Encore Records

Airbourne

No Guts No Glory

NO GUTS. NO GLORY. cranks out all cylinders firing and makes you want to chug a beer straight down your throat and punch the air as though it’d touched your wife inappropriately.

Inspired by the likes of Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, Angel City, Rose Tattoo, AC/DC and Motorhead, Airbourne have been waving the rock and roll flag for Australia since 2003, and in the process, winning fans and awards, like the one they took home in 2008 from the Metal Hammer Golden Gods, where the band’s album Runnin’ Wild was named the year’s Best Debut Album.

Shining

VI - Klagopsalmer

The new Shining album is finally out !

By all accounts on of their strongest and most extreme releases to date !

Ken Hensley

Proud Words On a Dusty Shelf

Digitally remastered edition of the 1973 solo album from Uriah Heep vocalist and multi-instrumentalist.

Recorded in 1973 and originally released on the Bronze label, Proud Words On A Dusty Shelf featured Heep bassist Gary Thain and drummer Lee Kerslake.

The resulting album was equal to anything recorded by the Heep at their peak and features wonderful material such as ‘Cold Autumn Sunday’, ‘Black Hearted Lady’ and ‘Go Down’, along with a version of ‘Rain’ (also recorded by Uriah Heep).

High On Fire

Snakes For the Divine

‘One of 50 records you must hear in 2010’ by Kerrang! Magazine, Snakes For The Divine is High On Fire’s finest release to date and the one that will catapult them to the next level of their career.

Gary Moore

Definitive Montreux Collection

Three disc (two DVDs + CD) edition.

Gary Moore is one of the best Rock and Blues guitarists ever to come out of Ireland. Following stints in Skid Row, Thin Lizzy and Colosseum II, he began a hugely successful solo career in the ‘80s.

Gary Moore has been a frequent visitor to Montreux over the years and this set brings together his very best performances from five different concerts between 1990 and 2001.

Charred Walls of the Damned

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Debut from this all-star Metal project led by Richard Christy, formerly the drummer for Death and Iced Earth.

Charred Walls of the Damned features some of the most talented musicians in the world of Metal. Included in this musical collective is famed producer, Jason Suecof, Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens and Steve Digiorgio.

Fear Factory

Mechanize

2010 album from the Alternative Metal veterans.

Mechanize is a full-fisted blast of passion and innovation that sounds like the missing link betweens 1995’s groundbreaking Demanufacture and 1998’s more texturally nuanced Obsolete.

Songs like ‘Industrial Discipline’ and ‘Powershifter’ are crushing and colossal, melding fast and precise rhythms with vocals that pinwheel from raw and scathing to hauntingly melodic while ‘Fear Campaign’, which features harrowing spoken word passages, quickly segues into a showcase of punishing beats, rapid-fire riffs and ghostly keyboards.

Meshuggah

Alive

Two disc (DVD/CD) release, the first ever official live DVD from one of the most dynamic and innovative bands in the history of Heavy Metal!

Meshuggah: Alive was recorded live throughout their 2008 world tour for the monster album obZen.

The DVD contains 23 live cuts plus the music video for ‘Bleed’, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the ‘Bleed’ video plus a Micha guitar tour and a Tomas drum tour.

The CD features 12 of the DVD’s performances.

Sigh

Scenes From Hell

Japanese extreme metal band SIGH will release its eighth studio album, “Scenes From Hell”, on January 19, 2010 via The End Records.

SIGH’s Mirai Kawashima recently stated about ‘Scenes From Hell’, “it definitely sounds powerful, symphonic and relentless. This is the musical description of hell!”

Exodus

Shovel Headed Tour Machine

Shovel Headed Tour Machine (Live At Wacken And Other Assorted Atrocities) from San Francisco Bay Area metal veterans EXODUS.

The package contains the band’s July 2008 performance at Germany’s Wacken Open Air festival plus a documentary following the band through the last five years of touring as well as bonus footage with photo galleries and all of the group’s promotional videos.

The set consists of two DVDs plus an audio CD of the Wacken performance.