Equal Vision Records

Equal Vision Records is an American independent record label from New York City which was founded in early 1990 by Ray Cappo to publish on this music from bands of Krishna faith. After being sold to Steve Reddy music label bands from the hardcore punk and alternative rock area under contract has predominantly.

History

Beginning of 1990, Ray Cappo in Albany music label with the name of Equal Vision Records to distribute about his newly founded band Shelter, after a short time before his former band Youth of Today had dissolved. Aim of the label was to promote music of bands from the hardcore punk with connection to Krishna faith, as Ray Cappo felt previously drawn in the years to Hare Krishna movement and lived according to the rules of the Bhagavad Gita. With the single No Compromise, was released the same year, the first publication of Shelter on Cappos own label, as a result, the label other bands, such as those under contract increased from Vic Dicara, a former member of Shelter, Volume 108 Founded in which a new style of music shaped, which was summarized by the term Krishna -core. In 1992, Ray Cappo sold the label to his manager Steve Reddy, who also was a follower of Krishna movement, after which the seat of the label was moved to New York City. After Reddy had initially made ​​also to take only bands from the Krishna movement under contract, he also published plates of bands outside the movement as Converge, Bane or Saves the Day.

In July 2009, the label together with the musician Gaura Vani and film producer Rasa Acharya founded the sublabel Mantrology on which they exclusively distribute bands from the Krishna movement and with what the label came back to his roots. In January 2012 the label moved back to the Sony Music Entertainment Red Distribution belonging sales after Alliance was previously a long time with the cart included in the Warner Music Group Distribution Alternative Distribution under contract. A month later founded Max Bemis, lead singer of the band Say Anything, under his own label Equal Vision with the name Rory Records, with its inception, the band Tallheart was signed. In June 2012, the musician founded Casey Crescenzo, who stands with his solo project The Dear Hunter on Equal Vision under contract, also established his own sub-label, which bears the name Cave & Canary Goods.

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Genre Shelter (Band) 108 (Band) Converge (band) Bane (Band) Say Anything (Band) Alexisonfire Chiodos Circa Survive Coheed and Cambria Drowningman Earth Crisis Fear Before Give Up the Ghost Good Clean Fun Hot Cross Pierce the Veil Portugal. The Man The Prize Fighter Inferno Refused Snapcase
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