Earache Records 1136098 223250813 2008-07-03T07:01:24Z 89.251.40.224 ''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] [[Category:British record labels]] [[Category:Independent record labels]] [[Category:Heavy metal record labels]] [[Category:Death metal record labels]] [[Category:Grindcore record labels]] [[Category:Record labels established in 1985]] [[da:Earache Records]] [[de:Earache Records]] [[es:Earache Records]] [[fr:Earache Records]] [[it:Earache Records]] [[nl:Earache Records]] [[ja:イヤーエイク・レコード]] [[no:Earache Records]] [[pl:Earache Records]] [[pt:Earache Records]] [[fi:Earache Records]]