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Brutal Records was founded by Michael Howard Sr. in 1986, who at the time was a business entrepreneur in New Orleans. The label's first release was a debut EP called Supernatural Death, from a local thrash metal group by the name Incubus.

In 1998, Louisiana thrash metal band Incubus released Serpent Temptation on Brutal Records, which rocketed to the top of the underground radio stations charts in multiple countries, including Brazil, Finland, Germany, Norway, Greece, Sweden, Austria, and more. It became the first release in the company's history to reach over 100K sales on the International marketing place.

In 1999, Brutal Records founder Michael Howard launched a new Publishing company called Risky Music, bmi.

During the 1990s and 2020s, Brutal Records signed many speed metal, thrash metal, black metal, death metal, and doom metal genres, bands including Incubus (br), Decibel Demon, Opprobrium, Satanic, Hevilan, Deprecid, Hellgarden, Scars, Draconis, Leach, and many more....

Musical Style
The label specializes in various types of heavy metal. Recently, with the increasing popularity of extreme metal, Brutal Records has ostensibly become more mainstream, with bands on their roster frequently appearing on the front cover of all the underground publications and video plays on Youtube channels, along with some albums Playlist on the Spotify.

It would be hard however to label the company as dealing in one specific style or another, as there are artists of such a wide variety on their roster, ranging from stoner rock and hardcore bands through to grindcore and death metal all the way to retro thrash metal and doom.

Although much of the music released on Brutal Records is from bands in various punk and metal subgenres, the label has also released records from several artists in other genres.

Artists
Currently signed[edit]


 * Hellgarden (cl)
 * Amnessia Eterna
 * Never End
 * Leach
 * Hevilan
 * Venomous
 * Dark Rites
 * Valvera
 * Scars
 * Draconis
 * HellgardeN (br)
 * Cadaver Putrefacto
 * Opprobrium
 * Demise
 * Sinaya
 * Axegressor
 * Torture Squad
 * Volition
 * Decibel Demon
 * Satanic
 * Incubus (br)