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Relapse Records

American record label

Field	Value
name	Relapse Records
image	Relapse Records logo.svg
founded
founder	Matthew F. Jacobson
distributor	The Orchard (U.S.), INgrooves/Fontana (Canada), eOne Music (worldwide)
genre	Extreme metal, heavy metal, hardcore punk, metalcore, indie rock, electronic, experimental, ambient, industrial, grindcore
country	U.S.
location	Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania
website

Relapse Records is an American independent record label based in Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990. The label features many grindcore, death metal, metalcore and sludge metal artists.

History

The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado. The first two releases on the label were 7-inch singles by the bands Velcro Overdose and Face of Decline, Apparition 7" came next [RR003] closely followed by three death metal bands that would become among the biggest on the label, Deceased, Suffocation, and Incantation.

After this, Jacobson became acquainted with William Yurkiewicz Jr., who became his partner in the record label. Yurkiewicz had founded his own record label, which was soon to release albums from the bands General Surgery, Disrupt, Destroy, Misery, and Yurkiewicz's own grindcore band Exit-13. The two joined forces to create Relapse Records, aiming to release high-quality, professionally packaged extreme music.

In 1991, the label moved their headquarters to Millersville, Pennsylvania. In 1992, the label expanded its range with the creation of its subsidiary label called Release Entertainment, which specializes in experimental, ambient, industrial, and noise titles. With continued growth came a mail-order/wholesale operation that soon became the largest underground distribution center for all things metal in the United States. The mail-order service carried a wide array of extreme music recordings and merchandise, as well as publications from around the world.

Throughout the years Relapse has continued to grow and sign on more influential artists from a broader range of genres. In 1996, Relapse unveiled the Resound Music Resource Guide. Resound gave fans direct access to the label's roster through interviews and reviews, as well as being part mail-order catalog.

In 1998, Relapse opened a promotions office in Berlin, as well as establishing a German distribution deal. In 2003, Relapse held a music festival - the Relapse Contamination Festival took place on January 18 and 19 at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and featured various Relapse artists. In 2000, the label relocated to Upper Darby, outside of Philadelphia and began plans to include a physical record store. In June 2001, the label opened their first record store off of South Street in Philadelphia.

In 2010, Relapse announced that they had done a deal with intellectual property lawyer Eric Greif and Perseverance Holdings Ltd. to take over Chuck Schuldiner's catalog and the Death and Control Denied names internationally. Death's 1995 sixth studio album, Symbolic was excluded from the deal as the rights for said record remain with Roadrunner Records.

On August 5, 2011, Relapse announced a 24-week pay what you want partnership with Moshpit Tragedy Records, issuing one mp3 album from the Relapse catalog every week through Moshpit Tragedy's website.

Artists

Current artists

16
Absent In Body
Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Amenra
Arcadea
ASG
Atriarch
Author & Punisher
Black Anvil
Black Salvation
Brain Tentacles
Call of the Void
Cave In
Cephalic Carnage
Ceremony
Christian Mistress
Cloakroom
Coffins
Cough
Cretin
Cripple Bastards
Deadguy
Devil Master
Devourment
Disfear
Dying Fetus
Ex Eye
Exhumed
Expulsion
Genghis Tron
Genocide Pact
Graves at Sea
Gruesome
Haemorrhage
Hoaxed
Horseback
Ilsa
Incantation
Integrity
Inter Arma
Inverloch
Iron Monkey
Iron Reagan
John Frum
Lycus
Magrudergrind
Mammoth Grinder
Miracle
Monolord
Moore, Steve
Mortals
Myrkur
Nothing
Obituary
Outer Heaven
Pig Destroyer
Pinkish Black
Poison Blood
Poison Ruïn
Primate
Primitive Man
Red Fang
Repulsion
Ripped to Shreds
Ringworm
Seven Sisters of Sleep
Skinless
Sumerlands
Survive
Temple of Void
Trappist
True Widow
Ulcerate
Unearthly Trance
Usnea
Valkyrie
Walking Wounded
Warning
Windhand
Wolves in the Throne Room
Wrong
Yautja
Yob
Zombi
Zonal

Former artists

27
Abysmal Dawn
Agenda of Swine
Alabama Thunderpussy
The Album Leaf
Alchemist
Amorphis
Anal Cunt
Anatomy of Habit
Antigama
Atheist
Baroness
Bedemon
Benümb
Birds of Prey
Black Tusk
Blockheads
Blood Duster
Bloodiest
Bodychoke
Bongzilla
Boris
Brian Posehn
Broughton's Rules
Brutal Truth
Buried Inside
Burnt by the Sun
Burst
Buzzoven
Car Bomb
Chris Connelly
Christian Mistress
Circle of Animals
Coalesce
Columns
Coldworker
Coliseum
Converge
Convulse
The County Medical Examiners
Culted
Death
Dead World
Deceased
Dekapitator
The Dillinger Escape Plan
Disembowelment
Disrupt
The Drip
Dukatalon
Don Caballero
Dysrhythmia
East West Blast Test
Ecstatic Vision
The End
Exit-13
Facedowninshit
Final Conflict
Fuck the Facts
Full of Hell
Gadget
Gatecreeper
General Surgery
Genocide Superstars
Goblin Rebirth
Godflesh
Graves of Valor
Hail!Hornet
Halo
Hemdale
Hero Destroyed
The High Confessions
High on Fire
Hooded Menace
Hope Drone
Howl
Scott Hull
Human Remains
Indian
Inevitable End
Joel Grind
Jucifer
Kingdom of Sorrow
Kill the Client
Liberteer
Locrian
Looking for An Answer
Lord Dying
Maruta
Man Must Die
Mastodon
Merzbow
Mindrot
Minsk
Misery Index
Mortals
Mortician
Mose Giganticus
Mumakil
Murder Construct
Nasum
Necrophagist
Neurosis
Nightstick
Nile
Noisear
Nux Vomica
Obliteration
Obscura
Opprobrium
Origin
Pan.Thy.Monium
Pentagram
Phobia
Publicist UK
Pyrrhon
Rabbits
Razor
Red Harvest
Revocation
Rotten Sound
Royal Thunder
Rumpelstiltskin Grinder
Rwake
Serpentine Path
Siege
Soilent Green
Spawn of Possession
Tau Cross
The Obsessed
Titan
Today Is the Day
Tombs
Torche
Toxic Holocaust
UltraMantis Black
Unkind
Unsane
Victims
Voivod
Vverevvolf Grehv
Weapon
Weekend Nachos
Wolvserpent
Zeke

References

"Relapse Records - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives".
(17 May 2010). "Classic Death, Control Denied Albums Being Reissued by Relapse".
(17 August 2011). "Relapse Records Teams Up With Moshpit Tragedy For "Pay What You Want" PromoMetal Insider".
"Atriarch Signs to Relapse, Stoneburner's Upcoming Album, and Other Heavy Music News".
(29 June 2014). "Gruesome: sign to Relapse; prepare debut album - Metal Invader".
"Death Metal Legends INCANTATION Re-Sign to Relapse Records, Announce New Album". relapse.com.
(16 February 2015). "Magrudergrind Sign with Relapse, Officially Announce New Album - MetalSucks".
(5 April 2013). "MORTALS Sign to Relapse Records".
(8 November 2013). "Skinless Re-Sign To Relapse Records".
"S U R V I V E Sign to Relapse Records, Prepare New Album". Relapse Records.
(14 May 2014). "USNEA Signs With RELAPSE RECORDS".
(31 July 2014). "VALKYRIE Signs With RELAPSE RECORDS".
(18 June 2015). "Relapse Sign Noise Rock Outfit WRONG - Heavy Blog Is Heavy".
"Relapse Records Official Store".
(3 July 2019). "Relapse on dropping Tau Cross: band's liner notes "prominently thanked" Holocaust denier Gerard Menuhin".

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