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Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based 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...
 owned by Bad Religion
Bad Religion

Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
 guitarist Brett Gurewitz
Brett Gurewitz

Brett Gurewitz , nicknamed Mr. Brett, is the guitarist and a songwriter of Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records....
. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record label
Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels....
. Gurewitz took the name from a King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
 song of the same name
Epitaph (song)

"Epitaph" is the third track from the United Kingdom progressive rock band King Crimson's debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King.The song makes heavy use of the mellotron, and as with the first track, "21st Century Schizoid Man", the song's lyrics have a distinctly dystopian feel to them, with Greg Lake singing Peter Sinfield's v...
. Throughout the 80s and 90s most of the bands on Epitaph were punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 groups, while it is now primarily made up of alternative rock
Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as Grunge music, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop....
 bands.






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Epitaph Records is a Hollywood, California based 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...
 owned by Bad Religion
Bad Religion

Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
 guitarist Brett Gurewitz
Brett Gurewitz

Brett Gurewitz , nicknamed Mr. Brett, is the guitarist and a songwriter of Bad Religion. He is also the owner of the music label Epitaph Records....
. The label was originally "just a logo and a P.O. box" created in the 1980s for the purpose of selling Bad Religion records, but has evolved into a large independent record label
Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels....
. Gurewitz took the name from a King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
 song of the same name
Epitaph (song)

"Epitaph" is the third track from the United Kingdom progressive rock band King Crimson's debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King.The song makes heavy use of the mellotron, and as with the first track, "21st Century Schizoid Man", the song's lyrics have a distinctly dystopian feel to them, with Greg Lake singing Peter Sinfield's v...
. Throughout the 80s and 90s most of the bands on Epitaph were punk rock
Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock....
 groups, while it is now primarily made up of alternative rock
Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as Grunge music, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop....
 bands. Several sister-labels also exist, such as ANTI-
ANTI-

ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 in music as a sister label of Epitaph Records.While Epitaph's focus is mostly on punk rock, ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from hip hop , reggae , comedy , country music to indie rock , among other genres....
, Burning Heart Records
Burning Heart Records

Burning Heart Records is an independent record label formed in 1993 and based in ?rebro, Sweden. It has a close affiliation with Californian label Epitaph Records, who own the rights to distribute Burning Heart's output in North America....
 and Hellcat Records
Hellcat Records

Hellcat Records is an independent record label record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between the owner of Epitaph, Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion and Tim Armstrong of Rancid , the latter of whom is generally responsible for signing the bands....
, that have signed other types of bands.

History

In 1987, Epitaph released its first record as a proper label. It was the band L7
L7 (band)

L7 was an American rock band from Los Angeles that was active from 1985 to 2000. Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge music movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
's self-titled album, and it was distributed by Chameleon
Chameleon (label)

Chameleon is a record label which Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz used to work for.They also distributed very early Epitaph releases, an example being L7 's self-titled debut....
. The first album that was both released and distributed by Epitaph was Suffer
Suffer (album)

Suffer is the third full-length album by the United States punk rock band Bad Religion, which was released on September 8, 1988. It was their first album featuring the original line-up since their previous break-up....
 by Bad Religion.

In 1994 Epitaph received widespread fame, both within and outside the punk
Punk subculture

The punk subculture is based around punk rock. It emerged from the larger rock music scene in the mid-to-late-1970s in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan....
 community, when NOFX
NOFX

NOFX is an United States punk rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California , in 1983.The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin....
, Rancid
Rancid (band)

Rancid is an American punk band formed in 1991 in Albany, California, by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom previously played in ska punk group Operation Ivy ....
 and The Offspring
The Offspring

The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....
 all released hit records. This was a big year for punk in the mainstream; Rancid appeared on Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
 the following year, playing "Ruby Soho" and "Roots Radicals". The Offspring soon left for Columbia Records
Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label founded in 1888.Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in pre-recorded sound, being the first record company to produce pre-recorded records as opposed to blank cylinders....
 in a contract dispute, but their album Smash
Smash (album)

Smash is the third studio album by United States band The Offspring. Released on April 8, 1994, the album was the band's last collaboration with record producer Thom Wilson, who produced their last two albums....
 lived up to its name and quickly became Epitaph's all time best selling album, with more than 11 million units sold worldwide to date.

Although Bad Religion
Bad Religion

Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
 was the founding band of Epitaph, releasing their early records through the label, they switched over to Atlantic in 1993, with Recipe For Hate being their first record outside of the label. Brett Gurewitz is thought to have left Bad Religion as a result of internal disputes, but actually left the band in 1994 so he could run Epitaph full time. This came after lead singer Greg Graffin
Greg Graffin

Gregory Walter Graffin, Doctor of Philosophy is the vocalist and co-founder of the Punk rock band Bad Religion, as well as a life sciences and paleontology lecturer at UCLA....
 said he wanted to tour more and quit school to do so. The band responded by filling Gurewitz's place with Brian Baker
Brian Baker

Brian Baker may refer to:* Brian Baker , American guitarist for punk bands Minor Threat, Dag Nasty, and Bad Religion, among others* Brian Baker , American actor and former Sprint spokesman...
. In 2001, Brett returned to the band and Bad Religion once again signed to Epitaph Records, releasing The Process of Belief
The Process of Belief

The Process of Belief is an album by the punk rock band Bad Religion, released in 2002. It marks the band's first album released on Epitaph Records since 1993's Recipe for Hate and to feature original guitarist Brett Gurewitz since 1994's Stranger Than Fiction ....
 in 2002, The Empire Strikes First
The Empire Strikes First

The Empire Strikes First is the thirteenth studio album by Bad Religion released on June 8, 2004....
 in 2004, and New Maps of Hell
New Maps of Hell

New Maps of Hell is Bad Religion's fourteenth full-length studio album , which was released on July 10, 2007. It celebrates the 25th anniversary of their first album How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, although the band had been around for twenty-seven years....
 in 2007

In January 2002 Brett Gurewitz was quoted saying that "I had multiple offers for $50- and $100 million for half of my business". He never took any of them.

In 2003, Epitaph sparked some controversy among its fans by signing alternative hip hop
Alternative hip hop

Alternative hip hop is a form of hip hop music that is defined in greatly varying ways. Allmusic defines it as follows:Alternative Rap refers to Hip hop music groups that refuse to conform to any of the traditional stereotypes of rap, such as gangsta rap, Miami bass, hardcore hip hop, and party rap....
 artists such as Atmosphere and Sage Francis
Sage Francis

Paul "Sage" Francis is a Hip hop music artist based in Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island. Sage Francis' style blends a varying tone and delivery with subject matter that focuses on intricate sequences of widely varying imagery, metaphors, the occasional pun, absurdism, word play often in the form of phonetic mix-ups and rhetorical excu...
 and 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....
 band The Locust
The Locust

The Locust is a musical group from San Diego, California, United States known for theirunique mix of grindcore speed and aggression, mathcore complexity, and new wave music weirdness....
, leading to debates about what constitutes the true nature of "punk" music, but so far the new groups seem to feel at home on the label. The label also signed Canadian
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
 rapper Cadence Weapon
Cadence Weapon

Cadence Weapon is the stage name of Rollie Pemberton, a Canada rapper.Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, his father was Teddy Pemberton, a pioneering hip hop DJ on CJSR-FM, and his grandfather was Edmonton Eskimos great Rollie Miles....
 in 2007.

In mid-2005 Epitaph was added to the official list of RIAA
Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America is the trade group that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of a large number of private corporate entities such as record labels and distributors, which the RIAA claims "create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recor...
 members along with several other high-profile independent labels. The reason for the listing is not clear, but one source points to an agreement for internet P2P
Peer-to-peer

A peer-to-peer computer network uses diverse connectivity between participants in a network and the cumulative bandwidth of network participants rather than conventional centralized resources where a relatively low number of Server s provide the core value to a service or application....
 distribution. Another source claims label management joined RIAA in order to get certified sales awards (i.e., official "Gold" or "Platinum" record status) for releases. This sparked some controversy as some feel they should no longer be labeled independent if they are a member of the RIAA.

However, the only source that has actually been used for these claims of membership is the official RIAA membership list, which has been disputed. As of this writing, not only is Epitaph listed as an official member, but Lookout! Records
Lookout! Records

Lookout! Records is an independent record label based in Berkeley, California....
 is once again listed, after being falsely listed before. In addition, Fat Wreck Chords
Fat Wreck Chords

Fat Wreck Chords is a San Francisco, California based independent record label, focused on punk rock. It was started by Fat Mike and his wife, Erin, in 1990 in music....
 has released statements denying their own involvement in the RIAA, condemning the organization.

Current artists


  • Bad Religion
    Bad Religion

    Bad Religion is an United States punk band, founded in Southern California in 1980 by Jay Bentley , Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout ....
  • The Blackout
    The Blackout (band)

    The Blackout are a band from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. After some time backing Lostprophets on their Liberation Transmission Tour with Dopamine they released their first mini-album The Blackout! The Blackout! The Blackout!....
  • The Boss
  • The Bouncing Souls
    The Bouncing Souls

    The Bouncing Souls are a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey formed in 1987. By the time of their acknowledgment by the national punk rock scene, they had reignited a "pogo" element to New Jersey punk rock by playing fast light-hearted songs, a model followed by various other local bands....
  • 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....
     (North America only)
  • Busdriver
    Busdriver

    Busdriver is a rapper from Los Angeles currently signed to Epitaph Records....
  • Cadence Weapon
    Cadence Weapon

    Cadence Weapon is the stage name of Rollie Pemberton, a Canada rapper.Born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, his father was Teddy Pemberton, a pioneering hip hop DJ on CJSR-FM, and his grandfather was Edmonton Eskimos great Rollie Miles....
  • The Color of Violence
    The Color of Violence

    The Color of Violence is a band featuring two current members of From First to Last; drummer Derek Bloom and guitarist/backup vocalist Travis Richter....
  • Converge
    Converge (band)

    Converge is a four-piece band from Salem, Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Playing a blend of hardcore punk and extreme metal since 1990, Converge has helped to define many of the rudiments of the metalcore genre....
  • The Coup
    The Coup

    The Coup is a political hip hop group based in Oakland, California. It formed as a three-member group in 1992 with rappers Raymond "Boots" Riley and E-Roc along with DJ Pam the Funkstress....
  • Danger Doom
  • The Draft
    The Draft (band)

    The Draft are a band featuring Hot Water Music members Jason Black, George Rebelo and Chris Wollard. The band also features guitarist Todd Rockhill of Black Cougar Shock Unit, Discount and a host of other Gainesville, Florida, Florida based acts....
  • Escape the Fate
    Escape The Fate

    Escape The Fate is an United States post-hardcore band from Las Vegas, Nevada. Their first full-length album, Dying Is Your Latest Fashion, was released on September 26, 2006, and their second full-length album, This War Is Ours, was released on October 21, 2008....
  • Every Time I Die
    Every Time I Die

    Every Time I Die is an American metalcore band from Buffalo, New York, formed in 1998. Their musical style is a combination of metalcore, punk rock, and southern rock.....
  • Charles Ingram
    Charles Ingram

    Charles Ingram is a former British Army Major and novelist who made headlines in the United Kingdom after cheating in the Television program Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in 2001....
  • Farewell
    Farewell

    Farewell may refer to:In music:* Farewell , an American power-pop band* Farewell * Farewell * Farewell * Farewell * Farewell, an album by Gil Evans...
  • Frenzal Rhomb
    Frenzal Rhomb

    Frenzal Rhomb is an Australian punk rock band that formed in 1991, based in the city of Sydney.The band's current lineup is Jason Whalley , Lindsay McDougall , Tom Crease and Gordy Foreman ....
     (Australia only)
  • Gallows
    Gallows (band)

    Gallows are an England hardcore punk band from Hertfordshire. Their debut album, Orchestra of Wolves was distributed in the United States by independent label Epitaph Records, and they were recently signed to Warner Music Group under an agreement netting them a ?1,000,000 album deal with up to three options....
     (North America only)
  • The Ghost of a Thousand
    The Ghost of a Thousand

    The Ghost of a Thousand is an England five-piece hardcore punk band from Brighton....
     (Europe only)
  • Girls Aloud
    Girls Aloud

    Girls Aloud are a British girl group that were created on the ITV1 talent show Popstars in 2002. The group, consisting of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh, have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles , two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for fo...
  • The Higher
    The Higher

    The Higher is an United States pop rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada. They have released two full length albums named On Fire , Histrionics and EPs named "Pace Yourself" and "Star is Dead"....
  • The Hot Melts
  • I Am Ghost
    I am ghost

    I Am Ghost is an United Stats band from Long Beach, California, conceived of and founded by Steven Juliano in 2004. They are signed to Epitaph Records....
  • I Set My Friends On Fire
    I Set My Friends On Fire

    I Set My Friends on Fire is an American electronic music influenced experimental metal post-hardcore duo formed in 2007 by Matt Mihana and Nabil Moo ....
  • Leathermouth
    Leathermouth

    Leathermouth is the post-hardcore side project led by My Chemical Romance's rhythm guitarist Frank Iero. The band formed in 2007, and in January 2009 released their first album XO ....
  • The Locust
    The Locust

    The Locust is a musical group from San Diego, California, United States known for theirunique mix of grindcore speed and aggression, mathcore complexity, and new wave music weirdness....
  • The Matches
    The Matches

    The Matches are a Musical ensemble based in United States. The band formed in Oakland, California, in 1997, and currently comprises vocalist and rhythm guitarist Shawn Harris, lead guitarist and backup vocalist Jon Devoto, bassist and backup vocalist Dylan Rowe, and drummer Matt Whalen....
  • Millencolin
    Millencolin

    Millencolin is a punk rock band that was formed in October of 1992 by Erik Ohlsson, Mathias F?rm and Nikola Sarcevic in ?rebro, Sweden. In early 1993, drummer Fredrik Larzon joined the band....
     (North America only)
  • Michael Franti & Spearhead
  • Motion City Soundtrack
    Motion City Soundtrack

    Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock music band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1997. Only two of the founding members are still a part of the lineup: lead vocalist and guitarist Justin Pierre and lead guitarist and backing vocalist Joshua Cain....
  • New Found Glory
    New Found Glory

    New Found Glory is an United States pop punk band hailing from South Florida, now based in Los Angeles. The band consists of Jordan Pundik , Chad Gilbert , Steve Klein , Ian Grushka and Cyrus Bolooki ....
  • Our Last Night
    Our Last Night

    Our Last Night is a New Hampshire-based band, formed in 2004 by five members, consisting of Trevor Wentworth , Matt Wentworth , Alex "Woody" Woodrow, , Colin Perry , Tim Molloy , who were "fed up with merely jamming and playing cover songs"....
  • Parkway Drive (North America only)
  • Pennywise
    Pennywise (band)

    Pennywise is an American punk rock band that was formed in 1988, and is named after the It from the Stephen King novel, It .Between their 1991 Pennywise debut and 2005's The Fuse, Pennywise had released an album every two years on Epitaph Records, a label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz....
     (Europe only)
  • The Robocop Kraus
    The Robocop Kraus

    The Robocop Kraus are a post-punk revival/indie rock band from Nuremberg, Germany....
  • Sage Francis
    Sage Francis

    Paul "Sage" Francis is a Hip hop music artist based in Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island. Sage Francis' style blends a varying tone and delivery with subject matter that focuses on intricate sequences of widely varying imagery, metaphors, the occasional pun, absurdism, word play often in the form of phonetic mix-ups and rhetorical excu...
  • Settle
    Settle

    Settle is a small market town within the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is served by the Settle railway station, which is located near the town centre, and Giggleswick railway station which is a mile away....
  • Sing It Loud
    Sing it Loud

    Sing it Loud is an American pop rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota....
  • SoliLLaquists of Sound
  • Story of the Year
    Story of the Year

    Story of the Year is an American band formed in St. Louis, Missouri in 1995. The band was initially named Big Blue Monkey, they changed their name to Story of the Year in 2002 after the release of their EP titled "Story of the Year" on indie label Criterion Records when they realized a blues group of the same name had already existed....
  • The Sound of Animals Fighting
    The Sound of Animals Fighting

    The Sound of Animals Fighting is an experimental rock sideproject and supergroup put together by Rich Balling, anchored by Circa Survive's Anthony Green and members of Rx Bandits....
  • Thursday
    Thursday (band)

    Thursday is a post-hardcore band from New Brunswick, New Jersey that Thursday discography five studio album. The band's most recent release, Common Existence, is out now on Epitaph Records....
  • Vanna
    Vanna (band)

    Vanna is a post-hardcore band from Boston, MA. Their first full length album, Curses , was released on April 24, 2007....
  • Water Street
    Water Street

    Water Street may refer to:...
  • The Weakerthans
    The Weakerthans

    The Weakerthans are an award-winning four-piece Canada indie rock band that blends punk rock with folk rock....

Former artists


  • 1208
    1208 (band)

    1208 is a punk rock band from Los Gatos, California that formed in 1994.The name "1208" came from the apartment number they first shared. To date, they have released two full-length studio albums on Epitaph Records: Feedback Is Payback and Turn of the Screw ....
  • 98 Mute
    98 Mute

    98 Mute was a hardcore punk band from Hermosa Beach, California. They were formed in 1993, and signed to Theologian Records in 1995. Their first, self-titled album was released in 1996, and the band was featured on several skate videos and compilations of Californian punk....
  • 59 Times The Pain
    59 Times The Pain

    59 Times the Pain were a Sweden hardcore punk band. They were active from 1992 until 2001.The band was formed in Fagersta, Sweden in 1992 by Magnus Larnhed , Michael Conradsson , Toni Virtanen and Kai Kalliom?ki ....
  • Agnostic Front
    Agnostic Front

    Agnostic Front is an American hardcore punk band that formed in New York City in 1980. The band began playing hardcore punk similar to bands like Black Flag and Negative Approach, and were thrust to the forefront of the burgeoning New York hardcore scene in the mid-1980s with their widely regarded 1984 in music classic Victim in Pain bef...
  • Atmosphere
  • ALL
    ALL (band)

    All is an American punk band from Fort Collins, Colorado, formed by Descendents members Bill Stevenson , Karl Alvarez, and Stephen Egerton ....
  • Beatsteaks
    Beatsteaks

    Beatsteaks are an Alternative rock/Punk rock band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 1995....
  • The Black Keys
    The Black Keys

    The Black Keys are an American blues-rock music duo consisting of vocalist/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer/producer Patrick Carney. They were formed in Akron, Ohio in 2001....
  • Bombshell Rocks
    Bombshell Rocks

    Bombshell Rocks were founded by singer M?rten Cedergran, the guitar players Richard Andersson and Sami, bassist Mini, and drummer Chrille in late 1995, in from V?ster?s, Sweden....
  • Bob Log III
    Bob Log III

    Bob Log III is an United States, Slide Guitar, One Man Band. During performances, he plays old silvertone archtop guitars, wears a full body cannonball man suit, and a helmet wired to a telephone which allows him to devote his hands and feet to guitar and drums....
  • The Business
    The Business (band)

    The Business are an England Oi!/punk rock band formed in 1979 in Lewisham, South London. Their album Suburban Rebels became influential in the Oi! movement....
  • Choking Victim
    Choking Victim

    Choking Victim was an United States hardcore punk band formed in New York City, which were together from 1992 to 1999. Primarily playing an amalgam of hardcore punk, ska punk and death metal with anarchism lyrics, they classify themselves as "Crack Rock Steady." Following the breakup of the band, which occurred the same day as the recording o...
  • Claw Hammer
    Claw hammer

    A claw hammer is a tool primarily used for pounding nail into, or extricating nails from, some other object. Generally, a claw hammer is associated with woodworking but is not limited to use with wood products....
  • Coffin Break
    Coffin Break

    Coffin Break was a hardcore punk band from Seattle, Washington....
  • The Cramps
    The Cramps

    The Cramps were an American garage punk band formed in 1976. Their line-up rotated much over their existence, with the husband and wife duo of lead singer Lux Interior and lead guitarist Poison Ivy as the only permanent members....
  • Dag Nasty
    Dag Nasty

    Dag Nasty was a Washington D.C. hardcore punk band formed in 1985 by Brian Baker of Minor Threat, Colin Sears and Roger Marbury , both of Bloody Mannequin Orchestra, and Shawn Brown later of Swiz and Jesuseater ....
  • Daredevils
    Daredevils (band)

    Daredevils was a punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band was formed by guitarist Brett Gurewitz after his 1994 departure from Bad Religion....
  • Day Of Contempt
  • Dead Fucking Last
  • Death By Stereo
    Death by Stereo

    Death by Stereo is a hardcore punk band formed in Orange County, California, California circa 1996 by frontman Efrem Schulz, who is the only remaining original member of the band....
  • The Descendents
  • Deviates
    Deviates (band)

    Deviates were an United States punk band formed in December 1994 when the members were only fifteen and sixteen years of age. They released their own demo tape, which was heard by Fletcher Dragge, guitarist of Pennywise ; he got them signed and produced their debut album....
  • DFL
    DFL

    The initialism DFL can stand for the following:*Danmarks L?rerforening, the Danish Union of Teachers*David Florida Laboratory, a Canada aerospace laboratory...
  • The Dillinger Escape Plan
    The Dillinger Escape Plan

    The Dillinger Escape Plan is an United States Experimental rock mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. The band originated in 1997 after the disbanding of Arcane, a hardcore punk trio consisting of Ben Weinman, Dimitri Minakakis, and Chris Pennie....
  • The Distillers
    The Distillers

    The Distillers were an American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1998. They released their first two albums on Hellcat Records/Epitaph Records before moving to Sire, part of the Warner Music Group....
  • Division Of Laura Lee
    Division of Laura Lee

    Division Of Laura Lee is a band of Swedish musicians/skateboarders originally from V?nersborg, Sweden heavily influenced by post-punk bands, britpop and the DC music scene ....
  • Down By Law
    Down by Law (band)

    Down By Law is a punk rock band formed in or around 1990. Frontman Dave Smalley of Dag Nasty fame teamed up with the members of Chemical People for their first album and went through several set changes all around over the years....
  • Downset
  • The Dwarves
  • Error
    Error (band)

    Error is an Electro -Hardcore punk band founded by 12 Rounds member and Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross, and Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz....
  • From First to Last
    From First to Last

    From First to Last is an American post-hardcore band. The band released their first EP titled Aesthetic in 2003 with vocalist Phillip Reardon, followed by Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count in 2004 and Heroine in 2006, both with vocalist Sonny Moore....
  • Gas Huffer
    Gas Huffer

    Gas Huffer was a band from Washington state that played a sort of psychobilly, with lyrics both formal and comical, with antic stage presence. They classified themselves loosely in the Garage punk genre....
  • Green Day
    Green Day

    Green Day is an American Rock music trio formed in 1987. The band has consisted of Billie Joe Armstrong , Mike Dirnt , and Tr? Cool for the majority of its existence....
     (re-releasing old material in Europe
    Europe

    Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
    )
  • Guttermouth
    Guttermouth

    Guttermouth is an United States punk rock band formed in 1988 in Huntington Beach, California and currently recording for Hopeless Records. They have released nine full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured extensively, including performances on the Vans Warped Tour....
  • H2O
    H2O (American band)

    H2O is a hardcore punk band formed in New York in 1995 after singer Toby Morse got tired of touring as a roadie for hardcore act Sick of it All....
  • Heavens
  • Heideroosjes
    Heideroosjes

    The Heideroosjes , is a Punk rock band from Horst aan de Maas, the Netherlands. The band's lyrics are in Dutch language, English language, German language and Limburgs ....
  • Hell Is for Heroes
    Hell Is For Heroes (band)

    Hell Is for Heroes are a post-hardcore band, formed in Camden town, London, in September 2000. The initial partnership of Will McGonagle and Joe Birch was joined by James Findlay, Tom O'Donoghue and later Justin Schlosberg....
  • The Hives
    The Hives

    The Hives are a Swedish rock band that first garnered attention in the early 2000s as a prominent group of the Garage rock#Revival, playing garage punk....
  • Hot Water Music
    Hot Water Music

    Hot Water Music is a Punk rock band from Gainesville, Florida, Florida. The members of the band are Chuck Ragan, Chris Wollard, Jason Black, and George Rebelo....
  • Humpers
    Humpers

    The Humpers were a garage punk band formed in 1989 led by Scott Drake, formerly of The Suicide Kings. Despite being based out of Long Beach, California, California, they first won acclaim in Yugoslavia, where their debut EP, My Machine , was released....
  • I Against I
    I Against I (band)

    I Against I were a punk rock band from Holland formerly signed to Epitaph Records....
  • Ikara Colt
    Ikara Colt

    Ikara Colt were a four piece art-rock band formed by art students at London Guildhall University. They had a five year career beginning in 1999 and ending on 17 January, 2005....
  • Insted
  • The (International) Noise Conspiracy
    The (International) Noise Conspiracy

    The Noise Conspiracy is a rock band formed in Sweden in the late months of 1998. The line-up consists of Dennis Lyxz?n , Inge Johansson , Lars Str?mberg , and Ludwig Dahlberg ....
  • The Joykiller
    The Joykiller

    The Joykiller are a punk rock Supergroup from Huntington Beach, California. The Joykiller were formed in 1995 by Jack Grisham and Ron Emory after the disbanding of their previous band T.S.O.L., they then went on to recruit Billy Persons on bass, Ronnie King on Keyboards, and Chris Lagerborg on drums.They recorded one album on Epitaph record...
  • Wayne Kramer
    Wayne Kramer

    Wayne Kramer may refer to:*Wayne Kramer , American guitarist*Wayne Kramer , South African film writer and director...
  • L7
    L7 (band)

    L7 was an American rock band from Los Angeles that was active from 1985 to 2000. Due to their sound and image, they are often associated with the grunge music movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  • Little Kings
  • Madball
    Madball

    Madball is a New York-based band that originated in the late 1980s, as a side-project of Agnostic Front ....
  • Matchbook Romance
    Matchbook Romance

    Matchbook Romance was an American rock band from Poughkeepsie , New York and were formed in 1997.They were signed to Epitaph Records. They released two full length albums and one EP....
  • Midget Handjob
  • Motion City Soundtrack
    Motion City Soundtrack

    Motion City Soundtrack is an American rock music band from Minneapolis, Minnesota, formed in 1997. Only two of the founding members are still a part of the lineup: lead vocalist and guitarist Justin Pierre and lead guitarist and backing vocalist Joshua Cain....
  • New Bomb Turks
    New Bomb Turks

    The New Bomb Turks are a garage punk band from Columbus, Ohio. The founding members are Jim Weber, Eric Davidson, Bill Randt, and Matt Reber. Sam Brown replaced Bill Randt on drums in 1999....
  • NOFX
    NOFX

    NOFX is an United States punk rock band that was formed in Los Angeles, California , in 1983.The band was formed by vocalist and bassist Fat Mike and guitarist Eric Melvin....
  • The Offspring
    The Offspring

    The Offspring is an American rock music band. It was formed in 1984 in Huntington Beach, California. The band is credited, along with fellow California punk bands Green Day and Rancid , with reviving mainstream interest in punk rock in the United States during the mid-1990s....
  • Osker
    Osker

    Osker was a Los Angeles melodic punk rock band who formed in 1998 and split in February 2002, ultimately due to the departure of their drummer. The line up originally consisted of Devon Williams on vocals and guitar and Dave Benitez on bass....
  • Pete Philly and Perquisite
    Pete Philly and Perquisite

    Pete Philly & Perquisite is a hip hop music duo, originating from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Pieter Monzon "Pete Philly" is the MC/vocalist and Pieter Perquin "Perquisite" plays cello, produces and composes all the music....
  • The Pietasters
    The Pietasters

    The Pietasters are a seven-piece ska/soul music band hailing from Washington, D.C., with additional members from Maryland and Virginia....
  • Poison Idea
    Poison Idea

    Poison Idea was an United States hardcore punk band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. As their career progressed the band began to incorporate overt influences from hard rock....
  • Pulley
    Pulley (band)

    Pulley is a Southern California Melodic Hardcore outfit that made its debut in 1996. The band is known for straight-forward, hard-edged melodic punk rock....
  • Raised Fist
    Raised Fist

    Raised Fist is a Sweden hardcore punk band formed in 1993 under the name "Palt ?" but changed name to Raised Fist after the first demo. The name "Raised Fist" came as an idea from the Rage Against the Machine song "Know Your Enemy", where part of the lyrics are as follows: "Born with an insight and a raised fist..." The band has become mor...
  • Rancid
    Rancid (band)

    Rancid is an American punk band formed in 1991 in Albany, California, by Matt Freeman and Tim Armstrong, both of whom previously played in ska punk group Operation Ivy ....
     (now on Epitaph's sub-label Hellcat Records
    Hellcat Records

    Hellcat Records is an independent record label record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between the owner of Epitaph, Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion and Tim Armstrong of Rancid , the latter of whom is generally responsible for signing the bands....
    )
  • Randy
    Randy (band)

    Randy is a punk rock band from Hortlax, Sweden, formed in 1992. They were first inspired by skate punk bands like NOFX and Propagandhi but after the release of The Rest Is Silence and the depart of their bass player Patrik Trydvall, they radically changed their musical style and adopted a older sound reminiscent of Thin Lizzy, Misfits and R...
  • Red Aunts
    Red Aunts

    The Red Aunts were an all-female punk rock band that formed in 1991 in Long Beach, California when Terri Wahl recruited friends Kerry Davis and Debi Martini ....
  • Refused
    Refused

    Refused was a Swedish hardcore punk band originating from Ume?, Sweden, formed in 1991. The band released five EPs and three albums before breaking up in 1998....
  • Rich Kids on LSD
    Rich Kids on LSD

    Rich Kids on LSD were a Californian hardcore punk band formed in 1982 in Montecito, California, a suburb of Santa Barbara, California. They were associated with the "Nardcore" scene that evolved out of nearby Oxnard, California....
  • Rontastic
  • Ruth Ruth
    Ruth Ruth

    Ruth Ruth is a pop punk band formed in New York City in 1993. The group is composed of Chris Kennedy , Mike Lustig , and Christian Nakata .The song "Uninvited" from their in 1995 Laughing Gallery album gained Ruth Ruth some success, including alternative radio play and a few months of MTV rotation....
  • Satanic Surfers
    Satanic Surfers

    Satanic Surfers were a Sweden Melodic Hardcore band from Lund....
  • Scatter The Ashes
    Scatter the Ashes

    Scatter the Ashes was an American post-hardcore band signed to the Epitaph Records label, consisted of four members. Their music could be compared to that of Circa Survive, Joy Division, Saosin, Refused and The Cure due to its heavy and atmospheric sound....
  • The Seeing Eye Gods
  • Social Distortion
    Social Distortion

    Social Distortion is an United States rock music band formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California, Orange County, California, California. The band currently consists of Mike Ness , Jonny Wickersham , Brent Harding and Charlie Quintana ....
     (re-releasing their Greatest Hits
    Greatest Hits (Social Distortion album)

    Greatest Hits is a compilation album by Social Distortion. It was released on June 26, 2007. It includes hit singles from Mommy's Little Monster to Sex, Love and Rock 'n' Roll ? as well as the unreleased track "Far Behind ", which also became a hit single ? yet lacks anything from Mainliner: Wreckage From the Past, which is ac...
     album in Europe
    Europe

    Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
    )
  • Some Girls
    Some Girls (California band)

    Some Girls was a collective of musicians who came from different backgrounds and all who had established bands that pushed the limits of hardcore punk....
  • The Special Goodness
    The Special Goodness

    The Special Goodness is the side project of Weezer?s drummer Patrick Wilson . It currently features Pat on guitar and vocals, and Atom Willard on drums....
  • SNFU
    SNFU

    SNFU is a Canada punk rock band which formed in 1981, disbanded between 1989 and 1991 before reforming, broke up in 2005, and again reassembled in 2007....
  • Straightfaced
  • Ten Foot Pole
    Ten Foot Pole

    Ten Foot Pole is an United States punk rock band, formerly on Epitaph Records. The band was founded in 1983 as Scared Straight . They renamed themselved in the early 1990s while on tour in Europe, not wanting to be mistaken for a "straight edge" punk band ....
  • Terrorgruppe
    Terrorgruppe

    Terrorgruppe [] was a Germany punk band from Berlin which was founded in 1993 and split up in 2005.The band are notorious for their live performances, involving various on-stage gags and audience participation....
  • Thelonious Monster
    Thelonious Monster

    Thelonious Monster is a punk rock band from Los Angeles, led by singer-songwriter Bob Forrest. They were a popular live attraction in the underground rock clubs of Hollywood in the 1980s and put out a series of critically acclaimed albums, but never achieved major commercial success....
  • Tom Waits
    Tom Waits

    Thomas Alan Waits is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, composer and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of Bourbon whiskey, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car." With this trademark growl, his incorpo...
     (now on Epitaphs sub-label ANTI-
    ANTI-

    ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 in music as a sister label of Epitaph Records.While Epitaph's focus is mostly on punk rock, ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from hip hop , reggae , comedy , country music to indie rock , among other genres....
    )
  • Total Chaos
    Total Chaos (band)

    Total Chaos is an United States street punk band from Pomona Valley, California, formed in 1989. Lead vocalist Rob Chaos is also co-owner of SOS Records with Ezzat Soliman, owner of the Showcase Theater, having released albums by classic punk rock and Oi! bands like The Exploited, Vice Squad, Sham 69, Conflict , The Addicts and Abrasive Wheel...
  • Turbonegro
    Turbonegro

    Turbonegro is a Norway punk rock band that combines hard rock and punk music into a style the band describes as "deathpunk".Among the band's main influences are Black Flag , Rolling Stones, Kiss , Venom , Radio Birdman, AC/DC, Kill City, Circle Jerks, Ramones, Alice Cooper, Negazione, The Dictators and The Stooges, as well as Norwegian roc...
  • Union 13
    Union 13

    Union 13 is a hardcore punk band from East Los Angeles, California, USA who have, to date, released four full length albums – three on Epitaph Records and one on Disaster Records....
  • U.S. Bombs
    U.S. Bombs

    U.S. Bombs are an United States punk rock band, formed in 1993. U.S. Bombs consists of vocalist Duane Peters, guitarists Jonny Wickersham and Kerry Martinez, bass guitarist Wade Walston and drummer Chip Hanna....
  • Undeclinable Ambuscade
  • The Vandals
    The Vandals

    The Vandals are an United States rock music rock band established in 1980 in Huntington Beach, California. Forming as part of the List of musicians in the second wave of punk music of American punk rock, the band has released ten full-length studio albums and two live albums and have toured the world extensively, including performances on the...
  • Vision
  • Voice Of A Generation
  • Vonland
  • Voodoo Glow Skulls
    Voodoo Glow Skulls

    Voodoo Glow Skulls are an American ska punk band formed in 1988 in Riverside, California by brothers Frank, Eddie and Jorge Casillas and their longtime friend Jerry O'Neill....
  • Youth Group
    Youth Group

    Youth Group is a rock band based in Newtown, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia signed to Ivy League Records....
     (now on Epitaphs sub-label ANTI-
    ANTI-

    ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 in music as a sister label of Epitaph Records.While Epitaph's focus is mostly on punk rock, ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from hip hop , reggae , comedy , country music to indie rock , among other genres....
    )
  • Zeke
    Zeke (band)

    Zeke is an American hardcore punk band from Seattle, Washington. They are known for their extremely high-powered, driving guitar sound mixed with blues-rock influences, and are therefore sometimes compared to Mot?rhead....


Compilations

  • Punk-O-Rama
    Punk-O-Rama

    Punk-O-Rama is a series of Compilation albums by Epitaph Records featuring bands from Epitaph and its sub-labels, Hellcat Records and Burning Heart Records....
     series
  • Unsound
    Unsound (compilation series)

    Unsound is a series of Compilation album released by the record label Epitaph Records starting in 2006.It is the successor of the Punk-O-Rama series which had its last of ten releases in 2005....
     series
  • How We Rock
    How We Rock

    How We Rock was the third release from the Boston, Massachusetts hardcore punk band SSD . It was rooted in the hardcore sound but exhibited overt heavy metal characteristics, such as a relatively high number of lengthy guitar solos....
  • Spirit of the Streets
  • Epitaph / Union skate/surf DVD series
    • Football Schmootball (1st)
    • DC Video
      DC Video

      The DC Video is a compilation of skateboarding tricks by various skateboarders sponsored by DC Shoes, and was produced by former pro skateboarder Greg Hunt....
       (3rd)
    • Cirle One (5th)
  • Out of Print Compilations
    • Bored Generation skate/surf enhanced CD-ROM (1996)
    • More Songs About Anger, Fear, Sex & Death
      More Songs About Anger, Fear, Sex & Death

      More Songs About Anger, Fear, Sex & Death is a compilation album compiled from nine different bands ....
       (1992)


See also

  • Epitaph Records discography
    Epitaph Records discography

    This is the official catalog of Epitaph Records. The list is ordered by release number. Original release dates are within the parentheses....
  • 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:...
  • Punk-O-Rama
    Punk-O-Rama

    Punk-O-Rama is a series of Compilation albums by Epitaph Records featuring bands from Epitaph and its sub-labels, Hellcat Records and Burning Heart Records....
  • Hellcat Records
    Hellcat Records

    Hellcat Records is an independent record label record label based in Los Angeles, California. The label, an off-shoot of Epitaph Records, was started as a partnership between the owner of Epitaph, Brett Gurewitz from Bad Religion and Tim Armstrong of Rancid , the latter of whom is generally responsible for signing the bands....
  • ANTI-
    ANTI-

    ANTI- is an American record label founded in 1999 in music as a sister label of Epitaph Records.While Epitaph's focus is mostly on punk rock, ANTI- has a more diverse roster, ranging from hip hop , reggae , comedy , country music to indie rock , among other genres....


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