Gravity is an underground

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from

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.Trevor Kelley, "California Screaming". ''

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'' 17 (2003), pp. 84-86. It was formed in

1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

by Matt Anderson, a member of the influential underground band

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. It has been central in developing and promoting the "San Diego sound" – an idiosyncratic form of

post-hardcore Post-hardcore is a punk rock music genre that maintains the aggression and intensity of hardcore punk but emphasizes a greater degree of creative expression. Like the term " post-punk", the term "post-hardcore" has been applied to a broad conste ...

with loose, chaotic musicianship and vocals, initiated by Heroin, Antioch Arrow, and Clikatat Ikatowi, as well as Mohinder from the Bay Area and Angel Hair from Colorado. The sound is associated with the first wave of

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, and the label played an important role in the development of

in the 1990s. Gravity has also branched out into other forms of

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, releasing seminal early works by

Unwound Unwound () is an American post-hardcore band formed in 1988 in Tumwater and Olympia, Washington. It presently consists of vocalist-guitarist Justin Trosper, bassist Jared Warren, drummer Sara Lund, and guitarist Scott Seckington. Originally ...

Black Dice Black Dice is an American experimental noise music band based in Brooklyn, New York and consisting of brothers Bjorn and Eric Copeland along with Aaron Warren. Formed in 1997, the group was initially inspired by hardcore and noise rock, but s ...

, The Rapture, and a full-length from

Man Is The Bastard Man Is the Bastard was an American hardcore punk band based in Claremont, California. The band existed from 1990 to 1997, releasing mostly vinyl splits, extended plays, and albums on obscure labels from around the world. By 1997, the group ended ...

. The label has no affliation with the Capitol Records subsidiary Gravity Inc Records.

Label roster

* Angel Hair * Antioch Arrow * Bastard Noise *

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* Born Against * Clikatat Ikatowi * The Convocation *

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* Crom-Tech * A Day Called Zero * Earthless *

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* Fisticuffs Bluff * The Fucking Angels * Get Hustle *

* Huggy Bear * John Henry West *

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* Les Aus *

Man Is the Bastard Man Is the Bastard was an American hardcore punk band based in Claremont, California. The band existed from 1990 to 1997, releasing mostly vinyl splits, extended plays, and albums on obscure labels from around the world. By 1997, the group ended ...

* Men's Recovery Project * Mohinder * Monorchid *

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* Prizehog * The Rapture * Sea of Tombs * Second Story Window * The Spacewürm * Spacehorse * Stacatto Reads * Three Mile Pilot * Tristeza * Universal Order of Armageddon *

* The V.S.S. * Vicious Ginks * Young Ginns

Discography

This list is organized by catalog number. Also note that two releases that have the catalog number 2 and, there is no release in the Gravity Records catalog to have the catalog number 50.

References

External links

Gravity Records website

Gravity Records Discogs page

Matt Anderson/Gravity records Interview
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Label roster

Discography

See also

References

External links