Earache Records
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Earache Records is a heavy metal-orientated record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York USA, which helped pioneer extreme music by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal releases in the period 1988-1992.
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Early history
Founded in the late eighties, their first release, with the catalogue reference MOSH 1, was The Accused's album "Return Of Martha Splatterhead" on vinyl in 1987 but the first major release was Napalm Death's Scum album. Their early releases include many albums regarded as genre-defining classics by some of extreme metal's finest bands. There are also a number of sublabels, such as Wicked World Records, Elitist Records, and the short-lived Necrosis Records and Sub Bass Records. Later releases include Deicide (2004) and in 2005 California's modern rockers Adema, who entered the USA Billboard charts top 200 in April of this year.
Earache have become inextricably linked with the death metal scene in particular, owing to its historic policy of not signing black metal groups because of the extreme right-wing views often held by these bands. This was arose when the label made tentative offers about signing Burzum in the early nineties and several of their more left-wing (and incidentally most successful) artists such as Napalm Death threatened to leave should the deal go ahead. However, more recently Earache have signed more politically ambiguous groups such as Ewigkeit.
Notable artists
- Bolt Thrower
- Beecher
- Carcass
- Cathedral
- Decapitated
- Deicide
- Entombed
- Godflesh
- Hate Eternal
- Iron Monkey
- Morbid Angel
- Napalm Death
- Pitchshifter
- Terrorizer
- The Berzerker
- Vader
See also
External link
- official site (http://www.earache.com)
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