Displeased Records was a Dutch

independent record label An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding or distribution of major record labels; they are a type of small and medium-sized enterprise, small- to medium-sized enterprise, or SME. The labels ...

, founded by Lars Eikema and Ron Veltkamp. The label had many Dutch and other

extreme metal Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. It has been defined as a "cluster of metal subgenres characterized by sonic, verbal, and visual tran ...

bands on its roster, but has also re-released albums by

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Cryptopsy Cryptopsy is a Canadian technical death metal band from Montreal, formed in 1988. History Pre-Cryptopsy days (1988–1992) Canadian death/thrash metal band Necrosis was formed in April 1988 by drummer Mike Atkin, guitarist Steve Thibault and vo ...

Infernäl Mäjesty Infernäl Mäjesty is a Canadian thrash metal band, formed in 1986 and now based in Vancouver. They are best known for their debut album '' None Shall Defy'', released in 1987. However, the 1998 re-issue by Displeased Records Displeased Reco ...

Sadus Sadus is an American thrash metal band from Antioch, California, active from 1985 to 2015, and reunited in 2017. Originally a quartet, the band's sound fuses thrash metal with death metal, featuring highly technical musicianship. They are know ...

Toxik Toxik is an American thrash metal band formed in 1985 in Peekskill, New York. After breaking up for the first time in 1992 and briefly reuniting in 2007, the band reformed once again in 2013. Toxik has gone through several lineup changes over ...

and Whiplash. The label also had a large mail order division called Discorder.com.

History

Displeased Records was founded in 1992 by Lars Eikema and Ron Veltkamp. In the beginning the main focus was to release

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s from unknown/unsigned artists playing all types of heavy metal, like

death metal Death metal is an extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep death growl, growling vocals; aggressive ...

thrash metal Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an Extreme metal, extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, ...

, etc. After a distribution network was set up Displeased Records started releasing

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s of metal acts like Nembrionic,

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, Hybernoid and Celestial Season. In the same period a

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business was erected, in the beginning under the same moniker of the label name, later changed to Dis-order (a combination of DISpleased and mailORDER). Since 2011, the name was changed to Discorder. From the second half of the 1990s, Displeased Records licensed cult

albums from

Roadrunner Records Roadrunner Records is a Dutch–American record label focused on Heavy metal music, heavy metal and hard rock music. Founded in the Netherlands in 1980, it is now a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City. Formerly seen as ...

, from bands like

, Pestilence, Whiplash,

and

. A distribution service was present from the beginning, albeit very small. Later on more and more music shops were provided with the metal albums and shirts that were already sold through the

. In April 2018, Displeased Records went bankrupt.

Artists

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* Bunkur * Celestial Season *

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Consolation, ''Brave Melvin from the Southern Point''. Displeased Records, 1995; Consolation, ''Stahlplaat''. Displeased Records, 1998. *

* Dead Head * Eternal Solstice * Even Song * Goat Semen *

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* Hellwitch * Houwitser * Hybernoid * Infinited Hate * Manegarm * Nembrionic * Nocturnal *

Officium Triste Officium Triste is a death-doom band from Rotterdam, The Netherlands. They refer to their style often as "Rotterdoom". It is largely inspired by bands like My Dying Bride and early Anathema, but the last album is slower and more melodic. The vo ...

Sadist Sadist can refer to: * A person with a high level of everyday sadism, a personality trait characterized by enjoyment of hurting others * A person with sadistic personality disorder, an obsolete clinical term for people who enjoy the suffering of o ...

Striborg Striborg is a black metal / ambient project of Australian musician Russell Menzies. The project first began in 1994 under the name Kathaaria and during this time the stage name "Vvelkaarn" was used. The name Kathaaria was adapted from a Darkth ...

* Unlord *

Vesperian Sorrow Vesperian Sorrow is an American symphonic black metal band from Austin, Texas, United States, founded in 1994. They were known as Unholy Descent until they changed their name to Vesperian Sorrow in early 1999. Their lyrics tend to be less extre ...

* Whiplash

References

External links

* {{Authority control Heavy metal record labels Black metal record labels Doom metal record labels Grindcore record labels Record labels established in 1992 Dutch independent record labels Death metal record labels Thrash metal record labels Retail companies of the Netherlands Record labels disestablished in 2018