Massacre Records

Massacre Records is an independent record label based in Abstatt, Germany, that specializes in bands of the heavier genres of metal.

Massacre Records
Founded1991 (1991)
FounderTorsten Hartmann
Distributor(s)Soulfood Music Distribution
GenreHeavy metal, hard rock, space rock
Country of originGermany
LocationAbstatt
Official websitemassacre-records.com

The label was founded in 1991 by Torsten Hartmann. Connected to Massacre Records is the marketing and music wholesale Metal Merchant,[1] the sub-labels Blue Rose Records[2] and Gutter Records for the singer/songwriter genre and for German metal respectively and the music publisher Sylvian Music. Massacre Records also distributes the albums of the gothic metal label MCM Music.[3]

From 1995 to 2000, Massacre Records maintained the sub-label Swanlake Records for its gothic metal and folk metal output. The best-known artists published on Swanlake were Skyclad, Atrocity, Theatre of Tragedy and Liv Kristine.[4]

The best-selling albums released by Massacre are: Velvet Darkness They Fear and Aégis by Theatre of Tragedy and Werk 80 by Atrocity.

Artists

Current
  • Wizard
  • Viper Solfa

Unsorted
  • Horizon
  • Human Fortress
  • Hunted
  • Illdisposed
  • Jack Frost
  • King Diamond
  • Kittie
  • Lȧȧz Rockit
  • Lanfear
  • Leatherwolf
  • Lethal
  • Legion of the Damned
  • Liv Kristine
  • Maverick
  • Majestic
  • Majesty
  • Mandragora Scream
  • Manticora
  • Messiah
  • Messiah's Kiss
  • Metalium
  • Moonlight Agony
  • Mystic Circle
  • Mystic Prophecy
  • Narnia
  • Nightqueen
  • Node
  • Obscurity
  • Omen
  • One Man Army and the Undead Quartet
  • Painflow
  • Paragon
  • Pink Cream 69
  • Pretty Maids
  • Prey for Nothing
  • Pyramaze

Former
  • Fatal Opera [7]
  • Mortal Love
  • Veni Domine

References
  1. "The Metal Merchant, a division of Massacre Records". The Metal Merchant website. wrong Massacre Records. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  2. "Blue Rose Records". Blue Rose Records website. Massacre Records. Archived from the original on 11 April 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  3. "About MCM". MCM Music official website. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  4. "Swanlake Records". Discogs. Retrieved 19 May 2011.
  5. Bliss discography at Discogs
  6. Bliss discography at Discogs
  7. Fatal Opera discography at Discogs
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