Spinefarm Records is a Finland-based record label focusing mainly on heavy metal artists. In 1999, a sub-label titled Spikefarm Records was started by Sami Tenetz from Thy Serpent. Since 2002, Spinefarm has been part of Universal Music Group, but operates as an independent business unit .

In Autumn 2007, Spinefarm launched in the UK, starting with re-issuing deluxe versions of the first 5 Nightwish albums, including the 'Over The Hills And Far Away' EP.

Bands

Spinefarm Records consists of four sub-labels, Spinefarm (metal), Spikefarm (extreme metal), Ranka (Finnish music) and Ranch (rock).

Spinefarm

• Agonizer
• Amorphis
• Babylon Whores
• Beherit
• Barathrum
• Beto Vázquez Infinity
• The Black League
• Brother Firetribe
• Celesty
• Charon
• Children of Bodom
• ChthoniC
• Cynicon
• Dark Tranquillity
• Darkwoods My Betrothed
• DragonForce
• Dreamtale

• Drivenwithin
• Eilera
• End of You
• Ensiferum
• Eternal Tears of Sorrow
• Finntroll
• Five Finger Death Punch (UK Only)
• For My Pain
• Funebre
• Hevein
• Impaled Nazarene
• Killing Joke
• Kiuas
• The Kovenant
• Le Chevalier
• Lullacry
• Machinae Supremacy
• Metsatöll
• MyGRAIN
• Naildown

• Nightwish
• Norther
• Rammstein
• Rotten Sound
• Satyricon
• Sentenced
• Sethian
• Sinergy
• Sonata Arctica
• Sororicide
• Swallow the Sun
• Tarja Turunen
• Tarot
• Throne of Chaos
• Thy Serpent
• To/Die/For
• Twilightning
• Virtuocity
• Warmen

Spikefarm

• Ajattara
• Amoral
• Beherit
• Code
• Demigod
• Entwine
• Finntroll
• Hanging Garden
• Kalmah
• Moonsorrow

• Noumena
• Ram-Zet
• Rapture
• Reverend Bizarre
• Saattue
• ShamRain
• Shape of Despair
• Silentium
• Sólstafir
• To Separate the Flesh from the Bones

Ranka Recordings

• Aavikko
• Giant Robot
• Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus
• Turmion Kätilöt (with actual contract problems)
• Viikate

Ranch

• The Black League
• The Flaming Sideburns
• Peer Günt

References

1. "UNIVERSAL MUSIC FINLAND BECOMES MAJORITY SHAREHOLDER IN SPIN-FARM OY", Universal Music Group. Retrieved on July 24, 2009
2. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=105279

See also

• List of record labels

External links

• Official site
• Official UK site