HAVEN Limited Edition Vinyl Reissues

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 it right in terms of releasing music that stood apart from other heavy metal bands through their artful progressive bent.

The debut release Dying Day showed its impact immediately by transcending the metal label, while sealing the band's reputation for cerebral compositions. The 80's metal scene celebrated excessive use of drugs and alcohol, and that influence resulted in alienation and hardship. Those hardships would open the gateway to Grunge and Alternative - but in 1990 we weren't there just yet!

Queensryche set the bar for metal that moved beyond cliche' with 1988's Operation Mindcrime. Your Dying Day, is a stellar brand of progressive power metal with subtle thrash influences that provided musical and spiritual depth in the face of cultural shallowness. It was the perfect album, released at just the right time. This 2017 Retroactive Records reissue see this classic progressive metal album on vinyl for the very first time! Limited to just 300 copies with 200 Black vinyl and 100 Red vinyl, don’t wait to snag your copy! Remastered by Rob Colwell of Bombworks Sound, you know your ears are in for some elite metallic ear candy! For fans of Deliverance, Recon, Sacred Warrior, and Queensryche! Be sure to pick up the 2012 Retroactive reissue of Your Dying Day on CD as well! Pre-orders come with a beautiful 11"x17" poster as shown.

HAVEN - YOUR DYING DAY Artist: Haven Title: Your Dying Day Label: Retroactive Records Product ID: RRV1427 Format: VINYL with Jacket with spine and insert with lyrics Barcode: 0651402979038

1991's Age of Darkness is the second album from Christian metallers Haven. Before you conjure up images of Stryper, you'd do well to give this one a chance. Where a band like Barren Cross drew its influences from Dio and Iron Maiden, Haven's sound owes more to a certain Seattle sound (no, not that one). I'm talking about bands like Queensryche, Fifth Angel, and Metal Church. Age of Darkness is a very impressive traditional/power metal album, full of great melodies, shredding guitars, and a Geoff Tate-inspired vocal style. There are a couple instances of Dokken-style balladeering, but for the most part this is a fast paced power metal album that should please fans of Apocrypha, Powersurge, Crimson Glory, and any of the bands mentioned earlier. Haven is a Christian band, but they're not overly "churchy" with their lyrics, so Age of Darkness shouldn't alienate the average metal fan. Believe me; this one's much more likely to induce headbanging than Bible-thumping!

The 2017 reissue of Age of Darkness on Retroactive Records sees this classic album on vinyl for the very first time! We pressed 200 Black Vinyl and 100 Blue Vinyl. Get them while they last! The CD is packaged with an 8 panel insert in a jewel case with lyrics - and we only pressed 500 of them! Both Vinyl and CD have been digitally remastered to perfection by Rob Colwell of Bombworks Sound! Pre-orders come with the beautiful 11"x17" poster shown.

HAVEN - AGE OF DARKNESS Artist: Haven Title: Age of Darkness (vinyl) Age of Darkness (Retroarchives Edition) (CD) Label: Retroactive Records RRCD1420 HAVEN - AGE OF DARKNESS (Retroarchives Edition) 8 panel jewel case Format: CD with 8 panel insert and jewel case Barcode CD: 651402978956 Product ID CD: RRCD1420 Format: VINYL Jacket with spine and insert - Black (200) and Blue (100) Barcode VINYL: 0651402979021 Product ID VINYL: RRV1426