Sound Devastation Records is a label born from an ezine. The ezine is dead. Please don’t send stuff for review - it won’t get one. However, please do send demos for consideration. We will probably give a little feedback. If you don’t hear from us at all, take a hint. We aim to just release what we think is ace music that otherwise might not be heard. For up-to date news and some pretty pictures, visit our Blog:
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We’re a DIY label.
All our releases are paid from our own pocket. Any profits made are put immediately back into the label and our growing roster. We do releases on CD and we do have contacts that get our bands on bigger gigs and get distributed to shops around the world including HMV and sometimes also get released digitally. Does that make us sell out’s? Not in our opinion.
All our own work (i.e. Doing It Yourself) has built up the contacts and possibilities to get our work and releases to both our fans and the general public. We have not sacrificed any decision making or let anyone else except the band we’re working with tell us what to do.
We have complete control over our releases with these other people who help us out. We also consult with our bands constantly so that they’re completely happy. If they don’t want their release sold in certain places it will not be sold there. Just because we can be transient with our principles in order to enable other individuals to realize their musical dreams does not mean that we don’t have our own personal principles. It just means that when we love the music enough, we want to release it and do the best by the band creating it.
If you’re a DIY punk band who want to sell only through indies (or even just via trades and contacts) and do it only on vinyl and only in a limited pressing, we’ll do that. If you want your stuff to be on CD in an ace package, distributed worldwide and even *gasp* digitally, we’ll do that.
Bands interested in sending us demos, please do.
Just know what you want and be prepared to tell us from the beginning.
As long as your music is ephemeral, transcendent and doesn’t buffer about on the waves of current fads and scenes; and as long as the band is prepared to work hard and are completely passionate about what they do, then we will work with them.
If you want to be on our label, you have to be ready to always communicate with us. We have contacts, but so do you. We share these to maximize the release. We expect our bands to work damn hard. Hopefully we’ll break even, or get a bit of a profit ticking over, so we can work on new projects with the band again, or put our efforts into supporting another new band.
We are also great believers in awesome artwork and packaging - a release is not in our opinion just about the music. Its the whole presentation of it. A piece of art.
OUT NOW:
Aotea - ’Apocalypse In Transmetropolita’ CD
Flatlands - ’Vermuyden’ CD
Red Paper Dragon - ’Songs Of Innocence’ CD
Zonderhoof - ’Zonderhoof’ CD
The Pirate Ship Quintet - ’The Pirate Ship Quintet’ CD
Throw Stephanie In The Incinerator - ’The Road Is Long, Dead Horses Are Heavy’ CD
The Clauberg Opera - ’New Folk Devils’ CD
From The Sky - ’Like Crystal In A World Of Glass’ CD
Sons Of Alpha Centauri - ’Sons Of Alpha Centauri’ CD
Amenra - ’Mass III’ 2xLP
Kids With Guns For Hands - ’Your Daughters Are Divine’ CD
Fall Of Efrafa - ’Elil’ 2xLP
Kongh - ’Counting Heartbeats’ 2xLP
Cleric - ’Cumberbund’ Pic LP
The Pirate Ship Quintet - ’The Pirate Ship Quintet’ LP
Naked Shit - ’The Legend Of The High Town Crow’ CD
PRE-ORDER:
Chickenhawk - ’Chickenhawk’ CD
Karysun - ’Interceptor’ CD
Aotea - ’Yellow’ CD
Fall Of Efrafa - ’Owsla’ CD & LP
Fall Of Efrafa - ’Elil’ CD
COMING SOON:
Analysis Of Bison Kills - ’Vantage’ CD & LP
Seven Nautical Miles - ’TBA’ CD & 2xLP
Sunshine Republic - ’TBA’ CD/DVD & 2xLP
Actress/Celestine - ’TBC’ 7"
Like A Kind Of Matador/Slomatics - ’TBC’ 10"
Year Of The Man - ’TBC’ CD & 2xLP
Ehnahre - ’The Man Closing Up’ CD & 2xLP
Montana - ’Montanimals’ CD & LP
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YOU OWN A LABEL? WANT TO TRADE? GREAT!!!
CONTACT US, AND WE’LL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO!!
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Pick up our releases from selected stores nationwide;
***Support your local independent stores***
Distribution:
Shellshock Distribution [UK]
Stickfigure Distribution [USA]
Backs Distribution [Europe: distributed to other countries’ distributors]
We also TRADE. LOTS AND LOTS of places hold our releases now.
PR:
SDPR [UK - all titles]
to be announced [UK - selected titles]
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Whilst we support the UK scene on every level we would appreciate if you didn’t:
a) Message us about putting on a gig for you. We’ll decide if we want to do that.
b) Put huge picture comments on our page.
These will be deleted, unless we know you and/or think you’re special.
Thanks x
