Wild Rags
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Wild Rags Records was a record label and store in Montebello, California. It was founded in the 1980s by Ricardo Campos. Though Wild Rags started out releasing music from bands such as Cherry Street, the label would go on to put out influential releases by the likes of Nuclear Death
, Impetigo
, Brutality
, Blood
, Sigh
, Fallen Angel of Doom
by Blasphemy
as well as Emperor
, and Extreme Smoke
.
Nuclear Death
Nuclear Death was a death metal band formed in 1986 in Phoenix, Arizona. They were the first band in the extreme metal genre with a female vocalist, Lori Bravo.Their style was compared to bands like Impetigo, Blasphemy, Autopsy, Deceased, and Repulsion....
, Impetigo
Impetigo (band)
Impetigo was an Illinois-based hardcore punk, grindcore, and death metal band. They were among the first bands to use clips from films and other media as intros for their songs...
, Brutality
Brutality (band)
Brutality is an American death metal band from Tampa, Florida. " Brutality" formed in 1986 and soon after released their first demo called "Abomination". In 1988, they released their second demo "Brutality" that led them into the fanzine underground. The band's third demo "Dimension Demented" was...
, Blood
Blood (band)
Blood is a Japanese band that has been active from 2002 to 2009, returning in 2011. Blood's aim is to create music that expresses the meaning of human emotion that breaks the musical frame...
, Sigh
Sigh (band)
is a Japanese extreme metal band from Tokyo, formed in 1990. They are credited as being one of the first Japanese black metal bands, when the majority of black metal in early 1990s came from Scandinavia. They gradually shifted from a more traditional black/thrash metal sound, to a more...
, Fallen Angel of Doom
Fallen Angel of Doom
-Track listing:#Winds of the Black Gods – 1:20#Fallen Angel of Doom – 3:40#Hoarding of Evil Vengeance – 2:22#Darkness Prevails – 3:32#Desecration – 2:27#Ritual – 3:18#Weltering in Blood – 2:27#Demoniac – 2:45#Goddess of Perversity – 4:28...
by Blasphemy
Blasphemy (band)
Blasphemy are a black/death metal band formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1984. The band released a demo titled Blood Upon the Altar in 1989 and their debut album, Fallen Angel of Doom, the following year through Wild Rags, a record label they had signed to while touring the United...
as well as Emperor
Emperor (band)
Emperor was a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival dates and brief US tours. The group was founded by Samoth and Ihsahn .-Biography:...
, and Extreme Smoke
Extreme Smoke
Extreme Smoke was the first noise/grindcore band from Slovenia. The band was formed in the beginning of 1990, in the city of Nova Gorica. Two band members occasionally played for Croatian noisecore band Patareni...
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