Endtime Productions is an independent record label based in Scandinavia. The label focuses on extreme metal music and helped notable groups such as Norway's Extol

Extol

Extol is a Christian progressive extreme metal band from Bekkestua, Norway, that was formed in 1993. In 2007, they announced they were splitting up to work on separate projects. The band is known for playing a variety of different styles of metal which include progressive death metal, melodic death...

 to gain fame and get a record deal with Century Media Records

Century Media Records

Century Media Records is an Independent record label with offices in the United States, Germany, Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom.- Background :...

. Notable groups on the label's roster include Antestor

Antestor

Antestor is an extreme metal band formed in 1990 in Jessheim, Norway. Credited for starting the whole northern European Christian extreme metal scene, Antestor is the only Christian band to have an album released by Cacophonous Records, which has also released records by bands such as Dimmu Borgir,...

, Drottnar

Drottnar

Drottnar is a Christian extreme metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway. They formed in 1996. Drottnar has played at notable festivals such as Sweden's Endtime Fest, Norway's Nordic Fest, Switzerland's Elements of Rock, Finland's Immortal Metal Fest and United Kingdom's Destruction Fest and they...

 and Crimson Moonlight

Crimson Moonlight

Crimson Moonlight is a Swedish Christian black metal band which was formed in the summer of 1997 with the mere intention of recording a primitive old school black metal demo and playing one show before breaking up. However, the breakup never happened, and they have since recorded two EPs and two...

. The label is known for their detailed graphic designs, packagings and elaborate cover arts.

History

The label was founded in 1998. The first band on the label's roster was Norway's Extol, and Extol's Burial

Burial (Extol album)

Burial is the first album by the Norwegian Christian metal band Extol. It was released on Endtime Productions and then Solid State Records the following year. According to Allmusic, Burial was "a breath of fresh air among a genre that relies on satanic gimmicks", and marked a renewal in the...

 was the label's first release in 1998. Unusual for a metal label many noted guest industrial musicians such as Sanctum

Sanctum (band)

Sanctum is a band from Sweden formed in 1994. Their music is often classified as industrial or electronic, and combines elements of orchestral and contemporary music. Lately experimental music has become a dominant influence. Sanctum originally consisted of four members, Jan Carleklev, Marika...

's Jan Carleklev and Raison d'être's Peter Anderssen was invited to do industrial remixes for Extol's work on the following release Mesmerized. The signing to US based Solid State Records

Solid State Records

Solid State Records is a Christian record label, a division of Tooth & Nail Records. Unlike Tooth & Nail, Solid State signs hardcore and metal bands. Like Tooth & Nail, Solid State is primarily a Christian label. However, they have signed several bands that don't label themselves as Christian,...

 helped Extol to become more popular and was signed to Century Media in 2003.

Endtime Productions signed groups such as Antestor, Lengsel

Lengsel

Lengsel is a progressive black metal band that formed in 1995 in Norway. They released one album, called Solace, on Endtime Productions in 2000, which was subsequently licensed to Solid State Records for an American release. The second album The Kiss, The Hope was released on 2007...

 and Anaemia, and released Antestor's Martyrium

Martyrium (album)

Martyrium is the debut album of the unblack metal band Antestor. It is one of the earliest Christian extreme metal albums released in Norway...

 (recorded already 1994) for the first time to wider audience in 2000 as well as Anaemia's The Second Incarnation and Lengsel's acclaimed album Solace

Solace (Lengsel album)

Solace is the first full length album by the Norwegian metal band Lengsel. An renowned and acclaimed album, Solace initially released on Endtime Productions as a digipak edition in 2000...

. Notable albums released during following years included the release of Vardoger's Whitefrozen EP, Antestor's EP Det Tapte Liv

Det Tapte Liv

Det Tapte Liv is an EP by the Norwegian unblack metal band Antestor, released in 2004.-Recording:The EP contains songs recorded at Antestor's studio sessions in 2004 at Top Room Studios. The band felt that these songs did not fit into the 2005's The Forsaken full-length and were released on this EP...

 in 2004 and full-length The Forsaken

The Forsaken (album)

The Forsaken is the third studio album by the Christian black metal band Antestor released in 2005 on Endtime Productions. The album features guest appearances of the established metal musicians Jan Axel Blomberg and Ann-Mari Edvardsen....

 in 2005.

In 2006, Endtime signed Drottnar and Crimson Moonlight and released the Drottnar's album Welterwerk

Welterwerk

Welterwerk is the 2006 full-length first album by the Norwegian extreme metal band Drottnar, released on Endtime Productions.-Recording:Welterwerk was recorded at Subsonic Sudios, Norway, in 2005, and it was produced by Lars Klokkerhaug and Drottnar....

 and in 2007 released Crimson Moonlight's EP In Depths of Dreams Unconscious

In Depths of Dreams Unconscious

In Depths of Dreams Unconscious is an EP by the Swedish death/black metal group Crimson Moonlight, released in 2007 on Endtime Productions.-Recording:...

.

Current Artists

• Crimson Moonlight
  Crimson Moonlight
  Crimson Moonlight is a Swedish Christian black metal band which was formed in the summer of 1997 with the mere intention of recording a primitive old school black metal demo and playing one show before breaking up. However, the breakup never happened, and they have since recorded two EPs and two...
  
  
• Dalit
• Drottnar
  Drottnar
  Drottnar is a Christian extreme metal band from Fredrikstad, Norway. They formed in 1996. Drottnar has played at notable festivals such as Sweden's Endtime Fest, Norway's Nordic Fest, Switzerland's Elements of Rock, Finland's Immortal Metal Fest and United Kingdom's Destruction Fest and they...
  
  
• Vardøger

Former Artists

• Absurd² (On Hiatus)
• Anaemia (On Hiatus)
• Extol
  Extol
  Extol is a Christian progressive extreme metal band from Bekkestua, Norway, that was formed in 1993. In 2007, they announced they were splitting up to work on separate projects. The band is known for playing a variety of different styles of metal which include progressive death metal, melodic death...
  
   (On Hiatus)
• Lengsel
  Lengsel
  Lengsel is a progressive black metal band that formed in 1995 in Norway. They released one album, called Solace, on Endtime Productions in 2000, which was subsequently licensed to Solid State Records for an American release. The second album The Kiss, The Hope was released on 2007...
  
   (Active, with Whirlwind Records)
• Virgin Forest (On Hiatus)