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| Hydra Head Records Official Website: http://www.hydrahead.com About:
"I grew up in New Mexico and that's where Hydra Head started in '93, when I was a junior in high school. I started Hydra Head as a distribution, buying records from Ebullition, Gravity, Victory, Vermiform, Lookout, etc. - just about anything I could get rid of in my area - which wasn't much, really. After a while I wanted to get a little more involved in my work, thus deciding that starting a label would be the next logical step. I contacted a few bands that I liked, tried to do a compilation, and talked to some local bands, but nothing really panned out until I met Coalesce's roadie at the time (at a show I booked for them in Santa Fe in early '95). He gave me a tape of his band Vent, which would become the first Hydra Head release. That fall I moved to Boston to attend art school, and that's when the Vent 7" was released. After that I began making contacts with bands in the area such as Roswell, Corrin, Piebald, and Converge. After a couple of semi-successful 7"s and a CD things began to pick up, and over the course of a couple years it went from a bedroom distro/label to a full-time job after I graduated from college in '99. We've just been slowly growing since the time I came to Boston."
(from an interview with Aaron Turner, co-owner) Artists with releases on this label:
Cave In, Pelican, The Austerity Program, Discordance Axis, Keelhaul, Tusk, Big Business, Jesu, Isis, Boris With Merzbow, Khanate, Knut, Everlovely Lightningheart, Daughters, Oxbow, Stephen Brodsky's Octave Museum, Botch, Zozobra, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Pet Genius, The Huguenots, Torche, Clouds, Stove Bredsky Recent ReviewsRecent NewsThese Arms Are Snakes/Pelican split updates These Arms Are Snakes have posted an update about their long-awaited collaboration with Chicago post-rock/metal/hardcore kingpins Pelican: It looks like this long-rumored project is finally going to see the light of day. Our split/collaboration with Pelican is off to the pressing plant and should be all packaged up in time for our West Coast tour with sBACH in September. For those not hip to the news, we teamed up with Pelican for their encore at Islington Academy in London back in the spring…Jesu plans new EP Jesu, the prolific project from former Godflesh mastermind Justin Broadrick, has announced the release of a new EP. The record is titled Why Are We Not Perfect? and is due out September 09, 2008. The five track EP includes the two tracks that were originally released on a split with Eluvium as well as three new tracks. The album promises less "pounding guitars" and more "texture and melody" than past…Zozobra: "Bird of Prey" Zozobra (Cave In, Isis) have posted a full album stream of their new full length. The record, Bird of Prey, is the follow up to 2007's Harmonic Tremors. You can check it out here.…Zozobra: "In Jetstreams" Zozobra has posted some music from their forthcoming album, Bird of Prey. The record is due out August 5th and follows Harmonic Tremors. You can find "In Jetstreams" right here.…Harvey Milk Harvey Milk have announced European and US tour dates this…MC Dälek launches Deadverse Recordings MC Dälek of shoegaze/noise-influenced hip hop act Dälek has announced the launch of Deadverse Recordings. The aim is to form an artist-friendly label in the tradition of Hydrahead, Ipecac and Public Guilt. The MC added: I basically started deadverse recordings because I know of too many great musicians with amazing albums, obviously some of which I have been lucky enough to work on musically as well, that were not seeing the light of day. During my recording career, I've been blessed to work…Gridlink (ex-Discordance Axis) announces debut Gridlink, the new project from Jon Chang of grindcore innovators, Discordance Axis. The record is titled Amber Gray and is due out today. A track from the album is available on their myspace page.…Clouds: "Year Zero" Clouds, the new project from former Cave In guitarist Adam McGrath has another new song from their upcoming Hydrahead album and follow up to Legendary Demo. The lineup is rounded out by members of Kid Kilowatt, 27, The Suicide File and The Hope Conspiracy amongst others, You can check out "Year Zero" on their myspace…Stove Bredsky (Cave In): "The Black Ribbon Award" Stephen Brodsky of Cave In has launched a stream of his latest project, Stove Bredsky. The record is titled The Black Ribbon Award and was released on May 20, 2008. You can check it out here.…Pelican: "Dead Between The Walls" Pelican have posted the new video from their 2007 full length, City of Echoes. Of course, Europeans and Canadians can't watch the video because its hosted by MTV and well, if you aren't American, you don't deserve to see this video. So stop trying, ya commie. Anyway, guitarist Larent Schroeder-Lebectalks a bit about the video and you can read his description of the experience shooting Pelican's first video… |
