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For the medical condition known as "earache", see otalgia
Otalgia

Otalgia is ear pain or an earache. Primary otalgia is from pain that originates inside the ear. Referred otalgia is from pain that originates from outside the ear....
.

Earache Records is a heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
-oriented record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 based in Nottingham
Nottingham

Nottingham is one of the three major city status in the United Kingdom in the East Midlands and is in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England....
, UK and New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore
Grindcore

Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an extreme music genre that emerged during the mid?late 1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres ? including death metal, industrial music, Noise music and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....
 and death metal
Death metal

Death metal is an extreme metal subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs fast tempos, heavily distorted guitars, deep death growl vocals, morbid lyrics, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
 records, in the period 1988-1992.

che was founded in the late eighties by Digby "Dig" Pearson
Digby Pearson

Digby Pearson, also known as "Dig," was a British musician who founded Earache Records, which signed some of the most infamous Heavy metal music acts worldwide in the 1980s and early 1990s....
. In 1985, before adopting the name "Earache Records", Pearson released "Anglican Scrape Attic", a compilation of early hardcore punk and crossover acts (Hirax
Hirax

Hirax is an American thrash metal band from Cypress, California. Starting in 1984 under the leadership of vocalist Katon W. De Pena , the band played in Los Angeles and San Francisco with the other new thrash metal bands of the area such as Metallica, Exodus , and Slayer....
, Lipcream, Concrete Sox
Concrete Sox

Concrete Sox were a mid 80's United Kingdom crust punk band largely seen as an early style crossover thrash band who incorporated many thrash metal style riffs on their earlier albums....
, etc.).






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For the medical condition known as "earache", see otalgia
Otalgia

Otalgia is ear pain or an earache. Primary otalgia is from pain that originates inside the ear. Referred otalgia is from pain that originates from outside the ear....
.

Earache Records is a heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
-oriented record label
Record label

In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of recorded sound and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the Record producer, manufacturing, distribution , marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protec...
 based in Nottingham
Nottingham

Nottingham is one of the three major city status in the United Kingdom in the East Midlands and is in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire, England....
, UK and New York
New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore
Grindcore

Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an extreme music genre that emerged during the mid?late 1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres ? including death metal, industrial music, Noise music and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....
 and death metal
Death metal

Death metal is an extreme metal subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs fast tempos, heavily distorted guitars, deep death growl vocals, morbid lyrics, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
 records, in the period 1988-1992.

History

Earache was founded in the late eighties by Digby "Dig" Pearson
Digby Pearson

Digby Pearson, also known as "Dig," was a British musician who founded Earache Records, which signed some of the most infamous Heavy metal music acts worldwide in the 1980s and early 1990s....
. In 1985, before adopting the name "Earache Records", Pearson released "Anglican Scrape Attic", a compilation of early hardcore punk and crossover acts (Hirax
Hirax

Hirax is an American thrash metal band from Cypress, California. Starting in 1984 under the leadership of vocalist Katon W. De Pena , the band played in Los Angeles and San Francisco with the other new thrash metal bands of the area such as Metallica, Exodus , and Slayer....
, Lipcream, Concrete Sox
Concrete Sox

Concrete Sox were a mid 80's United Kingdom crust punk band largely seen as an early style crossover thrash band who incorporated many thrash metal style riffs on their earlier albums....
, etc.). The first official Earache release, on vinyl
Vinyl

A vinyl compound is any organic compound that contains a vinyl group , −CarbonHydrogenCovalent bondCH2. These are derivatives of ethene, CH2=CH2, with one hydrogen atom replaced with some other group....
 in 1987, and with the catalogue reference MOSH 1, was The Accüsed
The Accüsed

The Acc?sed is a thrashcore and crossover thrash band from Seattle, WA....
's Return of Martha Splatterhead. The label's first major release, however, was Napalm Death
Napalm Death

Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
's Scum
Scum (album)

Scum is the first record album by the English grindcore band Napalm Death.The Side A of the Scum album was originally recorded for ?50.00 at Rich Bitch studio in August 1986: it was intended to form part of a split release with the English crossover thrash band Atavistic on Manic Ears records ....
. Then, in 1989, Earache released Naked City
Naked City (band)

Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by John Zorn as a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition in a traditional rock and roll band lineup....
's "Torture Garden
Torture Garden (album)

Torture Garden is a compilation album by John Zorn's band Naked City featuring Yamatsuka Eye on vocals. The album is a collection of "hardcore miniatures" from Naked City and Grand Guignol ....
", an LP
LP album

Long play record albums are 33? rpm Polyvinyl chloride Gramophone records , generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for Sound recording and reproduction until the compact disc began to significantly displace them by 1988, and eventually leaving the mainstr...
 of 'hardcore
Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in North America and the UK in the late 1970s. The new sound was generally thicker, heavier and faster than earlier punk rock....
 miniatures'. Other early records include albums by some of extreme metal
Extreme metal

Extreme metal is an umbrella term, somewhat loosely defined, for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the 1980s....
's finest bands, regarded as genre-defining classics.

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
Deicide (band)

Deicide is an United States death metal band formed in 1987. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion , are ranked second and third place in best-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era....
 and by California
California

California is a U.S. state on the West Coast of the United States of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, and to the south the Mexico state of Baja California....
n rockers Adema
Adema

Adema is a 5-member nu metal band from Bakersfield, California....
, who entered the USA Billboard charts top 200 in April 2005.

Earache has become inextricably linked with the death metal
Death metal

Death metal is an extreme metal subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs fast tempos, heavily distorted guitars, deep death growl vocals, morbid lyrics, blast beat drumming, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
 scene in particular, but also released Welsh
Wales

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 ragga-metal act Dub War
Dub War

Dub War were a four piece heavy metal music musical ensemble from Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom. Formed in 1993, the band offered an innovative mix of heavy metal music, Punk rock, and Raggamuffin, inheriting the punk-reggae legacy of The Clash and Bad Brains....
, Nottingham's hardcore techno
Hardcore techno

Hardcore techno, often referred to as just "hardcore", is a style of electronic music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium and the UK....
 outfit Ultraviolence, and Mick Harris
Mick Harris

Michael John Harris is a prolific United Kingdom musician.Mick started out in the 1980s as a drummer working with various punk rock and grindcore bands ; as a drummer he is generally credited with popularizing the blast beat, which has since become a key component of much of extreme metal and grindcore....
' industrial/experimental Scorn
Scorn (band)

Scorn is the project of former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris. The project was formed in the early '90s by Harris along with Nicholas Bullen ....
, each time expanding the boundaries of extreme music, and opening a path that other labels have followed, sometimes with greater success. Earache have signed even more musically adventurous groups such as Ewigkeit
Ewigkeit

Formed in 1995, Ewigkeit was the experimental extreme music project of James Fogarty . On 28 March 2007, Fogarty announced the end of the project on Blabbermouth, the Death To Music website and also on Myspace ....
 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
Jeffrey Walker

Jeffrey Walker is a bass guitarist and singer from Prescot, Merseyside, United Kingdom. He is best known for his work with the death metal / grindcore band Carcass for which he is also the main lyricist....
, vocalist and bassist of the band Carcass
Carcass (band)

Carcass are an English grindcore / death metal band from Liverpool. They formed in 1985 and disbanded a decade later. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen....
.

In early 2007 the label signed a distribution deal with Caroline Distribution
Caroline Distribution

Caroline Distribution, founded in 1983 in music as a unit of Virgin Records, has become one of the U.S. music industry?s largest third party distribution companies for the independent music sector....
. The deal includes both digital and retail distribution of the label's releases.

Notable artists (Past and Present)

  • Adema
    Adema

    Adema is a 5-member nu metal band from Bakersfield, California....
  • Akercocke
    Akercocke

    Akercocke is a Great Britain progressive metal blackened death metal band. They take their name from a talking monkey in Robert Nye's interpretation of the Faust-legend, and are notable for their heavily Satanism and sexual lyrical content....
  • Anal Cunt
    Anal Cunt

    Anal Cunt is an United States grindcore band, originating in Newton, Massachusetts. They have been categorized as grindcore, noisecore, and Hardcore punk....
  • At the Gates
    At the Gates

    At the Gates are a Sweden melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, progenitor of the Melodic_death_metal#Gothenburg_sound of Death_metal. Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007....
  • The Berzerker
    The Berzerker

    The Berzerker is an extreme metal band from Melbourne, Australia. The band's music, heavily influenced by older death metal and grindcore, can be characterized as a fusion of death metal, industrial metal, and speedcore with a touch of Gabber techno....
  • Biomechanical
    Biomechanical (band)

    Biomechanical is Progressive metal Industrial metal/groove metal band from London, United Kingdom....
  • Blood Red Throne
    Blood Red Throne

    Blood Red Throne is a death metal band from Kristiansand, Norway. They released their fourth full-length album, Come Death, on 27 August, 2007....
  • Bring Me the Horizon
    Bring Me the Horizon

    Bring Me The Horizon are an English deathcore band from Sheffield, Yorkshire. The band formed in the year 2004 from members of other bands within their local area....
     (for US Releases only)
  • Brutal Truth
    Brutal Truth

    Brutal Truth are an United States deathgrind band from New York City, formed by ex-Anthrax , Nuclear Assault, and Stormtroopers Of Death bassist Dan Lilker in 1990....
  • Bolt Thrower
    Bolt Thrower (band)

    Bolt Thrower are an England death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988....
  • Bonded by Blood
    Bonded by Blood

    For other uses of the phrase, see Bonded by Blood Bonded by Blood is the debut album by the California band Exodus . Although the album was completed in the summer of 1984, it was not released until 1985 due to issues with Exodus and its record label....
  • Cadaver
    Cadaver (band)

    Cadaver was a death metal band from R?de, Norway. The band had a brief venture in the early 1990s before splitting in 1993. Cadaver would eventually re-emerge as Cadaver Inc. in 1999 which consisted of only one founding member....
  • Carcass
    Carcass (band)

    Carcass are an English grindcore / death metal band from Liverpool. They formed in 1985 and disbanded a decade later. A reunion was enacted in 2008 without one of its original members, drummer Ken Owen....
  • Cathedral
    Cathedral (band)

    Cathedral are a doom metal band from Coventry, England. The group forged a link between 1980s doom metal and a 1990s extreme metal aesthetic, making doom slower and heavier....
  • Cauldron
    Cauldron (band)

    Cauldon is a heavy metal music band based out of Toronto, Ontario. They were formed after the breakup of Goat Horn, with their guitarist, Brandon Wars, starting to play in a new band, called Zuku....
  • Clutch
    Clutch (band)

    Clutch is an American rock music band, formed in Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland, Maryland in 1990. They have been playing together since the early 1990s, and released their first EP, Pitchfork, in October 1991....
  • Coalesce
    Coalesce

    Coalesce is a 4-piece hardcore punk/metalcore band from Kansas City, Missouri....
  • Concrete Sox
    Concrete Sox

    Concrete Sox were a mid 80's United Kingdom crust punk band largely seen as an early style crossover thrash band who incorporated many thrash metal style riffs on their earlier albums....
  • Confessor
    Confessor (band)

    Confessor is a doom metal metal band from North Carolina, USA. By their technically complex interpretation of traditional doom style, they are also well-known name within progressive metal circles....
  • Cult of Luna
    Cult of Luna

    Cult of Luna is a Sweden sludge metal/post-metal band from Ume? Municipality. They formed from the remnants of a Ume? hardcore punk band called Eclipse in 1998....
  • Decapitated
    Decapitated

    Decapitated is a technical death metal band from Poland.They formed in 1996 in Krosno in southern Poland, when all the members were still attending music school....
  • December Wolves
  • Deicide
    Deicide (band)

    Deicide is an United States death metal band formed in 1987. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion , are ranked second and third place in best-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era....
  • Delta 9
    Delta 9

    Dave Rodgers, better known as Delta 9, is a hardcore techno DJ/Record producer from Chicago.Delta 9 has been producing since 1994, starting with Deep 13 & The Hate Tank on Drop Bass Network Records....
  • Dub War
    Dub War

    Dub War were a four piece heavy metal music musical ensemble from Newport, South Wales, United Kingdom. Formed in 1993, the band offered an innovative mix of heavy metal music, Punk rock, and Raggamuffin, inheriting the punk-reggae legacy of The Clash and Bad Brains....
  • Entombed
    Entombed (band)

    Entombed is a Sweden death metal band which formed in 1987 under the name of Nihilist . Though Entombed began their career as an early pioneer of Scandinavian death metal, by the early 1990s their sound had broadened to include hardcore punk and other influences....
  • Evile
    Evile

    Evile are a thrash metal band from Huddersfield, United Kingdom.Their debut album, "Enter the Grave," was produced by Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark and was released worldwide in 2007 by Earache Records....
  • Ewigkeit
    Ewigkeit

    Formed in 1995, Ewigkeit was the experimental extreme music project of James Fogarty . On 28 March 2007, Fogarty announced the end of the project on Blabbermouth, the Death To Music website and also on Myspace ....
  • Extreme Noise Terror
    Extreme Noise Terror

    Extreme Noise Terror are an England crust punk and deathgrind band originally formed in Ipswich in 1985 in music. The band are one of the key early UK grindcore bands, and are still together today....
  • Forest Stream
    Forest Stream

    Forest Stream is a Symphonic black metal / doom metal / Gothic metal band formed in Chernogolovka, Russia in 1995. The band draws inspiration from long and harsh Russian winters....
  • Fudge Tunnel
    Fudge Tunnel

    Fudge Tunnel were a band formed in Nottingham, UK, by Alex Newport, David Ryley and Adrian Parkin. After two critically acclaimed singles on Pigboy Records , they signed to Nottingham's Earache Records....
  • Gama Bomb
    Gama Bomb

    Gama Bomb are an Ireland thrash metal band mainly based in the UK and Europe....
  • Godflesh
    Godflesh

    Godflesh were an industrial metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 1988 in music by Justin K. Broadrick and G. C. Green . The band is highly regarded as one of the pioneers of industrial metal and post-metal....
  • Hate Eternal
    Hate Eternal

    Hate Eternal is a death metal band from St. Petersburg, Florida....
  • The Haunted
    The Haunted

    The Haunted is a Sweden Thrash metal band, formed in 1996 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The original members were Patrik Jensen , Jonas Bj?rler , Adrian Erlandsson , Anders Bj?rler , and Peter Dolving ....
  • Heresy
    Heresy (band)

    Heresy were a hardcore punk band from Nottingham, England, formed in 1985 and active until late 1988. They released three albums and recorded three sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show....
  • Insision
    Insision

    Insision is a brutal death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden. They are currently signed to Dental Records....
  • Iron Monkey
    Iron Monkey

    Iron Monkey can refer to:*Iron Monkey *Iron Monkey *Iron Monkey ...
  • Janus Stark
    Janus Stark

    Janus Stark were a punk rock band from Peterborough, England, fronted by The Prodigy live guitarist Gizz Butt. Their name comes from a superhero character in the 70s comic books Smash and Valiant ....
  • Lawnmower Deth
    Lawnmower Deth

    Lawnmower Deth were an England thrash metal band of the late 1980s and early 1990s, who parodied the genre and recorded three-and-a-half albums....
  • Massacre
    Massacre (band)

    Massacre was an United States death metal band. They were formed in 1983 by Allen West and Bill Andrews and soon joined by Kam Lee, best known for his vocal contributions to an early incarnation of Death , and Rick Rozz....
  • Misery Loves Co.
  • Morbid Angel
    Morbid Angel

    Morbid Angel is an United States death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. They, along with Death , Possessed , Obituary , Massacre , Deicide , Cannibal Corpse, and a handful of others were crucial in the development of the death metal genre and its standards, separating it from the thrash metal genre completely....
  • Mortiis
    Mortiis

    Mortiis is an Electronic music metal band from Notodden, Norway fronted by H?vard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. The name is a misspelling of the word 'mortis', which is the pronunciation used by the band....
  • Municipal Waste
    Municipal Waste (band)

    Municipal Waste is a thrash metal/crossover thrash band from Richmond, Virginia, USA. They are known for their loud, drunk, party atmosphere and rowdy show attendees....
  • Naked City
    Naked City (band)

    Naked City was an avant-garde music group led by saxophonist and composer John Zorn. Active primarily in New York City from 1988 to 1993, Naked City was initiated by John Zorn as a "composition workshop" to test the limits of composition in a traditional rock and roll band lineup....
  • Napalm Death
    Napalm Death

    Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
  • OLD
    OLD (band)

    OLD was a grindcore / industrial metal band from Bergenfield, New Jersey, New Jersey, signed to Earache Records. It featured Alan Dubin on vocals, and James Plotkin on guitars and Programming , both of whom would later form the experimental doom metal band Khanate ....
  • Pitchshifter
    Pitchshifter (band)

    Pitchshifter are a British heavy metal music / industrial metal band from Nottingham.Originally known as Pitch Shifter, the band was started by Johnny A....
  • Scorn
    Scorn (band)

    Scorn is the project of former Napalm Death drummer Mick Harris. The project was formed in the early '90s by Harris along with Nicholas Bullen ....
  • Society 1
    Society 1

    Society 1 is an Industrial Metal band formed in the early 1990s in Los Angeles, California by lead singer Matt Zane. They have released 5 studio albums and performed at several major festivals such as Download, Mory's Pub, Sherman Oaks Car Wash & Velvet Jones' outdoor casino and day spa....
  • Sore Throat
    Sore Throat

    Sore Throat were a United Kingdom crust punk / grindcore band, formed in Yorkshire in 1987. They are known for being one of the earliest exponents of the grindcore subgenre known as "noisecore", as well launching the careers of several prominent members of the British heavy metal music community....
  • Spazztic Blurr
    Spazztic Blurr

    Spazztic Blurr were a joke metal band formed in 1985, in Portland, Oregon. The original lineup consisted of Tape Head Tito - Marco Sharko - Booger Bass Dave - and Burger King Eric on drums....
  • SSS
    Short Sharp Shock

    Short Sharp Shock are a crossover thrash Band from Liverpool, England. They are signed to the music label Earache Records.The band released a six track demo in May 2005, a four track EP the next year and their debut album Short Sharp Shock soon thereafter....
  • Sleep
    Sleep (band)

    Sleep was a doom metal#Stoner doom band from San Jose, California. Active during the 1990s, Sleep earned much critical and record label attention from early in their career....
  • !T.O.O.H.!
    !T.O.O.H.!

    !T.O.O.H.! were a progressive death metal deathgrind band from the Czech Republic formed in 1990. In their early years, their lyrics focused mainly on graphic violence, but in their later years more on politics and political matters....
  • Terrorizer
    Terrorizer

    Terrorizer was a band formed in 1986 in Los Angeles, California, United States, considered a seminal band in the grindcore and death metal subgenres....
  • Vader
    Vader (band)

    Vader is a death metal band from Olsztyn, Poland, founded in 1983. According to Piotr Wiwczarek, the band's founding singer and guitar player, the band's name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series....
  • With Passion
    With Passion

    With Passion was a melodic death metal/metalcore band. They were formed in 2002 in Sacramento, California, and broke up in 2007.Biography...


See also

Category:Earache Records albums
  • List of record labels
    List of record labels

    This is a list of notable record labels.Owing to the large number of entries, the list has been divided by the first letter of the label's name, with labels starting with a number added to this page:...


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