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Rival Schools United By Fate Vinyl LP Deluxe Blue Colour Black Friday 2022

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Cat no. RFC242DLX
A limited edition release for Black Friday 2022

Blue colour vinyl

Tracklist:

1. Travel By Telephone
2. Everything Has Its Point
3. High Acetate
4. Undercovers On
5. Good Things
6. Used For Glue
7. World Invitational
8. The Switch
9. Holding Sand
10. My Echo
11. Favorite Star
12. So Down On
13. Hooligans For Life

LP 2

1. Sweet
2. Get Centered
3. Grunge Model
4. Accept The Compliment
5. On Vacations
6. Green Is Good
7. Take One For The Team
8. Where I’m From
9. Contraire
10. Holding Sand (Acoustic)

Rival Schools and Run For Cover Records have teamed up to reissue the band's iconic 2001 album United By Fate, arriving in both a standard edition this fall and an exclusive indie record store deluxe variant for RSD Black Friday.

Available on vinyl for the first time since 2015, this is the definitive version of United By Fate - a special record that has defined an entire genre of music in the two decades since its initial release.

The United By Fate Deluxe Edition will come to indie record stores on exclusive blue vinyl as part of RSD Black Friday on November 25, 2022, and features an additional disc with ten extra bonus tracks.

This includes every official United By Fate b-side, all Rival Schools tracks from their 2001 split with Onelinedrawing (never before released on vinyl) as well as a never before heard acoustic version of the song Holding Sand performed by Walter in Berlin.

Moreso, this collector's edition is housed in a hard-cover linen case with stamped lettering, holding a hardcover sixty-four page book featuring handwritten lyrics and never-before-seen photos from the band's personal archives.

Rival Schools started as the once-new project of vocalist/guitarist Walter Schreifels, who as a member of Youth of Today, Gorilla Biscuits and Quicksand routinely reinvented the sound of hardcore.

In Rival Schools he was joined by bandmates Ian Love, Cache Tolman and Sammy Siegler, whose other projects at the time include Iceburn, CIV and Glassjaw.

United By Fate was a turning point, offering melodies rather than the abject fury and aggression of those earlier bands - and the result echoes still today serving as an influence for bands in the hardcore world and beyond.