Strobelight Records is a record label

Record label

In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...

 and mail-order seller based in Götzis

Götzis

Götzis is a town in the western Austrian state of Vorarlberg, district Feldkirch.The town is well-known for its annual hypo-combined events meeting, the so called Hypo-Meeting, where some of the world's leading decathletes and heptathletes gather in the Mösle stadium...

, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. The label specializes in gothic rock

Gothic rock

Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

 and death rock music.

Bands signed to the label include All Gone Dead

All Gone Dead

All Gone Dead was a three piece Deathrock/Gothic/Synthpunk band based in London. The band consists of Stich , Barb and Steve Pollytrama.-Biography:...

, Black Ice, Chants of Maldoror, DeSade, Every New Dead Ghost, Excession

Excession

Excession, first published in 1996, is Scottish writer Iain M. Banks's fourth science fiction novel to feature the Culture. It concerns the response of the Culture and other interstellar societies to an unprecedented alien artifact, the Excession of the title.The book is largely about the response...

, Frank the Baptist

Frank the Baptist

Frank the Baptist is an American gothic rock/alternative rock band founded in San Diego, California by frontman Frank Vollmann.-History:Strobelight Records was founded to release their first album, Different Degrees of Empty, in 2003, and all of the band's following albums have been released by the...

, Götterdämmerung

Götterdämmerung

is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four operas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen...

, Human Disease, The Last Days of Jesus

The Last Days of Jesus

The Last Days Of Jesus is a Slovak Progressive Goth Rock band. They formed in Bratislava in May 1993 to combine the spirit of old school Batcave and Deathrock with new musical sounds and patterns. The name originates from a headline band member MaryO read in an American newspaper.-History:MaryO...

, Miguel and the Living Dead, Murder at the Registry, Ordeal by Fire, Pink Turns Blue

Pink Turns Blue

Pink Turns Blue are an influential band from Cologne, Germany. Formed in 1985, they quickly put out their first LP, If Two Worlds Kiss expressing a sound reminiscent of New Wave with very dark undertones and use of synthesisers, only to become one of the pioneers of the developing sub-genre of...

, Screams For Tina

Screams For Tina

Screams for Tina is a dark wave rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1985 by Marvin Rinnig and Warren Mansfield ....

, Sleeping Children, Tragic Black

Tragic Black

Tragic Black is a five piece deathrock band from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. The band was formed in summer 2000 by core members Vision and Vyle.-Current members:*Johno Varoz — lead and rhythm guitar/vocals*Kyle Leary — rhythm and lead guitar/vocals...

, Voices of Masada, Voodoo Church, and Zadera.

The label also issues the New Dark Age and Strobelights series of compilations.

External links

• Strobelight Records & Mailorder Official Site