Bolt Thrower - 1988 - In Battle There Is No Law

In Battle There Is No Law is the debut album of Bolt Thrower. It is recorded at Loco studios by Andrew Fryer, and mixed at Clockwork by Alan Scott. It was released on Vinyl Solution as Sol 11 in 1988 and re-released on Vinyl Solution as Sol 11 in 1992, with a different album sleeve. The album was again re-released in 2005 with the old album sleeve restored.
German metalcore act Heaven Shall Burn used the same album title for their debut EP as a homage to Bolt Thrower, claiming that the British death metal band had a huge influence on their music.

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Blue Cheer - 1967 - Vincebus Eruptum

Vincebus Eruptum (the first word is pronounced 'win-kay-bus') is the debut studio album by American rock band Blue Cheer. Released in January 1968, the album was the first to feature the band's classic lineup of vocalist and bassist Dickie Peterson, guitarist Leigh Stephens and drummer Paul Whaley. A commercial and critical success, Vincebus Eruptum peaked at number 11 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and spawned the top-20 hit cover of Eddie Cochran's "Summertime Blues". It is lauded as one of the first heavy metal albums.

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Blind Guardian - 1988 - Battalions of Fear

Battalions of Fear is the debut album by German metal band Blind Guardian. It was released in 1988 and is a straightforward metal album. The album is a raw and unpolished speed metal effort that touches on thrash metal. This album lacks many of the stylistic flourishes that would mark the band's music in later years. It was remastered, remixed and re-released on 15 June 2007, with the whole first demo tape, Symphonies of Doom, of the band (at the time called Lucifer's Heritage) as part of the bonus tracks.

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Black Tide - 2008 - Light From Above

Light from Above is the debut album from Black Tide. The album was released on March 18, 2008 and was produced by Johnny K. Each member of Black Tide was under 20 years of age during the recording of this album, making it very notable in the music industry. Three singles have been released from the album, "Shockwave", "Warriors of Time", and "Shout", respectively. Two music videos were produced for "Shockwave" and have aired on MTV2's Headbangers Ball. Frontman Gabriel Garcia was only 14 years old when the album was written and recorded. The album was praised by critics and helped them win the 2008 Kerrang! Awards for "Best International Newcomer". The album features a Metallica cover of the song Hit the Lights from their debut album Kill 'Em All.

The album debuted at number 73 on the Billboard 200, with 11,400 copies sold in its first week of sales.

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Black Stone Cherry - 2006 - Self Titled

Black Stone Cherry is the debut album from southern rockers Black Stone Cherry. The album was released on July 18, 2006 through Roadrunner Records. The album has produced 3 singles: "Lonely Train", "Hell & High Water" and "Rain Wizard".

As of 2008, the album had sold around 110,000 copies.

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Black Sabbath - 1970 - Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath is the eponymous debut album by English heavy metal band Black Sabbath. Released on 13 February 1970 in the United Kingdom, and later on 1 June 1970 in the United States, the album reached number eight on the UK Albums Chart and has been categorized as the first major album to be credited with the development of the heavy metal genre.

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Anthrax - 1984 - Fistful Of Metal

Fistful of Metal is the debut album by American heavy metal band Anthrax. The album was released in January 1984 by Megaforce Records in the United States and by Music for Nations internationally. The album includes a cover of Alice Cooper's I'm Eighteen. This is the band's only album to feature Neil Turbin on vocals and Dan Lilker on bass.

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Black Label Society - 1999 - Sonic Brew

Sonic Brew is the first album by the heavy metal band Black Label Society, however unlike the albums that followed, this album still possessed a distinct Southern rock overtone that up to this time had predominated Zakk Wylde's solo writing style. The album was initially released in Japan on October 28, 1998. It contained 13 tracks (lacking "Lost My Better Half" and "No More Tears"); the cover art was printed on clear plastic, with a separate paper booklet. The back cover was printed with golden ink, and the packaging was, overall, a lot higher quality than all later versions.

There was a long delay before it was released outside of Japan, because the drums and vocals were buried on some of the tracks towards the end of the disc, so it was collectively decided to remix it for the US release. Due to the delay, Wylde and drummer Phil Ondich decided to give the USA an added bonus and went to the studio in California and recorded the aggressive "Lost My Better Half" as a one-off bonus track for the album - the recording of which reportedly prompted Wylde to pursue a heavier direction for the band's music thereafter. Sonic Brew was finally released on May 4, 1999 with a standard gloss-printed booklet. Early copies came packed with a free Zakk Wylde guitar pick.

Subsequently the Johnnie Walker whisky company issued a cease and desist order to Wylde on the album cover, which had been designed to look just like a bottle of Johnnie Walker's Black Label Whisky. The band decided to reissue the album with a different album cover, this time merely the band's skull logo and as an added incentive, they wanted to record a further bonus track for the fans who wanted to buy this now-third version of the album. Wylde, Ondich, and Mike Inez of Alice In Chains (who alongside Wylde had helped write the original) recorded their cover of Ozzy's "No More Tears" accordingly.

"Bored To Tears, "Born To Lose" and "No More Tears" were released as promotional singles for the album, though no videos were made.

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Black Lotus - 2006 - Light Subsides

Recorded in December 2005 by Scott Henderson in Victoria, BC, Canada.

The album appears in a regular and a limited special edition. Both are 6 panel digipacks with a 12 page colour booklet. The special edition, however, includes a bonus cd-r with 5 unreleased tracks, 2 videos and a colour card with leaves imprinted. The special edition comes in a burlap bag with the Black Lotus logo embroidered on it.

Track 10, "Utopia" is connected to track 09, but it's listed on the CD's cover as a separate song.

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Billy Idol - 1983 - Don't Stop (EP)

Don't Stop is Billy Idol's first solo release. Released in the US in late 1981, it contained a version of Tommy James and the Shondells UK #1 "Mony Mony", that would become a hit as live version in 1987 and "Dancing with Myself", the latter of which had also been a moderate hit for Idol's former band Generation X.

"Dancing With Myself" (from Generation X's last LP Kiss Me Deadly) was not re-recorded for the Don't Stop EP release but was simply remixed from Generation X's 6:05 extended release of the song and edited down to a 4:50 version, in which a drum solo and chorus section were removed. The song "Untouchables" however, another Generation X song written by Idol and also from Kiss Me Deadly, was re-recorded for Don't Stop.

The EP peaked at number 71 on the Billboard 200 and generated considerable anticipation for the full-length album Billy Idol, released the following year.

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