Founded 1993 Distributor(s) Redeye Distribution Official website hydrahead.com | Founder Aaron Turner Country of origin United States | |
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Genre Sludge metal
Stoner metal
Doom metal
Post-metal
Noise
Experimental rock
Black metal
Metalcore
Mathcore
Hip hop | ||
This is a complete discography of Hydra Head Records releases. Hydra Head Records is an independent record company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 1993 by Aaron Turner. It has two imprints, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialises in experimental and noise music, and another entitled Tortuga Recordings.
Hydra Head was founded in 1993 as a distribution company while Turner was still in high school. In 1995, he moved to Boston to attend art school, when he was handed a Vent demo, whose seven inch would be the first record released on Hydra Head. The label grew to accommodate local bands such as Roswell, Corrin, Piebald and Converge, and after Turner graduated from college in 1999, it became a full-time endeavour. In late 2012, Turner announced that Hydra Head's operation would begin winding down; the label is intended to continue distributing old material, but not taking on any new releases.
Bands such as Cave In, Pelican, Isis, Botch and Converge have released records on Hydra Head. Hydra Head often collaborates with other labels, such as Relapse Records and Southern Records, in releasing vinyl editions.
List of Hydra Head Records releases
Releases are numbered in a roughly chronological order; semi-official releases are often appended with a ".5" designation.