Mausoleum Records Explained

Parent:	Music Avenue Group
Founded:	1982
Founder:	Alfie Falckenbach
Distributor:	Music Avenue Group
Genre:	Heavy metal
Country:	Belgium
Location:	Brussels

Mausoleum Records was a Belgian-based^[1] heavy metal record label, once considered by Billboard as "one of Europe's premier hard rock labels".^[2]

Alfie Falckenbach founded the Mausoleum Records label in 1982 (he also founded the Music Avenue label, and the blues label Blues Boulevard Records). Bands releasing material on the label included Anvil, Faithful Breath, Great White, Killer, L.A. Guns, Nazareth, Omen, Ostrogoth, Ian Gillan Band and Warlock. Celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, Mausoleum Records was still going strong, and the artist roster consisted of established acts such as Molly Hatchet and Cinderella, in addition to new artists from around the world, including Hyades (Italy), Always Fallen (Belgium), Hills of Kings (Germany), Awaken (USA) and Grenouer (Russia).

The label folded upon Falckenbach's death in 2016.^[3]

Recording artists

Ace Lane Achyronthia Adam Bomb After All Always Fallen Andralls Angel Witch Anvil Arrest Atlain Awaken Axe Victims Bad Steve Barón Rojo Beast Belladonna Blacklace Bloody Six Brainfever Ceremony Chariot Chasar Chinawhite Cinderella Courageous Crackmind Crossfire Crucifixion Custard Cutty Sark Danger Dark Wizard Darxon Dead On Donor Double Diamond Dygitals E.F. Band E-Force Ekpyrosis Electric Earth Enertia Even Vast Everfest Expect No Mercy Fact Faithful Breath Fisc Flotsam and Jetsam Frost The Ghost Next Door^[4] GMT Godiva Graveshadow Grenouer Gust of Anger

Hades Hardline Hawkwind Hazzard Herman Rarebell Hermetic Brotherhood Highway Chile Hirax Hollywood Monsters Human Factor Hyades Imagika Imago Mortis Jerusalem K-West Killer Killing Machine King Karma Kyrbgrinder L.A. Guns Legen Beltza Limelight Lion's Pride Living Death Mad Axeman Magic Kingdom Maggie's Madness Max Pie McCoy Megasonic Merendine Atomiche Molly Hatchet Mystery Blue Native Instinct Necromancia Nitro Nordheim Obsession Obus Omen Ostrogoth Panzer Phantom-X Prey Raven Lord Reaper Reign Richie Kotzen Rise to Addiction Rivera/Bomma Rough Silk Runamok Saints' Anger Scavenger Schubert Sergeant Sinner

Sledgehammer Snowblind Sphinx Spirit Web Starstruck Steeler Steelover Steeltower Stormbringer Stormhammer Stream Suicide Watch Swarm Syar System Shock Tails Blue Tank Buster Jack Technocracy The Ordeal Together Torch Tormentor Tox Trance TSA Tuff Tush Tyrant Underdog Vanadium Villain Versover Voivod Warhead Warlock Warning SF Waxface White Heat Wicked Maraya Wicked Mystic Wildfire Wolf Witchfynde Wrekking Machine

External links

• • • • Mausoleum Records at Spirit of Metal

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mausoleum Records. Rate Your Music. 2011-08-21.
2. Book: Tales From The Crypt. 21 October 1995. Billboard. 2011-08-21.
3. Web site: Alfie Falckenbach...passes away . europeanbluesunion.com . 4 March 2016 . European Blues Union . 4 November 2021.
4. Web site: MAUSOLEUM Records: Biography/Discography - THE GHOST NEXT DOOR . 2015-10-09 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924144146/http://www.music-avenue.net/mausoleum/bio.php?artist=90 . 2015-09-24 .