Hellhound Records Explained

Hellhound
Founded:	1988
Defunct:	1996
Status:	Defunct
Distributor:	Noise Records
Genre:	Heavy metal Doom metal
Country:	Germany

Hellhound Records was a German record label during the late 1980s and 1990s, self-described as "the heaviest label on earth". They became known for putting out doom metal, with artists such as Saint Vitus and The Obsessed. In the early 1990s Hellhound signed a number of Maryland doom bands such as Internal Void, Iron Man, Revelation, Wretched and Unorthodox.^[1] They quickly became a prominent label in the doom metal genre. Some of the Hellhound releases were distributed in the US by Noise Records and Noise began pressing some of the later releases after Hellhound's demise. Noise released a compilation entitled Pure Noise which featured a number of Hellhound bands along with many Noise bands as well. Only a few Hellhound releases were re-released by current labels, such as Southern Lord Records and Japan's Leaf Hound Records.

Discography

1. Eddie Dixon - "Relentless" 7"
2. Jingo De Lunch - Axe to Grind
3. Scarlet - Red Alert
4. God BC - God BC
5. Saint Vitus - V
6. Toxic Reasons - Anything for Money
7. The Lazy Cowgirls - How It Looks, How It Is"
8. The Obsessed - The Obsessed
9. Count Raven - Storm Warning
10. Saint Vitus - Live
11. Hyste'riah G.B.C. - Snakeworld
12. Angelus - Kneel Down and Pray
13. Pigmy Love Circus - Drink Free Forever
14. What the Hell! compilation
15. The Obsessed - Lunar Womb
16. Pigmy Love Circus - When Clowns Become Kings
17. Saint Vitus - C.O.D.
18. Internal Void - Standing on the Sun
19. Count Raven - Destruction of the Void
20. Revelation - Never Comes Silence
21. Unorthodox - Asylum
22. Iron Man - Black Night
23. Lost Breed - The Evil in You and Me
24. Wretched - Life Out There
25. Buzzard - Churp!!!
26. Count Raven - High on Infinity
27. Year Zero - Nihil's Flame
28. Vortex of Insanity - Social Decay
29. The Obsessed - The Church Within
30. Unorthodox - Balance of Power
31. Wretched - Psychosomatic Medicine
32. Hellhound Compilation
33. Lost Breed - Save Yourself
34. Iron Man - The Passage
35. Saint Vitus - Die Healing
36. Revelation - ...Yet So Far
37. Blood Farmers - Blood Farmers
38. Year Zero - Creation
39. Hundred Years - Hundred Years
40. It Is I - Evolve
41. Wretched - Center of the Universe
42. Count Raven - Messiah of Confusion

Reissued

• Saint Vitus - V (Southern Lord Records)
• Saint Vitus - Live (Southern Lord Records)
• Saint Vitus - Die Healing LP (Buried By Time And Dust Records)
• Saint Vitus - Die Healing (Seasons Of Mist)
• Saint Vitus - C.O.D. (Seasons Of Mist)
• The Obsessed - The Obsessed (Tolotta Records)
• The Obsessed - Lunar Womb (MeteorCity Records)
• The Obsessed - The Church Within 2 x 10" (Self-released)
• The Obsessed - The Church Within (Real Gone Music)
• Count Raven - Storm Warning (Cyclone Empire)
• Count Raven - Destruction of the Void (Cyclone Empire)
• Count Raven - High on Infinity (Cyclone Empire)
• Count Raven - Messiah of Confusion (Cyclone Empire)
• Revelation - Never Comes Silence (Leaf Hound Records)
• Revelation - Never Comes Silence (Shadow Kingdom Records)
• Revelation- ...Yet So Far (Shadow Kingdom Records)
• Iron Man - Black Night (Shadow Kingdom Records)
• Iron Man - The Passage (Leaf Hound Records)
• Iron Man - The Passage (Shadow Kingdom Records)
• Unorthodox - Asylum (Bipolar Demand Records)
• Wretched - Center of the Universe (Highland Ridge Records)
• Blood Farmers - s/t (Leaf Hound Records)
• Internal Void - Standing on the Sun 2 LP (Svart Records)
• Lost Breed - The Evil in You and Me (Shadow Kingdom Records)
• Lost Breed - Save Yourself (Shadow Kingdom Records)

See also

• List of record labels

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hellhound Records Archives - The Obelisk. The Obelisk. en-US. 19 April 2018.