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Hydra Head Records Hydra Head Records was an independent record label that specializes in extreme metal music, founded in New Mexico by Aaron Turner (the frontman of Isis) in 1993. It had another imprint, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialized in experiment ...

releases. Hydra Head Records was an independent record company based in

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, founded in 1993 by

Aaron Turner Aaron Turner (born November 5, 1977) is an American musician, singer, graphic artist, and founder of label Hydra Head Records. He is most widely known for his role as guitarist and vocalist for the post-metal bands SUMAC and Isis, while also ...

. It had two imprints, Hydra Head Noise Industries, which specialises in

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and

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, and another entitled Tortuga Recordings. Hydra Head was founded in 1993 as a distribution company while Turner was still in high school. In 1995, he moved to

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to attend art school, when he was handed a Vent demo, whose seven-inch would be the first record released on Hydra Head. The label grew to accommodate local bands such as Roswell, Corrin,

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and

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, and after Turner graduated from college in 1999, it became a full-time endeavour. In late 2012, Turner announced that Hydra Head's operation would begin winding down; the label intended to continue distributing old material, but not taking on any new releases. The label folded in 2020, with the label's album rights being returned to their artists, but has been selling its remaining stock from its warehouses. Bands such as

Cave In Cave In is an American rock band that formed in 1995 in Methuen, Massachusetts. The band's lineup solidified with the 1998 release of ''Until Your Heart Stops'' through Hydra Head Records, and their early albums were prominent in the metalco ...

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Isis Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingd ...

, Botch and

have released records on Hydra Head. Hydra Head often collaborates with other labels, such as Relapse Records and

Southern Records Founded 1992 by John Loder, Southern Records is an independent record label (Loder also ran the recording facility Southern Studios). It is based in London and until 2008 had offices in the United States, France and Berlin. The label is closel ...

, in releasing vinyl editions.

List of Hydra Head Records releases

Releases are numbered in a roughly chronological order; semi-official releases are often appended with a ".5" designation.

List of Hydra Head Noise Industries releases

List of Tortuga Recordings releases

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