Year End Recap for 2024 and More to Come in 2025!
Well, we can’t believe another year is gone already; so long 2024!
Let’s take a quick look at all the killer titles we did this year on Roxx Records and NLTM Records.
Starting with Roxx Records, we welcomed in 2024 with 2 brand new albums, a killer reissue and a best of compilation, and 4 new titles! Not Of This World with their latest effort I Am with You hit the streets along with the new album from Pike-Gaines Heavenly Metal, which continued the ongoing instrumental shred music of Kevin Pike with the amazing Tim Gaines on bass. Then we went right into a killer reissue from Disciple! No not that Disciple, this is the Australian Disciple with a compilation of their classic Christian Metal titles. The last batch of those first releases featured a killer compilation from True Strength which also included a new and exclusive track.
Up next we would bring you a very limited-edition white vinyl pressing of the killer Ritual Servant album Albus Mendacium limited to only 200 pieces on white vinyl. Then we moved right in to the third and final installment of Latter Reign with Order to Chaos, featuring Brad Smith and Luis Cardenas. Next came a killer reissue we had wanted to do for a long time, The Princess Project featuring drums from the Visual Time Keeper himself Mr. Robert Sweet of Stryper, and from there we went into the third and critically acclaimed album from All For The King with Darkest Before Dawn, which has been getting great reviews this whole year.
Kicking off the Summer of 2024, we brought you more killer Dale Thompson, some killer new revival of a classic CCM artist, and some of the heaviest death metal we’ve ever released and a Christian version of AC/DC? Well almost anyway! Dale Thompson & The Boon Dogs released their third release with us Unfinished Business, and then we were super stoked to work with the one and only Imperials to bring you their new EP and DVD Blessed. Then straight from CCM we brought you one of our heaviest titles to date with the sophomore album from Mohler entitled Above All, and then wrapped up that segment bringing you the latest album from Rainforce entitled Almost Holy.
Then we continued on with not one, but TWO more Dale Thompson fronted projects with The Thomas Thompson Earth Project with Resurrection and Swingle & Thompson Ordained with Wonderous Miraculous. Then we went right in to another killer reissue we had wanted to do for a long time when we brought you the remaster of Red, White & Blue and Beyond from Battlecry, which featured 11 unreleased bonus tracks we might add!
One of the hottest Christian thrash albums of 2024 was up next with the brand-new album from Motivik entitled Renouncement, and if you love thrash, you’re doing yourself a disservice if you haven’t checked this one out yet! As a matter of fact, a brand-new interview just came out with them in Power Play magazine you should check out in issue #279 Jan/Feb 2025 Edition. Here’s a Sneak Peak.
Right at this time we brought you another killer artist, and this one wasn’t really in our original 2024 releases but when the guys in Transcendent reached out, and we heard their killer tunes, we had to do it, so up next was Transcendenet with their debut album Awaken, which features some killer straight up heavy power metal for all.
And the new killer metal just kept coming in 2024, with some straight up heavy metal ala Judas Priest style from our friends in Shining Force which featured ‘Tim Ripper Owens’ and a whole lot more on their new album Spiritual Warfare. Then we went straight in to the brand-new album from the classic Christian metal band Lordchain, who brought you their latest album The Chastisement of Our Peace.
Lastly, right before the holidays and near year end, we brought you our last 5 killer releases for 2024, featuring two amazing killer remastered compilations from Follower with Into the Son on CD for the first time, and Damascus The Road To Damascus, also on CD for the first time in a 2 disc set none the less. Then with the continued success of Weapons of God we would bring you the limited edition pressing of Ammunition, which was a killer compilation of their tracks with an exclusive Christmas track as a bonus. Then lastly a pair of new ones for you from the Latter Reign boys with Luis Cardenas latest solo effort Stages and Brad Smith with his solo album Broken Bones & Bullet Holes rounding out another killer year of Christian music for Roxx Records in 2024
We took it a little slower on the NoLifeTilMetal Records front this year, but are coming out the gate in 2025 hard on the NLTM front. We continued promoting the latest album from Primal Humachine, which has been doing very well and then band has been touring the globe tis past year. We also brought you the brand-new album from Absolon entitled Blood Seed, their second title since signing with NLTM Records, and what a killer album it was for those fans of the likes of Queensryche or Fates Warning.
On NLTM 2024 saw us bring some killer remastered reissues from the likes of Liar with Nothing But the Truth, then the killer metal of Slaughterhouse with their pair of albums Slaughter House and Face Reality, and ending with a couple of first time on vinyl reissues from Sacred Reich with their amazing album Heal and the Kill Devil Hill sophomore release Revolution Rise, featuring Vinny Appice and Rex Brown. Both were also released on remastered deluxe edition CD versions as well.
And as we head in to 2025, we just launched our new series Roxx Gems Volumes I & II for Roxx Records featuring Soldier, Taker, Ultimatum and The Moshketeers. We also launched a new campaign for the brand-new album from Iron Jaw entitled Cursed over at NLTM Records. We also managed to lock in a nationwide distribution deal this year for all our titles, which will prove 2025 to be even more of a success as we start in to this new venture which will see our titles go worldwide into places we have not been before.
To close out this message here’s a quick sneak peak of just a few of what’s already in the pipeline for the first part of this year coming up…Martyr, Weapons of God, Primal, Arsenal, Paragon, Severed Angel, Hades, Testimony of Apocalypse and our very first ever Record Store Day release from Flotsam & Jetsam.
We want to wish you all a very Happy New Year and ask you to stay tuned to Roxx Records and NLTM Records this coming year as we continue to rock your world.