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Having over 200 releases behind them, Chicago label Victory Records has been one of the driving forces in independent punk and hardcore music over the past decade. One look at their roster tells you the story of their past, present, and future.
Past bands on the label include Bad Brains, Boy Sets Fire, Earth Crisis, Grade, Hatebreed, Refused, Shelter, Skarhead, and Warzone - a who's who of modern hardcore, if you will. While many have criticized Victory's current roster for not having any bite, the label still possesses one of the most defining voices in the genre, Snapcase. They also have a surprisingly strong group of ska-related bands, including Catch 22, Streetlight Manifesto, and Voodoo Glow Skulls 2001 was a defining year for Victory, with the release of Thursday's Full Collapse. A record that has since come to define modern emotional hardcore, the disc was first released to little fanfare. Over the course of 2001 and 2002, however, the record picked up steam, and as the band made the leap to major label Island Records, controversy surrounded the issue with the band questioning Victory about their business practices, something that has always been a point of contention about the label. Victory has taken a decidedly poppier stance in recent years. Student Rick, Count The Stars, Spitalfield, The Reunion Show, Bayside, and the enormous success of Taking Back Sunday have opened up the label to thousands of kids previously blind to the label's history. This trend shows no signs of stopping with the label's most recent signings. Artists with releases on this label:
Reach The Sky, Grade, Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Boy Sets Fire, Grey Area, Thursday, Waterdown, Minus, Thumb, Catch 22, Guilt, Refused, River City Rebels, In Cold Blood, Snowdogs, Taking Back Sunday, Atreyu, Strife, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Darkest Hour, Ten Foot Pole, The Reunion Show, Blood For Blood, Somehow Hollow, Count The Stars, Dead To Fall, Silverstein, Freya, Spitalfield, Hoods, Streetlight Manifesto, Glasseater, All Out War, Between The Buried And Me, Burning Heads, Bayside, Scars Of Tomorrow, Madcap, The Hurt Process, Martyr AD, Hawthorne Heights, Straylight Run, Bury Your Dead, Action Action, The Black Maria, Comeback Kid, Sinai Beach, Giles, The Forecast, The Junior Varsity, A Perfect Murder, The Audition, The Tossers, Aiden, With Honor, June, Smoking Popes, The Autumn Offering, Nights Like These, The Sleeping, Path of Resistance, Moros Eros, Beneath the Sky, Emmure, Endwell, A Day to Remember, 1997, The Warriors, Four Letter Lie, Driver Side Impact, Ringworm, Secret Lives of the Freemasons, Arise and Ruin Recent ReviewsRecent NewsThe Sleeping post first studio update The Sleeping have posted the first of a series of studio updates as they work on their new album. The band, which includes members of Skycamefalling are working on the follow up to Questions and…Darkest Hour posts update, shows Critically acclaimed Darkest Hour have announced some shows in December as they take a break from work on their next album. Guitarist Mike Schleibaum announced the shows and talked a little about their time in the studio: We have been traveling between Richmond, VA and Baltimore, MD the past month or so working on the material and couldn't be more stoked. Every Darkest Hour record is an experience to make (to say the least) and this record is no exception. It's been a lot of long hours and long days but the record is beginning to take shape and…Streetlight Manifesto acoustic session posted Alternative Press has posted online an acoustic session and interview with Streetlight Manifesto frontman Tomas Kalnoky. Over 45 minutes, Kalnoky talks about ska potentially being dead, emo potentially being good and how he can't stand being on Victory Records, and in the middle of all that manages to play "Somewhere In The Between," "Forty Days" and "Dear Sergio." Stream it via Alternative…Ray Harkins (Mikoto) Orange County's Mikoto just released their new album, We Are The Architects, the followup to their 2005 self-titled album. The band's vocalist Ray Harkins spoke with our own Sarah El-Hamzawi about the recording of the album and what the band has been up to. You can…Victory signs Wretched Victory has signed Charlotte, North Carolina's Wretched. The band describes themselves as a "melodic/progressive death metal band. Formerly known as And Since Forgotten, they formed in September of 2005. You can check out some music on their myspace page.…Funeral For a Friend / The Sleeping Funeral For A Friend have announced January and February dates in North America in support of their forthcoming full length. The record is titled Memory And Humanity and is due out October 28, 2008. Joining the band will be The…The Tossers detail upcoming album The Tossers have detailed their forthcoming album. The record is titled On A Fine Spring Evening and is due out October 28, 2008.…Across Five Aprils (2001-2008) Chattanooga, TN's Across Five Aprils are calling it quits. The band announced: I could spend all day on here telling you why A5A is calling it quits but the simple truth is we've all just gotten to a point where we have chosen to move on, and we wouldn't have changed our experience with A5A for anything in the world. A5A got to make some of our biggest dreams come true. We got to play with our favorite bands and we befriended our heroes and had the times of our lives. We have become world travelers visiting and playing in Mexico,…Voodoo Glow Skulls (US, South America) Riverside, CA's Voodoo Glow Skulls will be touring the West Coast and South America in October and November. The band has been busy touring throughout the year. The band released Southern California Street…Comeback Kid (South America) After they wrap up their ongoing Canadian tour, Winnipeg's Comeback Kid will be headed to South America for a run of dates in November. The band will release the live DVD+CD, Through the Noise, on October 14,… |
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