European label featuring bands such as The Gathering, FreshFabrik, and Agresion.

Norwegian record label, site includes band and release news as well as their own e-zine.

Italian black metal record label featuring such bands as Ancient Wisdom and Dark Sanctuary.

Death/Metalcore label based in the United States. Home to bands such as Bongzilla, Leval Blessing and Foetopsy.

Black metal record label based in Canada.

Phoenixville, Pennsylvania-based distribution company.

A newly formed label featuring Shroud of Despondency and Misery's Omen.

Home of Norwegian metal bands such as El Caco, WE, Camaros and Lowdown.

Hard rock label with mailorder service.

Iowa based metal label. Artists include Aftershock and Detachment. Newsletter, live chat, band pages, tour dates.

UK extreme underground goregrind and death metal label featuring Gore Penetration and Malevolence.

Texas-based record label featuring Mandragora, Sorcerer, and Datura.

Production company dealing with metal and hardcore music. Site contains shows information and mp3 downloads.

Cult record label carrying such bands as Bal Sagoth, Cradle of Filth, Sigh, Gehenna, and Abyssos.

Black metal label based in the UK.

Contains catalog with online ordering, pictures, audio and video clips, tour dates and latest news.

Houston, Texas extreme and black metal label. Artists include Crimson Massacre, To Scale The Throne, and Stygian Descent.

Portland based record label, home of such bands as Dead Rail, Free to Die, Humanis Sarcoma and Shadow's Retreat.

UK label supporting bands such as Withering Surface, Vacant Stare, and Medulla Nocte.

US black metal distribution label that carries rare demos and videos.

Underground retail mail-order/record label specializing in the dark wave, ambient and black metal music genres.

Dark pagan label features bands such as Cradle of Filth, Type O Negative, Bloodstained Dusk, Fragile Frost, and Deadwait.

Extreme metal label featuring Victims, Dragnet, and Annihilation. News, mail order, and tour dates.

Scandinavia's most progressive and innovative record companies, specializing in metal, hardcore, and punk.

Death metal mavens Dichotic, speed metal freaks Civil Carnage and mysti-grinders Cephalectomy scorch the musical landscape on Discorporate Music.

Dutch metal label, featuring bands as Altar, Pestilence, Cryptopsy and Celestial Season.

Hardcore label with artists such as Napalm Death, Adrenalin Junkies, Pitch Shifter, Morbid Angel and Godflesh. Mailing list, artist biographies, merchandise, tour dates.

Independent record company since 1995. Specializing in anything loud.

Independent grindcore label based in Germany.

UKs labels/distributor of extreme music. Includes mailorder.

UK metal label.

Evillot Records and Production specializes in producing and then licensing some of the best metal bands.

Indie label and distributor based in the United States. Site contains articles, news, reviews, CDs for sale, and links.

US label, official distributor for US doom metal cult Aphotic. Mp3s and mail order catalog.

Black/death metal distribution and records company. Includes its history, mail order catalog, photo gallery, MP3 samples, and interviews.

Canadian label carrying DBC, Howling Syn, and Ghoulnatics.

Underground record label that specializes in releasing demos of black, death and doom metal bands.

Online record distributor.

Underground Black Metal label and Distribution.

Black metal record label featuring Cultus and Heidens Ara.

Independent record label based in Florida. Bands can submit material.

German label. Home of Malus and Somnium Mortuum.

Home of Yeast Infection, Festering Puke, Dismembered Fetus, Adnauseam, and The Porch Monkeys. Release information, reviews and links.

Black Metal label home to Funeral Winds, Faustian Funeral, and Ancientblood.

Site contains information about signed artists, biographies, and merchandise.

Japanese label specializing in 1970s-inspired acid doom metal such as Blood Farmers and Sonic Flower.

Underground record label and distribution of death metal, black metal and grindcore CDs. Home of Pessimist, Noctuary, Burial, and Pandemia. Secure online ordering.

Worldwide record label for heavy music of all kinds. Totally independent and proud of it. Broken Hope, Em Sinfonia and Novembers Doom reside here.

Michigan recording label famous for its grindcore, death metal, noisecore, gorecore, rap metal and other aggressive musical ensembles.

French indie label specializing in atmospheric black metal.

Metal Blade Records is the world's most prominent independent heavy metal record label. Started in a garage almost 20 years ago. MBR's has spawned bands as: Metallica, Slayer, Gwar, and Goo Goo Dolls among others.

Label featuring Hellacaust, Angelkill, Wishmaster and other dark metal bands.

Extreme metal label and mailorder service based in Northern Ireland. Deals in dark and challenging extreme music.

Home of the Monster Records label and our artists Winterhawk, Slauter Xstroyes, Truth and Janey, Full Moon, and Amulet. Also includes a catalog of new and used records and compact discs in an online store.

Extreme metal label and distributor, based in the US.

Finnish record label featuring Hostian, Forest of Evil and Mors.

Specializing in melodic metal abandoned by the majors from the late 80's and early 90's. Melodic/Progress/Power from the unknown to the famous available online.

Cutting edge metal music news, MP3s, audio and video clips, and ordering information.

Information on DIY grindcore/gorecore label and distribution.

Black Metal label from Germany.

Dutch heavy metal label, carries such bands as Avalon, Cage and Mind Masque.

Independent label from Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN. Deals with promotion, advertising, booking, general support, and advice of unsigned bands in the progressive rock, hard rock, heavy metal, and pop rock genres.

Extreme metal label carrying such bands as Thornspawn, Seth, and Anorexia Nervosa

Metal record label with offices in the United States and Europe. Current roster includes a.o. Kreator, Sodom, and Malevolent Creation.

UK underground label featuring metal bands such as My Dying Bride and Katatonia.

Chicago-based label and musician community featuring The Infamous, Miasma, Kong, and Joe T. on Acid.

Melbourne based indie record label. Production, distribution and promotion for local heavy metal bands. Forum, mp3s, downloads, gig reviews and band profiles for artists such as Innocent Cabbage and Nale Asylum.

Label releasing indie metal and hardcore such as American Tragedy and As I Lay Dying.

New York label. Artists include 220 Volt, Damien and Further Lo.

Independent label focusing on progressive and power metal including artists like Jimmy Williams and Nonpoint.

Grindcore and death metal label and distro.

Grindcore and death metal record label.

Record label of the band Red Terrier.

Brutal Underground Death Metal Label from NYDM Coalition President and Mortician Vocalist Will Rahmer.

Underground metal label featuring Black Widows and Striking Distance. Site also contains a related magazine.

Also home to Release Entertainment. These black-clad bongsmiths release hardcore grindcore, death metal, noise, experimental, and other extreme music. Artists include Neurosis, Brutal Truth, Amorphis, Trial of the Bow, Amber Asylum, Merzbow, Abscess, Mindrot, Flux, and Mortician.

Record label and free MP3s for bands such as Visceral Bleeding and Gilla Bruja.

Rock label carrying band like Electric Gypsies and Atomic Rooster.

One of the largest truly independent record labels. Initially specializing in heavy metal, Roadrunner now includes a wide spectrum of genres among the bands on its roster.

Independent record label and artist services company, specializing in all types of heavy metal and gothic bands.

Minnesota label specializing in extreme metal. Includes catalog, audio samples, and weekly radio show.

A Chicago-based label.

UK metal label. Features all styles of metal from hard and heavy to doom and gloom and soft to goth.

Label featuring only death metal bands such as Disinterment, Disfigured, and RASP. Site includes a magazine and extensive catalog.

Metal label with Uncurbed and Hellnation. Contains news, merchandise, and tour dates.

Portuguese melodic and extreme metal label. Home of Requiem, Svartsyn, Gaia Epicus, VII Gates, Madog, Vicious, and Grand Alchemist.

Heavy metal record label from Greece. Site includes store, photos, band biographies, a members' club, and catalog.

Death metal label. Artists include Equinox, Molested Senses, Burning Inside and Brutality.

Independent record label from Greece distributing and producing metal, goth, and industrial vinyl and CDs.

Canadian indie record label specializing in heavy music - metal, heavy rock, prog metal.

Metal label based in Pasadena CA, USA.

UK Underground Black Metal Label and Distro.

Official site featuring Blackthrone Productions releases and MP3s.

Home of Deeds Of Flesh, Disgorge, Decrepit Birth, Pyaemia, Mortal Decay, Necronomicon, Disavowed, and Agiel. Offers free MP3s.

Heavy metal label with online ordering and media for download. Bands such as Comity, Caligula and Fallout

Label and distributor specializing in death metal bands such as Retch.

Independent label promoting underground musicians in the Midwest.

Independent non-profit record label from Australia.

Independent record label, stripped of all corporate trappings, seeking to respect and reflect the roots of every release, from music to musician, from bareknuckles rock and roll to the classic blues.