Southern Lord Records
American record label
Southern Lord is an American heavy metal record label that was founded in 1998 by Greg Anderson. It initially specialized in experimental metal: particularly doom metal, stoner rock, and drone metal. The label later expanded its line-up to include artists from black metal, hardcore punk and crust punk bands.
History
Before co-founding their own record label Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley were friends and bandmates in Thorr's Hammer and Burning Witch. The pair formed a new band named Sunn O))) in 1998 and moved to Los Angeles. They started Southern Lord as a way to have control over the releases of their own recordings.
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.
Southern Lord released material by Anderson and O'Malley's latest band, Sunn O))) in 2002. Sunn O))) was later reviewed several times by Ben Ratliff of The New York Times.
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