Earache Records
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''For the medical condition known as "earache", see [[otalgia]]''.
{{Infobox record label
| name = Earache Records
| image = [[Image:Earachelogo.png|300px]]
| image_bg =
| parent =
| founded = 1985
| founder = [[Digby Pearson]]
| defunct =
| distributor = [[Caroline Distribution]]
| genre = [[Heavy metal music]], [[Grindcore]], [[Death metal]], [[Industrial music]]
| country = [[United Kingdom]]
| location = [[Nottingham]]
| url = http://www.earache.com/
}}
'''Earache Records''' is a [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]]-oriented [[record label]] based in [[Nottingham]], [[UK]] and [[New York]], [[USA]]. It helped to pioneer extreme music by releasing many of the earliest [[grindcore]] and [[death metal]] records, in the period 1988-1992.
==History==
Earache was founded in the late eighties by [[Digby Pearson|Digby "Dig" Pearson]]. In 1985, before adopting the name "Earache Records", Pearson released "[[Anglican]] Scrape Attic", a compilation of early hardcore punk and crossover acts ([[Hirax]], [[Lipcream]], [[Concrete Sox]], etc.). The first official Earache release, on [[vinyl]] in 1987, and with the catalogue reference [[Moshing|MOSH]] 1, was [[The Accüsed]]'s ''[[Return of Martha Splatterhead]]''. The label's first major release, however, was [[Napalm Death]]'s ''[[Scum (album)|Scum]]''. Then, in 1989, Earache released [[Naked City (band)|Naked City]]'s "[[Torture Garden (album)|Torture Garden]]", an [[LP album|LP]] of '[[Hardcore punk|hardcore]] miniatures'. Other early records include albums by some of [[extreme metal]]'s finest bands, regarded as genre-defining classics.{{Fact|date=February 2007}}
Earache has a number of sublabels, including [[Wicked World Records]], [[Elitist Records]], and the short-lived [[Necrosis Records]] and [[Sub Bass Records]].
Later releases include work by [[Deicide (band)|Deicide]] and by [[California]]n rockers [[Adema]], who entered the USA [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] charts top 200 in April 2005.
Earache has become inextricably linked with the [[death metal]] scene in particular, but also released [[Wales|Welsh]] ragga-metal act [[Dub War]], Nottingham's [[hardcore techno]] outfit [[Ultraviolence (band)|Ultraviolence]], and [[Mick Harris]]' industrial/experimental [[Scorn (band)|Scorn]], each time expanding the boundaries of extreme music, and opening a path that other labels have followed, sometimes with greater success{{Fact|date=February 2007}}. Earache have signed even more musically adventurous groups such as [[Ewigkeit]] in recent years, but the death metal and grindcore with which it made its name still predominates.
The original logo of Earache Records was designed by [[Jeffrey Walker]], vocalist and bassist of the band [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]].
In early 2007 the label signed a distribution deal with [[Caroline Distribution]]. The deal includes both digital and retail distribution of the label's releases.
==Notable artists (Past and Present)==
* [[Adema]]
* [[Akercocke]]
* [[Anal Cunt]]
* [[At the Gates]]
* [[The Berzerker]]
* Biomechanical
* [[Blood Red Throne]]
* [[Bring Me the Horizon]] (for US Releases only)
* [[Brutal Truth]]
* [[Bolt Thrower (band)|Bolt Thrower]]
* [[Bonded by Blood]]
* [[Cadaver (band)|Cadaver]]
* [[Carcass (band)|Carcass]]
* [[Cathedral (band)|Cathedral]]
* [[Concrete Sox]]
* [[Coalesce]]
* [[Cult of Luna]]
* [[Decapitated]]
* [[December (band)|December]]
* [[December Wolves]]
* [[Deicide (band)|Deicide]]
* [[Delta 9]]
* [[Disciples of Annihilation]]
* [[Dub War]]
* [[Entombed (band)|Entombed]]
* [[Evile]]
* [[Ewigkeit]]
* [[Extreme Noise Terror]]
* [[Forest Stream]]
* [[Fudge Tunnel]]
* [[Gama Bomb]]
* [[Godflesh]]
* [[Hate Eternal]]
* [[The Haunted]]
* [[Heresy (band)|Heresy]]
*[[Ignominious Incarceration]]
* [[Insision]]
* [[Iron Monkey]]
* [[Janus Stark]]
* [[Lawnmower Deth]]
* [[Massacre (band)|Massacre]]
* [[Misery Loves Co.]]
* [[Morbid Angel]]
* [[Mortiis]]
* [[Municipal Waste (band)|Municipal Waste]]
* [[Naked City (band)|Naked City]]
* [[Napalm Death]]
* [[Oceano (band|Oceano]]
* [[OLD (band)|OLD]]
* [[Pitchshifter (band)|Pitchshifter]]
* [[Scorn (band)|Scorn]]
* [[Sleep]]
* [[Society 1]]
* [[Sore Throat]]
* [[Spazztic Blurr]]
* [[Short Sharp Shock|SSS]]
* [[Sleep (band)|Sleep]]
* [[!T.O.O.H.!]]
* [[Terrorizer]]
* [[Ultraviolence (band)|Ultraviolence]]
* [[Usurper (band)|Usurper]]
* [[Vader (band)|Vader]]
* [[With Passion]]
== See also ==
* [[:Category:Earache Records albums|Category:Earache Records albums]]
* [[List of record labels]]
==External links==
* [http://www.earache.com Official site]
* [http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles/chats/1-291_earache_records.aspx Chronicles of Chaos interview with Digby Pearson]
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