Hydra Head Records
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Hydra Head Records | |
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Founded | 1993 |
Founder | Aaron Turner |
Distributing label | Blue Collar Distro |
Genre | Sludge Metal Stoner Metal Doom Metal Post-metal Noise Experimental Rock Black Metal |
Country of origin | United States |
Official website | hydrahead.com |
Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis) in 1993. Some of the bands signed to the label include Cave In, Pelican, Xasthur, and Jesu.
Botch, Khanate, and Harkonen were all signed to Hydra Head prior to their respective disbandings.
Hydra Head Records has recently relocated to Los Angeles, California from their former home in Boston, Massachusetts.
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[edit] Current roster
- 27
- Agoraphobic Nosebleed
- The Austerity Program
- Big Business
- Botch
- Boris
- Cable
- Cave In
- Cavity
- Craw
- Dälek
- Daughters
- Discordance Axis
- Drawing Voices
- Everlovely Lightningheart
- Harkonen
- Heresi
- Isis
- Jesu
- Kayo Dot
- Keelhaul
- Khanate
- Khlyst
- Knut
- Logh
- Lotus Eaters
- Lustmord
- Merzbow
- The Octave Museum
- Oxbow
- Pelican
- Pet Genius
- Phantomsmasher
- These Arms Are Snakes
- Xasthur
- Zozobra
There is one imprint label as well, called Tortuga. Their roster includes:
- The Gersch
- Old Man Gloom
- Scissorfight
- Frog
- 5ive (not the boy band)
- Tusk
[edit] Past artists
- Age of Reason
- Barbaro
- Boxer Rebellion
- Buzzov*en
- Cattlepress
- Coalesce
- Converge
- Corrin
- Cult of Luna
- Drowingman
- Jesuit
- Kid Kilowatt
- Mare
- Miltown
- Neurosis
- Piebald
- Roswell
- Six Going on Seven
- Soilent Green
- Sunn O)))
- The Hollomen
- The Never Never
- Today Is the Day
- Unionsuit
- Vent