Kemado Records is an American record label

Record label

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 based in New York City founded in 2002. In 2006 the label released the Invaders compilation, which featured many of the label's bands alongside other hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 and heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 bands such as Witchcraft

Witchcraft (band)

Witchcraft is a Swedish hard rock band founded in 2000.-History:Magnus Pelander formed Witchcraft in 2000 in order to record a tribute to Pentagram's Bobby Liebling and Roky Erickson. The "No Angel or Demon" single was released in 2002 by Primitive Art Records which caught the ear of Lee Dorrian's...

, High on Fire

High on Fire

High on Fire is a stoner metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1998. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, previously played guitar for the influential stoner doom band Sleep.-History:...

 and Witch

Witch (band)

Witch is an American stoner metal band whose members are from Vermont and Massachusetts.-History:Witch was formed in 2005 by Dinosaur Jr guitarist J Mascis and long time friend Dave Sweetapple. However, Mascis does not play guitar for the band; he plays his first instrument, the drums...

.

In 2008, Kemado introduced its Mexican Summer

Mexican Summer

Founded by Kemado Records in 2008, Mexican Summer started out by releasing limited-edition, ornately packaged vinyl pieces. Mexican Summer has expanded its catalog to over 100 releases across multiple formats....

 imprint. The label focuses on digital and limited-edition vinyl

Gramophone record

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 releases.

Artists and releases

• Audionom
  Audionom
  -History:Audionom was formed by members of two local Stockholm bands, Apparat and PVC. They released a number of singles for Swedish labels between 1999 and 2002, which were collected onto a full-length album entitled Retrospektiv, released in 2005. The group broke up before Kemado Records heard it...
  
  
• Cheeseburger
  Cheeseburger (band)
  Cheeseburger is a Brooklyn, New York based hard rock band. They are perhaps best known for their song "Comin' Home" which is the theme song for the Adult Swim show Superjail!, which was co-created by the band's guitarist, Christy Karacas....
  
  
• Children
• Danava
  Danava
  Danava is an American hard rock band from Portland, Oregon. Their music fits into the categories of heavy metal, progressive, and psychedelic rock. They take influence from early hard rock, progressive rock and heavy metal.- Biography :...
  
  
• Diamond Nights
  Diamond Nights
  Diamond Nights is a hard rock/indie rock band whose influences include Thin Lizzy, Queen, and Cheap Trick. They formed in New York City in 2003, and released their debut album Popsicle in 2005...
  
  
• Dungen
  Dungen
  Dungen is a Swedish rock band based in Stockholm. Often classified as progg or psychedelic rock, Dungen is also influenced by Swedish folk music, classic rock, progressive rock, garage rock and alternative rock....
  
  
• Elefant
  Elefant (band)
  - Background :Born in Detroit to Argentine parents in the late 1970s, Diego Garcia immersed himself in the sounds of Iggy Pop and MC5 at an early age. Music carried him throughout his tenure until his cardiologist father moved the family back to Tampa, FL when Garcia was a young teenager, and by...
  
  
• Langhorne Slim
  Langhorne Slim
  Langhorne Slim is an American singer-songwriter, . Scolnick attended high school at Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and graduated from the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, part of the SUNY system.He began to gain public notice through several years of touring with the...
  
  
• Lansing-Dreiden
  Lansing-Dreiden
  Lansing-Dreiden is an American band and art collective based in New York City.Lansing-Dreiden was founded in Miami, Florida. Their body of work includes music, multimedia artwork , and the literary journal Death Notice...
  
  
• Marissa Nadler
  Marissa Nadler
  Marissa Nadler is an American dream-folk singer-songwriter and fine artist based in Boston.-Early life:Marissa Nadler was exposed to art at a young age through her mother Pamela, an abstract painter, and her older brother Stuart, a guitarist and writer...
  
  
• O'Death
  O'Death
  O’Death is an American alternative country band from Brooklyn, New York. They combine elements of folk, bluegrass, punk, metal and Americana music.-History:...
  
  
• Priestbird
• Saviours
  Saviours (band)
  Saviours is an American stoner metal band. The band was formed in 2004 in Oakland, California. Since then, they have released four full-length albums and two EPs.-Members:*Austin Barber - vocals, lead & rhythm guitar...
  
  
• The Fever
  The Fever (band)
  The Fever was an American indie rock band from New York City.-History:The Fever formed in 2001 around songwriting partners Geremy Jasper and Chris Sanchez. After expanding to a five-piece, the group signed with Kemado Records, releasing their debut EP, Pink on Pink, in 2002...
  
  
• The Sword
  The Sword
  The Sword is an American heavy metal band that formed in Austin, Texas, in 2003. Since its inception the band has comprised vocalist and guitarist John D. Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt and bassist Bryan Richie, and currently includes touring drummer Jimmy Vela following Trivett Wingo's departure in...
  
  
• TK Webb & The Visions
• Turzi
• VietNam
  VietNam (Band)
  VietNam is a rock, soul and blues band from Brooklyn, New York on Kemado Records. The Band consists of Joshua "Exploding Motorcycle" Grubb on Lead Guitar and Vocals, Michael "Jesus Beard" Gerner on Guitar and vocals, Ivan "DJ Dolphin" Berko on Bass and Harp and Michael "Flaming Locks" Foss on Water...
  
  

Compilations

Invaders
Voyage: Facing the History of French Modern Psychedelic Music
Shout!: The Revolution Rave-Up Alive 1997–2003

External links

• Official website
• Mexican Summer