| I Scream Records | |
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| Founded | 1994 |
| Founder | Laurens Kusters |
| Distributor(s) | ADA (North America) / ADA Global (rest of the world excluding Japan) Avex Group (Japan)[1] |
| Genre | Punk, Hardcore, Metal |
| Country of origin | Belgium |
| Official Website | I Scream Records Official Website |
I Scream Records is a label founded by Laurens Kusters in 1994 in Brussels, Belgium. The label has an extensive catalogue and is one of the leading punk and hardcore labels in Western Europe.
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The label’s first releases was from the band Deviate, a band in which Laurens Kusters played the drums. By the late nineties, I Scream Records had over 25 active bands.
In late 2005, I Scream Records opened its US headquarters to work its rosters of bands (90% of which are American) through their own network. Previously, the label's masters were issued under license in the USA by companies such as Victory Records, Bridge 9 Records and Thorp Records.
Early successes include releases from Deviate, Discipline, Backfire, Stigmata, Agnostic Front, Blood for Blood and Vision
Recently the label has released records by Life of Agony, Madball, Skarhead, Wisdom in Chains, Incite, Death by Stereo, The Last Resort, Reno Divorce, M.O.D., Jaya the Cat, Stigma, Guajiro and Tying Tiffany to name of few. I Scream Records has also teamed up with Roadrunner Records to re-issue some of their old masters by bands such as Wrecking Crew, Token Entry & Earth Crisis.
In 2008 I Scream Records teamed up with ADA for an exclusive North American distribution deal and extended that deal with ADA Global for the rest of the world in 2009. That same year the label also signed a worldwide co-publishing deal with EMI Publishing for its copyrights.
I Scream will be distributed by Avex Group in Japan starting April 2010, with the first offering being Incite's new album The Slaughter.
In 2001, I Scream Records teamed up with Eastpak, as the main sponsor, to start what would become one of the biggest European tour packages ever put together: The Eastpak Resistance Tour, an initiative from Rob Van Ravens and Laurens Kusters which saw an amazing success in less than two years time. These yearly tours had an impressive[says who?] line-up of bands such as Sick of It All, Biohazard, Hatebreed, Agnostic Front, Madball, Discipline, Suicidal Tendencies, Death by Stereo, Unearth, Walls of Jericho, and Ignite to name only a few. I Scream Records recorded the Belgian show of each tour, at the Ancienne Belgique in Brussels, which are released as The Eastpak Resistance Tour DVD Series. In 2005, Eastpak decided to go its own way with a new tour and the Resistance Tour was put in the fridge.
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