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We’re here once again with a report on all the latest titles to hit the pre-orders section of the Sorry State site.

We have a few new punk and adjacent titles up this week. First up is a reissue of Ghost Ship, the first full-length by John Reis’s group Sultans, originally released in 2000 during a Rocket from the Crypt hiatus and out of print since that original pressing. Next we have a new pressing of the Heartbreakers’ L.A.M.F.: The Found '77 Masters LP, which presents improved versions of the notoriously muddy mix on the Heartbreakers’ iconic debut album. A banger from my high school days, the Suicide Machines’ Destruction by Definition gets a new RSD Essentials pressing that’ll have you skanking it up all across your living room, and the ska party continues with reissues of Less than Jake’s Goodbye Blue and White and GNV FLA LPs. Thee Headcoatees’ first album, 1991’s Girlsville has a new pressing from Damaged Goods. Oh, and it looks like the two recently-released new Sugar songs are being compiled on a new 7”, the band’s first new release in a few decades.

There’s a little bit of new metal (but not really nü metal) up for pre-order this week. Isis’s In the Absence of Truth and Wavering Radiant LPs both have new double LP pressings on Ipecac Records. I’m not sure who’s in Sepultura nowadays, but whoever they are, they have a new EP called Cloud of Unknowing that you can order now. Belphegor’s 2006 album Pestapocalypse Vi has a new pressing, or if you’re looking for something on the lighter side, Winger’s self-titled has a new pressing.

I’m sure some of you have a soft spot for this one: Insane Clown Posse’s The Great Milenko is being repressed in an RSD Essentials edition. Shoutout to my roommate from my first apartment, who introduced me to the ways of the juggalo way back in 1998. Dude was way ahead of the curve.

North Carolina native J. Cole’s new one is a monstrous quadruple LP… we probably won’t bring these in as a non-preorder, so if you want to get it from us, grab that pre-order!

We’ve been doing pre-orders for some classic jazz albums… I try to be selective about the jazz I put up in the pre-orders section, focusing on classic titles that are part of high-quality reissue series like Blue Note’s Tone Poet and Verve’s Acoustic Sounds series. Along those lines, one of my all-time jazz favorites—Coltrane’s Africa / Brass— has a new pressing on the Acoustic Sounds series. We also have new reissues of Dexter Gordon’s Dexter Calling, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers’ Buttercorn Lady and ’s Make It, and Lee Morgan’s first album Introducing Lee Morgan.

There’s plenty more on the pre-orders section of the website, where we have almost 300 items available for you to pre-order.

Hi there and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State newsletter! Last week was a little thin, but this week we’re making up for it with a 7,000+ word monster that includes a full slate of staff picks, a killer batch of featured releases, and a ton of new releases and restocks to tell you about. Since the body of this week’s newsletter is so thicc, I’ll keep the preamble short and we’ll get right to it.

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Just a quick note to let you know the latest two releases on Roachleg Records—Pura Manía’s new LP La Banda Es La Ley and Cross’s new LP Human Spirit are officially out now! We’ve shipped out all your preorders and both records are now streaming in full on the Roachleg Bandcamp site. Give ‘em a listen, and if you are moved to order the vinyl your order will ship right away.

A fresh round of preorders just hit the preorders section of the website! Reminder that we currently have about 300 preorders going, so there isn’t space to touch base about everything here. Thus, it’s always worth having a look through that section of the site, as most of what’s there isn’t mentioned here at all, and that includes a lot of good stuff!

First up this week, we have a pre-order for the new Social Distortion album! We have this one available in regular black vinyl or the indie exclusive version with an extra print of the (…) cover art and pretty nice-looking color vinyl that matches the cover’s color scheme. Make fun of my Von Dutch cap all you want… Social Distortion slaps!

Next up we have three classics from the Cramps: Songs the Lord Taught Us, Psychedelic Jungle, and Bad Music for Bad People. We briefly had represses of Songs the Lord Taught Us and Psychedelic Jungle a few weeks ago, but those sold out instantly. And Bad Music for Bad People was recently an RSD Exclusives issue (in fact, the preorder for that is still going), but this is a standard version on regular black vinyl.

We also have newly announced standard versions of Danzig I and Danzig II: Lucifuge, and even better these versions are slightly cheaper than their RSD Essentials counterparts (which, admittedly, will almost certainly feature nicer packaging). And even better than that, this batch also includes Danzig III: How the Gods Kill, the essential 3rd album that hasn’t been officially available on vinyl in many, many years.

Also now out for wider release is the legendary Buckingham Nicks album, which got reissued a few months ago in a slew of different fancy versions, but this one is a standard edition on black vinyl.

Punkers, there’s a lot more for you this week. The Descendents’ Cool to Be You is getting a new issue on Fat Wreck Chords. Amyl & the Sniffers’ early material gets a new pressing with fresh cover artwork after being out of print (and very collectible!) for many years. Red Scare brings us the first-ever repressing of American Steel’s first album. I was a huge fan of this record when it came out, and the vinyl has always been a tough grip, insanely collectible and pricey basically since it was released. The 1986 mix of the Cure’s “Boys Don’t Cry” is coming out as a 12” single, Frontier Records brings us a collection LP from early 80s SoCal punk/power-poppers Flyboys, and Face to Face’s Live LP gets a 35th anniversary pressing.

In the metal department, we have a new one from At the Gates available on black, opaque gray, or tranparent sea blue vinyl. The new Nunslaughter album, Satanic Chaos Legions, is also available in multiple versions, with red and orange options (like hell… hell yeah). Arcturus’s first album Aspera Hiems Symfonia, as does the Danish thrash classic Witch Cross’s Fit for Fight. We also have a handful of reissues from Canadian speed metal band Razor: Shotgun Justice, Violent Restitution, and Open Hostility.

Finally, in the worlds of pop and rock, two of Ween’s most loved (and collectible!) albums: Quebec and White Pepper are getting repressed. Franz Ferdinand’s modern indie classic You Could Have It So Much Better gets a new reissue. Foo Fighters have a new album out and we have standard and indie exclusive red vinyl versions. Charley Crockett has a new album and you can get that in standard or indie exclusive versions, the latter of which is on white vinyl and has different cover art. Guided by Voices have a new album out, their 437th, and it’s called Crawlspace of the Pantheon. And the Zombies Begin Herehas a new mono pressing and—just like the Foo Fighters and Charley Crockett!—it’s available in black and indie exclusive clear vinyl versions… in case you only listen to the Zombies on color vinyl.

As I said, there’s a lot more than that, so keep an eye on the pre-orders section for the full scoop!

Hi there and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! We have a slightly slimmer-than-usual issue this week. I have to go out of town for a few days, so my deadline is tighter than usual, and rather than making the crew put together their Staff Picks early, I gave them (and myself) the week off. Staff Picks will be back next week, but in the meantime I still tried to give you something worth perusing this week. We have some very cool featured releases this week and a heap of new arrivals, including the much-talked-about new Dissekerad album, the latest in the Descendents reissue series, and plenty more. Let’s get to it then, shall we?

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Hi there and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State newsletter! Once again the newsletter is hitting your inbox on Thursday rather than Wednesday. I just can’t seem to get it all wrapped up on Wednesday evening lately. It takes a shitload of time to put this thing together… I need to sit down and listen closely to everything I plan to write about, and of course sometimes the writing comes easily and sometimes it doesn’t. This week was tough. I deleted a whole giant intro section to my staff pick that, after I read it back, didn’t really say anything. I’m always revising and tweaking this thing until the moment I hit send. And of course, while I’m working on the newsletter I’m also temporarily putting aside all the other work I need to do, and there’s quite a lot of that at the moment, which is stressing me out! Sorry to complain, but it’s what’s on my mind at the moment.

As usual, there’s plenty to talk about this week. First up, the long-awaited new Psico Galera album is finally in stock now! We ran a preorder for this like three months ago, and since that seems like way too long ago, we’re relaunching the record this week (see also my goofy first attempt at an Instagram reel if you follow us on socials). Next, I finally got around to writing my magnum opus about this London Clay record I’ve been raving about for the past few months. I probably didn’t make it sound super appealing to the casual listener, but writing my brief Record of the Week blurb at least helped me clarify for myself why I like it so much. The new arrivals section is also full of scorchers like that new B.O.R.N. 12”, a very unexpected Huggy Bear reissue, a big batch of releases from the UK’s Crew Cuts records, and plenty more. Read all about it below. As well as the staff picks, which are the heart and soul of the newsletter. This week we cover 80s Yugoslavian punk, Uniform Choice, vintage dub reggae, seminal Athens, Georgia post-punk, and the new Angel Du$t album. Quite a spread.

So let’s get to it, shall we! Read on and enjoy!

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Finally, Psico Galera’s new LP, Memorie Di Occhi Grigi has landed! These were originally supposed to be out in early November 2025, but a series of incredibly frustrating production delays kept bumping the ship date back. Fortunately, though, they are finally here and they look beautiful! All your pre-orders have shipped, and we have some even better news: while the limited turquoise vinyl version sold out in preorder, the pressing plant made a small overrun and they’re in the webstore now. Act fast if you want a copy.

Lasso is heading back to Europe this April and May for a run of dates around Scandinavia. If you follow Sorry State, hopefully you already know Lasso… we’ve released three 7”s and one LP by them so far, and they are an absolutely brilliant band. They’re also incredible live, one of the tightest and most intense hardcore punk bands around… and they’re only a three-piece! How does Marcelo do those crazy vocals and guitar parts at the same time, haha? If you’re in Scandinavia this spring, hit one of these gigs and see if you can figure it out.

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Sorry State Records newsletter! Sorry we’re a day late this week. It’s been a busy one… Record Store Day orders were due yesterday, and we also had a massive batch of preorders to set up on the site (more on that below). The staff actually got their staff picks on time to me yesterday, but when it came time to write my bit the tank was just empty. But I’m back, baby!

Lots to tell you about this week. We have two hot new preorders from one of the best labels going, New York’s Roachleg Records (I can’t wait to hear that Pura Manía LP!), and as I mentioned there are a TON of other upcoming releases in the pre-order section. I’m particularly stoked to have Fipper’s Generic LP back on the shelves soon. In the “shipping now” department, we have a couple of very cool reissues on Spain’s B-Core, a live LP from Laughing Hyenas, and a new dispatch from Leeds’ Brainrotter Records, who have their finger on the pulse of what’s new and exciting in hardcore punk right now. And speaking of exciting labels, Sex Fiend Abomination brings us our Record of the Week, a 3-song demo from Charlotte, North Carolina’s System Maintains that I have listened to about 400 times since it came out.

There’s lots more to cover, plus some great staff picks this week (you’re a fool if you don’t take up Jeff on his Eppu Normaali recommendation!), so let’s get to it.

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Good news! The vinyl for Belgrado’s latest 12”, El Encuentro, has arrived, as has Institute’s new self-titled Australian tour 7”! I believe all of the Belgrado pre-orders have shipped already, while Institute 7”s should start shipping today (Thursday). Expecting a shipping confirmation email soon if you haven’t received one already. And if you order either of these from here on out, expect your order to ship right away!

We just made a TON of new pre-orders live on the pre-orders section of the site. Like a lot… we currently have almost 300 pre-orders going at the moment! Too much, I know, but feel free to scroll through anyway. But first I thought I’d hit you with some highlights.

At the top of the list for me has gotta be the first reissue of Flipper’s first album Generic Flipper in quite some time (at least 15 years by my count). Poison Ruin has a new one coming soon and we have both the chainmail and swamp green vinyl variants available. This is an all-time favorite for me, and it’s on Superior Viaduct Records so you know they’ll do a great job. From Talking Heads we have a wider release of the collection of very early demo and live material that they released previously on Record Store Day. Two Alkaline Trio titles—Good Mourning and Crimson—are coming back into print in reasonably-priced standard versions. Wharf Cat Records is releasing a collection of material by the great, super underrated Boston-area 70s punk band La Peste, and one of NOFX’s most well-regarded records, the single-song opus The Decline, is coming back into print. The latest RSD Essentials release is a 35th anniversary pressing of the Smashing Pumpkins’ debut Gish, with the original cover art rather than the metallic version we have been stocking for the past few years.

We have a few Rhino Hi-Fi reissues coming in if you need to hear some of your favorites in the highest fidelity possible, including Devo’s debut as well as T Rex’s Electric Warrior and Alice Cooper’s Love It to Death. Florida death metal band Massacre’s debut is getting a new pressing on Earache, while John Dwyer’s synth-drenched product Damaged Bug has a new album available (we have both the pink and standard black pressings available).

A few other quick highlights that might be interesting. Jazz group Irreversible Entanglements has a new album out soon. Raleigh legends Corrosion of Conformity will muddy their legacy once again this spring, but maybe you’re into it? We had some Sacrilege in the last update, but we have some more for you with Radiation Records compiling the band’s excellent early demo material. Morbid Angel re-releases a rare 90s EP that features some remixes by the industrial group Laibach. Dog Faced Hermans are reissuing Everyday Timebomb, which is very cool… I hope there’s more to come, because I don’t know if you’ve checked, but Dog Faced Hermans records have gotten VERY expensive on the used market. Black metal / war metal vets Revenge have a new one on Season of Mist. Napalm Death and Melvins have a collaborative album that got a limited release for their tour, but is now becoming more widely available.

Those are some of the highights, but there’s a LOT more in the pre-orders section, including some very cool stuff I didn’t have time or space to mention here. So head over and have a browse!

Roachleg Records has two new LPs up for pre-order now! Up first of the debut 12" from New York's Cross, which features members of Mercy and Mirage playing similarly dark hardcore. The second is a new 12" from Pura Manía, one of our favorite bands here at Sorry State... a thrilling intersection of '77-style punk, hardcore, glam, post-punk, and plenty of other sounds but coming out completely original. Listen to a track from Pura Manía and two from Cross and pre-order your copies from us below! These are expected to ship in early March.

Also, Sorry State is handling worldwide distribution for these and all other Roachleg titles, so if you need copies for your shop or distro please get in touch!