The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band the Velvet Underground, released in March 1967 by Verve Records. It was recorded in 1966 while the band were featured on Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable tour, which gained attention for its experimental performance sensibilities and controversial lyrical topics, including drug abuse, prostitution, sadomasochism and sexual deviancy. It sold poorly and was mostly ignored by contemporary critics, but later became regarded as one of the most influential albums in the history of popular music.
Cowboys from Hell is the fifth studio album and major label debut by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on July 24, 1990 by Atco Records.
Alannah Myles is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress who has won both a Grammy and a Juno Award for her recording of the song ”Black Velvet”. The song was a top-ten hit in her native Canada and a number one hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1990.
Angels Fall First is the debut studio album by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. The original 500-copies limited edition features seven tracks, two of which are not on the regular edition. This edition is highly sought after by collectors and in 2012 a copy was sold for $1137.23 on eBay. The album was released in the US by Century Media in March 2001.
Contraband is the debut studio album by American hard rock band Velvet Revolver, released on June 8, 2004 by RCA Records. A commercial success, Contraband debuted at number one on the American Billboard 200 chart and was certified double platinum by the RIAA.
Hope of the States were an English post rock-influenced indie band from Chichester.
Monkey Business is the fourth studio album by American group, the Black Eyed Peas. It was released on May 25, 2005, by the will.i.am Music Group and A&M Records. It was recorded in "two and three-month spurts" throughout 2004 while the group was on tour.
Tug of War is the third solo studio album by Paul McCartney, released in April 1982. It was McCartney's first album released after the dissolution of Wings in April, 1981. Overall it was his 11th album since the break up of the Beatles. It was also McCartney's first album after the murder of former songwriting partner John Lennon. The album was produced by former Beatles producer George Martin and was a number one hit in many countries. Some critics hailed it as a return to form for McCartney. Its remastered deluxe edition received a nomination for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package at the 2017 Grammy Awards.
The Sawblade EP is a handmade CD-R made by Isis for their tour with Neurosis and Candiria, limited to 200 copies. It was sold at these shows at a limit of 15 per night, and the leftover copies were given to friends of the band as a year-end "thank you" gift. The vinyl run of this release was limited to 250 copies. As such, Aaron Turner doesn't consider this an 'official' Isis release, describing it as “more like a special artifact for us and the few converts we had at the time”.
Live Ritual – Friday the 13th is Blasphemy's first live album, first released in 2001 as a limited edition LP record via Nuclear War Now! The first 100 copies of the record were pressed on red vinyl and came with a bonus CD-R that contained the band's 15-track demo Die Hard Rehearsal, which was recorded at Ross Bay Studios on August 29, 2001. The album was later issued on CD, with the bonus demo, in 2002 through From Beyond Productions.
Donald Gene "Don" Fleming is an American musician and producer. Besides fronting a number of his own bands, Fleming has produced Sonic Youth, Screaming Trees, Teenage Fanclub and Hole.
B-Sides and Rarities is a rarities compilation album by Cake, an alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. It features several cover songs, including Black Sabbath's "War Pigs" and Barry White's "Never, Never Gonna Give You Up."
The Strength / The Sound / The Songs is the debut studio album by Danish heavy metal band Volbeat. Released in 2005, the album initially failed to chart. However, in July 2006 the album entered the Danish Charts, peaking at #18. The album would stay on that chart for 21 non-consecutive weeks. Volbeat's label at the time, Mascot Records, had only a limited distribution deal in the United States, meaning that the album went largely unnoticed in that country. Volbeat would not breakthrough in the United States until 2010 with their fourth album, Beyond Hell/Above Heaven.
Genevieve is the second album released by the black metal band Velvet Cacoon.
Dextronaut is the first album by the black metal band Velvet Cacoon, released in 2002 via Peer-to-Peer platforms. The band claims to have originally recorded and released the album in 1998, but this has been verified by SGL as a lie.
Atropine is the third album released by the black metal band Velvet Cacoon. It features a completely dark ambient sound.
"Falling" is a song by the British singer-songwriter Alison Moyet, released in 1993 as the lead single from her fourth studio album Essex. It was written by Moyet and Pete Glenister, and produced by Ian Broudie.
Always Will Be is a song by the Swedish Power and Heavy metal band HammerFall, the second single from their album Renegade. It was released as a card sleeve CD single on 27 November 2000. The single has two songs "Always Will Be" and "The Fallen One" and the last two tracks are found on the limited Digi-pack CD single. Both these releases were only sold in Sweden and through the Nuclear Blast mailorder.
Keep on Rockin' is the debut and only studio album by Slade II. The album was released in 1994 and has seen various re-issues and guises under alternative names such as Wild Nites (1999), Cum on Let's Party! (2002) and Superyob (2003).
