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Earache Records Inc.
4402 11th St., #507A
Long Island City, NY 11101
NY Tel. 718-786-1707
Fax 718-786-1756

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.earache.com
Employees: 13

Earache Records -- it's not just a label it's a promise. Specializing in extreme music such as grindcore, death metal, sludge, and industrial, independent label Earache Records is home to artists such as Cathedral, Godflesh, The Haunted, and Morbid Angel. The company has sold more than 8 million records and a number of its acts have gone on to sign with major labels. Although Earache records may have reached its apogee in the 90's, the label continues to push boundries in music while remaining true to its hardcore origins. Company head Digby Pearson founded Earache Records from his bedroom in 1986, first signing the Birmingham, UK outfit Napalm Death.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $0.9M

Officers:
Managing Director: Digby Pearson
Press Manager US: Anthony Guzzardo
UK and European Press Manager: Talita Jenman

Competitors:
Arctic Music
Metal Blade Records
Rotten Records

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Earache Records
Earachelogo.png
Founded 1985
Founder Digby Pearson
Distributing label Caroline Distribution
Genre Heavy metal music, Grindcore, Death metal, Industrial music
Country of origin United Kingdom
Location Nottingham
Official Website http://www.earache.com/

Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records, in the period 1988-1994.

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History

Earache was founded in the late eighties by 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 MOSH 1, was The Accüsed's Return of Martha Splatterhead. The label's first major release, however, was Napalm Death's Scum. Then, in 1989, Earache released Naked City's "Torture Garden", an LP of 'hardcore miniatures'. Other early records include albums by some of extreme metal's finest bands, regarded as genre-defining classics.[citation needed]

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 and by Californian rockers Adema, who entered the USA Billboard charts top 200 in April 2005.

Earache has become inextricably linked with the death metal scene in particular, but also released Welsh ragga-metal act Dub War, Nottingham's hardcore techno outfit Ultraviolence, and Mick Harris' industrial/experimental Scorn, each time expanding the boundaries of extreme music, and opening a path that other labels have followed, sometimes with greater success[citation needed]. 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.

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.

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