Moo Cow Records is an independent record label that was formed in 1992 releasing largely, but not solely, hardcore and punk vinyl. It has been based over the years in Burlington, VT (where it started), Boston, MA (mailing address in the suburb of Belmont, MA), and Madison, WI. Many of the bands have gone on to have significant importance in the hardcore genre, and being signed to Revelation Records

Revelation Records

Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally and primarily on hardcore punk. The label is known for its role in the evolution of hardcore and metallic post-hardcore with important releases by bands such as Youth of Today, Warzone, Sick of It All, Quicksand, Side By Side,...

, Ferret Music

Ferret Music

Ferret Music is an independent record label, founded in 1996. The label is owned in part by NORA's vocalist, Carl Severson, and in part by Philadelphian artist manager Paul Conroy, and based in West Windsor Township, New Jersey...

, as well as Eulogy Recordings

Eulogy Recordings

Eulogy Recordings is a record label based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.The label specializes in heavy metal or hardcore punk bands, some of which are straight edge. The label was founded by ex-hardcore guitarist John Wylie...

, where they were classified as "hall of fame" of hardcore.

Currently Moo Cow Records has 51 releases.

Bands

• 23rd Chapter (U.S.A.)
• 7 Years War (U.S.A.)
• Abathakothie (U.S.A.)
• Arise (U.S.A.)
• Arm’s Reach (Australia)
• Atlas Shrugged (U.S.A.)
• Bastard In Love (Brazil)
• Cabal (U.S.A.)
• Cable
  Cable (American band)
  Cable is an American band formed in 1994 in Rockville, Connecticut. They combine a hardcore punk and emo aesthetic with a rhythmically complex, often discordant metal-influenced musical approach...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Cameran (Austria)
• Canephora (U.S.A.)
• Caustic Christ
  Caustic Christ
  Caustic Christ were a hardcore punk band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They were on Havoc Records.- History :In late 2000, Bill Chamberlain quit his band React and moved from Connecticut to Pittsburgh to start a band with guitarist/vocalist Eric Good and bassist Corey Lyons of Aus-Rotten...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Cave In
  Cave In
  Cave In is an American rock band that formed in 1995, in Methuen, Massachusetts. After several members changes in the late 90's, their lineup solidified with the 1998 release of Until Your Heart Stops through Hydra Head Records. Their early albums were prominent releases in the independent...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Chilmark
  Chilmark
  Chilmark may be a reference to:*Chilmark, Massachusetts, United States, a town on the island of Martha's Vineyard*Chilmark, Wiltshire, a village in the English county of Wiltshire...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Dead Beat
  Dead beat
  In discrete-time control theory, the dead beat control problem consists of finding what input signal must be applied to a system in order to bring the output to the steady state in the smallest number of time steps....
  
   (Germany)
• Deny Everything (U.S.A.)
• Despair
  Despair (band)
  Despair was a technical thrash metal band from Germany, featuring multi-instrumentalist Waldemar Sorychta. They released their first album "History of Hate" in 1988 with the following line-up:* Waldemar Sorychta – guitar, vocals* Robert Kampf – vocals...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Dirty Bird (Canada)
• Disbelief (U.S.A.)
• Dischord (Brazil)
• Disembodied (U.S.A.)
• Dive (U.S.A.)
• Drömdead (Venezuela)
• Drowning Room (U.S.A.)
• Earthmover (U.S.A.)
• Eversor (Italy)
• Execute (U.S.A.)
• Fall Silent (U.S.A.)
• F.P.O. (Macedonia)
• Facedown (Belgium)
• Foreground (Canada)
• Fruit Salad (U.S.A.)
• Gray Before My Eyes (U.S.A.)
• Hamilton (U.S.A.)
• Handful of Dust (U.S.A.)
• Intent To Injure (U.S.A.)
• Kieltolaki (Finland)
• Kolokol (Norway)
• Malcolm’s Lost (U.S.A.)
• Man In The Shadow
  Man in the Shadow
  Man in the Shadow is a 1957 crime film starring Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander, and John Larch.-Plot summary:...
  
   (Slovenia)
• Morning Again
  Morning Again
  Morning Again was a hardcore band from Florida. They were known for their extreme metallic hardcore sound as well as for their straight edge, vegan and anti-government ideas. The band...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• New Day Rising
• New Year (U.S.A.)
• Olotila (Finland)
• Outcome (U.S.A.)
• Overcast
  Overcast (band)
  Overcast was an American metalcore band that started in the early 1990s, but broke up in 1998 after an unsuccessful tour; in 2008 they reunited to play a show and announced they would release a new album entitled Reborn to Kill Again with 11 re-recorded classic tracks and two unreleased...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Parades End (U.S.A.)
• Piebald
  Piebald
  A piebald or pied animal is one that has a spotting pattern of large unpigmented, usually white, areas of hair, feathers, or scales and normally pigmented patches, generally black. The colour of the animal's skin underneath its coat is also pigmented under the dark patches and unpigmented under...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Radical Attack
  Radical Attack
  Radical Attack is a Canadian hardcore punk band originally from Sherbrooke, Quebec. The band formed in 2002 and disbanded in early 2009. They toured Canada in its entirety and the east coast of the United States. They released a few split 7inches with various bands such as Crucial Attack and Talk...
  
   (Canada)
• Reserve 34 (Canada)
• Respect (Poland)
• Scared of Chaka
  Scared of Chaka
  Scared Of Chaka is a punk rock band based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, which was formed in 1993 by guitarist/vocalist David Yanul Hernandez, bass guitarist Dameon Waggoner and drummer Jeff Jones. Jone was later replaced by Ron Skrasek. The band played a Dickies inspired mix of garage and...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Scout (U.S.A.)
• Secret Seven (Singapore)
• Shatter (U.S.A.)
• Shot Dead (U.S.A.)
• Shoulder (Canada)
• Sister Mary Rotten Crotch (U.S.A.)
• Sky Falls Down (U.S.A.)
• Solace
  Solace (band)
  Solace is a heavy metal band hailing from the Jersey Shore, United States.Formed in 1996 by the remaining members of Atlantic Records artist Godspeed, Solace is most well known in the stoner rock genre, but as guitarist and founding member Tommy Southard has said "We're not a stoner band, we're a...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Song of Kerman (U.S.A.)
• Talk Hard (U.S.A.)
• Temperance (U.S.A.)
• Terminal Youth (U.S.A.)
• The Champions (U.S.A.)
• The Ultimate Warriors
  The Ultimate Warriors
  The Ultimate Warriors were a bivocal Powerviolence band from Nazareth, Pennsylvania. They put on hilarious live shows, often involving crazy costumes and wrestling. The Ultimate Warriors broke up in 2004 after releasing seven 7" records, one full-length LP and being featured on many compilations...
  
   (U.S.A.)
• Thumbs Up! (U.S.A.)
• True Blue (Germany)
• Undone (France)
• Vanilla (France)
• Veil (Germany)