Black Mark Production

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Black Mark Production
Active years since 1991
founder Börje Forsberg
Seat Bruzaholm (Sweden)
Website www.blackmark.net
Genre (s) Extreme metal

Black Mark Production is a Swedish extreme metal label founded by Börje Forsberg .

history

The label was founded in 1991 by Börje Forsberg. Forsberg had been in the music business for 30 years. Black Mark Production initially had its headquarters in Berlin only , but later also settled in Stockholm , Toronto and New York . The label is now headquartered in Villa Hammerheart in Bruzaholm, Sweden . Initially only active in Europe, the label spreads further to the USA and Canada . The label's best-known bands include Edge of Sanity , Cemetary , Lake of Tears , Morgana Lefay , Necrophobic , Nightingale , Bathory , Oz , Memento Mori and Fleshcrawl . The band Bathory in particular has been closely associated with the label since it was founded. The head of the band, Quorthon , was the son of Börje Forsberg.

Forsberg, the founder of the label, died on September 14, 2017 after a long illness at the age of 73.

Artist (excerpt)

Publications (selection)

  • 1991: Bathory - Twilight of the Gods
  • 1993: Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
  • 1994: Edge of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
  • 1994: Lake of Tears - Greater Art
  • 1995: Bathory - Octagon
  • 1996: Necrophobic - Spawned by Evil
  • 1996: Edge of Sanity - Crimson
  • 1997: Necrophobic - Darkside
  • 1997: Lake of Tears - A Crimson Cosmos
  • 1997: Edge of Sanity - Cryptic
  • 1999: Dan Swanö - Moontower
  • 1999: Necrophobic - The Third Antichrist
  • 1999: Lake of Tears - Forever Autumn
  • 2002: Lake of Tears - The Neonai
  • 2003: Edge of Sanity - Crimson II
  • 2004: Lake of Tears - Greatest Tears Vol. 1
  • 2004: Lake of Tears - Greatest Tears Vol. 2
  • 2005: Apostasy - Devilution

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Black Mark Production .
  2. The Company ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blackmark.net
  3. a b Andreas Schiffmann: Label Special: Black Mark. It all started in Berlin. In: Rock Hard . 371 (April 2018), pp. 34-35 .
  4. ^ Black Mark Productions Complete Artist Roster .