Tokyo Blade: Madame Guillotine/Undercover of the Honeymoon/The Cave Sessions (White Vinyl)

This Record Store Day 2026 release pulls together three early Tokyo Blade EPs on one LP for the first time: Madame Guillotine, Undercover Of The Honeymoon, and The Cave Sessions. Retail and RSD listings identify it as a solid white vinyl edition, with the Australian RSD list confirming it as an LP on the 2026 schedule. Retailers also describe it as the first time these three releases have been collected on a single vinyl issue.

As a release, this is catnip for anyone into the scrappier, pre-polished side of the NWOBHM. The big appeal is not just rarity. It is hearing Tokyo Blade before the sharper studio identity fully settled in. Madame Guillotine has that raw, charging early-metal urgency, Undercover Of The Honeymoon leans further into hooks and melodic bite, and The Cave Sessions strips things back to something rougher and more immediate. Heard together, it plays like a young band testing its edges and finding out just how much power it has.

That is what makes this worth more than a simple collector piece. A lot of archival NWOBHM releases are historically interesting without being especially fun to revisit. This one looks stronger than that. Tokyo Blade always had a gift for mixing street-level grit with melody, and these recordings catch that chemistry in a less refined but often more exciting state. There is a live-wire feel to this material that the later albums, for all their strengths, sometimes smooth over. For fans of early British metal, this is the sound of a band still hungry enough to sound dangerous.