Stillborn Records
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Stillborn Records is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

-based independent record label
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

, founded by Jamey Jasta
Jamey Jasta
Jamey Jasta is an American musician from New Haven, Connecticut, best known as the lead vocalist of the hardcore band Hatebreed and sludge metal band Kingdom of Sorrow...

 of the band Hatebreed
Hatebreed
- History :Hatebreed was formed in 1994 in Bridgeport, Waterbury and New Haven. They began by recording a three song demo and selling it to locals. Those three songs would eventually be released on a split seven inch with New York's Neglect in 1995...

. Stillborn Records has released a variety of bands, mainly focused in the genres of metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 and hardcore
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

.

Stillborn Records is based in West Haven, Connecticut
West Haven, Connecticut
West Haven is a city in New Haven County, Connecticut, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 52,721.-History:...

, USA
United States
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.

Distribution

Stillborn Records releases are currently distributed through many well-known worldwide distributors, including but not limited to Caroline Distribution
Caroline Distribution
Caroline Distribution, founded in 1983 as a unit of Virgin Records, has become one of the U.S. music industry’s largest third party distribution companies for the independent music sector....

, RevHQ.com, Interpunk.com, iTunes
ITunes
iTunes is a media player computer program, used for playing, downloading, and organizing digital music and video files on desktop computers. It can also manage contents on iPod, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad....

, and via their own website StillbornRecords.com.

Stillborn Fest

Stillborn Records is the organizer of the annual Stillborn Fest, that takes place over multiple dates in multiple cities around the US. The festival features current Stillborn Records artists as well as other artists not on the label's roster. Stillborn Fest has featured such bands as Hatebreed
Hatebreed
- History :Hatebreed was formed in 1994 in Bridgeport, Waterbury and New Haven. They began by recording a three song demo and selling it to locals. Those three songs would eventually be released on a split seven inch with New York's Neglect in 1995...

, H2O
H2O (American band)
-Prologue:Prior to the formation of H2O, in the early-mid-1980s, Todd Morse and Rusty Pistachio were part of the speed punk band "Roadside Petz". This band featured Wayne Williams on drums...

, A Life Once Lost
A Life Once Lost
A Life Once Lost is an American metalcore band formed in 1999 in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After releases on Robotic Empire and Deathwish Inc., A Life Once Lost released their successful album, Hunter on Ferret Music in 2005...

, and Crowbar.

Featured Bands

  • Another Victim
  • Better Left Unsaid
  • Blacklisted
    Blacklisted (band)
    Blacklisted was a hardcore band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have toured North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the UK.-History:...

  • Bloodwar
  • Candiria
    Candiria
    Candiria are an American band from Brooklyn, New York. They blend various styles of music, including heavy metal, hardcore, jazz, hip hop and ambient. Candiria have often dubbed their sound "urban fusion".- History :...

  • Catalepsy
    Catalepsy (band)
    Catalepsy is an American Deathcore band formed in 2004. To date they have had three releases - one EP, Godless, and two studio albums, Iniquity and Bleed.-History:...

  • Channel
  • 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...

  • Cold As Life
  • Damnation
  • Dead To The World
  • Dead Wrong
  • Deadbeat
  • Death Threat
  • Dying Breed
    Dying Breed
    Dying Breed is an Australian horror film, which was directed by Jody Dwyer and stars Leigh Whannell and Nathan Phillips.-Synopsis:A group of hikers looking for a Tasmanian Tiger encounter a family of cannibals descended from Alexander Pearce who are out to find fresh breeding stock to...

  • Full Blown Chaos
    Full Blown Chaos
    Full Blown Chaos is a metalcore band from Floral Park, Queens, New York. According to the band, their whole direction "is to keep a wide range of music, not to necessarily pigeonhole ourselves into metal or hardcore"...

  • Hatebreed
    Hatebreed
    - History :Hatebreed was formed in 1994 in Bridgeport, Waterbury and New Haven. They began by recording a three song demo and selling it to locals. Those three songs would eventually be released on a split seven inch with New York's Neglect in 1995...

  • Hoods
    Hoods (band)
    Hoods is a hardcore punk band from Sacramento, California. Formed in 1994 by Mike Mraz who later added Logan Murray, Tony Goodloe and Billy Gaffney. With influences such as Madball, Sick of it All, Minor Threat and Cro Mags. The Hoods were known as one of the hardest working bands...

  • Icepick
    Icepick (band)
    Icepick is a hardcore punk band formed in 1996. It serves as a side project to Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, Danny Diablo, and other musicians of the hardcore punk and hip hop scenes....

  • Integrity
    Integrity (band)
    Integrity is a metallic hardcore band formed in 1988. Their lyrical themes include religion, the supernatural, mental illness, individualism, and the occult.- Discography :*Harder They Fall - Demo cassette - 1989...

  • Jasta 14
    Jasta 14
    Jasta 14 was a hardcore band from Connecticut that existed from 1991 to 1996. Over the years it included members that went on to play in such bands as Hatebreed, Red Sparowes and Orthrelm.-Members:* Jamey Jasta* Mick Barr* Joel Chialastri* Greg Burns...

  • Legacy Of Pain
  • Love is Red
    Love is Red
    -History:Love is Red was a melodic hardcore band hailing from Nashville, Tennessee. The band formed in 2000 In Florence, Alabama with the original line up of Rob Mcfeters , Dane Taylor , Adam Riser , Roger Kilburn , and Kinsman Mackay...

  • Neglect
  • One 4 One
  • Overthrow
  • The Program
  • Pushbutton Warfare
  • Right Brigade
  • Ringworm
  • The Risk Taken
  • Scurvy
  • Stalemate
  • Strength For A Reason
  • Subzero
    Subzero (band)
    Subzero was an American New York hardcore/metalcore band from New York. The band was started in 1989 by Richie Kennon of Breakdown and Jim Eaton of Up Front hooked up with Louis Dibella and Lawrence Susi whom had played together in various local bands...

  • The Takeover
  • A Thousand Falling Skies
  • Thy Will Be Done
  • The Ugly Truth
    The Ugly Truth
    The Ugly Truth may refer to:*The Ugly Truth , a 2009 romantic comedy*"The Ugly Truth", an episode of the TV series Farscape*Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, the fifth book in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series...

  • Voice of Reason
  • What Feeds the Fire
  • With Honor
  • The Wrong Side

External links

  • http://www.stillbornrecords.com
  • http://www.myspace.com/stillbornrecords
  • http://www.facebook.com/stillbornrecords
  • http://www.martyrstore.com/
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