Death Waltz / Mondo (2022)
The 1993 version of Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla is my favorite movie in the Heisei series. There's always been something about it that grabs me and takes me along for the ride in the same way that all of the best Showa films do. It's not even due to my eternal love of the 74/75 version of Mechagodzilla as the 93 design pales in comparison to my boy from the 70s. But it's a movie that fires on all cylinders and I adore it.
Akira Ifukube is back for the soundtrack again and turns in another great score. There are a lot of themes from older Godzilla movies used throughout, but for me that only adds to the nostalgia and good feelings that the film and its score bring to me. Top notch stuff here (That's a technical music criticism phrase, I don't expect just anyone to be able to throw around analysis like that).
Death Waltz and Mondo originally dropped this release at the 2022 San Diego Comic Con with a die cut, neon green slipcover. They made 2000 of these and they had them available for a while on the Mondo website afterwards. While I would have never bought the less rare version when this one was available, I think the slipcover is pretty stupid and all it does is hide the excellent artwork. I would have preferred that every version of the record had the same artwork and the slipcover was ditched. But that's not how things went so I will forever have this dumb lime green sleeve that doesn't even have writing on the spine in my record collection.
Aside from that though, everything is really nice. Strong art (though I do prefer what they did for the Mothra and King Ghidorah releases better and would have liked to have had the same artist do all of the Heisei releases), beautiful vinyl (despite not usually being a huge fan of splatter) and a killer screen print on the blank D side. I'll bring up again how bummed I am that they never released the soundtrack to Godzilla vs Biollante, but I'd be even more bummed if Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla was the one that got skipped.
Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1993):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5t51qhsSIt5KTGRT5I5zj2uTEt73UuRf
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