Just announced for the 2025 Black Friday event, a special edition of Metallic Spheres by The Orb featuring David Gilmour.

In what appears to be exclusive to the UK Record Store Day (RSD) customers, and marking its 15th anniversary, this unique collaboration between The Orb and David Gilmour is once again available on vinyl and is pressed on a pearlescent Metallic Sunrise colour vinyl.

Metallic Spheres came about after a remix project by The Orb, Youth and David Gilmour expanded into and album-length entity and the trio worked up a sonic mixture in a range of styles. Designed to be heard in two parts - 'Metallic Side' (LP1) and 'Spheres Side' (LP2) utilizes David Gilmour's discernable electric guitar and lap steel guitar, Alex Paterson's sound manipulation, keyboards and turntables, and Youth's bass guitar and keyboards.

As with the other RSD 2025 releases, this is a limited edition: often the RSD releases are pressed up as just a few thousand or so, available to snap up on the day. And, as we've mentioned in previous years, these limited edition items are ONLY released via RSD participating stores, this year on 28th November 2025 - go to RecordStoreDay.co.uk for more details of who those will be, and to get the full list of all releases in this event.

A reminder that it will ONLY be these stores participating; the stores themselves can't sell it online prior, or accept preorders - the record will become available for customers coming through the door of the store from the morning of the 28th (and not before), in limited quantities - first come, first served, and only one copy per customer. After RSD, if copies remain, they may put them for sale online (and of course, there'll also be copies on eBay inevitably...).