Double Album - Simultaneous Releases

Simultaneous Releases

Some performers have released two or more distinct but related albums simultaneously (or near-simultaneously) which could be seen together as a double album. Examples include:

  • Simple Minds' Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (1981)
  • Guns 'N Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II (1991)
  • Bruce Springsteen's Human Touch and Lucky Town (1992)
  • DJ Magic Mike's This Is How It Should Be Done and Bass: The Final Frontier (1993)
  • Metallica's Load and ReLoad (1996/1997)
  • Insane Clown Posse's Bizaar and Bizzar (2000)
  • maudlin of the Well's Bath and Leaving Your Body Map (2001)
  • Tom Waits' Blood Money and Alice (2002)
  • Opeth's Deliverance and Damnation (2002/2003)
  • Nelly's Sweat and Suit (2004)
  • Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)
  • System of a Down's Mezmerize and Hypnotize (2005)
  • Basement Jaxx's Planet 1 and Planet 2 (2008)
  • Basement Jaxx's Scars and Zephyr (2009)
  • Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac (2000/2001) (Recorded in same sessions and considered for release as double album at one point)
  • Green Day's ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy (2012/2013) (Recorded in same sessions)
  • Coheed and Cambria's The Afterman: Ascension and The Afterman: Descension (2012/2013) (Recorded in same sessions)

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