Willowtip Records
| Willowtip Records | |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Jason Tipton |
| Genre | Heavy metal |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Zelienople, Pennsylvania |
| Official website | Willowtip.com |
Willowtip Records is an independently owned and distributed heavy metal record label headquartered in Zelienople, Pennsylvania.
Background
Willowtip Records was founded in 2000 by Jason Tipton with a partner named Willosin, who is no longer involved with the label. The combination of the two names is the source of the label's name. They specialize in death metal and grindcore music, mostly from highly technical bands. The first release was a split EP between Fate of Icarus and Creation Is Crucifixion. Tipton has stated that his proudest moment with the label was re-releasing Onset of Putrefaction by the band Necrophagist. It had not been available in the U.S. or elsewhere until Willowtip started redistributing it.
Willowtip have also collaborated with Colorado "hydrogrind" band Cephalic Carnage to release an exclusive one song EP entitled Halls of Amenti. Some of the label's more popular former acts include Arsis, Ion Dissonance, Misery Index and Neuraxis. The roster features bands from several different countries, including Belgium, Canada, Germany, Finland, Italy, Sweden and Australia.[1][2]
In mid-2007, Willowtip entered into a partnership with Dutch death metal record label Neurotic Records to distribute their previously unavailable releases in North America. Willowtip has also entered into a licensing agreement with Candlelight Records who will issue Willowtip releases for the European (and 'rest of world') market.
Artists
- Afgrund
- Alarum
- As Eden Burns
- Beyond Terror Beyond Grace
- Blood Freak
- Capharnaum
- Circle of Dead Children
- Contrarian
- Corpus Mortale (North America only)
- Crotchduster
- Defeated Sanity
- Defeatist
- Desecravity
- Dim Mak
- Disavowed (North America only)
- Electro Quarterstaff
- Gigan
- Goatsblood
- Gorod
- Harakiri
- Illogicist
- Impaled
- Infanticide
- Kalibas
- Lecherous Nocturne
- Macabre
- Magrudergrind
- Malignancy
- Odious Mortem
- Phobia
- Prostitute Disfigurement (North America only)
- Rune
- Saprogenic
- Severed Savior
- Sophicide
- Spawn of Possession (North America only)
- Squash Bowels
- Sulaco
- Terminal Function
- Ulcerate
- Vile
- Visceral Bleeding (North America only)
- Vulgar Pigeons
- Wormed
Former Artists
Includes bands signed to the label before splitting
- Arsis
- Cephalic Carnage
- Commit Suicide
- Creation Is Crucifixion
- Crowpath
- Fate of Icarus
- Fleshgod Apocalypse
- Ion Dissonance
- Kill the Client
- Leng Tch'e
- Misery Index
- Necrophagist
- Neuraxis
- Psycroptic
- Rotten Sound
- Sadis Euphoria
- Sickening Horror
- The Dying Light
- The Year of Our Lord
- Upheaval
- Watchmaker