Solid State Records

This article is about the metal imprint of Tooth & Nail Records. For the 1960s jazz label, see Solid State Records (jazz label).

Solid State Records is a metalcore record label, an imprint of Tooth & Nail Records. Unlike Tooth & Nail, Solid State signs hardcore punk and heavy metal bands.^[1] Like Tooth & Nail, Solid State is primarily a Christian label. However, it signed several bands with Christian members which don't label themselves as Christian bands, including Stretch Arm Strong,^[2] Gwen Stacy,^[3] He Is Legend,^[4] the Famine,^[5] Training for Utopia,^[6] and the Agony Scene.

Solid State Records
Parent company	Tooth & Nail Records
Founded	1997 (1997)
Founder	Brandon Ebel
Distributor(s)	Capitol Christian Music Group (US; 1993–2013), RED (US; 2013–present), Sony Music (Worldwide)
Genre	Heavy metal, hardcore punk, metalcore
Country of origin	United States
Location	Seattle, Washington
Official website	solidstaterecords.com

Notable current artists

• Becoming the Archetype
• The Devil Wears Prada^[7]
• Extol^[8]
• Fit for a King
• Haste the Day
• Miss May I^[9]
• Norma Jean
• Oh, Sleeper
• The Ongoing Concept
• Phinehas^[10]
• Wolves at the Gate

Notable former artists

Active

• Advent
• The Agony Scene
• As Cities Burn
• As They Sleep
• August Burns Red
• Azusa
• Beloved
• Blindside
• Death Therapy^[11]
• Demon Hunter
• Destroy the Runner
• Emery
• Few Left Standing
• Forevermore
• He Is Legend
• Life in Your Way
• Living Sacrifice
• Mantric
• MyChildren MyBride
• My Heart to Fear
• Once Nothing
• Silent Planet
• Showbread
• Soul Embraced
• Stretch Arm Strong
• Trenches
• Underoath
• Zao

Disbanded

• 3rd Root
• Bloodshed (members went on to join The O.C. Supertones and Project 86)
• Born Blind (members also in No Innocent Victim)
• The Chariot (members in '68 and I Am Terrified)
• Cry of the Afflicted
• The Death Campaign (members also in Officer Negative)
• Embodyment (members went on to form The Famine)
• Eso-Charis (vocalist Cory Brandan Putman now fronts Norma Jean, bassist Arthur Green and drummer Matthew Putman went on to join Living Sacrifice)
• The Famine (members also in Embodyment and Society's Finest)
• Focal Point (guitarist Ryan Clark went on to join Training for Utopia and is now in Demon Hunter)
• Gwen Stacy (members also in Once Nothing)
• Inhale Exhale (members also in Narcissus and Relient K)
• Luti-Kriss (went on to form Norma Jean)
• Officer Negative (members also formed The Death Campaign)
• Overcome (members in Some Dark Hallow and Sanhedrin)
• Selfmindead (members now in Benea Reach)
• Sever Your Ties
• Still Breathing
• Strongarm (members went on to form Further Seems Forever)
• Training for Utopia (members went on to form Demon Hunter)
• Twelve Gauge Valentine (members went on to join, Alesana, Swamp Basstard, and The Greenery)
• Warlord (members went on to Pilgrims and Roadside Monument)

On hiatus or inactive

• The Ascendicate (guitarist Ryan Helm went on to Demon Hunter, and start Damien Deadson)
• Dead Poetic (drummer Jesse Sprinkle currently working solo)
• Everdown (Urban Achiever Records)
• Figure Four (two members are currently with Comeback Kid)
• Lengsel (members now in Mantric)
• No Innocent Victim (members working for Facedown Records)
• Society's Finest
• Spitfire (Goodfellow Records; two members in Sunndrug)
• The Overseer (members in Project 86 and Wolves at the Gate)
• The Showdown (three members in Demon Hunter, one member in Still Remains)
• To Speak of Wolves (one member in Oh Sleeper)