Tomorrow morning, when the doors swing open at your local participating record shop for Record Store Day 2026, one of the most significant noise-rock archival releases in recent memory will be waiting in the bins. Zeni Geva and Steve Albini’s “SUPERUNIT: Maximum Implosion” collects the complete collaborative works between Japan’s progressive metal powerhouse and the late, legendary Big Black and Shellac guitarist on vinyl for the first time ever — and it’s a beast.

Released via SKiN GRAFT Records, this deluxe gatefold double LP gathers three bodies of work into a single, lovingly assembled package: Zeni Geva’s landmark album “Nai-Ha,” the rare SUPERUNIT studio sessions, and “All Right, You Little Bastards!” — a scorching live document pulled from historic performances in Tokyo and Osaka circa 1992.

For the uninitiated, Steve Albini wasn’t just a hired hand turning knobs for Zeni Geva. He produced five of the band’s albums, but during a particularly white-hot creative stretch — right around the time Shellac was forming — he picked up a guitar and stepped into the lineup. The SUPERUNIT sessions capture that volatile chemistry in the studio, while the live album captures it threatening to blow the roof off of Tokyo’s 20,000 Volts and Osaka’s Fandango.

The physical package is no afterthought. The first LP is pressed on “Bigman” Red vinyl, while every copy of the second LP comes on “Imploded HZ” randomly colored wax — no two alike. Lurking among the random pressings are a handful of solid color variants: 50 orange, 110 blue, 51 yellow, 65 green, and 46 pink. Only 1,500 numbered copies exist worldwide, each with a unique number printed on the reverse side of a collectible two-sided “Footlong OBI.” The gatefold jacket features photography by Mitsushiro Hiruma, and a densely illustrated large-format booklet includes “The Future Belongs to Analog Loyalists,” a behind-the-scenes memoir by guitarist Mitsuru Tabata, a new comic by cartoonist Rob Syers, a pull-out Zeni Geva poster, and previously unseen photos from the band’s history.

The audio has been freshly mastered for vinyl by Carl Saff and Bob Weston in December 2025, with original masters by Denis Blackham and Martin Bowes.

SKiN GRAFT founder Mark Fischer’s personal connection to this material runs deep. He first met Zeni Geva on August 9, 1992, at O’Cayz Corral in Madison, Wisconsin, riding to the show with his friends Dazzling Killmen. That night cemented lifelong friendships and set the course for one of underground music’s most fiercely independent labels. The original “Nai-Ha / Superunit” double LP was released by SKiN GRAFT in a single pressing back in 1996 — thirty years ago. “SUPERUNIT: Maximum Implosion” is the definitive return of that material, presented the way it deserves.

IDIOTEQ recently published a deep dive into the making of SUPERUNIT along with a premiere of “Angel,” and the EVERY ALBUM EVER Podcast hosted Mitsuru Tabata to discuss every Zeni Geva album — during which it slipped that yet another Zeni Geva record will be making its way to vinyl for the first time in the not-too-distant future.

If you can’t make it to a record store tomorrow, a digital edition drops the same day and can be ordered now at SKiN GRAFT’s Bandcamp page. You can stream “Kettle Lake” and “Godflesh” right now:

https://skingraftrecords.bandcamp.com

Hit the Record Store Day website to find a participating shop near you, and do yourself a favor — get there early. With only 1,500 copies in existence, this one is not going to sit on the shelf.