🎸💀 INTRO: EARACHE RECORDS — WHERE THE EXTREME BECAME ICONIC Some labels create trends.Some labels catch trends.And then there’s Earache Records — the label that took a sledgehammer to “trends,” broke them into pieces, glued them back together wrong, and invented genres by accident on a Tuesday morning. Born from the Nottingham underground in 1985, […]
🎸Welcome to The Riff Report’s dive into one of the most chaotic, groundbreaking, “C’MON BUTT THIS IS LOUD!” labels the world has ever seen.Strap in mun — this one’s heavier than a double-stack of Mesa Boogies on a rainy Welsh hillside at Steelhouse. 🤘🏴 🤘🌋 THE BIRTH OF A MONSTER (MID-1980s) If you ever wondered […]