Blood and Ink Records explained

Blood & Ink Records
Founder:	David Villalpando, Jamie Nester
Distributor:	INgrooves, Universal
Genre:	Christian punk Christian hardcore, Christian metal
Country:	United States
Location:	Richmond, Virginia

Blood & Ink Records is an American independent record label that specializes in Christian punk and Christian hardcore music. The label was founded in Richmond, Virginia, in the spring of 2002.^[1] The label has worked with such bands as Soul Embraced,^[2] as well as helping launch careers for Blessed by a Broken Heart, Burden of a Day^[3] and With Blood Comes Cleansing.^[4]

In July 2010, they re-released Strongarm's 1995 album, Atonement, the first time on vinyl.^[5]

Roster

• Debtor
• Dwell
• Infinite Me
• Jawbone
• New Heart
• Problem of Pain
• The Satire
• Slow Bullet
• Strengthen What Remains
• Thirtyseven
• Tigerwine
• The Virgin Birth
• Withered Bones
• With Increase

Affiliated

• Clear Convictions (formerly with Facedown Records and OnTheAttack Records).
• Figure Four (with Facedown Records and Solid State Records).
• No Innocent Victim (with Rescue Records, Facedown Records, Solid State Records, and Victory Records).
• Strongarm (with Solid State Records and Tooth & Nail Records).

Former

• All In
• The Attending
• Besieged
• Better Off
• Blessed by a Broken Heart
• The Blue Letter
• Burden of a Day
• Comrades
• The Culprits
• Church Tongue
• Dependency
• Divide the Sea
• Enlow
• Foreknown
• The Gentleman Homicide
• Household
• Ironwill
• Joy
• xLooking Forwardx
• Medford Drive
• Neshama
• New Waters
• Nourishtheflame
• Rapture of the Meek
• The Recession
• The Red Baron
• Saints Never Surrender
• Send Out Scuds
• Since Remembered
• Skylines
• Soul Embraced
• Stars Are Falling
• Ten 33
• Thin Ice
• TruthBeKnown
• Vagabonds
• Venia
• With Blood Comes Cleansing
• With Increase
• Yours for Mine

External links

• Official Blood & Ink Records site

Notes and References

1. Web site: Interview with Director of A&R Sean Patrick Rhorer . IndieVisionMusic . 9 February 2010. 2012-04-07.
2. Web site: Blabbermouth.net - Soul Embraced . https://archive.today/20120910070923/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=132634 . dead . 2012-09-10 . Roadrunnerrecords.com . 2012-04-07 .
3. http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=HT&p_theme=ht&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=10CAEA8E71BCC5D8&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM Christian Band Burden of a Day Blessed With Early Success
4. http://www.smnnews.com/2008/01/17/jeremy-simms-with-blood-comes-cleansing-guitar/ With Blood Comes Cleaning
5. Web site: Strongarm's Atonement album to be re-released on vinyl . HM Magazine . 2012-04-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120402011111/http://www.hmmagazine.com/2010/06/strongarms-atonement-album-to-be-re-released-on-vinyl/ . 2012-04-02 . dead .