Solid State Records
- This article is about the metal subdivison of Tooth & Nail Records; for the 1960s jazz label see Solid State Records (jazz label)
| Solid State Records | |
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| Parent company | Tooth & Nail Records |
| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Brandon Ebel |
| Distributor(s) | EMI Christian Music Group |
| Genre | Metalcore, post-hardcore, Christian metal, Christian hardcore |
| Country of origin | US |
| Official website | solidstaterecords.com |
Solid State Records is a Christian record label, a division of Tooth & Nail Records. Unlike Tooth & Nail, Solid State signs hardcore and metal bands.[1] Like Tooth & Nail, Solid State is primarily a Christian label. However, they have signed several bands that don't label themselves as Christian, including Stretch Arm Strong,[2] Gwen Stacy,[3] He Is Legend,[4] The Famine,[5] and Training For Utopia.[6] While these bands have had Christian members, they do not cite themselves as Christian bands.
Current Solid State artists
- As They Sleep
- August Burns Red
- Becoming the Archetype
- Demon Hunter
- Emery
- Living Sacrifice
- MyChildren MyBride
- Oh, Sleeper
- The Showdown
- To Speak of Wolves
- Underoath
- Wolves at the Gate
Former Solid State bands
Active
- The Ascendicate (Unsigned)
- Blindside (INO Records)
- The Chariot (Good Fight Music)
- Inhale Exhale (Unsigned)
- Life in Your Way (Come&Live!)
- No Innocent Victim (Facedown Records)
- Norma Jean (Razor & Tie)
- Overcome (Facedown Records)
- Showbread (Come&Live!)
- Spitfire (Goodfellow Records)
- Soul Embraced (Rottweiler Records)
- Zao (Unsigned)
Disbanded
- Advent
- The Agony Scene
- As Cities Burn
- Beloved (Members have moved on to Dead Poetic, Classic Case, The Almost and Advent)
- Born Blind
- Cry of the Afflicted
- The Death Campaign
- Embodyment (Members now in The Famine)
- Eso-Charis (Vocalist Cory Brandan Putman now fronts Norma Jean)
- The Famine
- Focal Point (One member went on to form Training for Utopia and is now in Demon Hunter)
- Gwen Stacy
- Haste the Day
- Luti-Kriss (Went on to form Norma Jean)
- Once Nothing (Guitarist Geoff Jenkins now fronts Gwen Stacy and drummer Giuseppe Capolupo now drums for Haste the Day)
- Selfmindead (Members now in Benea Reach)
- Sever Your Ties
- Stretch Arm Strong
- Strongarm (Members went on to form Further Seems Forever)
- Training for Utopia (Members went on to form Demon Hunter)
- Trenches
- Warlord
On Hiatus
- Dead Poetic
- Destroy the Runner
- Extol (Members now in Mantric)
- Figure Four (Two members are currently with Comeback Kid)
- He Is Legend (Tragic Hero Records)
- Lengsel (Members now in Mantric)
- Twelve Gauge Valentine (One member now in Alesana, other members now performing as Swamp Bastard)
See also
References
- ^ http://www.solidstaterecords.com/about/
- ^ http://www.punknews.org/article/7594
- ^ http://goawayjakedenning.tumblr.com/post/862212738/gwenstacy
- ^ http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=172787
- ^ http://www.buzzgrinder.com/2011/the-famine-interview-part-2/
- ^ http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/03/19/demon-hunter-embrace-their-christian-band-status/