Hydra Head Records

Hydra Head Records
Founded	1993
Founder	Aaron Turner
Distributing label	Blue Collar Distro
Genre	Sludge metal Stoner metal Doom metal Post-metal Noise Experimental rock Black metal Metalcore Mathcore Hip-hop
Country of origin	United States
Official website	hydrahead.com

Aaron Turner, the founder of Hydra Head, performing live.

Hydra Head Records is an independent record label which specializes in heavy metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis) in 1993. It has two imprints; Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialises in experimental and noise music, and another entitled Tortuga Records.

Hydra Head was founded in 1993 as a distribution company while Turner was still in high school. In 1995, he moved to Boston to attend art school, when he was handed a Vent demo, whose seven inch would be the first record released on Hydra Head. The label grew to accommodate local bands such as Roswell, Corrin, Piebald and Converge, and after Turner graduated from college in 1999, it became a full-time endeavour.^[1] Hydra Head recently relocated to Los Angeles, California from their former home in Boston, Massachusetts.

Some of the bands signed to the label include Cave In, Xasthur, Kayo Dot, Boris, and Jesu. Its discography includes Botch, Khanate, and Harkonen, who were all signed to Hydra Head prior to their respective disbandings.

Current roster

• 27
• Agoraphobic Nosebleed
• The Austerity Program
• Big Business
• Boris
• Cable
• Cave In
• Cavity
• Craw
• Dälek
• Daughters
• Discordance Axis
• Drawing Voices
• Everlovely Lightningheart
• Harkonen
• Harvey Milk
• Heresi
• Isis
• Jesu
• Kayo Dot
• Keelhaul
• Khanate
• Khlyst
• Knut
• Logh
• Lotus Eaters
• Lustmord
• Merzbow
• The Octave Museum
• Oxbow
• Pet Genius
• Phantomsmasher
• Pyramids
• These Arms Are Snakes
• Xasthur
• Zozobra

There is one imprint label as well, called Tortuga. Their roster includes:

• The Gersch
• Old Man Gloom
• Scissorfight
• Frog
• 5ive
• Tusk

Past artists

• Age of Reason
• Barbaro
• Botch
• Boxer Rebellion
• Buzzov*en
• Cattlepress
• Coalesce
• Converge
• Corrin
• Cult of Luna
• Drowingman
• Jesuit
• Kid Kilowatt
• Mare
• Miltown
• Neurosis
• Pelican
• Piebald
• Roswell
• Six Going on Seven
• Soilent Green
• Sunn O)))
• The Hollomen
• The Never Never
• Today Is the Day
• Unionsuit
• Vent

References

See also

• List of record labels
• Hydra Head Records discography

External links

• Official site
• Interview with Aaron Turner

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