Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin II (2xLP, Deluxe Edition)

Led Zeppelin's II arrived in 1969 just seven months after the band's debut, and it captures a group moving fast enough to reshape hard rock in real time. Written and recorded largely while Led Zeppelin were on tour, the album has a lean, forceful feel that suits songs like "Whole Lotta Love," "Heartbreaker" and "Ramble On." The mix of amplified blues, hard-riff drive and lighter acoustic touches also helps explain why this record is so often singled out as a key step in the evolution of heavy rock.

The original album is the main attraction, but this deluxe edition adds a genuinely useful second LP of companion audio. Jimmy Page remastered the album for the 2014 reissue campaign and opened the vault for rough mixes, backing tracks and the previously unreleased "La La," giving a clearer sense of how these recordings were built. That extra disc is more than archive filler: it lets you hear the band tightening arrangements and refining the attack that made the finished album so immediate.

This edition also matters because it presents one of Led Zeppelin's biggest records in a more expansive form. Led Zeppelin II has sold over 12 million copies in the US alone, and its reputation rests not just on scale but on how confidently it turns blues sources, heavy grooves and studio detail into something more direct and aggressive. For anyone curious about where the band's identity really locked into place, this is one of the clearest places to start.

Features

• 2xLP, 180g, Deluxe Edition
• Companion audio LP with rough mixes, backing tracks and the previously unreleased "La La"
• Audio newly remastered by Jimmy Page from 192kHz/24-bit transfers of the original analogue tapes
• Pressed at Pallas

Reviews

• Led Zeppelin II had everything – riffs like warfare - The Guardian
• you can hear the real group identity coming together - Rolling Stone Australia
• Led Zeppelin II provided the blueprint for all the heavy metal bands that followed it. - AllMusic.com