top 5 metal labels?

[alexan]

question: which ones you think are the top 5 metal labels?

 

[SweptbackFlame]

I'm gonna get bashed for this:

1. Roadrunner Records. the (Suffocation, Obituary, Annihilator, Type Of Negative, Cynic) years
2. Metal Blade Records
3. Century Media Records
4. Napalm Records
5. SPV/Steamhammer

 

[arg]

Earache has some good bands too

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Sevared (this year hasn't been so good to him though), Norma Evangelium Diaboli, Xtreem, Obscene, Candlelight (for their roster; everything else about them sucks from their bad handling of their distro/store to their awful graphic designers/typesetters).

There are shitloads more that are definitely awesome:

Amputated Vein
Brutal Bands
No Colours
Nuclear War Now!
Enucleation
Comatose
Nuclear Blast (sometimes; their roster atm is pretty good)
Relapse (in earlier years, esp. when they had "Release")
Lifeforce
Macabre Mementos
Dockyard 1

 

[Slayed Necros]

Barbarian Wrath
Kyrck Productions
Iron Pegasus
Necropolis Records
Napalm Records
No Fashion
Drowned Productions
Thrash Records

 

[youdontknowme]

top 5

1. Peaceville
2. Earache
3. Relapse (they were good at one point)
4. Century Media
5. Nuclear War Now (been putting out a lot of great shit lately)

 

[CF87]

Peaceville(autopsy,bloodbath,katatonia,old paradise,old anathema,MDB. DOOM
Razorback
Century Media(because of the swedish DM releases and originally being established by some of the best DM bands period).
Candlelight
Drowned
Blackmark(because of EoS)

Relapse,RR,Nuclear Blast have released some great albums also.

There's some new specific labels(any labels that reissue old albums are my favorites).

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

I totally neglected a lot of the great OSDM labels others have mentioned, including Thrash and Drowned. Hells Headbangers also puts out killer, high quality stuff nowadays, and they have an excellent distro and great customer service to boot.

 

[Psychopathology]

Peaceville(autopsy,bloodbath,katatonia,old paradise,old anathema,MDB. DOOM
Razorback
Century Media(because of the swedish DM releases and originally being established by some of the best DM bands period).
Candlelight
Drowned
Blackmark(because of EoS)

Relapse,RR,Nuclear Blast have released some great albums also.

There's some new specific labels(any labels that reissue old albums are my favorites).

Good taste here.

 

[Koude Haat]

p much agree with the labels posted here. also blood harvest has been releasing excellent OSDM for the past few years.

 

[Mort Divine]

I Hate Records is probably my favorite overall.

Avantgarde Music is another very good one.

 

[SweptbackFlame]

I Hate Records is probably my favorite overall.

Avantgarde Music is another very good one.

Avantgarde Music is fucking great

 

[Omni]

Avantgarde Music releases a ton of shitty albums and some really good ones.

 

[The Ozzman]

Capitol
RCA
Sony
Geffen
Elektra

 

[divine_torture]

I rather like Moribund.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Moribund are dicks to their artists as far as I know, and Debemur Morti is like them only based in France and not run by dicks. Moribund distros DM stuff now too, apparently, which is cool...but Moribund are still assholes (they do release some OK stuff, sometimes awesome stuff I guess).

 

[divine_torture]

I'll have to check out Debemur Morti I guess. I've heard mixed things about Moribund's treatment to their bands... Either way they've put out some fantastic shit.

 

[Eligos]

1. Candlelight
2. Spikefarm
3. Southern Lord
4. Regain
5. Relapse

 

[Rumpole]

Iron Kodex is one of my favourites at the moment. The effort they put into their vinyl releases truly puts some other labels to shame.

edit -Can't believe I forgot to say Shadow Kingdom, pretty much everything he's put out has been awesome, excellent distro service, too.

 

[Personified Hatred]

No order...

Avantgarde
Osmose
Century Media
Peaceville
Metal Blade
Black Mark
Season Of Mist