Relapse Records

This is an excellent label especially for heavy metal. They have released many incredible albums.

It wasn’t until fairly recently that I discovered that this incredible label was in my state and in the hometown of Tina Fey.
Here’s some of the gnarly, heavy, egregiously groovy bands you’ll find on their roster: Alabama Thunderpussy, Coalesce, Dillinger Escape Plan, Hero Destroyed (a Pittsburgh act!), High on Fire, Howl, Kingdom of Sorrow, Mastodon (\m/​), and last but not least the mightily strange but brilliant and influential Voivod (hails!).
Relapse has it covered; from the «cores» to death, doom, and thrash. Yes, heavy metal still exists in all its myriad, ever-​changing genres, and labels like Relapse have done an exemplary job of keeping it alive by not only giving legends a home but also by harvesting new generations of the young, hungry, fast, scientific, steel-​plated, and iron-​clad.
And like so many great indie music companies, it all started in someone’s basement. :D
The underground is alive. \m/