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Thrash Label Combat Records Revived By Megadeth's David Ellefson
Combat Records logo
Megadeth bassist David Ellefson
is bringing back the legendary thrash label that gave his band its
first break. Ellefson's two-year-old EMP Label Group announced this week
that it's reviving Combat Records, once home to metal and punk greats
Exodus, Circle Jerks, Death, Dark Angel and Agnostic Front, among
others. The indie notably signed Megadeth -- one of the "big four"
thrash bands -- to a contract in 1984 and released the combo's 1985
debut, Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!
Combat
began life in 1983 as the in-house metal label for Important Record
Distributors and was later acquired by Sony's now-defunct Relativity
Records, which eventually shut it down. The Combat name was then
resurrected briefly by KOCH Records in the mid-2000s before going dark
again. Most of the label's back catalog, which is still owned by Sony,
was released digitally in 2015 through Sony's Music for Nations imprint.
Ellefson's Combat
does not own any of the back catalog, but will instead focus solely on
new releases from both classic and up-and-coming metal artists. The
label's first releases, coming in 2018, will feature Raven, Helstar,
Dead By Wednesday and Wrath.
"So excited and honored to be able to revive such an iconic brand
that was so instrumental to my history," said Ellefson, who has been
working on acquiring the Combat brand for a year. "Even though we signed
to Capitol after Killing is my Business, Combat's logo was on all the Megadeth releases through Countdown To Extinction,
and it truly was/is one of the most iconic Metal labels of all time,
even being home to some of the other artists who would end up on the EMP
roster, like Helstar.
He added, "The same independent spirit that
drove Combat in those early days, is truly the same spirit that drives
what we do with EMP, and we are honored to launch another amazing
conduit to support new and established Metal artists, with great respect
to the legacy of the past."
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