Life Sentence Records
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Life Sentence Records was a metalcore
-based record label
that focused on straight edge
releases.
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
-based record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
that focused on straight edge
Straight edge
Straight edge is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs. It was a direct reaction to the sexual revolution, hedonism, and excess associated with punk rock. For some, this extends to not engaging in promiscuous sex, following a...
releases.
Catalog
| Catalog Number | Year | Band | Release | Type | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LSR1 | 1994 | Excessive Force | Vengeance Is Mine | 7" | ||
| LSR2 | 1994 | Deadwait | Deadwait | 7" | ||
| LSR3 | 1995 | Excessive Force | In Your Blood | CD | ||
| LSR4 | 1995 | Torn Apart | Extermination | 7" | ||
| LSR5 | 1996 | Overcome | As the Curtain Falls | 7" | ||
| LSR6 | 1996 | Focal Point Focal Point (band) Focal Point was a short lived Hardcore punk band from California, who released a 7" vinyl record on Life Sentence Records and their only full-length album on Tooth & Nail Records... |
Neglected | 7" | ||
| LSR7 | 1996 | Lifeless | Lifeless | 7" | ||
| LSR8 | 1996 | Clear Clear (band) Clear was a vegan straight edge hardcore group from Utah in the mid-late 90s, known for its heavy metallic hardcore sound, similar to Culture and Morning Again. The band broke up in 2000, and has made only one reunion show since, on February 16, 2007. Mick Morris went on to Eighteen Visions, and... |
The Sickness Must End | 7"/CD | ||
| LSR9 | 1996 | Torn Apart | Nothing is Permanent... | CD | ||
| LSR10 | 1997 | Aftershock Aftershock (band) Aftershock was a metalcore band based out of Boston, Massachusetts. The band was formed in 1992 by the Dutkiewicz brothers, and broke up in mid 1999 shortly after Adam Dutkiewicz joined Killswitch Engage. After a 2-year hiatus, in 2001, the group re-formed for a reunion tour in Japan... |
Letters Letters (Aftershock album) Letters is the debut album by American metalcore band Aftershock. It was released in 1997.-Track listing:# "Nothing" – 4:42# "Divest Your Entity" – 4:47# "My Laceration" – 3:29# "Apparitional State" – 6:43# "Cultivation of a Heart" – 3:53... |
CD | ||
| LSR11 | 1997 | Unconquered | You Say Moderation, I Scream Prohibition | CD | ||
| LSR12 | 1997 | Eighteen Visions Eighteen Visions Eighteen Visions was an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in October of 1995, the group was one of the first practitioners involved in the metalcore genre... |
Lifeless Lifeless Lifeless can mean:* Having no life or energy: see wikt:lifeless* Lifeless , the first release by Eighteen Visions* Lifeless... |
CD | ||
| LSR13 | 1997 | StateCraft | Until the Darkness is Gone | CD | ||
| LSR14 | Ookla the Mok | Bless Her Little Black Heart | CD | |||
| LSR15 | 1999 | Decontaminate | Cleanse and Burn | CD | ||
| LSR-- | 1999 | Absone / Decontaminate | Absone / Decontaminate | 7" | With XeyewitnessX Records | |
| LSR16 | Triphammer | Triphammer | CD | |||
| LSR17 | Grimlock | Crusades of Reality | CD | |||
| LSR18 | Proclamation | Let the Truth be Told | CD | |||
| LSR19 | 2002 | Wings of Scarlet//Tears Will Drown/With Dead Hands Rising | Words As Weapons | CD | ||
| LSR20 | 2002 | Automata | Through the Bandage Seeps a Whisper | CD | ||
| LSR21 | 2002 | It Dies Today It Dies Today It Dies Today is a metalcore band that formed in Buffalo, New York during September, 2001.- History :It Dies Today formed in August 2001. The group was established in Buffalo, New York by vocalist Nicholas Brooks, guitarist Chris Cappelli and guitarist Steve Lemke... |
Forever Scorned Forever Scorned Forever Scorned is the debut EP released by the metalcore band It Dies Today in 2002. It was recorded, mixed, and mastered in May 2002 at Watchmen Studios... |
CD | ||
| LSR22 | 2003 | With Dead Hands Rising | Behind Inquisition | CD | ||
| LSR23 | 2003 | Various Artists | Mosh or Be Moshed | CD | ||
| LSR24 | 2003 | Nientara | Consequence (album) Consequence (album) Consequence is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1965 but not released until 1979 as part of a Mosaic Records box set and finally released on the Blue Note label in 2005.-Reception:... |
CD | ||
| LSR25 | 2003 | Spearing Jocasta | The Cassandra Complex | CD | ||
| LSR26 | 2003 | Wings of Scarlet | Before the Great Collapse | CD | ||
| LSR27 | Grimlock | Crusher (album) | CD | |||
| LSR28 | 2004 | PN | The Art of Being 'We' | CD | ||
| LSR29 | 2004 | xDeathStarx XDEATHSTARx xDEATHSTARx was an American Christian metalcore band from Redlands, CA. All of the members are straight edge and they incorporate both Christian and straight edge themes within their music, with their view of the loss of values in modern society. The group released its first album in 2004 is... |
The Triumph | CD | ||
| LSR30 | 2005 | With Dead Hands Rising | The Horror Grows Near | CD | ||
| LSR31 | 2005 | Tears from the Sky | Power Symbol Power symbol A power symbol is a symbol indicating that a control activates or deactivates a particular device. It incorporates line and circle figures, with the arrangement informed by the function of the control... |
CD | ||
| LSR32 | 2005 | Above this Fire | In Perspective | CD |
Featured Bands
- AftershockAftershock (band)Aftershock was a metalcore band based out of Boston, Massachusetts. The band was formed in 1992 by the Dutkiewicz brothers, and broke up in mid 1999 shortly after Adam Dutkiewicz joined Killswitch Engage. After a 2-year hiatus, in 2001, the group re-formed for a reunion tour in Japan...
- Spearing Jocasta
- ClearClear (band)Clear was a vegan straight edge hardcore group from Utah in the mid-late 90s, known for its heavy metallic hardcore sound, similar to Culture and Morning Again. The band broke up in 2000, and has made only one reunion show since, on February 16, 2007. Mick Morris went on to Eighteen Visions, and...
- Deadwait
- Decontaminate
- Eighteen VisionsEighteen VisionsEighteen Visions was an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, United States. Formed in October of 1995, the group was one of the first practitioners involved in the metalcore genre...
- Excessive Force
- Focal PointFocal Point (band)Focal Point was a short lived Hardcore punk band from California, who released a 7" vinyl record on Life Sentence Records and their only full-length album on Tooth & Nail Records...
- Grimlock
- It Dies TodayIt Dies TodayIt Dies Today is a metalcore band that formed in Buffalo, New York during September, 2001.- History :It Dies Today formed in August 2001. The group was established in Buffalo, New York by vocalist Nicholas Brooks, guitarist Chris Cappelli and guitarist Steve Lemke...
- Lifeless
- Nientara
- Ookle The Mok
- Overcome
- Proclamination
- State Craft
- Tears from the Sky
- Torn Apart
- Triphammer
- Unconquered
- Wings of Scarlet
- Above This Fire
- PN
- Automata
- With Dead Hands Rising