# Southern Lord Records > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Southern_Lord_Records > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Southern_Lord_Records.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Lord_Records > Source revision: 1334813954 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American record label Record label Southern Lord Founded April 1998 Founder Greg Anderson Distributors Universal Music/Virgin (United States), Southern (Europe) Genre Extreme metal, experimental, heavy metal, hardcore punk Country of origin United States Location Los Angeles, California Official website www.southernlord.com **Southern Lord** is an American [heavy metal](/source/Heavy_metal_music) record label that was founded in 1998 by [Greg Anderson](/source/Greg_Anderson_(guitarist)). It initially specialized in [experimental metal](/source/Experimental_metal): particularly [doom metal](/source/Doom_metal), [stoner rock](/source/Stoner_rock), and [drone metal](/source/Drone_metal). The label later expanded its line-up to include artists from [black metal](/source/Black_metal), [hardcore punk](/source/Hardcore_punk) and [crust punk](/source/Crust_punk) bands. ## History Before co-founding their own record label [Greg Anderson](/source/Greg_Anderson_(guitarist)) and [Stephen O'Malley](/source/Stephen_O'Malley) were friends and bandmates in [Thorr's Hammer](/source/Thorr's_Hammer) and [Burning Witch](/source/Burning_Witch). The pair formed a new band named [Sunn O)))](/source/Sunn_O)))) in 1998 and moved to [Los Angeles](/source/Los_Angeles). They started Southern Lord as a way to have control over the releases of their own recordings.[1] Southern Lord's first release was the CD version (previously released as a cassette) of Thorr’s Hammer‘s *Dommedagsnatt--* a doom/death metal album with Norwegian lyrics. The second release was: Burning Witch‘s *Crippled Lucifer--* a compilation CD of the band's first two EPs.[2] Southern Lord released material by Anderson and O'Malley's latest band, [Sunn O)))](/source/Sunn_O)))) in 2002. Sunn O))) was later reviewed several times by [Ben Ratliff](/source/Ben_Ratliff) of [The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times).[3][4][5] The label's roster continued to grow with notable doom releases such as Warhorse's *As Heaven Turns to Ash,* Place of Skulls *Nailed and With Vision,* as well as albums from Anderson's band Goatsnake. It also expanded its musical palate releasing music by: Darkest Hour, Orcustus, and Dave Grohl‘s side project [Probot](/source/Probot).[6] The band Earth joined the Southern Lord family in 2005—continuing Southern Lord's involvement in drone and doom music.[6] Releases from Earth, Sunn O))) (including the heavily lauded *[Monoliths & Dimensions](/source/Monoliths_%26_Dimensions)*), and a series of [Boris](/source/Boris_(band)) 7″s to go along with the album *Smile* took place at the end of the decade.[7] ## Notable artists ### Current - [A Storm of Light](/source/A_Storm_of_Light) - [Agrimonia](/source/Agrimonia_(band)) - [All Pigs Must Die](/source/All_Pigs_Must_Die_(band)) - [Baptists](/source/Baptists_(band)) - [BL'AST](/source/Blast_(American_band)) - [Black Breath](/source/Black_Breath_(band)) - [Black Cobra](/source/Black_Cobra_(band)) - [Burning Love](/source/Burning_Love_(band)) - [Burning Witch](/source/Burning_Witch) - [Darkest Hour](/source/Darkest_Hour_(band)) - [Eagle Twin](/source/Eagle_Twin) - [Earth](/source/Earth_(American_band)) - [Excel](/source/Excel_(band)) - [Goatsnake](/source/Goatsnake) - [High Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High_Command_(band)&action=edit&redlink=1) - [High on Fire](/source/High_on_Fire) - [Jesus Piece](/source/Jesus_Piece_(band)) - [Loincloth](/source/Loincloth_(band)) - [Pelican](/source/Pelican_(band)) - [Poison Idea](/source/Poison_Idea) - [Power Trip](/source/Power_Trip_(band)) - [Ruin](/source/Ruin_(punk_band)) - [Sunn O)))](/source/Sunn_O)))) - [Today Is the Day](/source/Today_Is_the_Day) - [Unsane](/source/Unsane_(band)) - [Wolfbrigade](/source/Wolfbrigade) - [Xibalba](/source/Xibalba_(band)) ### Former - [The Accüsed](/source/The_Acc%C3%BCsed) - [Attila Csihar](/source/Attila_Csihar) - [Boris](/source/Boris_(band)) - [Capricorns](/source/Capricorns_(band)) - [Church of Misery](/source/Church_of_Misery) - [Clown Alley](/source/Clown_Alley_(band)) - [Corrosion of Conformity](/source/Corrosion_of_Conformity) - [Craft](/source/Craft_(metal_band)) - [Early Graves](/source/Early_Graves) - [Earthride](/source/Earthride) - [Electric Wizard](/source/Electric_Wizard) - [Final Warning](/source/Final_Warning_(band)) - [From Ashes Rise](/source/From_Ashes_Rise) - [Gore](/source/Gore_(band)) - [Grief](/source/Grief_(band)) - [Graves at Sea](/source/Graves_at_Sea) - [The Hidden Hand](/source/The_Hidden_Hand_(band)) - [Internal Void](/source/Internal_Void) - [Khanate](/source/Khanate_(band)) - [Lair of the Minotaur](/source/Lair_of_the_Minotaur) - [Nachtmystium](/source/Nachtmystium) - [Nails](/source/Nails_(band)) - [Mondo Generator](/source/Nick_Oliveri_and_the_Mondo_Generator) - [Nortt](/source/Nortt) - [Nuclear Death](/source/Nuclear_Death) - [The Obsessed](/source/The_Obsessed) - [Off!](/source/Off!_(band)) - [Om](/source/Om_(band)) - [Orcustus](/source/Orcustus) - [Oren Ambarchi](/source/Oren_Ambarchi) - [Outlaw Order](/source/Outlaw_Order) - [Pentagram](/source/Pentagram_(band)) - [Place of Skulls](/source/Place_of_Skulls_(band)) - [Probot](/source/Probot_(band)) - [Saint Vitus](/source/Saint_Vitus_(band)) - [Sleep](/source/Sleep_(band)) - [Striborg](/source/Striborg) - [Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine](/source/Teeth_of_Lions_Rule_the_Divine) - [Thorr's Hammer](/source/Thorr's_Hammer) - [Thou](/source/Thou_(American_band)) - [Thrones](/source/Thrones_(band)) - [Trap Them](/source/Trap_Them) - [Twilight](/source/Twilight_(band)) - [The Want](/source/The_Want_(NJ_band)) - [Warhorse](/source/Warhorse_(doom_metal_band)) - [Weedeater](/source/Weedeater_(band)) - [Wino](/source/Scott_Weinrich) - [Winter](/source/Winter_(metal_band)) - [Wolves in the Throne Room](/source/Wolves_in_the_Throne_Room) - [Xasthur](/source/Xasthur) ## See also - [Southern Lord Records discography](/source/Southern_Lord_Records_discography) - [Lists of record labels](/source/Lists_of_record_labels) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["About"](https://southernlord.com/about/). *Southern Lord Recordings*. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 7 January 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Burning Witch"](https://southernlord.com/band/burning-witch/). *Southern Lord Recordings*. Southern Lord. 10 January 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Ratliff, Ben (23 September 2009). ["Two Bands, a Million Decibels (Published 2009)"](https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/24/arts/music/24sunno.html). *The New York Times*. Retrieved 11 January 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Ratliff, Ben (2 December 2015). ["Review: In 'Kannon,' From Sunn O))), Brevity and Austerity (Published 2015)"](https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/arts/music/review-in-kannon-from-sunn-o-brevity-and-austerity.html). *The New York Times*. Retrieved 11 January 2021. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Ratliff, Ben (3 September 2012). ["Think You Know Loud? Try Throbbing Sound as the Body Vibrates (Published 2012)"](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/arts/music/power-of-the-riff-festival-with-sunn-o-in-brooklyn.html). *The New York Times*. Retrieved 11 January 2021. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-BandcampDaily_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-BandcampDaily_6-1) Moores, JR. ["20 Years of Southern Lord's Dark and Heavy Art"](https://daily.bandcamp.com/label-profile/20-years-of-southern-lords-dark-and-heavy-art). *[Bandcamp Daily](/source/Bandcamp_Daily)*. [Bandcampdate](/source/Bandcamp)=9 March 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2022. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["安全加密检测"](http://ilistensoyoudonthaveto.com/2011/03/21/doom-to-drone-to-diversity-a-profile-of-los-angeles-extreme-experimental-label-southern-lord-records/). ## External links - [Official site](http://www.southernlord.com) - [Interview with Greg Anderson about the label](http://www.diskant.net/talentspotter/southern-lord/) v t e Sunn O))) Stephen O'Malley Greg Anderson Attila Csihar Tos Nieuwenhuizen Steve Moore Hildur Guðnadóttir Anthony Pateras Studio albums ØØ Void Flight of the Behemoth White1 White2 Black One Monoliths & Dimensions Kannon Life Metal Pyroclasts Sunn O))) Collaborative albums Altar (with Boris) Terrestrials (with Ulver) Soused (with Scott Walker) Other releases The Grimmrobe Demos Oracle Dømkirke Related articles Sunn O))) discography List of songs recorded by Sunn O))) Earth Boris Burial Chamber Trio Burning Witch Khanate KTL Goatsnake Gravetemple Thorr's Hammer Sunn amps Southern Lord Records Scott Walker Authority control databases MusicBrainz label 2 --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Southern Lord Records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Lord_Records) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Lord_Records?action=history)). 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