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Having over 200 releases behind them, Chicago label Victory Records has been one of the driving forces in independent punk and hardcore music over the past decade. One look at their roster tells you the story of their past, present, and future.
Past bands on the label include Bad Brains, Boy Sets Fire, Earth Crisis, Grade, Hatebreed, Refused, Shelter, Skarhead, and Warzone - a who's who of modern hardcore, if you will. While many have criticized Victory's current roster for not having any bite, the label still possesses one of the most defining voices in the genre, Snapcase. They also have a surprisingly strong group of ska-related bands, including Catch 22, Streetlight Manifesto, and Voodoo Glow Skulls 2001 was a defining year for Victory, with the release of Thursday's Full Collapse. A record that has since come to define modern emotional hardcore, the disc was first released to little fanfare. Over the course of 2001 and 2002, however, the record picked up steam, and as the band made the leap to major label Island Records, controversy surrounded the issue with the band questioning Victory about their business practices, something that has always been a point of contention about the label. Victory has taken a decidedly poppier stance in recent years. Student Rick, Count The Stars, Spitalfield, The Reunion Show, Bayside, and the enormous success of Taking Back Sunday have opened up the label to thousands of kids previously blind to the label's history. This trend shows no signs of stopping with the label's most recent signings. Artists with releases on this label:
Reach The Sky, Grade, Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Boy Sets Fire, Grey Area, Thursday, Waterdown, Minus, Thumb, Catch 22, Guilt, Refused, River City Rebels, In Cold Blood, Snowdogs, Taking Back Sunday, Atreyu, Strife, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Darkest Hour, Ten Foot Pole, The Reunion Show, Blood For Blood, Somehow Hollow, Count The Stars, Dead To Fall, Silverstein, Freya, Spitalfield, Hoods, Streetlight Manifesto, Glasseater, All Out War, Between The Buried And Me, Burning Heads, Bayside, Scars Of Tomorrow, Madcap, The Hurt Process, Martyr AD, Hawthorne Heights, Straylight Run, Bury Your Dead, Action Action, The Black Maria, Comeback Kid, Sinai Beach, Giles, The Forecast, The Junior Varsity, A Perfect Murder, The Audition, The Tossers, Aiden, With Honor, June, Smoking Popes, The Autumn Offering, Nights Like These, The Sleeping, Path of Resistance, Moros Eros, Beneath the Sky, Emmure, Endwell, A Day to Remember, 1997, The Warriors, Four Letter Lie, Driver Side Impact, Ringworm, Secret Lives of the Freemasons, Arise and Ruin Recent ReviewsRecent NewsSilverstein / Chiodos Burlington, Ontario's Silverstein and Davison, Michigan's Chiodos will hit the road together for a co-headlining tour of the US this October. Following the tour Silverstein will hit the studio to record the follow up to 2007's Victory released Arrivals & Departures.…Thursday in the studio, Twitter-ing Thursday has entered the studio to begin recording their next full length with producer Dave Fridmann. The record is their first studio album since 2006's A City by the Light Divided. As they go, the band is documenting the process via popular "micro-blogging" service Twitter. You can follow the process here.…Silverstein set to record this fall Burlington, ON's own Silverstein will be recording this fall. The band explained: Summer has been going by quickly for us between playing festivals and writing our next album. We're very excited about all of the new material so far and can't wait to record later this fall. A new album should be out some time early next year. We'll be hitting the road a bit this fall and will have more details regarding that soon. In the meantime, we're gearing up for an extensive Japanese tour in September (very exciting!). We also just confirmed the 3rd Annual…Hawthorne Heights: "Rescue Me" Hawthorne Heights have posted the first video from their long-awaited new album for Victory Records. The record is titled Fragile Future and is due out today, August 05, 2008 You can check it out…Bayside / The Matches / Valencia / The Status Bayside, The Matches, Valencia and The Status will be hitting the road together this fall on the "Involuntary Movement Tour." Tickets are available here. Bayside is currently in the studio in Los Angeles recording new album Shudder, set for release on September 30, 2008. Produced by David Schiffman (Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Johnny Cash), it is the follow-up to 2007's The Walking…Victory signs A Hero A Fake Victory has signed A Hero a Fake. The band made the announcement: Several of us are seniors in college (UNC, UNCC, BMW) and Victory NEVER signs bands that aren't ready to tour right away. However Victory owner Tony Brummel has given us a rare/awesome deal: Victory will be given soft launching our recently finished album on October 28th which will be distributed to all major stores like a regular Victory album. However are not required to tour until we graduate next spring. This gives us the…Geoff Rickley (Thursday) interviews Chuck Ragan (Hot Water Music) With their imminent show together tomorrow in New York City, Thursday frontman Geoff Rickley interviewed Chuck Ragan of Hot Water Music and discussed the band's reunion shows, future plans and more. Of some note is Chuck's discussion of new music: The best part about it, honestly, is that we have no agenda. It’s about the coolest place we can be in for us. We want to play shows and we will continue playing shows. We’ve all talked about writing again. We haven’t done any at all. I could definitely see…Hawthorne Heights talks about music industry problems In a recent interview about celebrities and death row, Hawthorne Heights shared some of their thoughts about the current problems ailing the music industry: It pisses me off that most labels have no idea how to handle people illegally downloading MP3s. They're still trying to sell CDs and do everything like it was 10 years ago. That just doesn't fly today, and it's incredibly frustrating watching these labels flail around as they try to figure out…Streetlight Manifesto / The Swellers / The AKA's Streetlight Manifesto have announced their fall touring plans which include a US tour with The Swellers and The A.K.A.s as well as trips to Japan, Australia and the…Hawthorne Heights: "Rescue Me" Hawthorne Heights have posted the first song from their upcoming album for Victory Records. The record is titled Fragile Future and is due out August 05, 2008 (art here) The album and band were held back for the past… |
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