Shrapnel was one of the first labels to promote REAL Heavy Metal in the States and their number of classic records in their early days speak for themselves. Unfortunately, raw and uncompromising, balls-out HM didn't seem to be what Mr. Varney & co held closest at heart. By the second half of the 80's, Shrapnel were slowly starting to phaze out the classic Metal acts in favour of guitar wan.. sorry, "virituosos" and by the end of the decade you could hardly call them a pure Metal label at all. To set a more consistant stop to this list than mere personal tastes, I've included everything up until their very last (?) "traditional " Metal-release (SH-1047). This was also around the time when they stopped releasing their albums on vinyl in the states. Roadrunner licensed their titles on vinyl in Europe for a few more years though.

This page is now updated with a "Versions"-column, were I've listed all known pressings of each release. Since Shrapnel never released any colored vinyls or alternate sleeve designs (unless I've missed out on some small details - let me know if that's the case!) these pressings will differ by label design only. For the record, barcodes were not used on any releases up until the M.A.R.S. "Project: Driver" LP, including represses, and consistently used after that, so they won't work as pressings markers.

Here's a table of the label designs with added info:

	Green label Only used on the 6 first releases.
	Black label Used from the Steeler s/t LP from 1983 up until the end of 1985/beginning of 1986, where some variations of the design appeared.
	Silver label Used from 1985 until their last vinyl releases in 1990, the last couple plus at least one repress of an earlier release with a slightly different design.

This list at the now defunct Forgotten Steel page provided the basis for this page and goes a few titles further, but I'm sure you can find even more complete discogs out there. Shrapnel are still active and should have around 200 titles in their catalog by now. Check their home page for more info.