Obscure or Out-of-Print Albums that You Would Like to See Reissued

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Posted on Jan. 21, 2020, 9:43 p.m. by DemonDragonJ

In the world of music, there are many albums that were released, but have fallen into obscurity, due to either no longer being in print or simply not achieving mainstream popularity.

Therefore, this thread is to discuss such albums that users here would like to see re-issued.

Pantera's first four albums, released in the 1980's, have been out of print for a long time, so I feel that they deserve to be reissued. Their style is radically different from the style for which the band became known in the 1990's, but I think that they are excellent albums in their own right. I was able to find copies of them on Ebay, but those copies may possibly be bootlegs, so I would rather have official copies, and I am certain that they would sound excellent if they were remastered.

Exhorder's first two albums (Slaughter in the Vatican and The Law) have been out of print for many years, but, given that they released a new album in 2019, I do hope that interest in their first two shall be renewed. I have those albums, and the music is excellent, but the sound quality is sub-par by today's standards, so I very much would like to hear those albums be remastered.

Similarly, Possessed also released a new album in 2019, so I would like to see their first two albums (Seven Churches and Beyond the Gates) reissued, because, again, the music is excellent, but the sound quality leaves much to be desired.

Continuing the trend, Quiet Riot's first two albums (which are entitled simply Quiet Riot and Quiet Riot II) have been out of print for a very long time, so I feel that they very much deserve to be reissued (preferably through Rock Candy Records, who did an excellent job with QR's third through sixth albums).

Angel Witch's second and third albums (Screaming and Bleeding and Frontal Assault) have been out of print for many years, but they, also, released a new album in 2019, so I do hope that they re-issue those albums, at some point.

Dark Angel's first album, We Have Arrived, has been out of print for a long time, as well; I was able to find a copy on Ebay, but I question its authenticity, due to the clearly low-budget paper inserts and sound quality; with that band having regrouped, and hopefully working on a new album, I do feel that their first album deserves to be reissued.

What does everyone else here say about this subject? What are some obscure or out-of-print albums that you would like to see reissued?

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