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The Great Destroyer (EP)2007

EP · 2007

The first transmission, 2007. Formed in March, on record before the year was out — the EP that announced a new Albany heavy band built from Great Day For Up's rhythm section and two new weapons: Jeff Andrews' voice and Ryan Rapp's second guitar. Per the founder's liner notes it was a home-recorded demo — no studio bill, no label, just the band proving to itself it existed. The estate masters are being staged for the PENNY vault, where this recording will stream alongside everything that followed it.

Masters are being staged for the streaming vault — playback lands here the moment they’re in.

Indian Ladder2008

LP · Small Stone Records (SS-085) · 2008-10-21 · 11 tracks

Small Stone SS-085, released October 21, 2008 — named for the Indian Ladder trail carved into the escarpment above Albany, a record that climbs the same way: eleven tracks of switchbacks between melody and mass. Cut at Mad Oak Studios in Allston, MA with Benny Grotto engineering, mixing, and co-producing (and contributing mellotron and cowbell); mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio; Mike Saputo's artwork on the sleeve. AllMusic singled out Jeff Andrews' 'emotionally charged delivery and frankly stupendous range.' Two songs here became label infrastructure. 'Death of Me,' written by Michael Vitali, aired on CBS's 'Two and a Half Men' (Season 7, Episode 22, 'This Is Not Gonna End Well') — a royalty-confirmed sync. And 'A Penny for Your Prayers' is where the PENNY streaming platform takes its name: the song came first, the technology is named in its honor. Timings are from the estate master WAVs.

First pressed via Small Stone Records (SS-085), 2008

Your World of Tomorrow2011

LP · Magnetic Eye Records (MER001) / Small Stone (SS-114) · 2011-08-31 · 9 tracks

The historic one: LP catalog number MER001 — the very first release on Vitali's Magnetic Eye Records, co-issued with Small Stone (SS-114). Limited to 250 on green-and-white swirl 180-gram vinyl in a deluxe gatefold, with Alexander von Wieding's eye-in-hand painting on the cover — the concept sketches survive in the archive and hang in this page's gallery. Produced and recorded by Benny Grotto at Mad Oak, mixed with J. Saliba, mastered by Chris Goosman at Baseline Audio Labs; Dan Dinsmore takes the drum chair. This is the pivot point of the whole American Record Company story: the record where the band's guitarist stopped waiting for other labels' schedules and started his own catalog, with his own band at number one. The Obelisk called it 'heavy rock for heavy rockers.' Every release the network puts out today descends from this pressing. From the founder's 2026 liner notes: nine tracks and roughly forty-one minutes of fuzz-drenched, dual-guitar stoner-sludge, its lyric sheet aimed at modern enslavement — corporations, screens, media — from 'And the New Slaves' on down. Vitali steps to the microphone once, singing lead on 'Messenger.' The title has been repressed on vinyl since, including a sky-blue swirl pressing. Timings per the founder's catalog notes.

First pressed via Magnetic Eye Records (MER001) / Small Stone (SS-114), 2011

The Weed2021

LP · 2021

The 2021 return. A decade after MER001, Ironweed reopened the channel under the astronaut — the painting that fronts this era floats a spaceman over the wreckage, which is about right for a heavy band re-entering the atmosphere. Track data is being staged from the estate masters for the PENNY vault.

Masters are being staged for the streaming vault — playback lands here the moment they’re in.

Aegis (EP)2024

EP · 2024-11-25 · 7 tracks

The 2024 EP — the shield record. 'Aegis' bridged the return of 'The Weed' and the 2025 double-shot, proof the reactivated band intended to keep a release cadence, not stage a reunion. Estate masters recovered and ingested to the PENNY vault July 2026 — all seven tracks stream and download from the sovereign vault.

Ironweed2025

LP · 2025-01-13 · 9 tracks

Released January 13, 2025 on American Record (Albany, NY). Eighteen years in, the band finally puts its own name on a record — and fills it with transmissions: 'Rewind the Tape,' 'Transmission Line Lies,' 'Mind Eraser,' 'Tracer.' Nine tracks, none over four and a quarter minutes, acid doom compressed to its signal. The first half of the 2025 double-shot, with 'Phantasmagoric' following twenty-nine days later.