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METALLICA-LOAD-1996-First press UK/EU - VERTIGO SWIRL - 532618-1. Mega rare original cult album giants of metal. Load is the sixth Studio album metal band Metallica, released June 4, 1996 by Elektra Records. For the first week, it sold 680 000 copies (first place among all albums in sales for the week). Load debuted and remained for four consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard 200. The album went on to sell over seven million copies worldwide. The album got platinum status five times. ...more

BON JOVI-NEW JERSEY-1988-FIRST PRESS HOLLAND-VERTIGO - 836345-1. Rare European original. New Jersey is the fourth Studio album by American rock band Bon Jovi, released on 19 September 1988. The album reached 1 on the Billboard 200. New Jersey was especially noted for the fact that it was released on 5 singles in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100, the most top 10 singles from a hard rock album. The album got platinum certificate 7 times in the US and twice in the UK. In 2002, the album was ranked 80-th place in the rating "100 best rock albums of all time" by the magazine Classic Rock. ...more

LED ZEPPELIN-SOUNDTRACK FROM THE FILM THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME-1976-FIRST UK PRESS-SWAN SONG - SSK89402. Matrix A2/B3/C3/D2. Rare British original in top condition. ...more

KING CRIMSON - IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING-1969-ORIGINAL PRESS 1975-HOLLAND-ISLAND-88166XAT. In the Court of the Crimson King is the debut Studio album by the British band King Crimson, released in 1969. The album ranked fifth in the list of Top 25 best albums of progressive rock version Progarchives.com. This drive has had a big and unusually strong influence on the development of psychedelic rock, progressive rock and heavy metal. The album was recorded with exceptional musicality, the poetics of texts. While some rock groups (e.g., Pink Floyd) were prone to writing long songs, while others tried to hold in a rock song freedom jazz forms (Frank Zappa), in the Court of the Crimson King group used a bizarre poetry blakowski nightmares, visions, and premonitions. The group is always attributed to so-called genre of "intelligent heavy metal", and their very first album, created this genre, and also advanced music idea forward on several fronts. The album opens with the song "21st Century Schizoid Man", which is characterized by the use of heavily distorted vocals, deliberately monotonous, mechanical rhythm and piercingly loud saxophone and guitar. The rhythm is specified as the first song, suddenly gives way to a soft melodic calm "I Talk to the Wind". Air psychedelic piece "Moonchild" is completed with free form improvisation. In "Epitaph" and the title "The Court of The Crimson King" " the group used in the orchestration of the Mellotron. ...more

MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA-BETWEEN NOTHINGNESS & ETERNITY-LIVE 1973-FIRST UK PRESS-CBS-S69046. Matrix A-2/B-1. Rare British original. Between Nothingness & Eternity is the first live album of Mahavishnu Orchestra, released on Columbia Records in November 1973 .Mahavishnu Orchestra had to be Studio recorded in June 1973 at Trident Studios in London but was cancelled in the last days of the project. After this album played live at a music festival Schaefer , held in Central Park , new York, August 17 and 18, 1973. Original Studio album was later released in 1999 as The Lost Trident Sessions. ...more