Spinefarm Records
Spinefarm Records is a Finnish record label based in Helsinki. It was founded in 1990 by Riku Pääkkönen. The first band signed to the label, was the hardcore band Rytmihäiriö. Since 2002 Spinefarm is an independently acting subsidiary company of Universal Music Group. Abroad, the marketing is often made by partner label like Nuclear Blast.
Spinefarm bands
The focus is on Spinefarm Metal bands. Among others, or following bands were marketed:
- Children of Bodom
- Dark Tranquillity
- Dragonforce
- Ensiferum
- Hevein
- Impaled Nazarene
- Lullacry
- Machinae Supremacy
- MyGrain
- Nightwish
- Rotten Sound
- Sentenced
- Sinergy
- Sonata Arctica
- Tarja Turunen
- To / Die / For
- Warm
- MUCC
- D' espairsRay
- Apocalyptica
Spikefarm bands
Spikefarm Records is a sub- label Spinefarm, which was founded by Thy Serpent guitarist Sami Tenetz 1999. In Spikefarm include the following bands that majority will come from the Death and Black Metal field, moved:
- Moonsorrow
- Rapture
- Shape of Despair
- Sólstafir
Ranka bands
Ranka Recordings has bands of various music genres in the program: