No fashion records

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No fashion records
Parent company MNW
Active years 1992-2004
founder Tomas Nyqvist
Seat Stockholm ( ) SwedenSweden
Genre (s) Black metal , death metal

No Fashion Records is a Swedish music label from Stockholm , whose focus is particularly on bands from the fields of Black Metal and Death Metal . The most active publication phase was in the time window from 1998 to 2000. An official end has not been announced, but the last publication with an NFR catalog number dates from 2004 and there is no website.

history

The roots for No Fashion Records go back to 1988, when the then 14-year-old Swedish tape trader Thomas Nyqvist founded Fanzine Putrefaction Magazine . Despite the low circulation in the three-digit range, magazines are also ordered from abroad and with the combination of tape trading and fanzine, Nyqvist is fed current music by Bestial Summoning from the Netherlands in early 1992 . The music was the most chaotic thing he had ever heard and he couldn't make out a single instrument, Nyqvist later reported in an interview. But it was immediately clear to him that he had to publish the music regularly. The start-up capital for his label - and the first edition consisting of 1,000 records - was made up of the proceeds from the fanzine and the legacy of his mother, who passed away at an early age, and which he had access to at the age of 18. Then followed u. a. the debut albums by Marduk ("Dark Endless", 1992), Katatonia (" Dance of December Souls ", 1993) and Dissection ("The Somberlain", 1993). Only a few releases later, more precisely: after the Throne Of Ahaz 'debut album "Nifelheim" in 1995, Nyqvist handed over responsibility to House of Kicks .

In an undated interview from 1998, Nyqvist described the handover as a sensible step: he had gone through a personal crisis after the release of "In The Forest Of The Dreaming Dead" ( Unanimated , 1993) and was not very interested in the matter of the label. In addition, he was due to the costs u. a. for recording studios, so he asked House of Kicks, as its main distributor, if they could take care of it. He does not regret this change, as the makers behind House of Kicks are very good people and the label has been doing well since the change.

In the book “Swedish Death Metal”, published in 2006, Daniel Ekeroth describes another variant in a few words: “Later, No Fashion Records fell into the clutches of House of Kicks under dubious circumstances . "( English " Later, [House of Kicks] would get their hands on No Fashion Records, under dubious circumstances. " )

With a little more than 20 years gap, Nyqvist described the change with details that are closer to the summary of Ekeroth. House of Kicks would have held him off with payments for delivered records, later invited him to their office in order to conclude a better contract (5% each for each record sold to Nyqvist and the respective band, if House of Kicks had full responsibility ), to take over the label with this contract, of which he did not receive a copy. As one of the bands affected, the musicians from Katatonia wanted the rights to their music back because they viewed the label change as a breach of contract. In fact, House of Kicks was harmed and Nyqvist went bankrupt instead. Dark Funeral later also entered into a seven-year legal battle over the release rights, which was settled in 2008 in favor of the band.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Niklas Göransson: Tomas Nyqvist (No Fashion, Putrefaction Magazine) interview. In: bardomethodology.com. September 8, 2016, accessed December 21, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c Iron Fist Production. In: toroddfuglesteg.com. Retrieved December 20, 2017 .
  3. ^ Daniel Ekeroth: Swedish Death Metal . Bazillion Points Books, Brooklyn, NY 2008, ISBN 978-0-9796163-1-0 , pp. 178 ( full text / preview in Google book search).
  4. ↑ DARK FUNERAL: Legal Battle With MNW / NO FASHION RECORDS Finally Over. In: blabbermouth.net. November 24, 2008, accessed December 21, 2017 .