Revelation Records

For the jazz label, see Revelation Records (jazz).

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.

Revelation Records
Founded	1987 (1987)
Founder	Jordan Cooper, Ray Cappo
Genre	Hardcore punk, metalcore, post-hardcore, emo
Country of origin	U.S.
Official website	revelationrecords.com

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.

Artists

• Youth of Today
• Warzone
• Sick of It All
• Down To Nothing
• Praise
• Garrison
• Self Defense Family
• Calling Hours
• Himsa
• Quicksand
• New Found Glory
• Inside Out
• Side By Side
• Speedway
• Gameface
• Chain of Strength
• Sinking Ships
• Fall Silent
• In My Eyes
• Farside
• Texas Is The Reason
• Shook Ones
• Shelter
• Kill Holiday
• Judge
• Shai Hulud
• Paint It Black
• Dare
• The Movielife
• Drain
• Curl Up and Die
• Elliott
• No For An Answer
• Morning Again
• Garrison
• Spaced
• Capital
• Living Hell
• Bold
• Title Fight
• Violent Reaction
• Fell To Low
• By A Thread
• The Rival Mob
• The Nerve Agents
• CIV
• Ignite
• Big Laugh
• Sense Field
• Mouthpiece
• Shades Apart
• Living Hell
• Be Well
• Primal Rite
• Battery
• Gorilla Biscuits
• Into Another
• World Be Free
• Turning Point
• End of a Year
• Forced Order
• Supertouch
• Where Fear and Weapons Meet

Discography

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	Split EP
	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
2018	66	Shelter	Quest for Certainty
1998	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
Unknown	76	Unknown	Unknown
1999	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
Unknown	102	Unknown	Unknown
2001	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	Shai Hulud	That Within Blood Ill-Tempered
Unknown	115	Unknown	Unknown
2003	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

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