Basick Records is a British record label founded in 2005 by Nathan "Barley" Phillips and his half brother Jake Smith. Their business has since expanded into the Invictus Music & Media group, which includes Basick Records itself, the
hardcore punk
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-oriented label Destroy Everything and the PR company Hold Tight! PR. Basick Records' first release was a compilation album, entitled, "Do You Feel This?", released on 8 August 2005. The first band to be signed to Basick was
Fellsilent. They were also the first label to release material from
Enter Shikari
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.
In 2011, Basick made a global distribution deal (excluding North America) with Warner ADA. Then, on 17 January 2012, they announced a North American distribution partnership with
Prosthetic Records
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, in which selections from Basick's back catalog and all forthcoming releases would see distribution in North America from Prosthetic.
Roster
Current artists
*A Dark Orbit
*A Trust Unclean
*Alaya
*Aliases
*Bad Sign
*BEAR
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Chimp Spanner
Paul Antonio Ortiz is an English multi-instrumentalist, best known for his work under the pseudonym, or solo project, of Chimp Spanner. He recorded, produced, mixed and mastered in his home studio, both the 2005 album ''Imperium Vorago'' and 20 ...
*Create to Inspire
*Damned Spring Fragrantia
*Dissipate
*Fall Of Minerva
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First Signs of Frost
*FOES
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Misery Signals
Misery Signals is an American-Canadian metalcore band formed in Wisconsin in 2002.
History Formation (2002–2003)
Misery Signals was formed after the disbanding of several bands, including 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Hamartia, and Compromise. Having ...
*Murdock
*No Consequence
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Sikth
*The Colour Line
Past artists
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7 Horns 7 Eyes
7 Horns 7 Eyes is an American Christian death metal band based out of Seattle, Washington. The band formed in 2006 and released their debut album ''Throes of Absolution'' on April 24, 2012, on Century Media Records in North America and Basick ...
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Between the Screams
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Blotted Science
Blotted Science is an instrumental progressive metal supergroup headed by Ron Jarzombek (Watchtower, Spastic Ink), bassist Alex Webster (Cannibal Corpse) and drummer Hannes Grossmann (ex- Obscura, ex-Necrophagist). They formed under the name Machin ...
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Bury Tomorrow
*Circles
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Devil Sold His Soul
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Evita
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Fellsilent (except North America)
*Gehenna VII VII VII
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Glass Cloud
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Intervals
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Ion Dissonance
Ion Dissonance is a Canadian mathcore band from Montreal, Quebec. They are known for their technical style, which switched to a more groove based style with the release of their 2007 album ''Minus the Herd''.
In total, the group have released f ...
*Moesaboa
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Monuments
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*My Minds Weapon
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Napoleon
*No Made Sense
*Shy Of The Depth
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Skyharbor
Skyharbor is an Indian/American progressive metal band with members from New Delhi and Mumbai, India; and Cleveland, Ohio, US.
History
The band was initially guitarist Keshav Dhar's studio project, before TesseracT vocalist Daniel Tompk ...
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Sleep Token
*The Abner
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The Algorithm
The Algorithm is the musical project of French musician Rémi Gallego (born 7 October 1989) from Perpignan. His style is characterised by an unusual combination of electronic dance music with progressive metal. Gallego chose the name The Algo ...
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The Arusha Accord
The Arusha Accord are a mathcore-technical metal band from Reading, Berkshire who took their name from an agreement aimed at ending the Rwandan genocide.Stant, James (2009)The Echo Verses, Room 13, 15 October 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2009
*The Comanche Cipher
*The Escape
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Uneven Structure
Uneven Structure is a progressive metal band based in Metz, France. They play a style of post-metal which is heavily influenced by the Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. The band blends polyrhythmic passages and extremely low tunings with a he ...
*Visions
*Without Thought
References
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