Sakara Records is an independent
Finnish metal/rock record label.
It was found in 2003 by the Finnish metal group
Mokoma.
Since then the label has added the Finnish bands
Stam1na,
Rytmihäiriö
Rytmihäiriö (Finnish for 'arrhythmia') is a Finland, Finnish hardcore punk, thrash metal/crossover thrash, grindcore and surmacore Helsinki-based band established in 1988 until 1992, when the band was put on a hiatus. It had a comeback in 1998 ...
, Black Bile,
Diablo and
YUP.
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Mokoma was formed in
Lappeenranta
Lappeenranta (; sv, Villmanstrand) is a city and municipality in the region of South Karelia, about from the Russian border and from the town of Vyborg (''Viipuri''). It is situated on the shore of the Lake Saimaa in southeastern Finland, an ...
in 1996, initially as a traditional rock band, and released two records on the
EMI label. Neither record sold well, and EMI was not supportive of the band's plan to move into
thrash metal
Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, 2007, . ...
, so the band formed Sakara Records in 2003 to produce their own music.
The Finnish metal band Stam1na, formed in 1996, was also struggling to gain interest from mainstream labels, and became the second group to sign up with Sakara, releasing their self-titled debut in the spring of 2005.
In January 2008 the Finnish metallers Diablo signed up with Sakara Records to record their fifth album "
Icaros".
Sakara Records next signed up Black Bile, and in April 2008 issued Black Bile's debut album "Great Ape Language".
In 2006, the label issued ''
Sakara Tour 2006 Sakara can refer to:
Music
*Sakara drum, an instrument played by the Yoruba and Hausa peoples of Nigeria.
*Sakara music, a Nigerian musical form using Sakara drums and other traditional instruments
*Sakara Records, a Finnish metal / rock record lab ...
'', a live DVD from the 2006 joint tour of the label's three bands Mokoma,
Stam1na and Rytmihäiriö at
Nosturi in Helsinki, Teatria in
Oulu
Oulu ( , ; sv, Uleåborg ) is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after ...
and Rytmikorjaamo in
Seinäjoki
Seinäjoki (; "Wall River"; la, Wegelia, formerly sv, Östermyra) is a city located in South Ostrobothnia, Finland; east of Vaasa, north of Tampere, west of Jyväskylä and southwest of Oulu. Seinäjoki originated around the Östermyra b ...
.
By the end of 2009, the company had issued six records that made it to number one on the Finnish charts.
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Finnish record labels
Thrash metal record labels
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