Altar Boys - Gut Level Music (New Cherry Bomb Vinyl) 2026 Girder Records
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📦 This is a Pre-Order: Ships Dec, 2026
Style: Punk / Rock / Christian
Type: Cherry Bomb Vinyl
Label: Girder Records
Key Features
- Limited To 75 Autographed Vinyl Available
- 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition
- Cherry Bomb Red Vinyl
- Unreleased Song from 2015 CD, I Just Can't Let Go, included on vinyl
- 2026 Girder Records
- 4 Page Booklet with Historical Timeline centerfold
- Mastered for Vinyl by Rob Colwell
- Reflections from band members, industry people and more. 17 of them.
- Full write-up about the album
- From the Vault write-up about "I Just Can't Let Go"
- Unreleased, never before seen photo collage
- Package Design by Scott Waters
- Original Art Preservation w/all lyrics
Product Description
The Altar Boys were the face of Christian garage/punk rock in the mid-1980s. Mike Stand, Jeff Crandall, and Ric Alba traveled and played wherever fans wanted them, doing it with gratitude and a heart full of hope for the lost, the outcast, and the broken. Fueled by fist-in-the-air anthems and a defiant, unapologetic message of faith, they refused to play it safe. They carved their own path with grit and determination to save every lost soul. If you ever found yourself jammed in the middle of an Altar Boys pit, it wasn't chaos, it was family, bound together by a desperate, shared mission. It was jarring, spiritual, and life-altering.
Gut Level Music and Against the Grain are essential albums, and these 40th Anniversary Collector's Editions are the definitive releases sounding superior to the 1986/1987 Frontline pressings and built with the collector in mind: color vinyl, collector trading cards and sleeves, and content you won't find anywhere else.
Mike Stand had this to say:
The vinyl comes in a really awesome Cherry Bomb Red as shown. It's on audiophile quality vinyl pressing with a very high-quality Collector Grade inner sleeve. No need to upgrade nor throw away that cheap paper sleeve (which you always should). The 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition Hype Sticker is on the outside of the shrink. What makes this really special is that it includes the Bonus Track I Just Can't Let Go as well as 12x24" booklet inside that contains not only the lyrics but also a complete band timeline in the centerfold as well as comments and reflections from band members, industry people and those close to the Altar Boys.
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Vinyl: Cherry Bomb Red, mastered for vinyl, inside a high-fidelity collector-grade inner sleeve
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A historical timeline centerfold spread on a 12x24" booklet inside the vinyl.
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Special hype sticker commemorating the 1986–2026 40th anniversary (on the outside of the vinyl shrink wrap)
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Reflections from Jeff Crandall (Altar Boys drummer), Kevin Lee (Lifesavers/LSU), Dan Kimball, John Smeby, Ronnie Lara, Rob Goraieb, Rob Watson, John Thompson, Doug Van Pelt, Mike Stand, and many more. 17 in all.
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"Loud, Raw and Unapologetic" — a booklet section on the album, plus "From the Vault: The I Just Can't Let Go Story." The previously missing track is included on this release
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A massive collage of unreleased photos by Scott Waters (thanks to Chad Ashton and Mike Stand for the photos)
40th Anniversary Edition • Newly Remastered • Vinyl
Track List
Side A
A1. You Are Loved (4:12)
A2 G.L.M. (Gut Level Music) (4:14)
A3. I'm Not Talking About Religion (4:00)
A4. I Question It (2:52)
A5 . You Found Me (3:49)
19:07
Side B
A6. I Just Can't Let Go (3:59)
B1. Unconditional Love (3:39)
B2. There Is A Love (4:21)
B3. Calling To You (3:13)
B4. Final Hour (3:03)
B5. Life Begins At The Cross (4:12)
22:28
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