Earache Records
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| Earache Records | |||
| Founded | 1985 | ||
| Distributing label | ? | ||
| Genre(s) | Punk, Metal, Grindcore, Death metal | ||
| Country | UK | ||
| Web address | http://www.earache.com/ | ||
Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme music by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records, in the period 1988-1992.
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[edit] History
Earache was founded in the late eighties by Digby "Dig" Pearson. In 1985, before adopting the name "Earache Records", Pearson released "Anglican Scrape Attic", a compilation of early hardcore punk and crossover acts (Hirax, Lipcream, Concrete Sox, etc.). The first official Earache release, on vinyl in 1987, and with the catalogue reference MOSH 1, was The Accüsed's Return of Martha Splatterhead. The label's first major release, however, was Napalm Death's Scum. Other early records include albums by some of extreme metal's finest bands, regarded as genre-defining classics.[citation needed]
Earache has a number of sublabels, including Wicked World Records, Elitist Records, and the short-lived Necrosis Records and Sub Bass Records.
Later releases include work by Deicide and by Californian rockers Adema, who entered the USA Billboard charts top 200 in April 2005.
Earache has become inextricably linked with the death metal scene in particular, but also released Welsh ragga-metal act Dub War and Nottingham's hardcore techno outfit Ultraviolence, each time expanding the boundaries of extreme music, and opening a path that other labels have followed, sometimes with greater success[citation needed]. Earache have signed even more musically adventurous groups such as Ewigkeit in recent years, but the death metal and grindcore with which it made its name still predominates.
[edit] Notable artists (Past and Present)
- Adema
- Akercocke
- Anal Cunt
- At the Gates
- The Berzerker
- Biomechanical
- Brutal Truth
- Bolt Thrower
- Carcass
- Cathedral
- Coalesce
- Decapitated
- December Wolves
- Deicide
- Dub War
- Entombed
- Ewigkeit
- Extreme Noise Terror
- Godflesh
- Hate Eternal
- Insision
- Massacre
- Misery Loves Company
- Morbid Angel
- Mortiis
- Municipal Waste
- Naked City
- Napalm Death
- Sleep
- Terrorizer
- Ultraviolence
- Usurper
- Vader
