The full catalog of exclusive releases for Record Store Day 2026 has been unveiled, confirming that this year’s event will be a significant one for collectors of hard rock and heavy metal. Scheduled for Saturday, April 18, at independent record shops globally, the drop list features highly anticipated rarities, long-awaited debuts, and anniversary reissues.
The undeniable centerpiece of this year’s heavy selection is the physical arrival of the “lost” 2008 album Look Outside Your Window. Recorded by Corey Taylor, Shawn “Clown” Crahan, Jim Root, and Sid Wilson during the sessions for Slipknot‘s All Hope Is Gone, the psychedelic project has attained mythical status among fans after nearly two decades of delays. It finally sees the light of day this April.
Modern metal juggernauts are also well-represented. Sleep Token will offer a 12-inch vinyl pressing of the single Caramel, backed by an instrumental rendition of Emergence—a cut previously available only in the Japanese market. Meanwhile, blackgaze innovators Deafheaven will release their 2025 live session from the KEXP studios on wax for the first time.
Nostalgia plays a major role in the 2026 lineup. Meshuggah is issuing remastered anniversary editions of their technical metal landmarks Destroy Erase Improve and Catch Thirtythree. Thrash legends Megadeth are bringing the rarities collection Hidden Treasures back to vinyl, and Mötley Crüe will celebrate 45 years as a band with a colored 12-inch reissue of their debut single, Live Wire.
Other unique offerings include a collectible Ozzy Osbourne vinyl figure from Handmade By Robots, and a special package from Pearl Jam that bundles a photo book from their Dark Matter tour with a live 7-inch record. Texan doom favorites The Sword are also digging into their history, pressing the early EP Four Songs—originally sold as a CD-R at concerts in 2005—to vinyl.
Below is the full list of hard rock and metal releases for Record Store Day 2026:
- Against Me! – New Wave B-Sides (12″) (Limited to 2000)
- BABYMETAL – Live At The O2 Arena – Highlights (12″) (Limited to 1500)
- Bad Brains – Live (LP) (Limited to 2500)
- Black Sabbath Featuring Tony Iommi – Seventh Star (LP) (Limited to 5400)
- Bring Me The Horizon – Lo-files (2xLP) (Limited to 1500)
- Alice Cooper – The Revenge Of Alice Cooper (2x Picture Disc) (Limited to 1000)
- Collective Soul – Touch And Go (LP)
- The Cult – Weapon Of Choice (LP) (Limited to 1500)
- The Darkness – One Way Ticket For Birmingham (Live At The NEC) (2xLP) (Limited to 2000)
- Deafheaven – KEXP Sessions (12″) (Limited to 6500)
- Def Leppard – Slang (2xLP) (Limited to 5000)
- The Doors – Strange Days 1967: A Work In Progress, Part 2 (LP) (Limited to 7830)
- Fear Factory – Digimortal (Remastered, Expanded, 25th Anniversary) (2xLP) (Limited to 1000)
- Foreigner – Foreigner 4 Live Tour 1981-82 (2xLP) (Limited to 2500)
- Goblin – The Singles Collection 1975 – 1979 (LP) (Limited to 1000)
- John Frusciante – To Only Record Water For Ten Days (LP) (Limited to 3000)
- Goatsnake – Dog Days (LP) (Limited to 1300)
- The Jesus And Mary Chain – Some Candy Talking (12″) (Limited to 2000)
- Joan Jett And The Blackhearts – Live At The Ritz NYC 1981 (LP) (Limited to 4500)
- Judas Priest – Live In Los Angeles ’90 (LP) (Limited to 4900)
- King Crimson – Live – Penn State University 29 June 1974 (2xLP) (Limited to 2000)
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Big Fig Wasp (LP) (Limited to 2500)
- KISS – A Special KISS Tour Album (12″) (Limited to 10,000)
- Bruce Kulick (ex-KISS) – Transformer (LP/CD) (Limited to 1500)
- Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum (Original Draft) (2xLP) (Limited to 1500)
- Look Outside Your Window – Look Outside Your Window (LP) (Limited to 2300)
- Megadeth – Hidden Treasures (LP) (Limited to 6500)
- Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve: Remastered Anniversary Edition (2xLP) (Limited to 1600)
- Meshuggah – Catch Thirtythree: Remastered Anniversary Edition (2xLP) (Limited to 1600)
- Misfits – Famous Monsters (LP) (Limited to 4000)
- Mötley Crüe – Live Wire (45th Anniversary) (12″) (Limited to 2500)
- Motörhead – On Parole (Steven Wilson Remix) (LP) (Limited to 5000)
- Motörhead – The Lost Tapes, Vol. 7 (Lemmy’s 50th Birthday, Live In West Hollywood, 1995) (2xLP) (Limited to 3000)
- Muse – Muscle Museum (12″) (Limited to 2500)
- Muse – Muse (12″) (Limited to 2500)
- New York Dolls – One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This (2xLP) (Limited to 3000)
- Ozzy Osbourne – Handmade By Robots Collectible Vinyl Figure (Limited to 2000)
- Pearl Jam – React/Respond – Dark Matter Tour Photobook + 7″ (Limited to 1500)
- Pink Floyd – Live From The Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975 (LP/CD) (Limited to 15,400 vinyl)
- Porcupine Tree – We Lost The Skyline (LP) (Limited to 3500)
- Puscifer – Normal Isn’t (Live) (2xLP) (Limited to 2500)
- Ramones – Live In San Francisco (2xLP) (Limited to 6000)
- Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow – Live From Koln 1976 (3xLP) (Limited to 1200)
- The Rolling Stones – Big Hits (High Tide & Green Grass) – Japanese Edition (LP) (Limited to 3500)
- The Rolling Stones – Get Off My Cloud, Honky Tonk Women, Play With Fire, Heart Of Stone, Mother’s Little Helper, Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadow? (3″ singles)
- Sex Pistols – Jubilee (25th Anniversary Edition) (LP) (Limited to 3000)
- Skid Row – Live At The Moscow Music Peace Festival (12″ Picture Disc) (Limited to 2800)
- Sleep Token – Caramel (12″) (Limited to 3000)
- Stone Temple Pilots – Live At Rolling Rock 2001 (12″) (Limited to 4000)
- The Sword – Four Songs (12″) (Limited to 5500)
- Thin Lizzy – Live In Cleveland 1976 (2xLP) (Limited to 4000)
- Third Eye Blind – Rarities & First Drafts (LP) (Limited to 3090)
- Van Halen – Live In New Haven, CT 1986 (2xLP) (Limited to 5000)
- Scott Weiland – Live (LP) (Limited to 2000)
- The Who – A Quick One (LP) (Limited to 3000)
