Revelation Records

Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally and primarily on hardcore punk. The label is known for releases by bands such as Youth of Today, Warzone, Sick of It All, Quicksand, Side By Side, Chain of Strength, Shelter, Judge, No for an Answer, Gorilla Biscuits, and End of a Year.
Revelation, along with the bands it put out in the late 1980s, is usually credited with creating and cementing the "youth crew" sound as well as New York hardcore, which bridged the gap from the earlier bands of almost a decade before and helped carry the music through the early 1990s. Some of the label's best selling releases have been Gorilla Biscuits' Start Today, Inside Out's No Spiritual Surrender, and the In-Flight Program compilation.

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History

Formerly of New Haven, Connecticut, it is now based in Huntington Beach, California. It was founded in 1987 by owner Jordan Cooper, along with Ray Cappo of Youth of Today, with the sole intent of producing the Warzone Lower East Side Crew 7-inch. Within the year, they put out two more releases and a limited 4th pressing of Youth of Today's Can't Close My Eyes 7-inch, which had been originally released on Positive Force Records, just for the two of them to trade for vintage G.I.Joes and other action figures. In the first three years, the label put out 23 releases and pressed approximately 50,000 records, and it has continued to release an average of 7–8 albums a year.
Cappo left the business in 1988, to focus on his band Shelter. He also started his own label Equal Vision Records, though his albums were still released by Revelation after that, and he also operated Supersoul Records.
The label put out several definitive hardcore and metalcore records in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with notable releases coming from Damnation A.D., Will Haven, Shai Hulud, Curl Up and Die, and Himsa. However, by the mid-2000s, Revelation Records had seemingly fallen by the wayside, with very few releases between 2004 and 2006. However, the label is returning to its former stature as a premier old-school hardcore label with strong releases from newer bands like Down to Nothing, Shook Ones, and Sinking Ships.

Artists

Discography

Year	Number	Artist	Title
1989	0	Judge	Chung King Can Suck It
1987	1	Warzone	Lower East Side Crew
1987	2	Various Artists	Together
1987	3	Sick of It All	Sick of It All
1988	4	Gorilla Biscuits	Gorilla Biscuits
1988	5	Side By Side	You're Only Young Once
1988	6	No For an Answer	You Laugh
1988	7	Various Artists	The Way It Is
1986	8	Youth of Today	Break Down the Walls
1988	9	Bold	Speak Out
1995	10	Chain of Strength	The One Thing That Still Holds True
1989	11	Bold	Bold
1989	12	Gorilla Biscuits	Start Today
1989	13	Slipknot	Slipknot
1989	14	Judge	New York Crew
1989	15	Judge	Bringin' It Down
1990	16	Shelter	Perfection of Desire
1990	17	Youth of Today	Youth of Today
1990	18	Quicksand	Quicksand
1990	19	Inside Out	No Spiritual Surrender
1990	20	Judge	The Storm
1991	21	Supertouch	The Earth Is Flat
1990	22	Burn	Burn
1991	23	Ray & Porcell	Ray & Porcell
1991	24	Into Another	Into Another
1992	25	Farside	Rochambeau
1993	26	Into Another	Creepy Eepy
1993	27	Iceburn	Hephaestus
1993	28	Underdog	Demos
1993	29	Statue	Filter the Infection
1993	30	Mike Judge & Old Smoke	Sights
1994	31	Orange 9mm	Orange 9mm
1994	32	Sense Field	Killed For Less
1994	33	Farside	Rigged
1994	34	Iceburn/Engine Kid	Split 12"
1994	35	Into Another	Ignaurus
1994	36	Iceburn	Poetry of Fire
1994	37	Sense Field	Sense Field
1995	38	Engine Kid	Angel Wings
1995	39	Whirlpool	Whirlpool
1995	40	Shades Apart	Save It
1996	41	CIV	Set Your Goals
1995	42	Into Another	Poison Fingers
1995	43	Quicksand	Manic Compression
1995	44	State of the Nation	State of the Nation
1995	45	Farside	Farside
1996	46	Sense Field	Building
1995	47	Texas Is the Reason	Texas Is the Reason
1996	48	Into Another	Seemless
1996	49	Iceburn	Meditavolutions
1996	50	Various Artists	In-Flight Program
1996	51	Texas Is the Reason	Do You Know Who You Are?
1996	52	Whirlpool	Liquid Glass
1996	53	Ignite/Good Riddance	Split EP
1996	54	Ignite	Past Our Means
1996	55	CIV	Social Climber
1997	56	Rage Against the Machine	People Of the Sun EP
1997	57	Shades Apart	Seeing Things
1997	58	Kiss It Goodbye	She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not
1997	59	Youth of Today	We're Not In This Alone
1997	60	Better Than a Thousand	Just One
1997	61	Bluebird	Bluebird
1997	62	Youth of Today	Can't Close My Eyes
1997	63	Kiss It Goodbye	Preacher
1998	64	Speak 714	Knee Deep In Guilt
1998	65	Battery	Whatever It Takes
1998	66	Shelter	Quest for Certainty
1998	67	In My Eyes	The Difference Between
1998	68	Elliott	U.S. Songs
1999	69	Farside	The Monroe Doctrine
1998	70	Morning Again	As Tradition Dies Slowly
1998	71	Damnation A.D.	Kingdom of Lost Souls
1999	72	Speak 714	The Scum Also Rises
1998	73	The Nerve Agents	The Nerve Agents
1998	74	Where Fear and Weapons Meet	Where Fear and Weapons Meet
1999	75	Gameface	Every Last Time
1999	76	Sparkmaker	Treasure Chest
1999	77	Kill Holiday	Somewhere Between the Wrong Is Right
1999	78	The Judas Factor	Ballads In Blue China
1999	79	Will Haven	WHVN
1999	80	In My Eyes	Nothing to Hide
1999	81	Kiss It Goodbye	Choke
1999	82	By a Thread	Last of the Daydreams
1999	83	Garrison	The Bend Before the Break
1999	84	Himsa	Himsa
1999	85	Fastbreak	Whenever You're Ready
1999	86	Where Fear and Weapons Meet	The Weapon
1999	87	Himsa	Groundbreaking Ceremony
2000	88	Elliott	Will You
2000	89	Drowningman	How They Light Cigarettes In Prison
2000	90	Gameface	What's Up Bro?
2000	91	Ignite	Call On My Brothers
2000	92	The Judas Factor	Kiss Suicide
2000	93	Garrison	A Mile In Cold Water
2000	94	The Nerve Agents	Days of the White Owl
2000	95	Elliott	False Cathedrals
2000	96	Drowningman	Rock and Roll Killing Machine
2000	97	The Movielife	This Time Next Year
2000	98	The Explosion	Steal This
2000	99	Gameface	Always On
2002	100	Various Artists	Rarities
2001	101	Right Brigade	Right Brigade
2001	102	Fall Silent	Six Years In the Desert
2001	103	Garrison	Be a Criminal
2001	104	Will Haven	Carpe Diem
2001	105	Thirty-Two Frames	Thirty-Two Frames
2001	106	Himsa	Death Is Infinite
2002	107	Curl Up and Die	Unfortunately, We're Not Robots
2002	108	Burn	Last Great Sea
2002	109	Fall Silent	Drunken Violence
2004	110	Various Artists	Revelation Records 2004 Collection
2002	111	Dag Nasty	Minority of One
2003	112	Since By Man	We Sing the Body Electric
2002	113	Pitch Black	Pitch Black
2003	114	Christiansen	Forensics, Brothers and Sisters!
2003	115	Shai Hulud	That Within Blood Ill-Tempered
2003	116	Elliott	Song In the Air
2003	117	Planet on a Chain	Boxed In
2003	118	Garrison	The Silhouette
2003	119	Christiansen	Stylish Nihilists
2003	120	On the Might of Princes	Here She Comes
2004	121	Call Me Lightning	The Trouble We're In
2005	122	Judge	What It Meant: Complete Discography
2004	123	Sincebyman	A Love-Hate Relationship
2005	124	Pitch Black	This Is the Modern Sound
2005	125	The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower	Love In the Fascist Brothel
2005	126	Curl Up and Die	The One Above All, the End of All That Is
2005	127	Temper Temper	Temper Temper
2005	128	Shai Hulud	A Complete Retrospective
2005	129	Bold	The Search: 1985-1989
2005	130	Various Artists	Generations: A Hardcore Compilation
2005	131	Elliott	Photorecording
2005	132	The Hotelier	Pictures From the Hotel Apocalypse
2005	133	The Twilight Transmission	The Dance of Destruction
2006	134	Shook Ones	Slaughter of the Insole
2006	135	Gracer	Voices Travel