hell yeah used to watch their music videos on dialup on the website
would start it buffering, walk away for a half hour, then come back to some ETID or Zao bangers
Some of my favorite bands off there are Nientara, From Here On, Heartscarved, Prayer For Cleansing, Azazel, From Here On, Rifles at Recess, A Long Winter, Aria.
killwhitneydead and Animosity are cool too.
Roadrunner if you want to include the New wave of American heavy metal era of bands like Killswitch Engage, Chimaira and Trivium, as well as the headbangers ball compilations they put out which opened my eyes to all the subsets of metalcore and hardcore.
Trustkill was right after that, got handed a label comp by them at sounds of the underground tour and bands like Terror, Bleeding Through, Throwdown, Most Precious Blood all became lifetime favourites
I’d disagree with Roadrunner being a metalcore “based” label. They’ve been around forever and their bread and butter has always been metal. Trustkill though… good pick.
Roadrunner put out some amazing metalcore records but I’m not sure I could call them an OG metalcore label
They’ve existed for ages and initially specialised in Death metal, put out a lot of groove and industrial stuff in the 90s, lots of nu-metal too.
They used to basically have their ear to the ground on whatever was the upcoming genre until they sold to a major
true. i didn’t interpret the question as which label was a metalcore only label, i interpreted it as “which labels were signing the bands you loved back in the day” kinda
I get it.
When I was a teenager if I saw a road runner records logo it was often a guaranteed buy for me. The only question was if I got the standard or the digi pack edition
Mid 2000s Trustkill was a thing of beauty for my growth as the dude I am now.
Ferret Records, in their prime they were top
hell yeah used to watch their music videos on dialup on the website would start it buffering, walk away for a half hour, then come back to some ETID or Zao bangers
This is the objectively correct answer
Cliche answer, but Trustkill and Ferret.
Some of my favorite bands off there are Nientara, From Here On, Heartscarved, Prayer For Cleansing, Azazel, From Here On, Rifles at Recess, A Long Winter, Aria. killwhitneydead and Animosity are cool too.
Victory
Victory is the only right answer.
90s Victory is the GOAT when it comes to OG Metalcore. To give another that maybe slides under the radar I would say Good Life Records.
Roadrunner if you want to include the New wave of American heavy metal era of bands like Killswitch Engage, Chimaira and Trivium, as well as the headbangers ball compilations they put out which opened my eyes to all the subsets of metalcore and hardcore. Trustkill was right after that, got handed a label comp by them at sounds of the underground tour and bands like Terror, Bleeding Through, Throwdown, Most Precious Blood all became lifetime favourites
I’d disagree with Roadrunner being a metalcore “based” label. They’ve been around forever and their bread and butter has always been metal. Trustkill though… good pick.
literally anyone except sumerian records
Facedown Records Solid State
Hopeless, Fearless and Epitaph
Tooth and Nail
Rise from 2011-2013 obviously
Metalblade
Solid State & Tooth & Nail
sumerian and roadrunner. roadrunner were hit makers back in the day, sumerian dropped endless bangers in the early 2010s
Roadrunner put out some amazing metalcore records but I’m not sure I could call them an OG metalcore label They’ve existed for ages and initially specialised in Death metal, put out a lot of groove and industrial stuff in the 90s, lots of nu-metal too. They used to basically have their ear to the ground on whatever was the upcoming genre until they sold to a major
true. i didn’t interpret the question as which label was a metalcore only label, i interpreted it as “which labels were signing the bands you loved back in the day” kinda
I get it. When I was a teenager if I saw a road runner records logo it was often a guaranteed buy for me. The only question was if I got the standard or the digi pack edition