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Having over 200 releases behind them, Chicago label Victory Records has been one of the driving forces in independent punk and hardcore music over the past decade. One look at their roster tells you the story of their past, present, and future.
Past bands on the label include Bad Brains, Boy Sets Fire, Earth Crisis, Grade, Hatebreed, Refused, Shelter, Skarhead, and Warzone - a who's who of modern hardcore, if you will. While many have criticized Victory's current roster for not having any bite, the label still possesses one of the most defining voices in the genre, Snapcase. They also have a surprisingly strong group of ska-related bands, including Catch 22, Streetlight Manifesto, and Voodoo Glow Skulls 2001 was a defining year for Victory, with the release of Thursday's Full Collapse. A record that has since come to define modern emotional hardcore, the disc was first released to little fanfare. Over the course of 2001 and 2002, however, the record picked up steam, and as the band made the leap to major label Island Records, controversy surrounded the issue with the band questioning Victory about their business practices, something that has always been a point of contention about the label. Victory has taken a decidedly poppier stance in recent years. Student Rick, Count The Stars, Spitalfield, The Reunion Show, Bayside, and the enormous success of Taking Back Sunday have opened up the label to thousands of kids previously blind to the label's history. This trend shows no signs of stopping with the label's most recent signings. Artists with releases on this label:
Reach The Sky, Grade, Earth Crisis, Snapcase, Boy Sets Fire, Grey Area, Thursday, Waterdown, Minus, Thumb, Catch 22, Guilt, Refused, River City Rebels, In Cold Blood, Snowdogs, Taking Back Sunday, Atreyu, Strife, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Darkest Hour, Ten Foot Pole, The Reunion Show, Blood For Blood, Somehow Hollow, Count The Stars, Dead To Fall, Silverstein, Freya, Spitalfield, Hoods, Streetlight Manifesto, Glasseater, All Out War, Between The Buried And Me, Burning Heads, Bayside, Scars Of Tomorrow, Madcap, The Hurt Process, Martyr AD, Hawthorne Heights, Straylight Run, Bury Your Dead, Action Action, The Black Maria, Comeback Kid, Sinai Beach, Giles, The Forecast, The Junior Varsity, A Perfect Murder, The Audition, The Tossers, Aiden, With Honor, June, Smoking Popes, The Autumn Offering, Nights Like These, The Sleeping, Path of Resistance, Moros Eros, Beneath the Sky, Emmure, Endwell, A Day to Remember, 1997, The Warriors, Four Letter Lie, Driver Side Impact, Ringworm, Secret Lives of the Freemasons Recent ReviewsRecent NewsDead to Fall: "Major Rager" Dead To Fall have posthumously posted the new video from their 2008 album, Are You…Bayside, Year Long Disaster and others added to Zumiez Couch Tour Bayside, Year Long Disaster, Kandi Coded, Jet Lag Gemini, Our Last Night, The Frantic and Dr. Manhattan have been added to individual dates of the Zumiez 2008 Couch Tour. They join already-confirmed headliners Alkaline Trio and Scary Kids Scaring Kids on the…Streetlight Manifesto sax player hospitalized Streetlight Manifesto has announced that the band's sax player and main secondary vocalist Jim has been hospitalized. When we got to Detroit, Jim, our tenor saxist and main secondary vocalist, realized the facial infection he was nursing was too serious to ignore any longer. In Pensacola, FL a week back, a kid jumped up on stage and hit his mic, which in turn slammed Jim's sax into his mouth. Somehow, the wound got infected on his gum, which ballooned half his face up with swelling the size of a grapefruit. Despite a round of…Thursday's Geoff Rickly talks about Envy split, side projects Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly recently spoke to Buzznet about some of the band and his future plans. Rickly had high praise for the Japanese hardcore act saying: Envy's been [one of] our favorite bands for a long time. A lot of…Bayside responds to MTV video criticism Bayside's Anthony Raneri has responded to the wealth of criticism his band has received since their video began airing on MTV. Anthony had this to say: I feel pretty confident in the fact that we don't sound like Boys Like Girls or All Time Low. Our music and lyrics are abrasive and they have a tendency to weed out the shit heads. Bayside is not and will never be casual listening. If you don't get it, you don't get it and that's all. If a 30 year old hardcore guys from Boston or a 20 year old Modest Mouse fan in Seattle or 15 year old teeny bopper…Dead To Fall (1999-2008) Dead To Fall has called it a day. The band explained: Dead to Fall is no more. After 9 years, it's time to say good-bye. There really isn't an easy way to say this, but the Dead To Fall machine broke beyond repair this last weekend. I guess the financial, personal, and emotional strains wore some of us down and caused a violent collapse. After a show in Wisconsin, Logan and Chad quit this past weekend. I won't go into the whole 'behind the music band break up scenario' but it was a night filled with retarded actions and words. The…Victory and Hawthorne Heights reconcile Though the situation seemed unreconcilable, according to Hits Daily Double, Victory and Hawthorne Heights have apparently settled their differences and, "the label [...] will release the band’s new studio album later this summer. " Over the past 12 months, the band and label have launched suit and counter-suit against each other and the band itself has not been able to tour due to both internal tragedies and the inability to record new material…Darkest Hour: "Let's Go Caps" Darkest Hour have put together a fight song for their home team, Washington Capitals. The band explained: Washington DC based thrash metal outfit Darkest Hour is proud to announce the release of their "Washington Caps Fight Song" in honor of the Capitols win and entrance into the Stanly Cup Playoffs: Guitarist Mike Schleibaum states: "We have been long time fans of the caps and recoded this little jam . What better time to release it then now?! Lets Go Caps! Ex Guitarist Mike "GoodTimes"…Emmure: "False Love in Real Life" Emmure have posted the first song from their upcoming Victory Records full length. The record is titled The Respect Issue and is due out May 13, 2008. You can check out "False Love in Real Life" on their myspace page.…Comeback Kid / Shai Hulud / Crime in Stereo (Europe, UK) In addition to the band's recently announced dates in Hawaii, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico and South America, Comeback Kid has unveiled plans for a visit to Europe and the UK this July. The bill will also include Shai Hulud and Crime In… |
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