Prank Records
Prank Records is a hardcore punk record label based in San Francisco, California. They began in 1995, releasing hardcore punk bands on vinyl and in CD format, with over 90 releases. Started by former Auburn University WEGL 91.1 FM radio DJ, Maximum Rock and Roll columnist and reviewer, former 924 Gilman Street booker and long-time Mordam Records employee Ken Sanderson. Modeling the label after classic 1980's punk labels like Pusmort and Over The Top, it focuses on its local Bay Area punk scene, as well as the owner's native Southeast and points around the globe.
In 1995, Prank hosted the first Japanese hardcore band to tour in the US, a brief mini-tour by Tokyo band Assfort, which paved the way for multiple visits of Japanese hardcore bands to the US, including one the following year by Gauze. The next year, the band began its association with southerners His Hero Is Gone and Damad, whose dark, low end distorted records for the label helped affix "the Prank sound." In 1997 and 1998, Prank hosted two "Prank fest" Festivals in Atlanta, Georgia, showcasing the strong Southeast punk scene and bands associated with the label. This festival was revised and relocated in 2004 to Austin, Texas and morphed in subsequent years into the "Chaos In Tejas" festival.
Bands
- Antischism
- Artimus Pyle
- Avskum
- Born Against
- Born/Dead
- Bury The living
- Damad
- Dead and Gone
- Deathreat
- Desolation
- Dropdead
- Effluxus
- Eldopa 1332
- Gauze
- Grimple
- Guyana Punch Line
- Hail Mary
- His Hero Is Gone
- In/humanity
- Initial State
- Knockabouts
- Kylesa
- No Statik
- Replica
- Scrotum Grinder
- Signal Lost
- Smash Your Face
- Sunday Morning Einsteins
- Talk Is Poison
- Totalitär
- Uutuus
- World Burns To Death
Catalog
The complete catalog:
- PRANK 01: DEAD AND GONE " T.V. Baby" LP/CD
- PRANK 02: KNOCKABOUTS " On Suffering Remembered" 7"
- PRANK 03: ASSFORT "Assfort" 7"
- PRANK 04: TRIBE OF RESISTANCE 7"
- PRANK 05: HIS HERO IS GONE "The Dead Of Night In Eight Movements" 7"
- PRANK 06: DEAD AND GONE / THE GAIA Split 7"
- PRANK 07 / PRANK 07R : ELDOPA/ 1332 " Skinless" 7"
- PRANK 08: CIVIL DISSIDENT " Menzie's Crack" LP
- PRANK 09: GAUZE "Low Charge" 7"
- PRANK 010: UUTUUS "Everything's Shit" 7"
- PRANK 011: DAMAD "Rise And Fall" LP/CD
- PRANK 012: WORD SALAD "Specimen" 7"
- PRANK 013: HIS HERO IS GONE "15 Counts Of Arson' LP/CD
- PRANK 014: HAIL MARY "Glorious Morning" 7"
- PRANK 015: DEATHREAT "Runs Dry" 7"
- PRANK 016: HIS HERO IS GONE " Monuments To Thieves" LP/CD
- PRANK 017: IN/HUMANITY "The History Behind the Mystery"
- PRANK 018: SVART SNO "Smock'n'roll" LP
- PRANK 019: DEATHREAT / TALK IS POISON Split 7"
- PRANK 020: TALK IS POISON "Straight To Hell" 7"
- PRANK 021: WORD SALAD "Electric Funeral" 7"
- PRANK 022: .FUCKINGCOM 7"
- PRANK 023: TALK IS POISON CD
- PRANK 024: TOTALITAR " Klas Inte Ras" 7"
- PRANK 025: INITIAL STATE "Abort The Soul" LP/CD
- PRANK 026: WORD SALAD "Death March 2000" LP/CD
- PRANK 027: TOTALITAR " Sin Egen Motstandare" LP/CD
- PRANK 028: HEALTH HAZARD / SUFFER Split CD
- PRANK 029: SMASH YOUR FACE " Loose Times, Light Times" 7"
- PRANK 030: DAMAD "Burning Cold" LP/CD
- PRANK 031: TALK IS POISON "Control" 7"
- PRANK 032: IN/HUMANITY "Your Future Lies Smoldering At The Feet Of The Robots" 7"
- PRANK 033: GUYANA PUNCH LINE " MAXIMUM SMASHISM" LP/CD
- PRANK 034: ANTISCHISM " Still Life" LP/CD
- PRANK 035: ARTIMUS PYLE " Civil Dead" 12"/CD
- PRANK 036: IN/HUMANITY "Violent Resignation: The Great American Teenage Suicide Rebellion" CD
- PRANK 037: CROW "Neurotic Organization" 7"
- PRANK 038: AVSKUM "In The Spirit Of Mass destruction" LP/CD
- PRANK 039: TOTALITAR " Ni Maste Bort" LP/CD
- PRANK 040: SEPTIC DEATH "Chumoku LP/CD (Never released)
- PRANK 041: GUYANA PUNCH LINE " Irritainment" LP/CD
- PRANK 042: N.O.T.A. " Live At the Crystal Pistol" LP/CD
- PRANK 043: ARTIMUS PYLE " Cold Cold World" 7"
- PRANK 044: SCROTUM GRINDER "The Greatest Sonic Abomination Ever" LP/CD
- PRANK 045: BURST "Conquest:Writhe" CD
- PRANK 046: DROPDEAD / TOTALITAR split 7" /CD-EP
- PRANK 047: ANTISCHISM "Discography" 2XLP / CD
- PRANK 048: KYLESA " Point Of Stillness/ Judgement Day" 7"
- PRANK 049: ( Unreleased)
- PRANK 049.5 BORN/DEAD "24 Hostages" 7" ( re-issue)
- PRANK 050: KYLESA "S/T" LP/CD
- PRANK 051: JABARA "Why We Wish" 12"
- PRANK 052: WORLD BURNS TO DEATH " Human Meat Tossed To The Dogs Of War" 7"
- PRANK 053: SUNDAY MORNING EINSTEINS "Svensk Mangel" 7"
- PRANK 054: AVSKUM "Crucified By The System" 7"( re-issue)
- PRANK 055: ARTIMUS PYLE "Fortress" 7"
- PRANK 056: GRIMPLE "Up Your Ass" LP/CD
- PRANK 057: GRIMPLE "Get Me Out Of The Van I have No Key, Phil" 7"
- PRANK 058: BORN AGAINST "Nine Patriotic Hymns For Children" LP
- PRANK 059: BORN AGAINST "Battle Hymns Of The Race War" LP
- PRANK 060: BORN AGAINST "Rebel Sound Of Shit And Failure" LP
- PRANK 061: SHIKABANE LP
- PRANK 062: WORLD BURNS TO DEATH "The Art Of Self Destrcution" 7"
- PRANK 063: CROW / ARTIMUS PYLE 7"
- PRANK 064: AVSKUM "Punkista" LP/CD
- PRANK 065: KYLESA "110 Degree Heat Index / No Ending" 7" / CD-EP
- PRANK 066: GUYANA PUNCH LINE "Direkt Aktion" LP/CD
- PRANK 067: SUNDAY MORNING EINSTEINS "Kangnave" LP/CD
- PRANK 068: SIGNAL LOST "Children Of The Wasteland" LP/CD
- PRANK 069: ARTIMUS PYLE "Fucked From Birth" LP/CD
- PRANK 070: BORN/DEAD "Our Darkest Fears Now Haunt Us" LP/CD
- PRANK 071: PAINTBOX "Cry Of The Sheeps" 7"
- PRANK 072: (unreleased)
- PRANK 073: BORN/DEAD "5-song Limited Tour EP" 12"
- PRANK 074: BORN/DEAD "Repetition / Fear" 7"
- PRANK 075: DESOLATION "S/t" LP/CD
- PRANK 076: BURY THE LIVING" All The News That's Fit To Scream" LP/CD
- PRANK 077: SIGNAL LOST "You'll Never Get us down Again" 7"
- PRANK 078: CROW "Sacrifice For The Vicious Dominant And Bloodshed Justice" 7"
- PRANK 079: SUNDAY MORNING EINSTEINS "Sunday Morning Tour E.P." 7"
- PRANK 080: CROW "Bloody Tear" LP/CD
- PRANK 081: TOTALITAR "Vi Ar Eliten" LP/CD
- PRANK 081.5 TOTALITAR "Vi Ar Eliten Bonus EP" 1-sided 7"
- PRANK 082: PESD "Politarepoizonekurvae " LP
- PRANK 083: SUNDAY MORNING EINSTEINS "Sannigen Om Sunday Morning Einsteins" LP
- PRANK 084: BORN/DEAD "Endless War/ Repetition" CD
- PRANK 085: ARTIMUS PYLE / SUNDAY MORNING EINSTEINS split 7" (unreleased)
- PRANK 086: SIGNAL LOST "Prostehtic Screams" LP/CD
- PRANK 087: (Unreleased)
- PRANK 088: ACURSED " Tunneln I Ljusets Slut" LP/CD
- PRANK 089: WORLD BURNS TO DEATH "Cease To Exist" DVD
- PRANK 090: TALK IS POISON "Condensed Humanity: The Prank EP's" LP
- PRANK 091: CHRIST ON PARADE "Sounds Of Nature" LP
- PRANK 092: IRON LUNG "Sexless//No Sex" LP/CD
- PRANK 093: BORN/DEAD "The Final Collapse" LP/CD
- PRANK 094: SIGNAL LOST / PROTESS split 7"
- PRANK 095: PAINTBOX "Singing Shouting Crying" LP
- PRANK 096: PAINTBOX " Earth Ball Sports Tournament" LP
- PRANK 097: AVSKUM "Uppror Underifran" LP/CD
- PRANK 098: CHRIST ON PARADE" Loud And Live" LP/CD
- PRANK 099: WORLD BURNS TO DEATH " The Graveyard Of Utopia" LP
- PRANK 100: GAUZE "Binbou Yusuri No Rizumu Ni Notte" LP
- PRANK 101: CROW "Flock Of Beast" 7"
- PRANK 102: ACEPHALIX "S/t" 7"
- PRANK 103: JUDGEMENT "Just Be" 7"
- PRANK 104: PAINTBOX "Relicts" LP
- PRANK 105: PAINTBOX "Trip Trance and Travelling" 2xLP
- PRANK 106: MORPHEME 7"
- PRANK 107: DESOLATION 7"
See also
- List of record labels
External links
- Official site Prank Records Official website