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GUN Records

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Status
  
defunct in 2009

Founded
  
1992

Ceased operations
  
2009

Location
  
Bochum, Witten

Country of origin
  
Germany

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Parent company
  
Sony Music Entertainment

Founder
  
Bogdan Kopec and Wolfgang Funk

Genre
  
Alternative rock, heavy metal, crossover, industrial

Official website
  
http://www.gunrecords.de

Artists
  
Within Temptation, Guano Apes, Oomph!, Kreator, Rage

Albums
  
The Silent Force, The Heart of Everything, Black Symphony, Cause for Conflict, Outcast

GUN Records (Great Unlimited Noises) was a record label located in Bochum, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany and was founded 1992 by Bogdan Kopec (DRAKKAR Promotion Musikverlag GmbH) and Wolfgang Funk.

Different artists on the label have had hit singles as well as albums in Europe. A branch of the label known as Supersonic Records existed until 2005, when GUN's parent company BMG merged with Sony. In 2009, GUN Records announced they were closing.

Former artists

  • All Ends
  • Alien Boys
  • Apocalyptica
  • Apoptygma Berzerk
  • Bullet for My Valentine
  • Die Happy
  • Donots
  • Eagles of Death Metal
  • Exilia
  • Flyleaf
  • L'Ame Immortelle
  • Lordi
  • Lovex
  • Oomph!
  • Sturm und Drang
  • Van Canto
  • Within Temptation
  • Blackeyed Blonde
  • Depressive Age
  • Doctor Butcher
  • Eloy
  • Grave Digger
  • Guano Apes
  • HIM
  • House of Spirits
  • Krisiun
  • Kreator
  • Kyyria
  • Mind Odyssey
  • Monkeys With Tools
  • Paradise Lost
  • Rage
  • Richthofen
  • Running Wild
  • Secret Discovery
  • SITD
  • Sodom
  • Sun
  • T.A.S.S.
  • Three Days Grace
  • Thunderhead
  • Tom Angelripper
  • U.D.O.

    • References

    GUN Records Wikipedia
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