What should Relapse Records reissue

Uhh... Tonight's the Night?

the most exciting reissues I copped in the past year were those Sadist reissues, if there's weird proto-death/post-thrash stuff like that lying around I'd be grateful to anybody who dug it up

a bunch of bands from the Wild Rags label vanished from view but they're around - Gammacide reissued their stuff themselves, but there's Enslaver, Recipients of Death, Nero Circus's "Human Pigs," etc etc etc - loads of stuff that seemed part of the pack back when you couldn't drive down Sunset without running over a thrash metal band but which now sounds weirder

Accused. And while you're at it, reissue the Mastodon and High On Fire vinyl. People would buy it, I promise.

srsly tho man if you turn up anything as straightup awesome as Sadist's "Above the Light" and "Tribe" I will send you a bottle of good wine, those reissues restored my faith in reissues

Any of the early Boris releases like Absolutego, Flood, Heavy Rocks. They need to be on vinyl but Boris don't own the rights. But a label like Relapse would have the cash to persuade the labels that do won it, and they are guaranteed to sell shitloads too.
1st Qotsa album too. Or indeed anything that was on Mans Ruin.

Oh and the CD version of Corrupted - Paso Inferior. The vinyl version is crap, it's the CD full version that everyone needs. Again that is guaranteed to sell shitloads. Compilation of all their ep's and singles is needed too.

Again that is guaranteed to sell shitloads

if you're up for a friendly wager about this I could use ten bucks

if you mean the corrupted cd, then the cd currently sells for over $100. There's plenty of demand. Of course it does depend on the definition of shitloads I suppose.
If anyone has one and doesn't want it i'll gladly take it for free because i'm not paying $100 for it.

"I'll start: I want us to do Sir Lord Baltimore very, very badly"

It would be a great thing: that and a legit Randy Holden cd reissue, obv.

ah, and Granicus too!

I'm totally with the Sir Lord Baltimore, Randy Holden and Corrupted suggestions. I will mention here, as I have before, that I emailed Corrupted about doing a multi-CD set of all their compilation tracks, 7"s, etc. and they claimed there was already such a project in the works.

It would even be nice of Relapse to put out a "real" (i.e. not self-produced and -distributed) version of Sir Lord Baltimore's 2006 release, Sir Lord Baltimore III: Raw. It's really great, ultra-heavy stuff.

The Care Bears 2 soundtrack

seriously that shit is hard to track down

Ripping Corse's "Dreaming With The Dead"
The Idiot Flesh records that aren't available through SGM.
Anacrusis' discography. Particularly the last two albums. Might not really fit in with Relapse's schtick though. I tend to be a sucker for this side of thrash (no surprise: my favorite thrash metal band is frigging Coroner!)

Also, if Release Records is still active: Busratch - Memorium (I'm not sure if this is OOP or not, but it seems impossible to get hold of. And I want it!)

Oh yeah: Borbetomagus - Barbed Wire Maggots

Barbed Wire Maggots is in print on Borbeto's own label, Agaric. ForcedExposure.com should stock it.

They do indeed, thanks!

Poobah. Since Monster Records turned into a failed enterprise, a number of bands it delved into could be worth some inspection. Poobah, definitely. I have quite a bit of unreleased JPT Scare Band material that is also of astonishing quality.

The Dolemite Soundtrack. oh wait...

Maybe reissue something equally unexpected?!?!

And btw Dolemite was def my fav reissue of last year.

Poobah. Since Monster Records turned into a failed enterprise, a number of bands it delved into could be worth some inspection. Poobah, definitely. I have quite a bit of unreleased JPT Scare Band material that is also of astonishing quality.

actually monster's called rockadrome now. they run a mailorder and i think they're gearing the label up again (planning to reissue iron claw's album, whoo).

It would even be nice of Relapse to put out a "real" (i.e. not self-produced and -distributed) version of Sir Lord Baltimore's 2006 release, Sir Lord Baltimore III: Raw. It's really great, ultra-heavy stuff.

definitely - the drummer dude sent out a message on myspace recently asking if there was any interest in some raw 70s demos of those songs, you could throw those on a reissue too. and the version they're selling is like $20+. don't know of a reissue of kingdom come/SLB is necessary since mercury already did it and i see it on a regular basis.

seconding ripping corpse. and the wild rags catalog is definitely ripe for anthologizing/re-releasing.

and how about MORBID SAINT? their first album and the unreleased one would be a start. maybe some nuclear death stuff, like "planet cachexial" which doesn't seem to exist outside of discography web pages.

and a collection of all of the dead horse demo stuff (including the post-pretty flowers ones) would be swell.

also: first brainbombs album. and the other early ones. that's all.

i'm sure there's some relapse sales-level threshold most of these would fail to meet, unfortunately.

Dust
Witchfinder General
Lucifer's Friend
Jerusalem

you know what really needs a reissue? fucking TANK albums. i mean the full treatment, bonus tracks, remastering, all that.

oh, and NME's "unholy death."

actually monster's called rockadrome now. they run a mailorder and i think they're gearing the label up again (planning to reissue iron claw's album, whoo).

Hmmm, maybe so. But its totally incapable of doing anything even near appropriate with most of the material it releases. The people who are still alive and interested on such records would simply be better off doing it themselves. They don't get publicity and they don't get distribution which at least Relapse can offer.

I would also recommend the first and only the first Bang record. It's available through eMusic but nobody would know it. I also found it amusing that Stack Waddy was also made available electronically when I would assume that what the niche fans of it would -really- want would be another thing like the CD reissue that's now about a decade old and out of print.

dick destiny & the highway kings boxed-set should be first in line.

http://www.dickdestiny.com/kings4.jpg

If you please: Sonny Sharrock - Guitar, Seize the Rainbow, Ask the Ages, & Into Another Light. Not your standard metallic but undeniably heavy and beyond virtuoso, these would be a welcome surprise.

How about the freaking Trust records? No proper US CD release, but some of their early stuff (especially from the self-titled album) was pretty influential.

Okay, not influential. But pretty damn good.

what about all those singles that relapse put out a zillion years ago. can you still get them? there's yer boxed-set. every metal label should dust off their old catalog stuff. when is roadrunner gonna give me the last crack deluxe reissues that i deserve?

But its totally incapable of doing anything even near appropriate with most of the material it releases. The people who are still alive and interested on such records would simply be better off doing it themselves. They don't get publicity and they don't get distribution which at least Relapse can offer.

i'll absolutely agree with you there. they never got much in the way of distro and definitely didn't do much other than have a website.

just thought of potential cherry-pickable goldmines existing in the back catalogs of kissing spell (pinnacle! charge!) and audio archives (red dirt, iron claw, the early 70s band called iron maiden).

I don't know if Century Media will ever do anything with Demolition Hammer's debut, now that would be a very nice album to reissue.

Uh, all the most famous Goblin stuff is still out of print. Sweet-ass reissues of Zombi and Susperia should get the wheel in motion for more people to dig on that Zombi band already on Relapse.

And what about the John Carpenter soundtrack to Assault On Precinct 13? Air loves it and so do I!

I dunno if Relapse is the right place for Sharrock but some of Seize the Rainbow otm. Ask the Ages no (even tho it is better imho).

Denny Lethargy

I don't know if Century Media will ever do anything with Demolition Hammer's debut, now that would be a very nice album to reissue.

oh, jesus yes. the debut, the followup and their demos would be prime stuff to do. (also HEXX.)

dick destiny & the highway kings boxed-set should be first in line.

Hahaha I was gonna say that! I've wanted those recs for years. Good to hear Gorge weigh in on this.

Denny Lethargy OTM

especially Silk Burns! that shit's way creepier and disturbing than 99% of everything Relapse ever put out on their Release imprint. and i don't think it's been on CD ever.

Good to hear Gorge weigh in on this.

My suggs were based on what Relapse was able to do with Pentagram and Warpig. To a lesser extent, their Harvey Milk reissue -- which surprised the heck out of me -- was also a good example of how to do it.

Poobah and Bang (the first only) fit the Pentagram/Warpig demographic. That is, a significant percentage of the people expected to buy such bands would have already heard of them to some extent or either have an old piece of scratchy wornout vinyl or a cassette that doesn't sound so good. And they might be expected to enthusiastically drive some genuine word of mouth over a nicely done package.

It'd be nice to see the Cirith Ungol albums reissued properly, or have they been already?

Good call on the Goblin.

I know that King of the Dead at least was reissued by Metal Blade a few years back, because I have it. I don't know about the others, though. I also believe that Century Media is planning on releasing a Demolition Hammer "complete discography" type 2 disc set like they did with Only Living Witness.

My friend suggested Copperhead, Toad, and Bloodrock, but I don't know any of their albums.

Also, this one seems a bit obvious, but has anybody done a proper re-issue of the classic Budgie records on CD? Or if so, are they still in print? I've seen used copies of their CDs in Amoeba, but it's very rare, and they're usually very expensive. Those seem like obvious ones to do, and would fit right in.

repertoire did them a while back, i'm guessing they're out of print. at one point (after garage days rerevisited came out) roadrunner actually did at least the first budgie album, too.

They may have been reissued elsewhere, but it doesn't look like you can get them in the US (at least, not according to Amazon). Those things are freaking ripe for the reissuing here.

fuck, i don't know if relapse would have any interest in it - probably too obscure, not influential enough, whatever - but the hand of doom's album "poisonoise" NEEDS A REISSUE. even if it's just 500 copies.