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 Texas Is the Reason.
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.
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 (which he later sold to Youth of Today roadie, former Revelation employee and friend, Steve Reddy), 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
Battery Be Well Big Laugh Birdlegs Bold By a Thread Calling Hours Capital Chain of Strength CIV Cosmic Joke Curl Up and Die Dag Nasty Dare Down To Nothing Drain Drowningman Elliott End of a Year Fall Silent Farside Fell to Low Forced Order Gameface Garrison Gorilla Biscuits Himsa In My Eyes Inside Out Into Another Judge Ignite Kill Holiday Kiss It Goodbye Lesbos in Love Living Hell Morning Again Mouthpiece The Movielife The Nerve Agents New Found Glory No For An Answer On the Might of Princes Paint It Black Planet on a Chain The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower Praise Primal Rite Quicksand Rage Against The Machine The Rival Mob Self Defense Family Sense Field Shades Apart Shai Hulud Shelter Shook Ones Sick of It All Side by Side Sincebyman Sinking Ships Spaced Speedway Straight Ahead Supertouch Texas Is the Reason Title Fight Turning Point Violent Reaction Warzone Where Fear and Weapons Meet World Be Free Youth of Today
Discography
+Year (First pressing)NumberArtistTitleRef.1989 -1JudgeChung King Can Suck It19871WarzoneLower East Side Crew2Various artistsTogether3Sick Of It AllSick Of It All19884Gorilla BiscuitsGorilla Biscuits5Side By SideYou're Only Young Once...6No For An AnswerYou Laugh7Various artistsNew York City Hardcore: The Way It Is8Youth of TodayBreak Down the Walls9BoldSpeak Out198910Chain of StrengthTrue Till Death11BoldBold12Gorilla BiscuitsStart Today13SlipknotSlipknot14JudgeNew York Crew15Bringin' It Down199016ShelterPerfection of Desire17Youth of TodayYouth of Today18QuicksandQuicksand19Inside OutNo Spiritual Surrender20JudgeThere Will Be Quiet...199121SupertouchThe Earth Is Flat199022BurnBurn199123Ray & PorcellRay & Porcell24Into AnotherInto Another199225FarsideRochambeau199326Into AnotherCreepy Eepy27IceburnHephaestus28UnderdogDemos29StatueFilter the Infection30Mike Judge & Old SmokeSights199431Orange 9mmOrange 9mm32Sense FieldKilled for Less References
External links Official website The Revelation Records discography The pressing history of most Revelation releases Revelation online music distribution. An Interview with Jordan Cooper An Interview with Jordan Cooper on PMAKid.com True Till Rev website