Massacre Records Explained

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

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

From 1995 to 2000, Massacre Records operated the sub-label Swanlake Records for its gothic metal and folk metal releases. The most well-known artists published on Swanlake include Skyclad, Atrocity, Theatre of Tragedy, and Liv Kristine.^[4]

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

Artists

Current

• Atrophy
• Coronatus
• Crematory
• Dark Embrace
• Debauchery
• Disbelief
• Embryonic Autopsy
• Eternal Tears of Sorrow
• Hatriot
• Helstar
• Jotnar
• Messiah's Kiss
• Raunchy
• Seelenwalzer
• Tears of Martyr
• Toxik
• Wizard
• Viper Solfa

Unsorted

5 Star Grave Agathodaimon Andromeda Anvil Atargatis Atrocity Avian Axenstar Axxis Beyond Twilight Bleed the Sky Bliss Casket Co. Cage Catamenia Chain Collector Chastain Cornerstone Darkane Darkseed Darzamat Das Ich Decadence Dreamscape Echoes of Eternity Eisregen Elysion Evereve Exciter Experiment Fear Falchion Fates Warning Firewind Graveworm Halcyon Way Hellion Highland Glory

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 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

Raven Razorback Rebellion Requiem Rob Rock Sacred Steel Sandalinas Saviour Machine Scanner Schwarzer Engel Seven Witches Seventh Avenue Siebenbürgen Silent Force Skyclad Solitude Aeturnus Steel Attack Steel Prophet The Awakening The Burning The Duskfall Theatre of Tragedy Thunderbolt Timeless Miracle Totenmond Transilvanian Beat Club Unrest Virgin Black Whiplash Winterdome Winter's Verge Wolf Wolfchant Zero Degree

Former

• Dark Millennium
• Edenbridge
• Bliss
• Fatal Opera
• Mortal Love
• Veni Domine

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Metal Merchant, a division of Massacre Records . 19 May 2011 . The Metal Merchant website . Massacre Records.
2. Web site: Blue Rose Records . 19 May 2011 . Blue Rose Records website . Massacre Records . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120411034511/http://www.bluerose-records.de/ . 11 April 2012 .
3. Web site: About MCM . 19 May 2011 . MCM Music official website . https://web.archive.org/web/20110820210132/http://mcm-music.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2&Itemid=2 . 20 August 2011 . dead .
4. Web site: Swanlake Records . 19 May 2011 . . 11 November 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121111123519/http://www.discogs.com/label/Swanlake%20Records . live .