I Scream Records is an

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founded by Laurens Kusters in 1994 in

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, Belgium. The label has an extensive catalogue and is one of the leading

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and

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labels in Western Europe.

History

The label's first releases was from the band Deviate, a band in which Laurens Kusters played the drums. By the late nineties, I Scream Records had over 25 active bands. In late 2005, I Scream Records opened its US headquarters to work its rosters of bands (90% of which are American) through their own network. Previously, the label's masters were issued under license in the USA by companies such as

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, Blood for Blood and Vision. Recently the label has released records by

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, Incite,

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, The Last Resort, Reno Divorce,

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, Stigma, Guajiro and Tying Tiffany to name of few. I Scream Records has also teamed up with

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to re-issue some of their old masters by bands such as Wrecking Crew, Token Entry &

Earth Crisis Earth Crisis is an American hardcore punk band from Syracuse, New York, active from 1989 until 2001, reuniting in 2007. Since 1993 the band's longest serving members are vocalist Karl Buechner, lead guitarist Scott Crouse, bassist Ian Edward ...

. In 2008 I Scream Records teamed up with

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for an exclusive North American distribution deal and extended that deal with ADA Global for the rest of the world in 2009. That same year the label also signed a worldwide co-publishing deal with

EMI EMI Group Limited (originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records Ltd. or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At the time of its break-up in 201 ...

Publishing for its copyrights. I Scream is currently being distributed by

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in Japan since April 2010, with the first offering being Incite's new album ''The slaughter''.

Complete roster

*3 Lost Maniacs *10 Seconds Down *

*Awkward Thought *Backfire! *Bad Luck Charms *Beans *Beowulf * Blood for Blood *The Blue Bloods *Breakdown *The Change *Convict *Crackjaw *Darkbuster *Death & Taxes *

*Death Threat *Deathkiller *Determined *Deviate *Devil in Me *

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*Discipline *Do or Die *Down But Not Out *The Ducky Boys *Earth Crisis *Eightball *Enemy Rose *Fabulous Disaster *Far from Finished *Green Lizard *Guajiro *Gwyllions *Hardsell *The Heartaches *Heideroosjes *Homethrust *Hoods *I Reject *Incite *Inhuman *Janez Detd. *Jaya the Cat *Joe Coffee *Judasville *Kickback *Krutch *The Last Resort *Length of Time *

*Lionheart *The Lulabelles *

*Mark Lind *Maximum Penalty *Mercy Killers *

*Mug-Shot *My City Burning *Nervous Chillin' *No Trigger *North Side Kings *On the Rise *Paranoiacs *Payback *Pilgrimz *Pitboss 2000 *Powerhouse *Ramallah *Reno Divorce *Right Direction *Run, Devil, Run *

*Slapshot *Slumlords *Spider Crew *Spoiler *Squaler *Stars and Stripes *Stemm *Stigma *Stigmata *Stuck Up *Tech-9 *Thumbs Down *Token Entry * Tying Tiffany *The Unseen *Uppercut *La Vieja Guardia *Vision *Void Section *The Welch Boys *

*Wrecking Crew

References

External links

Official website
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