Iron Bonehead Productions
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.
Quick Facts
- Country
- Germany
- Founded
- 1996
- Label size
- Large, well-established underground extreme metal label with a multi-format (vinyl/CD/tape) catalog and its own distribution/merch operation, built up over roughly three decades.
- Activity
- Very active: the official news feed shows multiple new releases, reissues, and pre-announcements roughly every two to four weeks through 2026, with output already scheduled into September 2026.
- Genres
- Black Metal, Death Metal
What Does Iron Bonehead Productions Release?
Representative artists: Bölzer, Necros Christos, Vassafor, Nirriti, Tetragrammacide, Black Cilice, Drowning The Light, Grabunhold
Roster centers on raw, bestial, and atmospheric black and death metal, with room for doom-tinged and more ritualistic/experimental extreme metal, spanning both long-running cult names and newer international artists.
Who Is This Label Likely to Fit?
Iron Bonehead Productions is a high-output, long-running German black/death metal label whose current and past roster fits raw, bestial, or atmospheric extreme metal acts with a defined identity; because no public demo policy, submission address, or geographic restriction could be verified, bands should treat submission mechanics as unconfirmed and check directly rather than assume an open or closed policy.
This is Metal-Labels' analysis based on available roster and activity data, not a claim made by the label itself.
Demo & Submission Information
No clear current public demo policy has been verified for this label.
No demo submission policy or dedicated submissions address is published anywhere on the official site or its Bandcamp profile; the only public contact channel found is a general web contact form on ironbonehead.de. Bands considering a submission should use that form to ask directly about current submission needs, preferred formats, and any regional preferences before sending material.
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