Endtime Productions

Infobox record label
name = Endtime Productions


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founded = 1997
founder = Samuel Durling
status = active
distributor = Nordic Mission
genre = Extreme metal
country = Sweden
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url = [http://www.endtimeproductions.com/ Endtime Productions]

Endtime Productions is an independent record label based in Sweden. The label focuses on extreme metal music and helped notable groups such as Norway's Extol to gain fame and get a record deal with Century Media Records. Notable groups on the label's roster include Antestor, Drottnar and Crimson Moonlight. The label founder Samuel Durling is known for his detailed graphic designs, packagings and elaborate cover arts.

History

The label was founded by the industrial musician and graphic designer Samuel Durling in 1997. The first band on the label's roster was Norway's Extol, and Extol's "Burial" was the label's first release in 1999. He arranged industrial samples and guest industrial musicians such as Sanctum's Jan Carleklev and Raison d'être's Peter Anderssen to do industrial remixes for Extol's work on the following releases "Mesmerized", "Undeceived" and "Paralysis". Distribution deals with the US based Solid State Records helped Extol to become more popular and was signed to Century Media in 2003.

Endtime Productions signed groups such as Antestor, Lengsel and Anaemia, and re-released Antestor's "Martyrium" (1994) for the first time to wider audience in 2000 as well as Anaemia's "The Second Incarnation" and Lengsel's acclaimed album "Solace". Notable albums released during following years included the re-issue Vardoger's "Whitefrozen" EP, of the cult death metal band Schaliach's 1996 album "Sonrise",Ryhänen, Pekka, [http://imperiumi.net/alb_2.php?id=1678 Vardoger - Whiterfrozen] . Imperiumi, (Finnish) retrieved 2007-12-02.] Antestor's EP "Det Tapte Liv" in 2004 and full-length "The Forsaken" in 2005.

In 2006, Durling signed Drottnar and Crimson Moonlight and released the Drottnar's album "Welterwerk" and in 2007 released Crimson Moonlight's EP "In Depths of Dreams Unconscious", as well as inaugurating a festival called Endtime Fest in Sweden.

Durling has designed covers for Broder Daniel, Lost Dogs' "Gift Horse", The Soundtrack of Our Lives' "Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings of Western Civilization" among others.

Groups

Current

*Absurd2
*Anaemia
*Antestor
*Crimson Moonlight
*Drottnar
*Vardøger
*Virgin Forest

Former

*Extol
*Lengsel

References

External links

* [http://www.endtimeproductions.com/ Endtime Productions]
* [http://www.durling.com/ Durling.com]
* [http://www.nordicmission.net Nordic Mission]