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Tour de Garde

Tour de Garde is a Quebec, Canada-based underground extreme metal label whose roots trace back to 2001, built by its founder around a raw black metal ethos while periodically stretching into adjacent underground sounds such as post-punk, industrial and dark ambient. Its current catalog, sold directly through its own webstore, mixes vinyl, cassette and CD editions of releases from acts including Brånd, Vargr, Aduantas, Triste Saison, Fír, Stone Effigy and Morte Incandescente, with a steady cadence of new pressings running into 2026.

Quick Facts

Country
Canada
Founded
2001
Label size
Small, boutique underground label with a tightly curated roster
Activity
Active and steadily releasing, with multi-release cassette/vinyl/CD batches announced roughly every few months through at least early 2026
Genres
Black metal, Post-punk-adjacent underground metal, Dark ambient / industrial

What Does Tour de Garde Release?

Representative artists: Brand (Brånd), Vargr, Aduantas, Triste Saison, Fir (Fír), Stone Effigy, Morte Incandescente

Small, curated roster centered on raw/underground black metal with occasional adjacent underground genres (post-punk, industrial, dark ambient), released primarily in physical formats (cassette, vinyl, CD)

Who Is This Label Likely to Fit?

Best suited to underground/DIY extreme metal artists whose sound and aesthetic align with a raw, non-commercial black-metal-rooted underground ethos; the label runs a small, physical-format-focused catalog rather than a large-roster or digital-first operation.

This is Metal-Labels' analysis based on available roster and activity data, not a claim made by the label itself.

Demo & Submission Information

No demo submission policy, guidelines, or dedicated submissions page could be located on the official site during this research, so it is unknown whether the label is currently open to unsolicited demos or whether any geographic restrictions apply. Artists should reach out directly via the label's published contact address (tdghq@t-d-g.net) to ask about current openness to submissions before sending material.

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