Once again, the music, philosophy and work ethic are most important. Honesty, sincerity, integrity are also very important. We offer our artists a solid release, promotion and the ability to gain recognition and opportunities within our underground network. Is there anything you planned with your label and has not yet been completed? World Domination and the eradication of religion! How does the future look for your label? Any major projects you would like to share with us? DHR will continue to release cult records/cd's. Some spotlight releases for 2014 are new albums from Holocaustum, Typhus, Mytherium, Grey Wabderer. We also have some reissues planned as well as some cult split releases in the works. Keep watching the Dark Horizon Records website for current news. Please present your label, when and where was it started, who is involved in its activities and what genres are promoted by it. DHR was started in 1997 by myself here in Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA). DHR was started in a spare room/closet and has grown into a full warehouse distribution. It is a means to spread the propaganda of my own activities/bands as well as other like minded individuals/bands I choose to support. Typhus, Holocaustum, Mytherium, Grey Wabderer, Fog, Morpheus Descends, Formaldehyde Sleep, Satanik, Subconscious are present and past projects that I am or have been a member of. Starting Dark Horizon Records was the best way to promote and distribute my hard work creating music for these bands. I still run the label by myself and will until the apocalypse or my death, which ever comes first. Dark Horizon Records releases numerous genres of music, Black Metal, Death Metal, Neo-folk etc... We release what I choose to support regardless of genre/style.
How can anyone get in touch with you? Please list your website, web store and/or social media links. www.darkhorizonrecords.com / darkhorizon666@hotmail.com Dark Horizon Records, 6435 W. Jefferson Blvd. #666, Fort Wayne, IN 46804 Your support of Dark Horizon Records and our artists is truly appreciated! Thanks for the interview! Check out our website and support the true underground! (November 2013)
Please present your label: when and where was it started, who is involved in its activities and what genres are promoted by it. Hi Adrian and, first of, thank you very much for the support and the interest in our activities. Always a great pleasure to have a chat with supportive people that are as involved as you are in this scene! Well, even if I‟ve been playing in various (shitty local) bands, running distros, zines, webzines, a label, etc. since the late 80‟s, Kaotoxin is quite young in itself as it somehow started back in August 2010, even if the first real release of our own was only on January 2012 (Gronibard‟s «Satanic Tuninb Club Turbo!» comp. 12‟‟ LP). I was the webmaster for Bones Brigade Records and various other companies back then under the Kaotoxin name and when we heard Last Days Of Humanity were reforming, on August 2010, I decided to put a little fest together on December 2010 with them as headliners. LDOH cancelled their appearance upon line-up changes then, but we extended our partnership with Bones Brigade as a partner label, releasing the latest Total Fucking Destruction full-length, «Hater», Magruderngrind‟s «Crusher», Lycanthrophy‟s debut full-length and Brutal Truth‟s «Evolution in one Take» LP with Nico (of Bones Brigade) during 2011. We then started to release our very own stuff in 2012 (Unsu, Insain, VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC, Dehuman, Eye Of Solitude, Savage Annihilation, Ad Patres & Antropofago) and 2013 (Nolentia, Years Of Tyrants, Sidious, Darkall Slaves, Miserable Failure, F Stands For Fuck You, The Lumberjack Feedback, Nephren-Ka) and… here we are! At the contrary of what people were thinking at first, because of our collaboration with Bones Brigade, or because of the firsts artists we signed, we‟re not focused on Grindcore or Death Metal only, but rather have a taste for all that‟s dark in some way. Our roster is pretty varied, with Grindcore (Unsu, Infected Society, Nolentia…), Goregrind (VxPxOxAxAxWxAxMxC), Death Metal (Dehuman, Savage Annihilation, Ad Patres, Nephren-Ka), Technical Death Metal (Antropofago, Years Of Tyrants), Blackened Death Metal (Sidious), Doom (The Lumberjack Feedback), Funeral Doom (Eye Of Solitude) and we‟re still developping the range of styles we cover with the addition of two more bands, not officially announced yet: a Progressive Extreme Metal band (think Frank Sinatra meets Sweden‟s Shining!) and a Stoner / Doom one. We do have a special line of digital-exclusive releases, a kind of «free crowdfunding» series, that‟s called the Kaotoxin SideBlasts Series besides our regular releases, to which are signed a Dark Ambiant Black Metal band (Colosus) and a Grindcore one (C.O.A.G.). This is a project we‟re trying to push as, in my humble opinion, this really could be the future of how labels could survive, evolve and develop. Hopefully, it‟s gonna get some exposure and grow in the coming months. And, besides all of that, we‟re working on a forthcoming free printed magazine that‟s called Toxic Kaos magazine. It‟s French written and it‟s gonna be free for everyone, distributed at gigs in all French speaking countries that want their copies. The team is varying in shape with people helping from time to time, but basically, besides your humble guest, I can name Kila, who‟s in charge of Toxic Kaos, Marie, Bertrand and Elsa, who help with stock, orders, etc. and Juliette and Guillaume, who are our «road team», helping us with selling stands at gigs, etc. and, of course, my significant other, Karine, who‟s always around one way or the other.
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Tell us a few words on each or the most important releases of your label, and which of them are still available for purchase. DHR released the first official recordings for the cult bands: Fog, Typhus, Holocaustum, Black Witchery, Conqueror, Revenge, Lucifugum, Engorge to name only a few, when other labels turned their backs and did not see their true spirit/potential, DHR supported these great artists with no intention of profit! Others on our alumni roster are, Abigor, Astriaal, Wallachia, Horna, Crowned In Semen, Sauron, Allfather, The Lurking Corpses, Nechochwen, October Falls... Since then quite a few of our artists have stepped up to bigger labels and have gained even stronger recognition due to the hard work of their band and the undying support of DHR. We are honored and proud to be the first label for some these great bands! To see our full release roster and what is still available go to: www.darkhorizonrecords.com What are the most important features you look for in a band that is or has the chance to be signed on your label? The bands music, philosophy and work ethic must appeal to my liking. That is it. How can a band get in touch with you? What should bands know before submitting their promos for your consideration? All the pertinent information can be found at the official DHR website... www.darkhorizonrecords.com Physical address: Dark Horizon Records, 6435 W. Jefferson Blvd. #666, Fort Wayne, IN 46804. Email: darkhorizon666@hotmail.com
Tell us a few words on each or the most important releases of your label, and which of them are still available for purchase. Well, it‟s a hard one as for me, of course, each and every release is the most important What's the most important thing in the relationship between you and your bands? one. If it wasn‟t the case, why would Kaotoxin release it? But, as far as sales go, our champions are France‟s Ad Patres, which is a Death Metal band formed by Seth‟s What is your label offering to its bands? drummer, Alsvid, and who‟s debut, «Scorn Aesthetics», has been and still is, our main
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