Hydra Head Records
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Hydra Head Records is an American independent record label that specializes in heavy metal music, founded in 1993 in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis). It has one imprint; Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specializes in experimental and noise music. Hydra Head started as a distribution company while Turner was still in high school. In 1995, he moved to Boston to attend art school. In late 1995, he was handed a demo by local band Vent. That 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 endeavor. Hydra Head recently relocated to Los Angeles, California, from its former home in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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Hydra Head Industries Inc. |
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Double H Noise Industries Europe |
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PO Box 291430 |
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One of my favorite labels ever: great bands, great albums. They always had really cool bundles for new releases, and I never had a single issue with any of my dozens of orders over the years. As for the physical quality of their releases - after buying a handful of LPs, I couldn't help but notice they were all extremely noisy, and generally sounded muddy and congested. I thought this was pretty strange for a label that appeared to care so much about quality and went through the process of having their releases uniquely mixed and mastered for digital and analog mediums... the jackets were sturdy, the artwork was almost always really cool, the layout and design was always really creative and beautiful. But the sound quality was never there.
I began to imagine the Hydra Head crew laughing at me, saying "suckerrrr" under their breath, every time I bought a record from them.
And their CDs... boy, they all came with the most fragile, brittle jewel cases ever made.
Hydra Head's slogan was, "Don't like it? Don't buy it", so I stopped buying it.
