This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2026 title and not available to pre-order.
Available to buy in-store from 8am on Saturday, 18/04/2026 (Record Store Day).
Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday 20/04/2026.

Strut proudly presents Nuclear War, a powerful collaboration between UK collective The Heliocentrics, Sun Ra Arkestra legends Marshal Alen and Knoel Scott, and vocalist Bilal - issued on limited-edition hazardous orange and yelow vinyl exclusively for Record Store Day 2026.

The Nuclear War recordings stem from a rare session at Malcolm Cattos Quatermass Sound Lab in January 2015 - The group had assembled in London to rehearse for their performance at Giles Petersons Worldwide Awards, where Alen received the Lifetime Achievement Award and Catto the John Peel Award - With The Heliocentrics trademark raw, psychedelic energy as the backbone, the ensemble captured a series of reimagined Sun Ra classics in a spontaneous, one-off studio moment, and these tapes that have remained unheard in Cattos archive until now.

The 4-track EP features a sinuous take on Ronnie Boykins Angels And Demons At Play, originally recorded in 1960, a strident version of Where Pathways Meet which was originally created for the much-loved Sun Ra Lanquidity album in 1978, and a dense and deep re work of 1972s Astro Black featuring Bilals incredible otherworldly vocals - The title track Nuclear War is re-worked into a cavernous groove featuring Heliocentrics vocalist Barbora Patkova- Nuclear War is mixed by Malcolm Catto, mastered and cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, and designed by Alex Evans of Reason For Being Studio.