Age of Darkness (originally released in 1991) has been co-released on vinyl with the band’s 1990 debut Your Dying Day. Both are first time ever on vinyl with altered artwork (new title font on cover) and offered in black (200) and colored vinyl (100) versions. Age of Darkness has also been reissued on CD this year. I’m reviewing the blue vinyl version of Age of Darkness here. Neither of the vinyl versions have any bonus content and feature the original tracks only. While I lo

The Return Of Haven’s Metal 2017 has been a busy year for CD and vinyl reissues around the planet and few have been busier than Matt Hunt (Retroactive/Bombworks). He is dedicated to getting some of the cutting edge classics from those early days in Christian metal back in circulation on CD and vinyl (some for the first time ever on vinyl). The reissues of Haven’s first two albums on vinyl definitely caught my attention, although with mixed feelings. While these releases were

IN CELEBRATION OF 40 YEARS OF BARNABAS…. Retroactive Records ….. to release all five BARNABAS albums on CD in 2017! Discography BARNABAS – HEAR THE LIGHT (1980 Tunesmith / Light Records) BARNABAS – FIND YOUR HEART A HOME (1982 Tunesmith / Light Records) BARNABAS – APPROACHING LIGHT SPEED (1983 Light Records) BARNABAS – FEEL THE FIRE (1984 Light Records) BARNABAS – LITTLE FOXES (1986 Light Records) ABOUT THE BAND Barnabas started when bass player Gary Mann and guitarist Monte

Release Date: November 17th, 2017 - Pre-ordering Available NOW If you order both Age of Darkness and Your Dying Day on Vinyl at the same time, you will receive a free 10x8 Haven band photo signed by lead vocalist Kevin Ayers! While supplies last! Haven was a Christian Heavy Metal band from the United States that released Your Dying Day on the legendary R.E.X. Records in 1990, and Age of Darkness in 1991. These albums were, and still are, an example of a Christian band getting

Of the making of many reissues, there is no end...thankfully. I want to give a quick review and rundown of three recent reissues in one quick pass. Three totally different styles, three amazing releases. But first, a word about reissues. As we know, music comes, and music goes. Things go out of print, and usually fade out into oblivion if there is not enough interest in them to encourage a label to reprint them. Things are a little different in the Christian metal market, sin

It was September, 1988, and I lived on the Gulf Coast, in Biloxi, Mississippi. I had recently finished my time in the military and been discharged from the US Air Force, but my wife was still enlisted. The huge Hurricane Gilbert was bearing down on the coast, and as was common practice, we had to spend the night in one of the most safe buildings on base, the medical center where my wife worked, and where I had previously worked. While I had done this sleep-on-the-floor game b

OFFICIAL WORD FROM THE FINE FOLKS AT RETROACTIVE RECORDS: Ok folks.....it's official! We have secured the license to reissue the following titles in 2018.....all Retroactive Records releases..... 1. SACRAMENT – HAUNTS OF VIOLENCE (R.E.X.) VINYL 300 Units 2. SACRAMENT – TESTIMONY OF APOCALYPSE (R.E.X.) VINYL 300 Units 3. SIX FEET DEEP – STRUGGLE (R.E.X.) VINYL 200 Units 4. SIX FEET DEEP – ROAD LESS TRAVELED (R.E.X.) VINYL 200 Units 5. KILLED BY CAIN – KILLED BY CAIN (R.E.X.) C

GUARDIAN - FIRE & LOVE (Retroactive Records) to be reissued on CD (1000 units) and Vinyl (200 Orange/300 black)! ABOUT THE ALBUM Fire & Love should come packaged with a rubber mat to prevent your jaw from shattering when it drops to the floor. Response to the album release (1990) was overwhelming, and the video for the song "Power of Love" was included in the MTV's Headbangers Ball rotation. The shredding melodic metal of their previous album is replaced by red-hot, fired-up

Band: Xalt Album: Dark War (Retroarchives Edition) Label: Retroactive Records Format: CD 12 panel booklet / jewel Barcode: 0651402979045 Release Date: August 2017 ABOUT THE ALBUM Dark War is an unabashedly "old school" metal record, and for as much as collectors have sought out this near impossible find, this 1988 cassette only album was an independent release put out by a band that was leading a Christian metal movement in Michigan, Ohio and the surrounding areas! The

MINIER - MINIER EXPANDED + DEMO (Retroarchives Edition) Artist: Minier Title: Minier Expanded + Demo (Retroarchives Edition) Label: Retroactive Records Product ID: RR1415 Format: CD, 6 panel insert, jewel case Barcode: 656165850471 Release Date: 8/15/2017 ABOUT THE ALBUM (6 panel insert, jewel case) Originally released on the legendary R.E.X. Records in 1990, this 7 song EP of crunchy Bay Area Thrash was of special interest because Minier was none other than Greg Minie