Southern Lord Records

Southern Lord is an American heavy metal record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson. It initially specialized in experimental metal: particularly doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal. The label later expanded its line-up to include artists from black metal, hardcore punk and crust punk bands.

Southern Lord
Founded	April 1998
Founder	Greg Anderson
Distributor(s)	Universal Music/Virgin (United States), Southern (Europe)
Genre	Extreme metal, experimental, heavy metal, hardcore punk
Country of origin	United States
Location	Los Angeles, California
Official website	www.southernlord.com

History

Before co-founding their own record label Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley were friends and bandmates in Thorr's Hammer and Burning Witch. The pair formed a new band named Sunn O))) in 1998 and moved to Los Angeles. They started Southern Lord as a way to have control over the releases of their own recordings.^[1]

Southern Lord's first release was the CD version (previously released as a cassette) of Thorr’s Hammer‘s Dommedagsnatt-- a doom/death metal album with Norwegian lyrics. The second release was: Burning Witch‘s Crippled Lucifer-- a compilation CD of the band's first two EPs.^[2]

Southern Lord released material by Anderson and O'Malley's latest band, Sunn O))) in 2002. Sunn O))) was later reviewed several times by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times.^[3][4][5]

The label's roster continued to grow with notable doom releases such as Warhorse's As Heaven Turns to Ash, Place of Skulls Nailed and With Vision, as well as albums from Anderson's band Goatsnake. It also expanded its musical palate releasing music by: Darkest Hour, Orcustus, and Dave Grohl‘s side project Probot.^[6]

The band Earth joined the Southern Lord family in 2005—continuing Southern Lord's involvement in drone and doom music.^[6]

Releases from Earth, Sunn O))) (including the heavily lauded Monoliths & Dimensions), and a series of Boris 7″s to go along with the album Smile took place at the end of the decade.^[7]

Notable artists

Current

• A Storm of Light
• Agrimonia
• All Pigs Must Die
• Baptists
• BL'AST
• Black Breath
• Black Cobra
• Burning Love
• Burning Witch
• Darkest Hour
• Eagle Twin
• Earth
• Excel
• Goatsnake
• High Command
• High on Fire
• Jesus Piece
• Loincloth
• Pelican
• Poison Idea
• Power Trip
• Ruin
• Sunn O)))
• Today Is the Day
• Unsane
• Wolfbrigade
• Xibalba

Former

• The Accüsed
• Attila Csihar
• Boris
• Capricorns
• Church of Misery
• Clown Alley
• Corrosion of Conformity
• Craft
• Early Graves
• Earthride
• Electric Wizard
• Final Warning
• From Ashes Rise
• Gore
• Grief
• Graves at Sea
• The Hidden Hand
• Internal Void
• Khanate
• Lair of the Minotaur
• Nachtmystium
• Nails
• Mondo Generator
• Nortt
• Nuclear Death
• The Obsessed
• Off!
• Om
• Orcustus
• Oren Ambarchi
• Outlaw Order
• Pentagram
• Place of Skulls
• Probot
• Saint Vitus
• Sleep
• Striborg
• Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
• Thorr's Hammer
• Thou
• Thrones
• Trap Them
• Twilight
• The Want
• Warhorse
• Weedeater
• Wino
• Winter
• Wolves in the Throne Room
• Xasthur

See also

• Southern Lord Records discography
• Lists of record labels

References

1. "About". Southern Lord Recordings. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
2. "Burning Witch". Southern Lord Recordings. Southern Lord. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
3. Ratliff, Ben (23 September 2009). "Two Bands, a Million Decibels (Published 2009)". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
4. Ratliff, Ben (2 December 2015). "Review: In 'Kannon,' From Sunn O))), Brevity and Austerity (Published 2015)". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
5. Ratliff, Ben (3 September 2012). "Think You Know Loud? Try Throbbing Sound as the Body Vibrates (Published 2012)". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
6. Moores, JR. "20 Years of Southern Lord's Dark and Heavy Art". Bandcamp Daily. Bandcampdate=9 March 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
7. "安全加密检测".

External links

• Official site
• Interview with Greg Anderson about the label