Init Records (often stylized as INIT) is an American

independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels and artists are often represented ...

founded in January 2001 in

Mankato, Minnesota Mankato ( ) is a city in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, Blue Earth, Nicollet County, Minnesota, Nicollet, and Le Sueur County, Minnesota, Le Sueur counties in the state of Minnesota. The population was 44,488 according to the 2020 United States ...

by Steven Williams. In May 2003 the label relocated to

Sioux Falls, South Dakota Sioux Falls () is the most populous city in the U.S. state of South Dakota and the 130th-most populous city in the United States. It is the county seat of Minnehaha County and also extends into Lincoln County to the south, which continues up ...

. Since its foundation the label has been solely owned and run by Williams, as a one-man operation, strongly influenced by

DIY ethic "Do it yourself" ("DIY") is the method of building, modifying, or repairing things by oneself without the direct aid of professionals or certified experts. Academic research has described DIY as behaviors where "individuals use raw and semi ...

s of

punk subculture The punk subculture includes a diverse and widely known array of ideologies, fashion, and other forms of expression, visual art, dance, literature, and film. Largely characterised by anti-establishment views, the promotion of individual freedom ...

and with an "emphasis to release aesthetically pleasing records from hardworking bands." An example of DIY ethics that the label applies in its releases is the use of recycled material, such as

paper Paper is a thin sheet material produced by mechanically or chemically processing cellulose fibres derived from wood, rags, grasses or other vegetable sources in water, draining the water through fine mesh leaving the fibre evenly distributed ...

and

plastic Plastics are a wide range of synthetic or semi-synthetic materials that use polymers as a main ingredient. Their plasticity makes it possible for plastics to be moulded, extruded or pressed into solid objects of various shapes. This adaptab ...

whenever and wherever possible.

Artists

* The Abandoned Hearts Club *

Amenra Amenra is a Belgian band from Kortrijk. It was formed in 1999 by vocalist Colin H. van Eeckhout and guitarist Mathieu Vandekerckhove, who now perform alongside drummer Bjorn Lebon, guitarist Lennart Bossu and bassist Tim De Gieter. Among a numbe ...

Anodyne An anodyne is a drug used to lessen pain through reducing the sensitivity of the brain or nervous system. The term was common in medicine before the 20th century, but such drugs are now more often known as analgesics or painkillers. The term ''a ...

* The Assailant * Back When *

Battlefields A battlefield, battleground, or field of battle is the location of a present or historic battle involving ground warfare. It is commonly understood to be limited to the point of contact between opposing forces, though battles may involve troops ...

* The Black Soul Choir aka The Falling; McDaniel, Malina, and Pace * The Blinding Light * Building Better Bombs *

Buried Inside Buried Inside was a Canadian band from Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. History Buried Inside was formed in 1997, influenced by early metalcore and hardcore punk bands Acme, One Eyed God Prophecy, Drift, and Union of Uranus. Their sound included disto ...

* Caligari * Calling Gina Clark *Castle *

Chibalo Chibalo was the system of debt bondage or forced labour in the ''Ultramar Português'' (the Portuguese overseas provinces in Africa and Asia), most notably in Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique (unlike most other European overseas posses ...

* The City Is The Tower * Cougar Den * Dispensing Of False Halos *

Enkephalin An enkephalin is a pentapeptide involved in regulating nociception in the body. The enkephalins are termed endogenous ligands, as they are internally derived and bind to the body's opioid receptors. Discovered in 1975, two forms of enkephalin ...

* Examination Of The... *

Eyes Of Verotika Eyes are organs of the visual system. They provide living organisms with vision, the ability to receive and process visual detail, as well as enabling several photo response functions that are independent of vision. Eyes detect light and conv ...

* Forstella Ford *

The Fortune Healers ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

* Hammerlord *

Hewhocorrupts Hewhocorrupts is a Chicago-based grindcore band most known for their songs mocking Metallica, making reference to the notorious allegations of the group having sold out by parodying the band's song titles with their own business-related counterpa ...

The Howling Wind ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ...

* Hennes Siste Høst * Hive Destruction *In the face of war *

KEN mode KEN mode (an acronym for Kill Everyone Now) is a Canadian noise rock band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, that was formed in September 1999. History Formed by brothers Jesse (guitar/vocals) and Shane Matthewson (drums) and long-time friend Darryl Laxdal ...

* Kidcrash * Kite Flying Society * Mahkato *

Melt-Banana Melt-Banana is a Japanese noise rock band that is known for playing extremely fast noise rock mixed with experimental, electronica and pop-based song structures. Since forming in 1992 the band has released ten albums and toured worldwide extens ...

* Meth And Goats * P.O.S * Phoenix Bodies *

Raein Raein is an Italian hardcore punk band that features members of La Quiete and the post-rock band Neil on Impression. The band broke up in late 2005, but after a hiatus of almost 2 years (in which they played 2 shows) they got back to play togeth ...

* Red Knife Lottery *

Ricky Fitts ''American Beauty'' is a 1999 American satirical black comedy-drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he ...

*The Setup * Since By Man * Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes * Sleeping In Gethsemane * Souvenir's Young America * The Spirit Of Versailles * Sugartown Cabaret * Swing By Seven *

Ten Grand Dice 10,000 (or 10000, 10,000 Dice, Ten Grand) also Greed, Dix Mille, 5-Dice is the name of a family dice game played with 6 dice, it is similar or identical to the commercialized Farkle. It also goes by other names, including Zilch, Zilchers, Fo ...

Thou The word ''thou'' is a second-person singular pronoun in English. It is now largely archaic, having been replaced in most contexts by the word ''you'', although it remains in use in parts of Northern England and in Scots (). ''Thou'' is the ...

* Tora! Tora! Torrance! * Tornavalanche * Towers * Tyranny Of Shaw * The Vidablue (Renamed as "Ten Grand" - see above) *

William Elliott Whitmore William Elliott Whitmore (born May 11, 1978) is an American blues, country, folk singer and musician. He plays roots-folk music that is often inspired by his life on his family farm in the hills of southeastern Iowa. Early life and education W ...

* Woman Is the Earth * Wolvhammer

Discography

*INIT-78 For Want Of - Smoke CD (2013) *INIT-79 Year of No Light - Vampyr CD (2013) *INIT-78 Roman Ships - Death & The Lover CD (2013) *INIT-77 The Atlas Moth/Wolvhammer - split 7-inch (2013) *INIT-76

- Live CD (2012) *INIT-75

The Blue Letter The Blue Letter is an American hardcore/metal band, where they primarily play a emo, hardcore punk, metalcore, post-hardcore styles of music, while they claim to be a "down tempo screamo" group. They come from Richmond, Virginia. The band starte ...

- Love Is Not Control CD (2012) *INIT-74 Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes - Two Songs 7-inch (2011) *INIT-73

- Agassiz CD (2011) *INIT-72 Kidcrash - Naps 12-inch (2011) *INIT-71

- Hey, Providence CD (2011) *INIT-70

/ Hive Destruction - split 10-inch (2011) *INIT-69

/ P.O.S - split 7-inch (2011) *INIT-68

Venerable The Venerable (''venerabilis'' in Latin) is a style, a title, or an epithet which is used in some Western Christian churches, or it is a translation of similar terms for clerics in Eastern Orthodoxy and monastics in Buddhism. Christianity Cathol ...

LP (2011) *INIT-67 Hive Destruction - Secretvm/Veritas CD (2011) *INIT-66 Sugartown Cabaret - Beyond Foams CD (2010) *INIT-65

/ The City Is The Tower - Dwell In The Darkness Of Thought And Drink The Poison Of Life (split) LP (2010) *INIT-63 Wolvhammer - Black Marketeers Of World War III CD (2010) *INIT-62 Hammerlord - Wolves At War's End CD (2010) *INIT-60 Souvenir's Young America - The Name Of The Snake CD/LP (2010) *INIT-59

- Chronoclast LP (2010) *INIT-58 Kidcrash - Snacks CD/LP (2009) *INIT-57

- initial t. 3"CD/7" (2009) *INIT-56 In the face of war - Everything You've Heard Is True CD (2009) *INIT-55 Sleeping In Gethsemane - Burrows CD (2009) *INIT-54 The Blinding Light - Junebug CD (2009) *INIT-53

Towers A tower is a tall structure, taller than it is wide, often by a significant factor. Towers are distinguished from masts by their lack of guy-wires and are therefore, along with tall buildings, self-supporting structures. Towers are specifica ...

- Full Circle CD/LP (2009) *INIT-52

- Chibalo LP (2010) *INIT-51

- Mass III-II + Mass IIII 2×CD (2009) *INIT-50 Hammerlord - Hammerlord CD (2008) *INIT-49 Cougar Den - Keepondrifter CD/LP (2008) *INIT-48

- A Tyrannical Deposit In The Doctrine Of The Soul 7-inch picture disc (2009) *INIT-47 Red Knife Lottery - Hip Bruisers 7-inch (2008) *INIT-46

- Entourage Of The Archaic CD/LP (2007) *INIT-45 Kidcrash - Jokes CD (2007) *INIT-44 Phoenix Bodies - Too Much Information CD+DVD (2007) *INIT-43 Hennes Siste Høst - Høst CD (2007) *INIT-42 Building Better Bombs - Freak Out Squares CD/LP (2007) *INIT-41

- The Discographer 2×LP (2007) *INIT-40

- Stained With The Blood of An Empire CD (2006) *INIT-39

Back When "Back When" is a song written by Stan Lynch, Stephony Smith, and Jeff Stevens and recorded by American country music singer Tim McGraw. It was released in August 2004 as the second single from McGraw's 2004 album ''Live Like You Were Dying ''Li ...

- In The Presence CD (2006) *INIT-38 Tornavalanche - No Money, No Problems LP (2006) *INIT-36 Castle - Electric Wolves CD (2006) *INIT-35 The Assailant - Nurse EP 7-inch picture disc (2006) *INIT-34 Since By Man - Pictures From The Hotel Apocalypse LP (2005) *INIT-33

- Wizard Lisp CD (2005) *INIT-32 The Spirit Of Versailles - Live On WNYU 7-inch (2005) *INIT-31 In the face of war - Summer Demo 2004 7-inch (2005) *INIT-30 Phoenix Bodies/

- Split 7-inch (2005) *INIT-29 Kite Flying Society - A Discography CD (2006) *INIT-28 Examination Of The... - The Lady In The Radiator LP (2005) *INIT-26

/The Setup - Split 7-inch (2005) *INIT-24

- Swords Against The Father 7-inch (2004) *INIT-23 In the face of war - Live Forever Or Die Trying CD (2004) *INIT-22

- Split 7-inch (2005) *INIT-21 Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes - The 2002 EP 7-inch (2004) *INIT-20 Dispensing Of False Halos - Growing Up, Giving In CD (2004) *INIT-19 Phoenix Bodies/ Tyranny Of Shaw - Split 7-inch (2004) *INIT-18 Sinking Steps...Rising Eyes - Majestic Blue CD (2004) *INIT-17 The Abandoned Hearts Club - The Initial Confessions Of... CD/7" (2004) *INIT-16 Dispensing Of False Halos/ Calling Gina Clark - Split 7-inch (2003) *INIT-15

- Salo CD (2003) *INIT-14 The Spirit Of Versailles - Discography 2×CD (2003) *INIT-13

/ Phoenix Bodies - Split CD/LP (2003) *INIT-12 Tora! Tora! Torrance!/ Swing By Seven - Split 7-inch (2003) *INIT-11 Dispensing Of False Halos - Dispensing Of False Halos 7-inch (2003) *INIT-10 The Black Soul Choir - Cardinal CD (2003) *INIT-09 Dispensing Of False Halos - With Prayers And A Scalpel CD (2003) *INIT-08

/ Meth And Goats - Split 7-inch (2004) *INIT-07 The Blinding Light - Glass Bullet 7-inch (2002) *INIT-06 Caligari - Caligari CD (2002) *INIT-05 Forstella Ford - Insincerity Down To An Artform LP (2002) *INIT-04 Mahkato - Fighting The Urge To Start Fires CD/7" (2002) *INIT-03 The Spirit Of Versailles/ Caligari - Split 7-inch (2001) *INIT-02 The Vidablue - What I Should Have Said Volume One CD (2001)

References

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* __NOTOC__ {{DEFAULTSORT:Init Records American independent record labels Record labels established in 2001 Companies based in South Dakota Hardcore record labels Punk record labels Heavy metal record labels

Artists

Discography

See also

References

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