
Earache Records is a heavy metal-oriented record label based in Nottingham, England and New York, United States. It helped to pioneer extreme metal by releasing many of the earliest grindcore and death metal records in the period 1988–1994.
Earache are widely disliked by artists and fans due to their greediness.
Notable artists (past and present)[]
- Adema
- Akercocke
- Anal Cunt
- Anata
- Annihilator (for Europe)
- At the Gates
- Autonomy
- Beecher
- The Berzerker
- Biomechanical
- Blood Red Throne
- Bring Me the Horizon (for US releases only)
- The Browning
- Brutal Truth
- Bolt Thrower
- Bonded By Blood
- Cadaver
- Candiria
- Carcass
- Carnage
- Cathedral
- Cauldron
- Cerebral Bore
- The Chasm
- Circle of Dead Children
- Clutch
- Coalesce
- Concrete Sox
- Confessor
- Cult of Luna
- Decapitated
- December Wolves
- Deicide
- Delta 9
- Diamond Plate
- The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Dub War
- Enforcer
- Entombed
- Ephel Duath
- Evile
- Ewigkeit
- Extreme Noise Terror
- Forest Stream
- Fudge Tunnel
- Gama Bomb
- Godflesh
- Hate Eternal
- The Haunted
- Heresy
- Ignominious Incarceration
- Insision
- Iron Monkey
- Janus Stark
- Lawnmower Deth
- Massacre
- Misery Loves Co.
- Morbid Angel
- Mortiis
- Municipal Waste
- Naked City
- Napalm Death
- Nocturnus
- Oceano
- OLD
- Painkiller
- Pitchshifter
- Rival Sons
- Savage Messiah
- Scorn
- Society 1
- Sore Throat
- SSS
- Sleep
- !T.O.O.H.!
- Terrorizer
- Vader
- Violator
- Woods of Ypres
- White Wizzard
- With Passion
- Wormrot