birmingham, England 8/26Matrix #: N/ACondition: NM, 40th anniversary cobalt blue vinyl with poster (LM) | Members: Ozzy O (48' - )Cultural Facts: Career Turning: Bark At The Moon introduced guitarist Jake E. Lee and began a new chapter for Ozzy after the death of Randy Rhoads. Personal Struggle: Ozzy was griev...
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Primus-1986-1988 Studio Cuts (Color)
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@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Primus – 1986–1988 Studio CutsYear/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1988, Rock, Alternative Metal, San Francisco Bay Area, CACondition: New Cultural Facts: Band Drama: Early Primus was defined by constant lineup churn—especially behind the kit—before the “classic” era stabilized. Scene Ecology: They grew out of the late-’80s Bay Area club circuit where metal, funk, punk, and art-rock overlapped in the same rooms. N...
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