Revelation Records

American independent record label From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally and primarily on hardcore punk. The label is known for releases by bands such as Youth of Today, Warzone, Sick of It All, Quicksand, Side By Side, Chain of Strength, Shelter, Judge, No for an Answer, Gorilla Biscuits, and End of a Year.

Founded1987 (1987)
FounderJordan Cooper, Ray Cappo
GenreHardcore punk, metalcore, post-hardcore, emo
Country of originU.S.
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Revelation Records
Founded1987 (1987)
FounderJordan Cooper, Ray Cappo
GenreHardcore punk, metalcore, post-hardcore, emo
Country of originU.S.
Official websiterevelationrecords.com
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Revelation, along with the bands it put out in the late 1980s, is usually credited with creating and cementing the "youth crew" sound as well as New York hardcore,[citation needed] which bridged the gap from the earlier bands of almost a decade before and helped carry the music through the early 1990s. Some of the label's best selling releases have been Gorilla Biscuits' Start Today, Inside Out's No Spiritual Surrender, and the In-Flight Program compilation.

History

Formerly of New Haven, Connecticut, it is now based in Huntington Beach, California. It was founded in 1987 by owner Jordan Cooper, along with Ray Cappo of Youth of Today, with the sole intent of producing the Warzone Lower East Side Crew 7-inch. Within the year, they put out two more releases and a limited 4th pressing of Youth of Today's Can't Close My Eyes 7-inch, which had been originally released on Positive Force Records, just for the two of them to trade for vintage G.I.Joes and other action figures. In the first three years, the label put out 23 releases and pressed approximately 50,000 records, and it has continued to release an average of 7–8 albums a year.

Cappo left the business in 1988, to focus on his band Shelter. He also started his own label Equal Vision Records (which he later sold to Youth of Today roadie, former Revelation employee and friend, Steve Reddy), though his albums were still released by Revelation after that, and he also operated Supersoul Records.

The label put out several definitive hardcore and metalcore records in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with notable releases coming from Damnation A.D., Will Haven, Shai Hulud, Curl Up and Die, and Himsa. However, by the mid-2000s, Revelation Records had seemingly fallen by the wayside, with very few releases between 2004 and 2006. However, the label is returning to its former stature as a premier old-school hardcore label with strong releases from newer bands like Down to Nothing, Shook Ones, and Sinking Ships.

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Discography

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Year Number Artist Title
1989 0 Judge Chung King Can Suck It
1987 1 Warzone Lower East Side Crew
2 Various Artists Together
3 Sick of It All Sick of It All
1988 4 Gorilla Biscuits Gorilla Biscuits
5 Side by Side You're Only Young Once
6 No for an Answer You Laugh
7 Various Artists The Way It Is
1986 8 Youth of Today Break Down the Walls
1988 9 Bold Speak Out
1995 10 Chain of Strength The One Thing That Still Holds True
1989 11 Bold Bold
12 Gorilla Biscuits Start Today
13 Slipknot Slipknot
14 Judge New York Crew
15 Bringin' It Down
1990 16 Shelter Perfection of Desire
17 Youth of Today Youth of Today
18 Quicksand Quicksand
19 Inside Out No Spiritual Surrender
20 Judge The Storm
1991 21 Supertouch The Earth Is Flat
1990 22 Burn Burn
1991 23 Ray & Porcell Ray & Porcell
24 Into Another Into Another
1992 25 Farside Rochambeau
1993 26 Into Another Creepy Eepy
27 Iceburn Hephaestus
28 Underdog Demos
29 Statue Filter the Infection
30 Mike Judge & Old Smoke Sights
1994 31 Orange 9mm Orange 9mm
32 Sense Field Killed for Less
33 Farside Rigged
34 Iceburn/Engine Kid Split 12"
35 Into Another Ignaurus
36 Iceburn Poetry of Fire
37 Sense Field Sense Field
1995 38 Engine Kid Angel Wings
39 Whirlpool Whirlpool
40 Shades Apart Save It
1996 41 CIV Set Your Goals
1995 42 Into Another Poison Fingers
43 Quicksand Manic Compression
44 State of the Nation State of the Nation
45 Farside Farside
1996 46 Sense Field Building
1995 47 Texas Is the Reason Texas Is the Reason
1996 48 Into Another Seemless
49 Iceburn Meditavolutions
50 Various Artists In-Flight Program
51 Texas Is the Reason Do You Know Who You Are?
52 Whirlpool Liquid Glass
53 Ignite/Good Riddance Ignite / Good Riddance
54 Ignite Past Our Means
55 CIV Social Climber
1997 56 Rage Against the Machine People of the Sun EP
57 Shades Apart Seeing Things
58 Kiss It Goodbye She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
59 Youth of Today We're Not in This Alone
60 Better than a Thousand Just One
61 Bluebird Bluebird
62 Youth of Today Can't Close My Eyes
63 Kiss It Goodbye Preacher
1998 64 Speak 714 Knee Deep in Guilt
65 Battery Whatever It Takes
66 Shelter Quest for Certainty
67 In My Eyes The Difference Between
68 Elliott U.S. Songs
1999 69 Farside The Monroe Doctrine
1998 70 Morning Again As Tradition Dies Slowly
71 Damnation A.D. Kingdom of Lost Souls
1999 72 Speak 714 The Scum Also Rises
1998 73 The Nerve Agents The Nerve Agents
74 Where Fear and Weapons Meet Where Fear and Weapons Meet
1999 75 Gameface Every Last Time
76 Sparkmaker Treasure Chest
77 Kill Holiday Somewhere Between the Wrong Is Right
78 The Judas Factor Ballads in Blue China
79 Will Haven WHVN
80 In My Eyes Nothing to Hide
81 Kiss It Goodbye Choke
82 By a Thread Last of the Daydreams
83 Garrison The Bend Before the Break
84 Himsa Himsa
85 Fastbreak Whenever You're Ready
86 Where Fear and Weapons Meet The Weapon
87 Himsa Groundbreaking Ceremony
2000 88 Elliott Will You
89 Drowningman How They Light Cigarettes in Prison
90 Gameface What's Up Bro?
91 Ignite Call on My Brothers
92 The Judas Factor Kiss Suicide
93 Garrison A Mile in Cold Water
94 The Nerve Agents Days of the White Owl
95 Elliott False Cathedrals
96 Drowningman Rock and Roll Killing Machine
97 The Movielife This Time Next Year
98 The Explosion Steal This
99 Gameface Always On
2002 100 Various Artists Rarities
2001 101 Right Brigade Right Brigade
102 Fall Silent Six Years in the Desert
103 Garrison Be a Criminal
104 Will Haven Carpe Diem
105 Thirty-Two Frames Thirty-Two Frames
106 Himsa Death Is Infinite
2002 107 Curl Up and Die Unfortunately, We're Not Robots
108 Burn Last Great Sea
109 Fall Silent Drunken Violence
2004 110 Various Artists Revelation Records 2004 Collection
2002 111 Dag Nasty Minority of One
2003 112 Since By Man We Sing the Body Electric
2002 113 Pitch Black Pitch Black
2003 114 Christiansen Forensics, Brothers and Sisters!
115 Shai Hulud That Within Blood Ill-Tempered
116 Elliott Song in the Air
117 Planet on a Chain Boxed In
118 Garrison The Silhouette
119 Christiansen Stylish Nihilists
120 On the Might of Princes Here She Comes
2004 121 Call Me Lightning The Trouble We're In
2005 122 Judge What It Meant: Complete Discography
2004 123 Sincebyman A Love-Hate Relationship
2005 124 Pitch Black This Is the Modern Sound
125 The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower Love in the Fascist Brothel
126 Curl Up and Die The One Above All, the End of All That Is
127 Temper Temper Temper Temper
128 Shai Hulud A Complete Retrospective
129 Bold The Search: 1985–1989
130 Various Artists Generations: A Hardcore Compilation
131 Elliott Photorecording
132 The Hotelier Pictures from the Hotel Apocalypse
133 The Twilight Transmission The Dance of Destruction
2006 134 Shook Ones Slaughter of the Insole
135 Gracer Voices Travel
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