Citizendia
Your Ad Here

Revelation Records
Founded 1987
Founder Jordan Cooper & Ray Cappo
Genre Hardcore
Country of origin US
Official website http://www.revelationrecords.com

Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally and primarily on hardcore punk. Ray Cappo (aka Ray of Today is the former vocalist for the hardcore bands Youth of Today, Reflex From Pain, Shelter, Better Than A The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An independent record label (or indie record label) is a Record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the Major record labels Hardcore punk (now usually referred to as simply hardcore) is a subgenre of Punk rock that originated in North America in the late 1970s

Contents

History

Formerly of New Haven, Connecticut, it is now based in Huntington Beach, California. Huntington Beach is a seaside city in Orange County in Southern California, United States. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It was founded in 1987 by owner Jordan Cooper, along with Ray Cappo of Youth of Today, with the sole intent of producing the Warzone Lower East Side Crew 7". See also Musical groups established in 1987 Record labels established in 1987 Events Ray Cappo (aka Ray of Today is the former vocalist for the hardcore bands Youth of Today, Reflex From Pain, Shelter, Better Than A Youth of Today was a Straight edge Hardcore punk band whose vocalist was from Danbury, Connecticut, and whose remaining members were from various 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 also operated Supersoul Records. Shelter is a Hare Krishna Hardcore punk band formed by Ray Cappo. Equal Vision Records is a Record label based in Albany New York, which has a focus in hardcore or punk-based rock genres Super Soul Records is a Record label founded by Ray Cappo ( Better Than a Thousand, Shelter & Youth of Today) that was distributed

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. Youth crew is a subgenre of Hardcore punk that was pioneered by 7 Seconds in the early to mid-1980s and which thrived in the New York hardcore scene Those records firmly established Revelation's reputation in the underground music scene.

The Story of the Revelation Records logo

Jordan Cooper explains; "We used stars on the first few releases as a background which was Ray's idea. He liked how Dangerhouse Records had black and yellow bars as their background on the labels so he wanted us to have something to identify Rev with like that. Dangerhouse Records was a punk music production company in Los Angeles California. We got a Letraset sheet of stars and used it on the first three records we put out. The fourth record was going to be the Gorilla Biscuits 7" and their friend (who would later join the band as a second guitar player), Alex Brown offered to do the layout for them. Gorilla Biscuits are a New York hardcore band consisting of Anthony Civarelli, Walter Schreifels, Arthur Smilios, Alex Brown Alex Brown may refer to Alex Brown (Scottish footballer (born 1939 Scottish footballer Alex Brown (rugby player (born 1979 rugby Alex took the star concept and put the letter "r" in a star and had the label name under it inside a box. Ray, Alex and Porcell all lived together in Brooklyn at the time so Ray saw the artwork before I did. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. He really liked the idea and called me to tell me about it. From his description over the phone I re-created it. That was the logo we ended up using because we had already used it on a few things (probably flyers, catalogs and ads). We used it on the GB 7" and the Side By Side and No For An Answer records and repressings of the Sick Of It All 7" too. Sick of It All ( SOIA) is a New York hardcore band formed by brothers Lou Koller (vocals and Pete Koller ( Guitar) Armand Then we were working with Dave Bett at our main distributor Important on the layout for the New York City Hardcore - The Way It Is compilation and he offered to clean it up for us. He did and that's basically the logo we've been using ever since. "

Label releases

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. Gorilla Biscuits are a New York hardcore band consisting of Anthony Civarelli, Walter Schreifels, Arthur Smilios, Alex Brown Start Today is an LP by Gorilla Biscuits. It is considered an influential recording in hardcore and Melodic hardcore. No Spiritual Surrender is an EP (later released on CD by the band Inside Out.

Shai Hulud's album That Within Blood Ill-Tempered reached the #39 position on the Billboard Independent Album chart. Shai Hulud is a American five-piece technical Hardcore punk band with Progressive metal influences originally formed in Pompano Beach That Within Blood Ill-Tempered is the second Studio album by Hardcore punk band Shai Hulud.

External links

© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic