Massacre Records

Massacre Records is an independent record label based in Abstatt, Germany, specializing in bands from the heavier genres of metal.

Massacre Records
Founded	1991 (1991)
Founder	Torsten Hartmann
Distributor(s)	Soulfood Music Distribution
Genre	Heavy metal, hard rock, space rock
Country of origin	Germany
Location	Abstatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Official website	massacre-records.com

The label was founded in 1991 by Torsten Hartmann. Associated with Massacre Records are the marketing and music wholesale company Metal Merchant,^[1] the sub-labels Blue Rose Records^[2] and Gutter Records, dedicated to the singer/songwriter genre and German metal respectively, and the music publisher Sylvian Music. Massacre Records also distributes albums for the gothic metal label MCM Music.^[3]

From 1995 to 2000, Massacre Records operated the sub-label Swanlake Records for its gothic metal and folk metal releases. The most well-known artists published on Swanlake include Skyclad, Atrocity, Theatre of Tragedy, and Liv Kristine.^[4]

The best-selling albums released by Massacre Records are: Velvet Darkness They Fear and Aégis by Theatre of Tragedy, and Werk 80 by Atrocity.

Artists

Current

• Atrophy
• Coronatus
• Crematory
• Dark Embrace
• Debauchery
• Disbelief
• Embryonic Autopsy
• Eternal Tears of Sorrow
• Hatriot
• Helstar
• Jotnar
• Messiah's Kiss
• Raunchy
• Seelenwalzer
• Tears of Martyr
• Toxik

• Wizard
• Viper Solfa

Unsorted

5 Star Grave Agathodaimon Andromeda Anvil Atargatis Atrocity Avian Axenstar Axxis Beyond Twilight Bleed the Sky Bliss [5] Casket Co. Cage Catamenia Chain Collector Chastain Cornerstone Darkane Darkseed Darzamat Das Ich Decadence Dreamscape Echoes of Eternity Eisregen Elysion Evereve Exciter Experiment Fear Falchion Fates Warning Firewind Graveworm Halcyon Way Hellion Highland Glory

Horizon Human Fortress Hunted Illdisposed Jack Frost King Diamond Kittie Lȧȧz Rockit Lanfear Leatherwolf Lethal Legion of the Damned Liv Kristine Maverick Majestic Majesty Mandragora Scream Manticora Messiah Messiah's Kiss [de] Metalium Moonlight Agony Mystic Circle Mystic Prophecy Narnia Nightqueen Node Obscurity Omen One Man Army and the Undead Quartet Painflow Paragon Pink Cream 69 Pretty Maids Prey for Nothing Pyramaze

Raven Razorback Rebellion Requiem Rob Rock Sacred Steel Sandalinas Saviour Machine Scanner Schwarzer Engel Seven Witches Seventh Avenue Siebenbürgen Silent Force Skyclad Solitude Aeturnus Steel Attack Steel Prophet The Awakening The Burning The Duskfall Theatre of Tragedy Thunderbolt Timeless Miracle Totenmond Transilvanian Beat Club Unrest Virgin Black Whiplash Winterdome Winter's Verge Wolf Wolfchant Zero Degree

Former

• Dark Millennium
• Edenbridge
• Bliss^[6]
• Fatal Opera^[7]
• Mortal Love
• Veni Domine