Friday, 16 September 2011

Record Label Research.

Roadrunner Records is an American record label that concentrates primarily on heavy metal and death metal bands. It was founded in 1980 by Cees Wessels. It was distributed by Atlantic Record Groups (in the US) and WEA International inc (outside the US). The country of origin is the Netherlands. It's genre of music is Heavy metal, Death metal, Hard rock, Blues rock. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Road Runner includes bands such as Alexisonfire, Alter Bridge, Atreyu, Kids In Glass Houses, Killswitch Engage, Kiss, Lamb of God, Nickelback, Slipknot, The Devil Wears Prada and Underoath.

Warner Bros is an American record label, with Jack Warner as the founder of the current warner music group. It was established in 1958 and for a while was part of a group of labels, owned and opperated by larger parent cooperations. Over the 1960s to the early 2000s, Warner Bros. Records grew from a struggling record company to become one of the top recording labels in the world. It has a close relationship to Warner Bros. Pictures. There is no specific genre in this label.

Artists that have been signed consist of big names such as; Red Hot Chili Peppers, Avenged Sevenfold, Biffy Clyro, Metallica,  MuseGreen day and My Chemical Romance. I have specifically selected screen grabbed artists from my genre.


Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based independant record label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. The label was originally created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independant record label. The distubuters are the Alternative Distrubutors Alliance and EMI records. The genre of this label is Punk Rock, Hardcore Punk, Pop Punk, Post-Hardcore, Metalcore, Alternative Rock, Alternative Hip Hop, Grindcore.
Artists with releases on this label:
NOFX, Downset, Guttermouth, Down By Law, The Offspring, Rancid, Descendents, Pennywise, 98 Mute, Madball, New Bomb Turks, Millencolin, Pulley, Bouncing Souls, Hot Water Music, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Osker, Deviates, Dag Nasty, Death By Stereo, Agnostic Front, The Dwarves, Ten Foot Pole, The Joykiller, The Undeclinables, Satanic Surfers, ALL, Bad Religion, 1208, Dillinger Escape Plan, Ikara Colt, Turbonegro, Matchbook Romance, I Against I, Motion City Soundtrack, The Weakerthans, The Special Goodness, Atmosphere, Error, Beatsteaks, The Matches, Scatter The Ashes, From First To Last, Converge, Sage Francis, Dead Fucking Last, Youth Group, RKL, Day of Contempt, I Am Ghost, Some Girls, Escape the Fate, The Coup, The Robocop Kraus, The Draft, Heavens, Vanna, Gallows, The Higher, Parkway Drive, Suicidal Tendencies, I Set My Friends on Fire, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Bring Me the Horizon, Leathermouth, New Found Glory, The Color of Violence, Set Your Goals, Frank Turner, Every Time I Die, The Ghost of a Thousand, Story of the Year, Alkaline Trio, Off with Their Heads, Sing It Loud, Weezer, Social Distortion, Thursday, Heartsounds, Falling in Reverse

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