Revelation Records

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Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally primarily on hardcore punk. Formerly of New Haven, Connecticut, it is based in Huntington Beach, California. It was founded in 1987 by owner Jordan Cooper, along with Ray Cappo of Youth of Today and Shelter, with the sole intent of producing the Warzone Lower East Side Crew 7". Within the year, they put out two more releases and a limited 4th pressing of Youth of Today's Can't Close My Eyes 7", which had been originally released on Positive Force Records, just for the two of them to trade for vintage G.I.Joes and other action figures. In the first three years, the label put out 23 releases and pressed approximately 50,000 records, and it has continued to release an average of 7-8 albums a year.

Cappo left the business in 1988, to focus on his band Shelter and to start his own label Equal Vision Records (which he later sold to Youth Of Today roadie, former Revelation employee and friend, Steve Reddy), though his albums were still released by Revelation after that, and he now operates Supersoul Records.

Revelation, along with the bands it put out in the late 1980s, is usually credited with creating and cementing the "youth crew" sound of New York City hardcore, which bridged the gap from the earlier bands of almost a decade before and helped carry the music through the early 1990s. Those records firmly established Revelation's reputation in the underground music scene.

To date, the label's best selling releases have been Gorilla Biscuits' Start Today, Inside Out's No Spiritual Surrender and the In-Flight Program compilation. Once famed for putting out straight edge and youth crew hardcore, many fans of those styles argue that the label's releases have fallen off in recent years. During the 90s, the label changed to promote emo bands, like Elliott, in addition to hardcore punk.

[edit] Discography

-1. Judge - Chung King Can Suck It (1989)
1. Warzone - Lower East Side Crew (1987)
2. Various Artists - New York City Hardcore:Together (1987)
3. Sick of it All - Sick of it All (EP) (1987)
4. Gorilla Biscuits - Gorilla Biscuits (EP) (1988)
4b. Gorilla Biscuits - Gorilla Biscuits (LP) (1991)
5. Side By Side - You're Only Young Once... EP (1988)
5b. Side By Side - You're Only Young Once... LP (1997)
6. No For An Answer - You Laugh (1988)
7. Various Artists - New York City Hardcore:The Way It Is (1988)
8. Youth of Today - Break Down The Walls (1988, 1987 original Wishingwell Records pressing)
9. Bold - Speak Out
8./9. Break Down The Walls/Speak Out split CD (1989)
10. Chain Of Strength - True Till Death (1988)
10b. Chain Of Strength - The One Thing That Still Holds True (1996)
11. Bold - Bold (EP) (1989), Looking Back (1993)
12. Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today (1989)
13. Slipknot - Slipknot (EP) (1989)
14. Judge - New York Crew (1989, 1988 original Schism Records pressing)
15. Judge - Bringin' It Down (1989)
16. Shelter - Perfection of Desire (1990)
17. Youth of Today - Youth Of Today (EP) (1990)
18. Quicksand - Quicksand (EP) (1990)
19. Inside Out - No Spiritual Surrender (1990)
20. Judge - The Storm (1990)
21. Supertouch - The Earth Is Flat (1990)
22. Burn - Burn (EP) (1990)
23. Ray Cappo, John Porcelly - Ray & Porcell (1991)
24. Into Another - Into Another (LP) (1991)
25. Farside - Rochambeau (album) (1992)
26. Into Another - Creepy Eepy (1992)
27. Iceburn - Hephaestus (EP) (1992)
28. Underdog - Demos (album) (1993)
29. Statue - Filter The Infection (1993)
30. Mike Judge and Old Smoke - Sights (1993)
31. Orange 9mm - Orange 9mm (EP) (1993)
32. Sense Field - Killed For Less (1994)
33. Farside - Rigged (1994)
34. Iceburn/Engine Kid split LP (1994)
35. Into Another - Ignaurus (1994)
36. Iceburn - Poetry of Fire (1995)
37. Sense Field - Sense Field (LP) (1994)
38. Engine Kid - Angel Wings (1994)
39. Whirlpool - Whirlpool (LP) (1995)
40. Shades Apart - Save It (1995)
41. CIV - Set Your Goals (1995)
41.1 CIV - CIV (EP) (1995)
41.2 CIV - All Twisted (1995)
42. Into Another - Poison Fingers (1995)
43. Quicksand - Manic Compression (1995)
44. State Of The Nation - State Of The Nation (LP) (1995)
45. Farside - Farside (EP) (1995)
46. Sense Field - Building (LP) (1996)
47. Texas Is The Reason - Texas Is The Reason (EP) (1996)
48. Into Another - Seemless (1995)
49. Iceburn - Hephaestus (LP) (1992, 1996)
50. Various Artists - In-Flight Program (1996)
51. Texas Is The Reason - Do You Know Who You Are? (1996)
52. Whirlpool - Liquid Glass (1996)
53. Ignite/Good Riddance split EP - (1996)
54. Ignite - Past Our Means (1996)
55. CIV - Social Climber (1996)
56. Rage Against The Machine - People of the Sun (1997)
57. Shades Apart - Seeing Things (1997)
58. Kiss It Goodbye - She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not (1997)
59. Youth of Today - We're Not In This Alone (1997, 1986 original Wishingwell Records pressing)
60. Better Than A Thousand - Just One (1997)
61. Bluebird - Bluebird (LP) (1997)
62. Youth of Today - Can't Close My Eyes (1998, 1988 original Schism/Caroline pressing)
63. Kiss It Goodbye - Preacher / Target Practice (1997)
64. Speak - Knee Deep In Guilt (1998)
65. Battery - Whatever It Takes (1998)
66. Shelter - Quest For Certainty (1998)
67. In My Eyes - The Difference Between (1998)
68. Elliott - U.S. Songs (1998)
69. Farside - The Monroe Doctrine (album) (1999)
70. Morning Again - As Tradition Dies Slowly (1998)
71. Damnation A.D. - Kingdom Of Lost Souls (1998)
72. Speak 714 - The Scum Also Rises (1999)
73. The Nerve Agents - The Nerve Agents (LP) (1998)
74. Where Fear And Weapons Meet - Where Fear Ans Weapons Meet (EP) (1998)
75. Gameface - Every Last Time (1999)
76. Sparkmarker - Treasure Chest (199)
77. Kill Holiday - Somewhere Between The Wrong Is Right (1999)
78. The Judas Factor - Ballads in Blue China (1999)
79. Will Haven - WHVN (1999)
80. In My Eyes - Nothing To Hide (1999)
81. Kiss It Goodbye - Choke (EP) (1999)
82. By A Thread - The Last of the Daydreams (1999)
83. Garrison - The Bend Before the Break (1999)
84. Himsa - Himsa (EP) (1999)
85. Fastbreak - Whenever You're Ready (1999)
86. Where Fear And Weapons Meet - The Weapon (1999)
87. Himsa - Ground Breaking Ceremony (1999)
88. Elliott - Calvary Song / The Fan And The Bellows (2000)
89. Drowningman - How They Light Cigarettes In Prison (2000)
90. Gameface/Errortype:11 - What's Up Bro? (2000)
91. Ignite - Call On My Brothers (2000)
92. The Judas Factor - Kiss Suicide (2000)
93. Garrison - A Mile In Cold Water (2000)
94. The Nerve Agents - Days Of The White Owl (2000)
95. Elliott - False Cathedrals (2000)
96. Drowningman - Rock and Roll Killing Machine (2000)
97. The Movielife - This Time Next Year (2000)
98. The Explosion - Steal This (EP) (2000)
99. Gameface - Always On (2000)
100. Various Artists - Revelation Records 100 (2002)
101. Right Brigade - Right Brigade (LP) (2001)
102. Fall Silent - Six Years in the Desert (2002)
103. Garrison - Be A Criminal (2001)
104. Will Haven - Carpe Diem (LP) (2001)
105. Thirty-Two Frames - Thirty-Two Frames (EP) (2002)
106. Himsa - Death Is Infinite (2001)
107. Curl Up And Die - Unfortunately We're Not Robots (2002)
108. Burn - Last Great Sea (2002)
109. Fall Silent - Drunken Violence (2002)
111. Dag Nasty - Minority of One (2002)
112. Since By Man - We Sing The Body Electric (2003)
113. Pitch Black - Pitch Black (LP) (2002)
114. Christiansen - Forensics Brothers And Sisters! (2003)
115. Shai Hulud - That Within Blood Ill Tempered (2003)
116. Elliott - Song In The Air (2003)
117. Curl Up and Die - But The Past Ain't Through With Us (2003)
118. Garrison - The Silhouette (2003)
119. Christiansen - Stylish Nihilists (2003)
120. On The Might Of Princes - Sirens (LP) (2003)
121. Call Me Lightning - The Trouble We're In (LP) (2004)
122. Judge - What It Meant: The Complete Discography (LP) (2005)
123. Since By Man - A Love Hate Relationship (2004)
124. Pitch Black - This Is The Modern Sound (LP) (2005)
125. The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower - Love In The Fascist Brothel (LP) (2005)
126. Curl Up And Die - The One Above All, The End Of All That Is (LP) (2005)
127. Temper Temper - S/T (LP) (2005)
128. Shai Hulud - A Comprehensive Retrospective (LP) (2005)
129. Bold - The Search: 1985-1989 (LP) (2005)
130. Various Artists - Generations: A Hardcore Compilation (LP) (2005)
131. Elliott - Photorecording (LP) (2005)
132. Since By Man - Pictures From The Hotel Apocalypse (LP) (2005)
133. The Twilight Transmission - The Dance of Destruction (LP) (2005)
134. Shook Ones - Slaughter Of The Insole 7") (2006)
135. Gracer - Voices Travel (LP) (2006)
136. Sinking Ships - Disconnecting (LP) (2006)
137. Shai Hulud - A Profound Hatred of Man (LP) (2006)
138. Shai Hulud - Hearts Once Nourished with Hope and Compassion (LP) (2006)
139. End Of A Year - Sincerely (2006)
140. Down To Nothing - Higher Learning 7" (2006)
142. Shook Ones - Facetious Folly Feat (LP) (2006)