EMERALD "Armed For Battle" private LP 1986 XIAN HEAVY METAL - IN SHRINK Best $
  $   249

 


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EMERALD

“ARMED FOR BATTLE”

Metal Gem       OCLP 5001

1986

First (only) Pressing

EX / EX

STILL IN SHRINK

ONLY COPY ON EBAY AS OF 01-11-2017.  Since 2015, the DISCOGS web site sold three copies of this LP for $531, $584 and $637 (incl. post.).  I’m not kidding, check it out.

Exceptional copy of this extremely rare private heavy metal pressing from this Fontana, California band. 

Just how many copies were pressed remains a mystery but it was likely 500 or 1000 (and that was 31 years ago and limited to Southern California).  FYI, Fontana is 60 miles east of L.A. on Interstate 10.

  • Emerald was a purveyor of what was known in the 1980s as White Metal.  Christian heavy metal was never a huge genre with Stryper being the most well-known band. 

  • Emerald played numerous Xian festivals in the mid-80s in Southern Cal.

  • Often cited as the rarest Christian metal band LP in the world.

Stored vertically in a smoke free environment for 31 years.


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