Pluto Records

Pluto Records is a record label started in 1999 by Eric Shirey and Brian Cobbel. Since 2002, it has been owned and operated by Brian Cobbel and based near Dallas, TX. It is primarily known for punk, metal, and hardcore releases, although not exclusively. The label has been home to such bands as As I Lay Dying [http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060330/ENT/603300317/1059] , HORSE the band, Luti-Kriss (Norma Jean), Society's Finest, and many more.

As I Lay Dying released their debut album, Beneath the Encasing of Ashes on Pluto Records in 2001 and also a split album with the band American Tragedy in 2002. They are now on Metal Blade Records where they have released three additional albums, 2003's Frail Words Collapse, 2005's Shadows Are Security, and 2007's An Ocean Between Us. Their releases on Pluto have also been compiled and re-released by Metal Blade Records in 2006 as . As I Lay Dying has gone on to sell over half a million records worldwide [http://www.crosswalk.com/music/11560360/] , and were nominated for a Grammy Award in 2008 for Best Metal Performance [http://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117977172.html?nav=news&categoryid=1983&cs=1] .

HORSE the band, who coined the term nintendocore describing their electro-metal sound, released their debut album, R. Borlax on Pluto Records in 2003. They are now on Koch Records and have released their second album, The Mechanical Hand, in 2005, and EP called Pizza in 2006, and their third album, A Natural Death, in 2007. Pluto Records' logo remains on all the bands' albums.

Norma Jean was on the label under their original moniker Luti-Kriss. Luti-Kriss released their first recording on Pluto Records in 1999. The band then signed to Solidstate Records where they released one album before changing their name to Norma Jean because of confusion with the rapper Ludacris.

Pluto Records is currently a member of the Warner Music Group division of East West Records [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002877769] .

Current band list

*Bloodjinn
*Broadcast Sea
*The Dead See
*Divide The Day
*Imperial
*The Jonbenet
*My America Is Watching Tigers Die
*The Orangeburg Massacre
*Spark is a Diamond

Former band list

*Acedia
*American Tragedy
*As I Lay Dying
*Beauty To Ashes
*Canterbury Effect
*Dreaming of The Fifth
*Evelynn
*HORSE the band
*Kill Ratio
*Life In Pictures
*Lovelorn
*Luti-Kriss/Norma Jean
*Mindrage
*My Spacecoaster
*Nailed Promise
*Society's Finest
*Shmunks For You
*Thirty Called Arson
*Travail
*With All Sincerity
*The Deadly
*Please Mr. Gravedigger
*The Underdog Conspiracy

ee also

* List of record labels

External links

* [http://www.plutorecords.com/ Official Pluto Records Homepage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/plutorecords Pluto Records at MySpace.com]