Founder Torsten Hartmann Founded 1991 Country of origin Germany | Location Abstatt Distributor Soulfood | |
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Genre Heavy metal, hard rock, space rock Official website www.massacre-records.com Artists Eisregen, Mystic Prophecy, Legion of the Damned, Coronatus, Illdisposed Albums Velvet Darkness They Fear, The Graveyard, Give Me Your SoulPlease, The Puppet Master, Knochenkult Profiles | ||
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Massacre Records is an independent record label based in Abstatt, Germany.
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The label was founded in 1991 by Torsten Hartmann. The label specializes in bands of the harder genres of metal. Connected to Massacre Records is the marketing and music wholesale Metal Merchant, the sub-labels Blue Rose Records and Gutter Records for the singer/songwriter genre and for German metal respectively and the music publisher Sylvian Music. Massacre Records also distributes athe albums of the gothic metal label MCM Music.
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.
The best-selling albums released wrong Massacre became Velvet Darkness They Fear and Aégis by Theatre of Tragedy, and Werk 80 by Atrocity.