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Black Box Recordings is an aggressively independant record label founded by Mike Hill back in the Spring of 2004. Past and present artist: Anodyne, Black Army Jacket, Defcon 4, Engineer, The Heuristic, McCarthy Blacklist, The Wayward.

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Member Since: 3/2/2006
Band Website: blackboxrec.com
Band Members: Mike Hill, Ira Bronson, Curran Reynolds, The Heuristic, Anodyne, Black Army Jacket, The Wayward, Engineer, McCarthy Blacklist, Defcon 4
Influences: Coffee, Black Flag (particularly Rollins-era), "The Will to Power", Rollins, Ozzie-era Black Sabbath, Insomnia, "Reign in Blood" by Slayer, The "Unknown Pleasures" album by Joy Division, power-violence, Exene Cervenka, Ari Up, Werner Herzog, hardcore punk, death metal, pull-ups, 90's "screamo", Thin Lizzy, Neurosis, Swans, Nick Cave, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Chuck D, "Living Indoors", playing in Anodyne for almost a decade, driving across the US and Europe in a van, Boyd Rice, Jim Goad, Charlie Manson, Hank Williams, "Axis Bold as Love" by Hendrix the fine poetry of William Blake, the writings of Harry Crews, Jerzy Kosinski, Truman Capote, John Fante and Philip K. Dick, Bad Brains, Whitehouse, Jim Van Bebber, K Records, The Patterson Brothers, John Doe, Roomanitarianism, Ronnie James Dio,weightlifting, sitting in my room, Keith Morris, Greg Ginn, Mike Watt, Steve Albini, Diamanda Galas, Solid State Transistor, Neurosis, Kool Keith, Manhattan Special, Kevin Shields, Jim Thirlwell, John Lee Hooker, Danzig, Captain Beefheart, Angelhair, Honeywell, Dave Witte, Greg Drudy, King Crimson, James Ellroy, Gen-Soy Organic Protein, Factory Records, Neil Young, The Birthday Party, David Lynch and Special Agent Dale Cooper.
Sounds Like: Defcon4, The Heuristic, The Wayward, Engineer, Black Army Jacket, McCarthy Blacklist, Anodyne
Record Label: Hardcore, Grind, Punk, Metal, Shoegaze
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

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Posted by Black Box Recordings on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:55:00 PST

News Updates

The Limited Clear Vinyl ASRA record is available now. The record comes with an electronic cd version for those of you who want to enjoy the consumer audio version of the material and rip it to mp3. ...
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:26:00 PST

Back from Tour

Tour was a success and though it was short, we met a lot of really cool people and played with a lot of great bands. I'd also like to thank everyone who helped with setting up shows and helped with p...
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:47:00 PST

New TOMBS DEMO

The new TOMBS demo is about 75% complete as I write this.  We spent the weekend tracking drums, guitars and vocals.  Tomorrow night it's Carson's turn to lay down his bass tracks and then th...
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:58:00 PST

Gearing up for Tour, new projects etc

TOMBS and ASRA hit the road next month for a short east coast tour. We'll b e sharing bills with brother in arms The Wayward, Triac, Javelina, Elder, Monolith, Dawn and more. Most of the dates are u...
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:27:00 PST

ASRA - The way of All Flesh

Damn.That's all I can say when i look at the final artwork for the ASRA record.Everything is rolling along. Scott Hull will be wrapping up mastering this week and then it's off to the pressing plant....
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:47:00 PST

TOMBS - JAMNOW.COM Performance Monday Jan. 7

Tombs will be playing a live, streaming on the internet show on Monday Jan. 7 at 9:00 PM Eastern Standard time. Several new songs will be played as well as material from the recent self-titled record...
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:40:00 PST

New Tombs Reviews

Check out the latest reviews of the Tombs record belowDeafSparrow - review -http://www.deafsparrow.com/Tombs_review.htmDecibel - review - Jan 08 issueHanging Like A Hex - review -http://www.hanginghex...
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:07:00 PST

TOMBS - ALBUM OF THE WEEK in LAMBGOAT.COM

Lamboat names TOMBS as Album of the Weekhttp://www.lambgoat.com/news/
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 01:40:00 PST

Leader, King Generator and other miscellaneous intel

At this point, the TOMBS records have all been received, packaged and are ready to ship. Those of you that ordered last week will be seeing their records this week at some point. Everyone that order...
Posted by Black Box Recordings on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 05:58:00 PST