![]() TRANSCENDING OBSCURITY - Established in 2005, label owner Kunal Choksi deals with every aspect of his label and offers stunning boxed sets. Top bands: Black Goat, Humanity Delete, Sodomic Baptism, Heathenspawn, DevourerĢ. With a slogan such as “Pure Fucking Metal,” you can’t go wrong! From Mexico City, Mexico, this brutal label is rooted in a diverse roster of International underground bands of death, black, speed, thrash, and old school heavy metal, and has a good track record throughout its many years of existence. ![]() Top bands: Destroyer 666, Pounder, Embalmer, Grave Desecrator, Incantationģ. They have a huge current roster offering various merchandise with great distribution, cheap prices, and fast delivery. The label is very customer friendly by offering tons of deals, including free compilation downloads, stickers, and special $1 CD offers. The company has a diverse selection of death, black, thrash, grind, doom, and heavy metal from a big selection of LPs to shirts to DVDs to posters, etc. HELLS HEADBANGERS - Founded in 2000 in Valley City, OH, Hells Headbangers is one of the longest-standing independent labels and biggest online shopping labels around. Top bands: Led to the Grave, Gutted Christ, Murdersome, Ashes of Mankind, Ribspreaderīandcamp: Ĥ. Bands represented by Lost Apparitions Records are anywhere from old school death metal pioneers to local up and coming bands from the area. LOST APPARITIONS - Formed in Luray, VA in 2009 as a CD/record store, Lost Apparitions arrived to provide music to the fans of all subgenre’s of metal, while mostly to promote the local scene. Admittedly, my taste is more underground, but it doesn’t mean that the band shouldn’t get more views on YouTube or have more likes on their Facebook page.” Although there are many small DIY underground labels worth mentioning, this is OUTBURN’S TOP 5 UNDERGROUND METAL RECORD LABELSĥ. “Without thinking about such things, I focus on the release at hand and try to do my best for it. It’s a step-by-step process where you work with bigger bands or your set of bands gets bigger and better known,” he said. “You can’t become or afford to be a big label overnight. Everything will continue to grow with the same formula that has kept Comatose Music in the game for all these years.”Ĭhoksi is also realistic when it comes to competing with the bigger labels. “Death metal is my passion and it’s what I know best. “I am completely happy with where things are at now with the label,” Green said. Most of these independent underground labels, including Comatose and Transcending Obscurity, aren’t even trying to compete with the bigger labels and feel comfortable where they are by creating their own little niche in the metal genre. Transcending Obscurity is, to help bands grow.” It’s, in fact, what the essence of the name Is good music, and I’d love to do better each time, giving the bands I’m Underground aesthetics just for the sake of it,” Choksi admitted. “I don’t want to not grow and stubbornly insist on AlthoughĬhoksi wasn’t sure about his competency for running a label at first, hisĭetermination far exceeded his dreams. Operations, dealing with the distribution and all of the releases. Label and has become a one-man show when it comes to signing bands, running his Out of the desire to help deserving bands get signed, Choksi started his own Obscurity record label owner Kunal Choksi had run a metal webzine for a decade. The bands that represented the label, including my band at the time, Lust of “I was in a band that played a lot of shows during 2002–2006,Īnd it was a good way to reach fans at shows and promote and sell the CDs of “My love and devotion toĭeath metal was my primary desire to start Comatose Music,” Green said during our In 2001, Comatose Music label owner Steve Green has seen his passion for his ![]() Though the bigger record labels such as Nuclear Blast, Napalm, and Metal Blade still manage a healthy roster and remain highly prolific, the smaller, DIY labels are certainly well respected and admired for their dedication, drive, and passion for the music. Niche record labels that cater to this subgenre have been popping up from all over the world in the most unlikely places, such as Thailand (Brutel Productions), Mexico (Iron Blood and Death Corp.), Italy (I, Voidhanger Records), and even in the United States (Comatose, Lost Apparitions). ![]() The underground death metal scene has never been stronger.
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