Revelation Records
American Hardcore label founded mid eighties by Jordan Cooper in New York. Currently based in California. Famous for releasing Youth Crew Hardcore from the very beginning. Bands like Judge, Gorilla Biscuits, Youth Of Today, Side By Side, Warzone… During the nineties they remained active and nowadays they are still releasing new records and repressing their vast catalogue. Also known for making limited editions that are highly sought after by collectors from all over the world.
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Revelation Records, a deeper dive into the catalogue, part 2
Bart returns with the final five of his Revelation Records top ten. The second and final part of his selection of records from the Revelation Records catalogue is now revealed.
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Revelation Records, a deeper dive into the catalogue, part 1
Revelation Records collector Bart discusses his top 10 of Revelation Records releases. This is part one of a series of two posts about the Revelation Records catalogue.
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Dare against all odds
Short review of the 2021 album of Dare. A Straight-Edge band that has an urgent message from Orange County California.
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Survival Instinct
Morning Again’s latest release from 2018 was not yet reviewed. I remember what I thought way back in the mid to late 90’s when I first heard Morning Again. I thought they sounded a bit technical and fragmented. There was bits of melodic metal guided by ‘chugging riffs’ in their…
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Bold "The Search" Compilation
This Bold compilation is actually a good job done by Revelation Records. They have pressed it on a double LP and housed these in a gatefold jacket that has the perfect layout. Along with music on vinyl the consumer of this record gets a short retrospective about the early days…
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Beyond "No Longer At Ease" LP
I was planning on buying this record since I saw the awesome vinyl and cover pictures of this release appearing online. The grey coloured version was fitting the cover perfectly I noticed, so I was going to go for that one. And the price was approximately 10 euro less than…
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Gorilla Biscuits & Conne Island
Gorilla Biscuits and Revelation Records made this special 7 inch to donate the benefits to the Conne Island project in Leipzig, Germany. The club is described in the liner notes as their second home. Now that New York’s CBGB’s died, their favourite club to play. They immediately felt the spark…
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Judge "Bringin’ It Down" on red
Judge Bringin’ It Down on red, a version that was not supposed to exist. Only thanks to confusion at the pressing plant there were two new colours pressed instead of one. All 500 were supposed to be translucent gold vinyl. According to the Rev.txt it’s a pressing plant ‘whoopsie’. And…
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World Be Free "The Anti-cricle" LP
The promotional campaign of the World Be Free release raised some questions in my mind. Who needed a new band featuring Hardcore alumni? Just another super group? And as if that wasn’t enough, Revelation Records release it? I still bought it on vinyl and I must say I was biased.…
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