Relapse Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based independent metal record label. See also: 1989 in music, 1990 in British music, other events of 1990, 1991 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // January 21 - MTVs Unplugged premieres on cable television with musical guest, Squeeze February 6 - Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle accident... Hardcore punk (usually referred to simply as hardcore/hXc) is a subgenre of punk rock which originated in the United States of America in the late 1970s. ... Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of hardcore punk, most commonly associated with death metal and crust punk. ... Death metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal. ... Metalcore (also known as hardcore metal) is a musical genre mixing elements of heavy metal and hardcore punk. ... Nickname: The Gateway to the Rockies Location of Aurora in Colorado County Arapahoe, Adams, Douglas  - Mayor Ed Tauer (R) Area    - City 369. ... Nickname: City of Brotherly Love, Philly, the Quaker City Motto: Philadelphia maneto (Let brotherly love continue) Location in Pennsylvania Coordinates: Country United States State Pennsylvania County Philadelphia Founded October 27, 1682 Incorporated October 25, 1701 Mayor John F. Street (D) Area    - City 369. ... Hot metal work from a blacksmith In chemistry, a metal (Greek: Metallon) is an element that readily loses electrons to form positive ions (cations) and has metallic bonds between metal atoms. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

The label was started by Matthew F. Jacoboson in August, 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado (with the guidance of his good friend and mentor Kevin Kopp)^{[citation needed]}. The first two releases on the label were 7”s by the hardcore bands Velcro Overdose and Face of Decline, closely followed by three bands which would become amongst the biggest on the label, Deceased, Suffocation and Incantation. See also: 1989 in music, 1990 in British music, other events of 1990, 1991 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // January 21 - MTVs Unplugged premieres on cable television with musical guest, Squeeze February 6 - Billy Idol is involved in a serious motorcycle accident... Nickname: The Gateway to the Rockies Location of Aurora in Colorado County Arapahoe, Adams, Douglas  - Mayor Ed Tauer (R) Area    - City 369. ... Deceased is a former death metal band from Virginia. ... Suffocation is an American death metal band. ... Incantation is a US death metal band that was formed by John McEntee and Paul Ledney in 1989. ...

After this, Matt 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 Exit-13. The two joined forces to create Relapse Records, aiming to release high quality professionally packaged extreme music. General Surgery is a Swedish goregrind and deathgrind group, known as one of the earliest Carcass clones. ... Disrupt was a crust punk/grindcore band from Boston, Massachusetts, United States. ... Destory was a powerful Minneapolis Crust punk / Punk Metal band. ... An editor has expressed a concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notability guideline or one of the following guidelines for inclusion on Wikipedia: Biographies, Books, Companies, Fiction, Music, Neologisms, Numbers, Web content, or several proposals for new guidelines. ...

In 1992, the label was expanded with the creation of its subsidiary label called Release Entertainment, which specializes in experimental, ambient, industrial and noise titles.

The music

The label specializes in extreme and experimental varieties of heavy metal (manly Technical death metal), and they have a history of signing bands that cultivate influence and devoted cult followings in the world of extreme music while being largely ignored by mainstream media, for instance Nile, Mortician, Car Bomb, Amorphis, Neurosis, Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Exhumed, Pig Destroyer and Nasum. Recently, however Relapse Records has become considerably more mainstream, with appearances on the front cover of the magazine Kerrang! and video plays on TV music channels, especially of such bands as The Dillinger Escape Plan and Mastodon. The word has also been spread by the sponsorship of such festivals as the Milwaukee Metalfest. Technical death metal, or tech death for short, is a term used to describe bands in the subgenre death metal. ... Nile is a brutal / technical death metal band from South Carolina, USA assembled in 1993. ... Mortician is a death metal/brutal death metal band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989. ... Car Bomb is a progressive metal group from Long Island, NY that was initially formed in 2000. ... Amorphis is a Finnish metal band started by Jan Rechberger, Tomi Koivusaari and Esa Holopainen in 1990. ... Neurosis is a highly influential experimental progressive sludge metal band, based out of Oakland, California, USA. Their unique sound draws from influences ranging from hardcore punk and sludge metal to dark ambient, industrial, and tribal music as well as incorporates elements of indie, folk music and crust punk. ... Logo of Agoraphobic Nosebleed Agoraphobic Nosebleed (abbreviated as ANb) is a grindcore/cybergrind band formed in 1994 in Massachusetts, United States. ... Exhumed is a deathgrind and death metal band from the San Francisco Bay Area. ... Pig Destroyer is an extreme metal band from Virginia, United States. ... Nasum (pronounced Nah-sum) was a Swedish political grindcore and deathgrind band that was formed in 1992 by Anders Jakobson (guitar) and Rickard Alriksson (drums/vocals), two former members of the goregrind band Necrony. ... Kerrang! is a weekly music magazine (mainly rock and metal) published by EMAP in the United Kingdom. ... The Dillinger Escape Plan is a mathcore band that integrates metalcore with jazz/fusion elements. ... Mastodon is a Grammy-nominated[1]heavy metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. ...

In October 2006, Relapse Records became the first record label to launch its own branded 'search and win' engine which allows fans to do internet searches while giving them a chance to win exclusive prizes. Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

See also

• List of record labels
• Relapse Records artists

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External links

• Official site
• Relapse 'search and win' engine