Earache Records
| Earache Records | |
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 Logo of the label |
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| Active years | since 1985 |
| founder | Digby "Dig" Pearson |
| Seat |
Nottingham , United Kingdom New York , USA |
| Website | http://www.earache.com/ |
| Sub-label | Necrosis, Wicked World |
| Genre (s) | Extreme metal |
Earache Records is a British music label with headquarters in Nottingham , Great Britain and a branch in New York , USA . The label specializes in releasing extreme metal .
history
The label was founded in late 1985 by Digby "Dig" Pearson. The first release was the album "Return of Martha Splatterhead" by the hardcore punk band The Accüsed in 1987. Soon after, music groups like Napalm Death , Morbid Angel , Anal Cunt , Carcass and Bolt Thrower were signed, all of which were leading Should be top in the field of Death Metal and Grindcore .
In the wake of the success of Earache Records , other music labels were soon founded, which mostly signed extreme metal bands such as B. Relapse Records . In 1989 the sub-label Necrosis was founded by members of the band Carcass, but the label was soon dissolved. In the mid-1990s there was a slump in sales in the Death Metal sector. The label terminated many music groups or the music groups themselves ended their activities (e.g. Nocturnus ). It was around this time that the first reports surfaced in the media that the label was treating the music bands badly and withholding royalties. At the end of the 1990s, the draft horses of the label Napalm Death and Bolt Thrower also quit. In order to establish new young bands, Earache Records founded a sub-label called Wicked World in 1999 . It was possible to get young talented up-and-coming bands such as B. Decapitated , Hate Eternal and Severe Torture to sign and establish in the scene.
The release of a split EP by the band Lawnmower Deth in 1989 ensured that the painter Dan Seagrave became the most important cover designer for death metal in the early 1990s .
In recent years Earache has also signed bands from the fields of rock'n'roll and blues rock (including Rival Sons and The Temperance Movement ) and thus also identified themselves as a label for less harsh styles of rock music.
Bands
- Akercocke
- Annihilator
- At the gates
- Biomechanical
- Blackberry Smoke
- Blood Red Throne
- Bonded by Blood
- Bring Me the Horizon
- Brutal truth
- Bolt thrower
- Carcass
- Cathedral
- Cauldron
- Cerebral Bore
- Clutch
- Cult of Luna
- Decapitated
- Deicide
- Diamond plate
- Enforcer
- Entombed
- Ephel Duath
- Evile
- Exmortem
- Gama Bomb
- Godflesh
- Hate Eternal
- Ignominious
- Incarceration
- Insect Warfare
- Lawnmower Deth
- Massacre
- Morbid Angel
- Municipal Waste
- Napalm Death
- Oceano
- Order of Ennead
- Pitchshifter
- Rival Sons
- Severe Torture
- Short Sharp Shock
- Sleep
- Terrorizer
- The Berzerker
- The Boy Will Drown
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- The Haunted
- The Temperance Movement
- Vader
- vector
- Violator
- White Wizzard
- Woods of Ypres
- Your demise