| Relapse Records | |
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| Founded | 1990 |
| Founder | Matthew F. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990 Jacobson |
| Genre | Hardcore punk Grindcore Doom metal Death metal Stoner metal Metalcore |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Official website | http://www.relapse.com |
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The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August, 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado with the guidance of his good friend and mentor Kevin Kopp. This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1990 The City of Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality that is the third most populous city in the State of Colorado and the 59th most populous city The first two releases on the label were 7”s by the hardcore bands Velcro Overdose and Face of Decline, closely followed by three bands which would become amongst the biggest on the label, Deceased, Suffocation and Incantation. Deceased is a death / Thrash metal band from Virginia, that has attained a dedicated though cult following throughout a lengthy recording and live career Suffocation is an American Death metal band The band was formed in 1990 and has since released many highly-regarded releases including the first ever compact disc Incantation is an American Death metal band that was formed by John McEntee and Paul Ledney in 1989.
After this, Matt Jacobson became acquainted with William Yurkiewicz Jr. , who became his partner in the record label. Yurkiewicz had founded his own record label, which was soon to release albums from the bands General Surgery, Disrupt, Destroy, Misery and Exit-13. General Surgery is a Swedish Goregrind and Death metal group known as one of the earliest Carcass clones Disrupt is an American Anarchist Crust punk and Grindcore band from Boston Massachusetts, United States. Destroy was a Minneapolis Crust punk band Destroy originally formed sometime in 1988 and broke up sometime in the spring of 1994 Exit-13 was a Grindcore band from Millersville, Pennsylvania. The two joined forces to create Relapse Records, aiming to release high quality professionally packaged extreme music.
In 1992, the label was expanded with the creation of its subsidiary label called Release Entertainment, which specializes in experimental, ambient, industrial and noise titles.
The label has a store off of South Street in Philadelphia, near several other notable "underground" record stores, and in the past Tower Records. Philadelphia (ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə Tower Records was a Retail music chain based in Sacramento California, USA
The music
The label specializes in extreme and experimental varieties of heavy metal and grindcore, and they have a history of signing bands that cultivate influence and devoted cult followings in the world of extreme music while being largely ignored by mainstream media, for instance Nile, Mortician, Amorphis, Neurosis, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Exhumed, Pig Destroyer and Nasum. Nile is a brutal / Technical death metal band from Greenville, South Carolina that assembled in 1993 Mortician is a Brutal death metal / Deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989 Amorphis is a Finnish metal band started by Jan Rechberger Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in 1990 Neurosis is an experimental metal band based out of Oakland, California. Agoraphobic Nosebleed (abbreviated as ANb) is a Grindcore band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. Exhumed is an American Deathgrind band from San Jose. They were most recently signed to Relapse Records. Pig Destroyer is a Virginian Extreme metal band Biography The band formed in 1997 with vocalist J Nasum (pronunciation) was a political Swedish band that played a mixture of Grindcore and Death metal. Recently, however Relapse Records has become considerably more mainstream, with appearances on the front cover of the magazine Kerrang! and video plays on TV music channels, especially of such bands as The Dillinger Escape Plan and Mastodon. Kerrang! is a weekly rock Magazine published by Bauer Consumer Media in the United Kingdom. The Dillinger Escape Plan (sometimes abbreviated DEP or TDEP) is an American Mathcore band from Morris Plains New Jersey. Mastodon is a Grammy -nominated heavy metal band and are one of the most notable bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. The word has also been spread by the sponsorship of such festivals as the Milwaukee Metalfest.
In October 2006, Relapse Records became the first record label to launch its own branded 'search and win' engine which allows fans to do internet searches while giving them a chance to win exclusive prizes. October events and holidays Children's Book Week ( England) - First Week of October National Day ( China People's Republic Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
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This is a list of notable Record labels Due to the large number of entries the list has been divided by the first character of the label's name See also The following is a list of bands past and present who have had recordings released on the Relapse Records label (this list includes artists on the Release Entertainment subsidiary asDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic