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Crunch Pod

Dirty Music For Distorted Minds!

About Me

Crunch Pod is an industrial music label and mail order website based near Sacramento, California in the USA.
The label activities of Crunch Pod began in 1998. In the last 10 years, the label has grown from doing small run CDR releases to being the home to high profile industrial and rhythmic noise acts such as C/A/T, Caustic and Manufactura.
The mail order side of Crunch Pod started up in 2000 and continues to grow each year. Currently a sampling of the labels we help distribute in the U.S. include: Ant-Zen, Bractune Records, COP Int'l, Hive Records, Out Of Line, Black Rain / NoiTekk, Hymen Records, Sigsaly, DSBP, Tympanik Audio and many more!
Crunch Pod - Official Site
Crunch Pod Mail Order - Official Site
Recent releases for 2008:
CRUNCH053 - C/A/T - The Great Crisis CD
Upcoming releases for 2008:
CRUNCH054 - Caustic - I Am On Fire (Re-issue) CDR [July 1st, 2008]
CRUNCH056 - Manufactura - Psychogenic Fugue 2CD [August 2008]
CRUNCH057 - Uberbyte - Sic CD [Aug./Sept. 2008]
CRUNCHTBA - Bitch Brigade - Title TBA CD [Fall 2008]
CRUNCHTBA - Caustic - This Is Jizzcore CD [Fall 2008]
CRUNCHTBA - Cervello Elettronico - Title TBA CD [Fall 2008]
CRUNCHTBA - C/A/T - We Are Still Alive CD [Winter 2008]
CRUNCHTBA - Alter Der Ruine - Title TBA CD [Fall / Winter 2008]
CRUNCHTBA - [sydnika:zero] - Blindness CD [2009]
Our releases are available on CD directly from our own mail order .
CDs are also available at:
Metropolis Mail Order
COP Int'l
Amazon.com
CD Baby
Audioglobe
... and many more!
Many of our releases are also available as digital downloads.
Sites such as Apple iTunes Music Store , Amazon.com MP3 Downloads , eMusic.com and many more have Crunch Pod releases in their catalogs.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/22/2004
Band Website: crunchpod.com/
Band Members: Our core roster as of April 2008 includes:

We are not currently looking to expand the Crunch Pod artist roster.
Influences: DJs and Zines interested in receiving promotional CDs or reaching our artists for interviews should contact our promotions director, Christian Bankes @ "promo @ crunchpod . com".
Sounds Like: Industrial, EBM, Power Noise
Record Label: Crunch Pod
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Press release from C/A/T

Hello -First off, thank you to everyone who responded when I blanked the C/A/T MySpace page last night even though you guys had no idea what was going on.Now that most everyone directly related to us ...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:59:00 PST

New signing - Bitch Brigade

We are very happy to welcome Bitch Brigade to the family.Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, Bitch Brigade was founded in 2006 by Agr1ppa Cry0fl3sh. Like most projects starting off, Bitch Brigade, was m...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:22:00 PST

Label update :: Feb. 2008

Well, I've had some people ask what is up with Crunch Pod these days and what is in store for '08 so here goes.The first confirmed release for 2008 is:C/A/T - The Great Crisis - CD [CRUNCH054] and is ...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 04:43:00 PST

Label update :: September 2007

Hello All, It's been a few months since we have sent out an update, mainly because we have been pretty busy with lots of live shows and preparing for the next onslaught of releases. Here is what we cu...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:06:00 PST

New album from Cervello Elettronico coming soon!

Just a quick notice to let everyone know that Cervello Elettronico's "Negate The Instigator" CD is IN PRODUCTION. We should have a specific release date in the coming weeks and we'll pass that along!
Posted by Crunch Pod on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:25:00 PST

Crunch Pod roster locked until Fall 2006

Due to the hectic summer release schedule and the inevitable relocation of Crunch Pod from Washington state to Northern California in late August 2006...Crunch Pod will not be looking to sign any new ...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Wed, 17 May 2006 05:01:00 PST

New Crunch Pod release!!!

A Mere Invention Of The Idle Mind", a compilation between MECHaNISMz, Crunch Pod and Auricle Media are actually on hand. Those who have pre-ordered will be getting their CDs shortly. Anyone who orders...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Wed, 01 Feb 2006 11:21:00 PST

Autoclav1.1 reaches agreement with Crunch Pod for album deal

Crunch Pod is proud to announce that an agreement has be reached with Autoclav1.1 to release his debut album "You are my all and More" later this year. When we have more information on this rel...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 06:10:00 PST

Free Death - New Website

Free Death has updated his official website. He has a complete new layout and design and has sound clips from his album on Crunch Pod, "Tyrone", as well as from the forthcoming single "Use Your Hea...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:29:00 PST

Crunch Pod artist, C/A/T, in voting for 2006 WGT Festival

Voting has begun for the 2006 Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival on the official forum for the festival. You can get there via this link: http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/forumwgt/viewforum.php?f=3 You...
Posted by Crunch Pod on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:45:00 PST