Black Mark Production
Black Mark Production | |
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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
- ^ Black Mark Production .
- ↑ 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. .
- ↑ a b Andreas Schiffmann: Label Special: Black Mark. It all started in Berlin. In: Rock Hard . 371 (April 2018), pp. 34-35 .
- ^ Black Mark Productions Complete Artist Roster .