Black Metal Record Labels
Atmospheric, raw, and orthodox black metal labels, from cult tape labels to established imprints.
Black metal's label scene runs unusually deep for how underground much of the genre still is. A handful of internationally distributed labels — Season of Mist, Peaceville, Osmose Productions — sit alongside a much larger population of small, aesthetically specific imprints built around a particular strand of the genre: raw/lo-fi black metal, atmospheric and depressive black metal, orthodox and war-metal-adjacent black metal, or the more melodic and symphonic end of the spectrum. Many of the most respected black metal labels are still run by one or two people out of genuine scene involvement, not a commercial operation in the usual sense.
That aesthetic specificity matters more here than in most other metal subgenres. A label built around raw, lo-fi cassette releases and a label putting out polished, orchestral symphonic black metal are both "black metal" labels, but a submission to the wrong one is a mismatch of philosophy as much as sound — production values, visual presentation, and even how a label talks about its artists tend to signal which lane it's in. Listening to a handful of recent releases from a label's actual roster tells you more than its self-description does.
Format matters too, in a way it doesn't for most other genres on this site. A meaningful share of black metal labels still prioritize vinyl and cassette releases over digital-first strategies, and some work almost entirely through limited physical runs. If your band's plans (or expectations) assume a digital-first release, checking a label's actual release history for format is worth doing before reaching out.
As with any genre, label size and current activity say more about fit than the genre tag alone — a label press-shy about lineup or barely active in the last few years is a different proposition than one releasing steadily. Comparing your band's style, stage, and goals against the full label database, not just a genre list, is the more reliable way to find where you actually fit.
Looking for a label for your black metal band? Genre is only one part of the match. Compare your style, career stage, location and other factors against labels in our database.
Record Labels Releasing Black Metal
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Agonia Records
Poland
Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal
Agonia Records is a Poland-based independent label that has built one of the larger rosters in extreme metal, with Metal Archives currently listing more than 60 active signed acts alongside decades of back-catalog releases from genre veterans such as Absu, Atheist, Pestilence and Massacre. The label continues to release new material at a steady pace, with full-length albums from Beheaded, Azarath and Abigail Williams already out in 2026, and it runs its own webshop and mail-order distribution alongside its release schedule. Public sources disagree on exactly when the label was founded — its own website states 2005, while Wikidata lists 2003 — but by either account it has been operating for roughly two decades.
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Avantgarde Music
Italy
black metal, doom metal, death metal, atmospheric/post-metal
Avantgarde Music is an Italian record label based in Milan that has operated under that name since 1994, growing out of founder Roberto Mammarella's earlier Obscure Plasma Records project. Over three decades it has built a large catalog focused on black metal and doom metal, and it maintains a dedicated imprint, Unorthodox Emanations, for death-metal-leaning signings. As of mid-2026 the label remains highly active, with new album announcements arriving on a roughly monthly basis and an internationally diverse artist roster.
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Black Lion Records
Sweden
Black Metal, Death Metal
Black Lion Records is a Swedish record label based in Umeå that releases black and death metal exclusively. It grew out of an earlier zine project ('Black Lion Productions') founded by Oliver Dahlbäck, who remains the label's head, with Marcos Cerutti as a longtime collaborator. Sources disagree on the exact founding year of the label itself (the label's own Bandcamp profile cites 2015, while founder interviews from 2017 describe the project starting in 2012), but all sources agree it is a long-running, self-directed operation rather than a recent startup. As of 2025 the label remains active, with a roster of roughly 60 bands and a steady stream of new releases.
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CDN Records
Canada
Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Deathcore, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Grindcore
CDN Records is a Windsor, Ontario-based independent label that has operated continuously since 1990, when it began as a bedroom demo-trading operation under the name Civilian Death Network before rebranding. Over more than three decades it has built a catalogue running past 200 releases and co-releases, covering brutal death metal, deathcore, black metal, thrash and grindcore, and it runs its own web shop alongside a large current and alumni artist roster.
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Century Media Records
Germany
death metal, black metal, melodic death metal, metalcore
Century Media Records is a German metal label founded in Dortmund in 1988 by Robert Kampf, now operating as part of Century Media Group under Sony Music Entertainment following a 2015 acquisition. Its current roster and release slate span extreme-metal subgenres - death metal, black metal, melodic death metal - alongside metalcore and alternative-leaning acts, with recent activity including a January 2026 Crystal Lake album and an August 2025 signing announcement for Gaerea.
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Darker than Black Records
Germany
Black Metal, Pagan/Imperial Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal
Darker Than Black Records (D.T.B.) is a black metal label that describes itself as German, founded in 1994 to distribute a demo/EP by the band Absurd. According to the label's own history page, it briefly operated as a sublabel of Malicious Records in 1996–1997, then faced legal challenges in 1999 over the alleged distribution of 'extremist propaganda,' after which it relocated its base of operations to the United States and went largely dormant for several years before resuming activity after 2007. Today the label frames its output around a self-described 'Solitary Elitism' ethos, favors physical formats (CD, vinyl, tape) over digital-only releases, and continues to release new material and reissues, with dated news posts running from mid-2025 into early 2026.
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Depressive Illusions Records
Ukraine
Black Metal, Dungeon Synth, Dark Ambient, Noise
Depressive Illusions Records is a Ukrainian underground label and mailorder store built around raw, lo-fi black metal alongside dungeon synth, dark ambient and noise. Its own catalog output is prolific and physically-focused, dominated by limited-run cassette and CD-R editions, and it runs several affiliated sub-label imprints for adjacent styles.
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Drakkar Productions
France
Black Metal, NSBM-adjacent black metal, Death Metal (minor)
Drakkar Productions is a French black metal specialist label and mailorder based in Millau, operating since 1994. It grew out of the Les Légions Noires scene, with its catalog eventually running to well over 200 signings — including acts such as Watain, Alcest, and Deathspell Omega early in their careers — alongside a current roster of roughly 74 active black metal bands from around the world. Metal Archives tags the label's styles/specialties as 'Black Metal, NSBM,' a classification tied to some of its historical and current artists, which is worth weighing independently. As of August 2026 its webshop is actively trading, including a newly tagged 2026 release from Dolchstoss.
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Dusktone
Italy
Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Extreme/Experimental Metal
Dusktone is an Italian extreme-metal label and store operation based in Como, founded in 2010, that both signs new black/death/doom/experimental-metal artists and issues licensed physical (often vinyl) reissues of existing catalog titles. Metal Archives lists it as active with 65 bands on its current roster, and its Bandcamp storefront cites a back catalog of roughly 145 releases spanning Italy, the Nordic countries and beyond.
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Dying Victims Productions
Germany
Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Traditional Heavy Metal, First-wave Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal
Dying Victims Productions is a German underground metal label based in Essen, founded in 2009 by Florian Grill as an outgrowth of his Thrash Attack fanzine. The label focuses on traditional heavy, speed, and thrash metal alongside first-wave black, death, and doom metal, and has built out its own vinyl/CD/cassette distro shop and a reissue imprint, Relics from the Crypt, for out-of-print classics.
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Godz ov War Productions
Poland
Black Metal, Death Metal, Black/Death Metal, Doom Metal, Blackened Thrash/Death Metal
Godz ov War Productions is a Poland-based independent record label and mail-order shop specializing in black metal, death metal and related extreme subgenres. Its in-house release catalog spans well over 200 titles across vinyl, CD and cassette formats, with a roster that includes acts from Poland as well as Portugal, Greece, Peru, the UK and the USA. As of 2025 the label continues to issue new releases regularly, with recent titles from ZØRZA, PUTRID, KÖNIGREICHSSAAL, UPON THE ALTAR and CULTUM INTERITUM.
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Great Dane Records
France
Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Doom Metal
Great Dane Records is a French extreme metal label based in Lille that has built a substantial catalog of death, black, thrash, and doom metal releases since the mid-2000s. It has grown from a regional imprint founded by two metal enthusiasts into a label with international distribution and a roster spanning dozens of current and past bands, and it continues to issue new releases regularly.
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Hammerheart Records
Netherlands
death metal, black metal, doom metal, folk metal, thrash metal
Hammerheart Records is a Dutch independent metal label, operating as Hammerheart Records BV out of Valkenburg aan de Geul, Netherlands, since 1995. Now three decades in, it runs a large and varied roster spanning death, black, doom, folk and thrash metal, releasing physical formats (vinyl, CD, cassette) as well as digital editions, and it remains active with a steady cadence of new releases and artist signings.
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Hells Headbangers Records
United States
Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Grindcore
Hells Headbangers Records is a US-based independent label and mail-order distributor from the Cleveland/Medina, Ohio area, founded by brothers Chase, Eric, and Justin Horval around 2000 and still releasing new extreme metal titles as of 2026. Its catalog centers on death metal, black metal, thrash metal, and grindcore, and its official Bandcamp lists well over 150 associated bands spanning both veteran and newer underground acts.
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Inverse Records
Finland
Melodic death metal, Death/doom metal, Black metal, Industrial metal, Symphonic metal, Thrash metal
Inverse Records is a Finnish record label and release agency based in Jyväskylä, providing promotion, distribution, and marketing services with a stated focus on heavier music. Alongside the core metal-oriented label, the company operates related sub-marks (Secret Entertainment for pop/rock and electronic music, Concorde Music Company for mixing/mastering/pre-production services). As of mid-2026 the label remains actively releasing new records, including titles from Soulgrind, Inthraced, and Ruoska within the preceding six months.
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Iron Bonehead Productions
Germany
Black Metal, Death Metal
Iron Bonehead Productions is a German extreme metal label based in Wachtendonk, North Rhine-Westphalia, run by Patrick Kremer, who renamed his earlier cassette imprint Obscure Art Productions to Iron Bonehead in 1996. Roughly three decades on, it has grown into one of the underground's most prolific black and death metal outlets, releasing vinyl, CD, and tape editions at a steady pace alongside its own webshop and merchandise operation.
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Listenable Records
France
death metal, black metal, thrash metal, extreme/progressive metal, hard rock / doom / stoner rock (secondary catalog)
Listenable Records is a France-based independent metal label whose official website dates its founding to 1997 (though the label's own Bandcamp profile states 1990). Over its history it has released material from internationally known extreme metal acts such as Gojira, Immolation, Aborted, Soilwork, Voivod, and Napalm Death, alongside classic reissues (e.g. Coroner) and a secondary line of hard rock, doom, and stoner rock releases. As of mid-2026 the label remains active, with new releases from Leatherwitch, Eternal Evil, and Locus Noir shipping in early-to-mid 2026.
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M & O Music
France
Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Metalcore, Alternative Metal, Progressive Metal, Gothic/Symphonic Metal
M&O Music is an independent label based in Montpellier, France, operating since 2009. Alongside its distribution and e-shop operations, it works as a music publisher handling synchronization licensing and neighboring-rights collection for its artists, and is closely tied to a sister artist-promotion agency, M&O Office. Its catalog is deliberately broad rather than narrowly specialized: current and past signings span thrash, death, black, metalcore, gothic and symphonic metal, plus progressive and alternative metal, alongside a separate pop-rock, indie and punk roster - reflecting a general independent-label model built around distribution and artist services rather than a single metal subgenre identity.
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More Hate Productions
Russia
Death Metal, Black Metal, Pagan Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore
More Hate Productions is a Russian underground extreme-metal label based in Volgograd, founded in 1999 by Sergei "Lazar" and Alex "Duke" Kantemirov to release their own band Rossomahaar's debut album. Over more than two decades it has grown into a large, prolific outlet spanning death, black, pagan, brutal death, grindcore and crossover-thrash releases, with an official roster page listing several hundred bands and new CD releases still appearing regularly as of mid-2026. The label describes itself as explicitly non-commercial, focused on supporting Russian and CIS metal scenes that it says receive less attention from Western labels.
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Naturmacht Productions
Finland
Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal, Funeral Doom, Dark Ambient
Naturmacht Productions is an independent Finnish record label based in Lautiosaari, founded on 5 May 2009. It focuses on black metal in its various forms, with a smaller strand of funeral doom and ambient releases, and runs a sub-label, Rain Without End Records. The label remains active, with new releases or announcements from its roster appearing at a roughly monthly pace through mid-2026, distributed via its own webstore and Bandcamp page.
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Northern Silence Productions
Germany
Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, Folk/Pagan/Viking Metal, Doom Metal
Northern Silence Productions is a German label and mailorder operating out of Crottendorf since 2003. Alongside a large physical-format webstore, it runs its own imprint releasing atmospheric black metal and related folk, pagan, doom and dungeon-synth-adjacent music, with a roster that mixes long-running names like Saor, Caladan Brood and Eldamar with newer signings such as Primal Cult. The label remains actively releasing new titles into 2026.
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Nuclear Blast Records
Germany
Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Power Metal, Symphonic Metal, Metalcore, Hardcore Punk, Industrial Metal
Founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany, Nuclear Blast has grown from a punk and hardcore imprint into one of the largest independent metal labels in the world, now operating with subsidiaries in the US and Brazil and a roster of roughly 120 contracted bands spanning thrash, death, black, power and symphonic metal, among other styles. As of August 2026 the label continues to release new material regularly, including albums from Anthrax, Turmion Kätilöt and Madball, and recently added the reunited band Down to its roster.
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Nuclear War Now! Productions
United States
black metal, death metal, war/bestial metal, doom metal, traditional heavy metal
Nuclear War Now! Productions is a United States-based extreme metal label founded in 2001, whose first release was Blasphemy's 'Friday the 13th: Live Ritual' LP. Originally operating out of the San Francisco Bay Area, the label relocated its operations to a warehouse in Austin, Texas, and now also runs a public storefront, Eastern Front Records, alongside its mail-order and wholesale business. As of mid-August 2026 the label remains highly active, with new vinyl, CD, and merchandise releases announced on a near-weekly basis. Its catalog and public artist roster center on black metal, death metal, doom, and related underground styles, featuring both long-associated cult acts and a rotating set of newer bands.
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Osmose Productions
France
black metal, death metal, thrash metal
Osmose Productions is a French extreme metal label operating continuously since 1991, run out of Poitiers, France. Over more than three decades it has built one of the largest and most recognized rosters in black, death, and thrash metal, releasing material from acts such as Immortal, Marduk, Samael, and Enslaved, and it remains active with a steady release schedule of new albums and catalog reissues into 2026.
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Pest Productions
China
black metal, atmospheric black metal, depressive black metal, post-black metal / blackgaze
Pest Productions is an independent black metal label founded in 2006 in Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, originally started by members of the Chinese depressive black metal band Be Persecuted. Over nearly two decades it has become one of the best-known outlets for underground black metal from China and the wider Asian scene, with a catalog spanning raw, atmospheric, depressive, and post-black metal styles, and past signings that have included internationally notable acts. The label has since added a semi-independent American Division based in Vancouver, Canada, which releases and ships its own exclusive titles to North and Latin American buyers separately from the original China headquarters, while the China HQ continues to run the main webshop and Bandcamp store.
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Profound Lore Records
Canada
doom metal, black metal, death metal, avant-garde/experimental metal
Profound Lore Records is a Canadian independent metal label founded in 2004 by Chris Bruni, still active and releasing music as of 2026. Its Bandcamp roster spans doom metal, black metal, death metal and more experimental/avant-garde heavy music, with artists including Pallbearer, Bell Witch, Evoken, Spirit Possession and Innumerable Forms alongside newer signings like LOCKSTEP.
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Prosthetic Records
United States
death metal, hardcore, post-metal, avant-garde/experimental metal, deathcore, black metal
Founded in 1998 and based in Los Angeles, Prosthetic Records is a long-running independent label associated with early releases from acts such as Lamb of God and Animals as Leaders. It now operates as a division of MNRK Music Group and maintains an active, genre-spanning roster across death metal, hardcore, post-metal and experimental heavy music, with new releases scheduled continuously through 2026.
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Redefining Darkness Records
United States
Death Metal, Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Death-Doom, Grindcore
Redefining Darkness Records is an independent extreme metal label based in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in May 2015. Metal Archives lists it as active with a current roster of 66 bands, and its own Bandcamp catalog shows a steady release schedule running from 2025 into late 2026, including a new album from long-running act Tombs and an upcoming record from UK death-metal band The Bleeding.
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Relapse Records
United States
death metal, grindcore, doom/sludge metal, post-metal, black metal, experimental/industrial metal
Relapse Records is an independent record label founded in 1990 by Matthew F. Jacobson, now headquartered in the Philadelphia area (Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania). Over more than three decades it has built a wide-ranging extreme-music catalog spanning death metal, grindcore, doom/sludge, post-metal and experimental/industrial sounds, with current and past artists including Incantation, Obituary, Pig Destroyer, Red Fang, Myrkur, YOB and Dying Fetus. Its 2026 release schedule, including new albums from Genghis Tron, Warning and newly signed act Left To Die, shows it remains an actively operating label.
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Reprisal Promotions
Indonesia
Black Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore
Reprisal Promotions is a small independent extreme metal promotion project based in Blitar, East Java, Indonesia, with a Metal Archives-recorded founding date of June 6, 2006. It operates as an independent promotion outlet tied to musician Herry SIC's projects and is tagged on Metal Archives as specializing in black metal, death metal, and grindcore. Its own Bandcamp profile is explicit that it considers itself 'NOT LABEL/RECORDS,' describing the work instead as a side project alongside the LOSTINCHAOS mediazine, oriented around reviving a 1990s-style extreme metal sound. Over nearly two decades it has accumulated a roster of more than 70 Indonesian bands and over 150 tracked releases - mostly digital, with occasional limited CD runs - spanning full-lengths, EPs, splits, and demos, with the most recent entries dated into 2026.
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Satanath Records
Georgia
Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom/Death Metal, Symphonic Black Metal
Satanath Records is a prolific extreme-metal label founded in Russia in 2012, later relocating to Georgia, with a catalog that has grown into the hundreds of releases across black, death, doom, and related subgenres. Its official channels currently list a base in Georgia, alongside affiliated entities Symbol Of Domination Prod. (Moldova) and GrimmDistribution (Ukraine). Recent activity through 2026 shows the label continuing to release new material and to co-release albums with other independent labels.
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Season of Mist
France
Black Metal, Death Metal
Season of Mist is a long-running independent record label whose catalog spans black metal, death metal and increasingly varied extreme and adjacent styles, with current releases and an actively maintained international roster.
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Sentient Ruin Laboratories
United States
death metal, black metal, sludge/doom, grindcore/powerviolence, industrial/noise, dark ambient, crust punk, post-punk/darkwave
Sentient Ruin Laboratories is an independent record label based in Oakland, California, active since roughly 2014. It presses vinyl and cassette editions across death metal, black metal, sludge/doom, grindcore, industrial/noise and adjacent extreme and experimental styles, with a catalog that mixes internationally known acts like Spain's Altarage alongside newer demo-stage bands. Between late 2025 and mid-2026 the label announced or released at least eight titles, indicating an active, roughly monthly release schedule.
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Signal Rex
Portugal
Black Metal, Pagan/Atmospheric Black Metal, Raw Black Metal
Signal Rex is a Portuguese record label and distributor operating out of Chamusca since 2007. Alongside releasing its own catalog of black metal and related extreme underground music on cassette, CD and vinyl, it also distributes releases from more than 40 partner labels and imprints, and describes its broader remit as covering music, literature, and visual and performing arts under a freedom-of-expression ethos.
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Sleaszy Rider Records
Romania
Heavy Metal, Power Metal, Doom Metal, Black Metal, Hard Rock
Sleaszy Rider Records is a multi-genre metal label that began life as a Greek metal distributor in 1999 before launching its own imprint roughly two years later, covering styles from hard rock through black metal. After operating out of Greece for two decades, the label relocated its headquarters and warehouse to Romania in late 2020/early 2021, where it continues to run today. Its catalog has grown to several hundred releases and a roster spanning dozens of countries, with new albums and singles appearing on a near-weekly cadence through mid-2026.
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SoundAge Productions
Russia
black metal, death metal, folk/pagan metal, power metal
SoundAge Productions is a Moscow-based metal label founded in April 1998, making it one of the longer-running independent metal labels in Russia. Over nearly three decades it has built a very large catalog spanning black, death, folk/pagan, doom, and power metal, releasing both long-running Russian names (such as Katalepsy and Arida Vortex) and a steady stream of newer acts, with new titles still appearing as recently as 2026.
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Svart Records
Finland
doom metal, heavy/traditional metal, black metal, stoner/psych rock, goth rock
Svart Records is a Finnish independent label operating out of Turku since 2009, founded by Tomi Pulkki initially to reissue albums on vinyl that had never been pressed to the format. It has since grown into a large, actively operating label and worldwide mailorder/distribution operation, releasing new records alongside vinyl reissues across a deliberately eclectic range of genres including doom, heavy, and black metal as well as rock, goth, and psych-adjacent styles, with acts such as Havukruunu, Hexvessel, Messa, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, and The Gates of Slumber among its roster.
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Time to Kill Records
Italy
Death Metal, Black Metal, Grindcore, Hardcore, Doom/Sludge
Time To Kill Records is an independent Italian record label founded in 2016 and based near Rome (Ciampino), with an additional office in Milan and a US arm in Miami, FL. Run as a DIY metal label and management operation, it handles licensing, promotion, distribution and merchandising for a large, multi-genre extreme-music roster spanning death, black and grind metal, hardcore, doom/sludge and related styles, alongside an online store selling vinyl, CD, cassette and other physical releases.
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Transcending Obscurity Records
India
Death Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Dissonant/Technical Death Metal, Atmospheric Extreme Metal
Transcending Obscurity Records is an independent extreme metal label based in Mumbai, India, run by Kunal Choksi. Its roots trace back to Diabolical Conquest, a metal webzine and message board Choksi launched in the mid-2000s; exactly when that project turned into a dedicated record label is unconfirmed, since available sources disagree. By the label's own account it has since grown into a full operation with its own office, warehouse, and in-house merch production, plus dedicated storefronts serving India, Europe, and North America. Its catalog covers death, black, doom, and more dissonant or technical extreme metal, with a roster mixing newer signings and longer-running acts from multiple continents.
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Transylvanian Recordings
United States
Doom Metal, Sludge Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal
Transylvanian Recordings is an Oakland, California imprint that has operated since 2011, originally as the cassette-only Transylvanian Tapes before expanding into vinyl and digital releases. Metal Archives records show a large historical catalog (114 past-roster bands, including long-running sludge act Noothgrush) alongside a currently active signed roster of around 40 acts, indicating a label built on high release volume within the underground doom, sludge, black and death metal space, with occasional crust-punk and noise-rock crossover.
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Ván Records
Germany
Black Metal, Doom Metal, Pagan Metal, Occult Rock
Ván Records is a German label founded in 2004 by Sven Dinninghoff and based in Herzogenrath, operating under the self-described banner of 'Acherontic Audio Art.' Its Metal Archives roster lists over 70 currently signed acts and, in total, more than 900 catalog releases, spanning black metal, doom metal, pagan metal, and occult rock from artists across Germany, Iceland, Norway, Greece, and elsewhere. The label remains busy, with new full-length releases from Fyrnask and Human Waste dated 2026 and a run of 2025 titles from ArsGoatia, Fordæðuskapr, Goath, Kalmen, and Morast.
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Vendetta Records
Germany
Black Metal, Doom Metal, Sludge Metal, Grindcore, Hardcore Punk, Post-Metal
Vendetta Records is a do-it-yourself record label and mailorder operation founded in 2001 and based in Bern, Switzerland, with a catalog centered on black metal, doom/drone metal, sludge, grindcore, hardcore punk and post-metal. (Metal Archives currently lists a Berlin, Germany address for the label, but the label's own Bandcamp profile and German Wikipedia both place it in Bern.) By mid-2026 the label's catalog had reached at least release #346, with new releases as recent as July 2026, indicating ongoing, active operation more than two decades after its founding.
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Via Nocturna
Poland
Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Dark Ambient, plus a wide range of adjacent styles across the roster (thrash, grindcore, progressive, folk, symphonic and gothic metal)
Via Nocturna is a Polish label based in Opole that, per its own history page, began in 2004 as an online metal webzine before becoming a record label with its first release in 2006. It says it built a catalog of 200+ releases and worked with roughly 200 artists in the years that followed, and states that at the start of 2022 it shifted focus toward broader production-studio services - CD/vinyl/cassette manufacturing, merch, PR, cover art, and web/e-commerce - offered to artists and companies alongside its ongoing release schedule. Its current Metal Archives-listed roster spans roughly 68 active bands across black, death, doom and dark ambient metal plus several adjacent styles, drawn mostly from Poland but also dozens of other countries, and the label continues to release new full-lengths and EPs into 2026.
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Werewolf Promotion
Poland
Pagan Black Metal, Black Metal, NSBM, Dark Ambient
Werewolf Promotion is a Polish black metal label based in Wrocław, active since 2007. Industry databases and the label's own interview describe a large, ideologically curated roster - Encyclopaedia Metallum categorizes its specialization as including Pagan/Black Metal, Ambient, and NSBM - with several hundred catalog releases across cassette, CD, and vinyl. Its official Bandcamp presence has been banned multiple times and its PayPal disabled; the label now operates primarily through its own webshop and third-party metal retailers.
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Witches Brew
Germany
Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, Heavy Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal
Witches Brew is a German underground metal label founded in 2002 by Cheryl Schindler, who previously ran the online zine The Metal Gospel and started the label after being impressed by unsigned bands' demos. More than two decades later it's still active, operating today mainly as a combined label/distro webshop out of the Regensburg area, putting out physical CDs, vinyl and tapes for thrash, speed, heavy, death, black and doom metal bands - with new titles from acts like Inferno Nuclear, Steelballs and Fatal Punishment appearing as recently as July-August 2026.
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Xtreem Music
Spain
Death Metal, Black Metal, Grindcore, Doom Metal, Thrash Metal
Xtreem Music is a Spanish, Madrid-based independent record label centered on death metal, with releases also spanning black metal, grindcore, doom and thrash. Per its own About Us page, it continues a lineage of extreme-metal labels run by Dave Rotten (vocalist of Avulsed): Drowned Productions (1990-1994), then Repulse Records (1994-2002), with Xtreem Music emerging once Repulse Records folded. The label remains active into 2026, with new releases from bands such as Paganizer, Megascavenger and Sorcery, and it runs its own 'Full Of Metal' mailorder and distribution operation.
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