Holy Roar Records

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Holy Roar Records was an independent record label run by Alex Fitzpatrick. The label began in January 2006 when he moved to London from Birmingham and put out its first release in June 2006,^[1] the Phoenix Bodies album, Raise the Bullshit flag. Since then Holy Roar Records has over 150 releases. Alex originally joked that the name was derived from a vision he had whilst on the hallucinogen LSD.^[2]

History[]

Holy Roar Records was formed at the beginning of 2006, when Alex Fitzpatrick moved to London. After previously trialling out “thecommunion” with friends in Birmingham during his university days and armed with the intention of giving bands the recognition he felt they deserved, he and his girlfriend at the time, Ellen Godwin decided to start up a record label.^[3] Utilising a loan, they released and promoted what would be the label's first ever releases: Rolo Tomassi (their first “proper” EP), Phoenix Bodies (a grind/punk crossover band) and a split between the bands, Kayo Dot and Bloody Panda.

In 2007, through a combination of luck and circumstance, Holy Roar Records found themselves releasing records by Gallows, Chronicles of Adam West (tech-metal) and Chariots (screamo). The label was still very much a hobby at this point, but this was soon to change as Alex Fitzpatrick decided to throw in his day job and take the label on as a priority - utilising the support of those around him and taking on other relevant and connected roles such as writing for magazines and driving and managing bands to keep himself afloat.

A couple of years later, Alex had managed to make Holy Roar Records a full-time commitment and since then he has managed to: curate a stage at Offset Festival (2014),^[4] host a stage at Incubate Festival (2014),^[5] partner with Shock Records,^[6] partner with ArcTanGent Festival (2015) ^[7] and has curated a stage at The Great Escape Festival in 2016.^[8] The label are planning to curate another stage at The Great Escape Festival in 2017.

A decade since initiation, Holy Roar Records finds itself with over 150 releases and nominations by Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards for “Best Independent Label”^[9] and the AIM Independent Music Awards for "Best Small Label" in 2016.^[10]

According to Alex, the name “Holy Roar” was actually derived from a Torche song with the same title.^[11]

In September 2020, founder Alex Fitzpatrick was accused by several ex-partners of sexual assault/rape across social media. All allegations were strenuously denied, no formal complaints were made and no charges were brought.^[12] As a result, several staff members left the label. Consequently bands such as Rolo Tomassi, Apologies, I Have None, Svalbard and Renounced made statements on Twitter that condemned Fitzpatrick's alleged actions.^[13]

Past artists[]

Below is a list of bands previously on the Holy Roar Records roster:^[14]

Releases[]

Cat #	Artist(s)	Release	Format(s)
HRR352	Fall Of Messiah	Senicarne	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR348	OHHMS	Close	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR347	Antethic	Mythographer	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR346	Narrow Head	12th House Rock	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR342	Slow Crush	Reel	Vinyl/Digital
HRR333	Modern Rituals	This Is The History	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR332	Elephant Tree	Habits	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR327	Garganjua	Toward The Sun	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR326	Giver	Sculpture Of Violence	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR325	Conjurer & Palm Reader	Conjurer x Palm Reader split	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR321	A.A.Williams	A.A.Williams (Reissue)	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR315	Slow Crush	Ease	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR314	Renounced	Beauty Is A Destructive Angel	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR312	We Lost The Sea	Triumph & Disaster	Vinyl/Digital
HRR309	Minors / Greber	Split	Cassette/Digital
HRR308	Pijn & Conjurer	Curse These Metal Hands	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR304	Modern Rituals	Yearning	Digital
HRR302	THROES	In The Hands Of An Angry God	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR300	We Never Learned To Live	Ode / Live At The BBC	Vinyl/Digital
HRR297	Møl	I/II	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR296	Holy Fawn	Death Spells	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR291	We Never Learned To Live	The Sleepwalk Transmissions	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR285	Minors	Abject Bodies	Vinyl/Digital
HRR278	A.A.Williams	A.A.Williams	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR276	ITHACA	The Language Of Injury	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR270	Boss Keloid	Herb Your Enthusiasm	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR269	Burning Vow	Burning Vow	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR266	Portrayal of Guilt	Let Pain Be Your Guide	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR262	Pijn	Loss	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR261	OHHMS	Exist	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR258	Secret Cutter	Quantum Eraser	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR253	MØL	JORD (Instrumental)	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR248	Talons	We All Know	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR246	Group of Man	What We Got In Common	Digital
HRR242	Modern Rituals	The Light That Leaks In	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR239	Garganjua	Through The Void	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR233	Conjurer	Retch	Digital
HRR232	Svalbard	It's Hard To Have Hope	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR231	Giver	Heart Of Dark	Digital
HRR230	Modern Rituals	Hermit Kuppling	Cassette/Digital
HRR229	Minors	Bone Pointer	Digital
HRR228	Slow Crush	Aurora	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR227	Møl	JORD	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR226	Giver	Dancing With The Devils	Digital
HRR225	Rolo Tomassi	Balancing The Dark	Digital
HRR224	Conjurer	The Mire	Digital
HRR223	Minors	Atrophy	Vinyl/Digital
HRR222	Boss Keloid	Melted On The Inch	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR221	Rolo Tomassi	Time Will Die And Love Will Bury It	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR220	Watchcries	Wraith	Vinyl/Digital
HRR219	Giver	Shock Of The Fall	Digital
HRR218	Conjurer	Mire	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR217	Giants	Four Wheels	Digital
HRR216	Rolo Tomassi	Rituals	Digital
HRR215	Departures	Teenage Haze	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR214	Giver	Where The Cycle Breaks	Vinyl/Digital
HRR213	Renounced	Theories of Despair	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR212	Helpless	Sinkhole	Digital
HRR211	MINE	Transients	Cassette/Digital
HRR210	IDYLLS	Prayer For Terrene	Digital
HRR209	IDYLLS	Indian Circle	Digital
HRR208	IDYLLS / Palisades	Split	Digital
HRR207	IDYLLS	Farewell All Joy	Digital
HRR206	IDYLLS	Amps for God/Plague Hell	Digital
HRR205	Haast's Eagled	I & II	CD
HRR204	IDYLLS	No Virility	Digital
HRR203	Pijn	Tanzaro House	Cassette/Digital
HRR202	Slabdragger / Wren	Mothers Of Beef And The Magic Of Invention	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR201	Helpless	Ceremony of Innocence	Digital
HRR199	Wren	Scour The Grassland	Digital
HRR198	IDYLLS	The Barn	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR197	Helpless	Debt	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR196	Employed To Serve	Never Falls Far	Digital
HRR195	Wren	The Herd	Digital
HRR194	The Tidal Sleep	Bandages	Digital
HRR193	The Tidal Sleep	Hearses	Digital
HRR192	The Tidal Sleep	Undertows	Digital
HRR191	IDYLLS	Maslows Dogs	Digital
HRR190	Employed To Serve	Good For Nothing	Digital
HRR189	OHHMS	The Magician	Digital
HRR188	The Tidal Sleep	Be Water	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR187	Wren	Auburn Rule	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR186	Employed To Serve	I Spend My Days (Wishing Them Away)	Digital
HRR185	OHHMS	The World	Digital
HRR184	Watchcries	S/T	Digital
HRR181	Ruetz	Melanoma	Digital
HRR180	Brutality Will Prevail	In Dark Places	CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital
HRR179	Down I Go	Mooncleanser	Digital
HRR178	Down I Go	Меня зовут Владимир Путин	Digital
HRR177	Down I Go	Witness the Shitness	Digital
HRR176	Down I Go	this is Robotcore	Digital
HRR175	Down I Go	this is Dinocore	Digital
HRR174	OHHMS	The Fool	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR173	Rolo Tomassi	OST	Cassette
HRR172	Group Of Man	World Peace Champions	Cassette/Digital
HRR171	Bossk	I & II Reissue	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR170	Rolo Tomassi	Boxset	Vinyl
HRR166	Pijn	Floodlit	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR165	Up River	If There Is A God That Is Judging Me Constantly	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR164	Svalbard	Discography 2012-2014	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR163	Apologies, I Have None	Pharmacie	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR162	Conjurer	I	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR161	Departures	Death Touches Us, From The Moment We Begin To Love	CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital
HRR160	Apologies, I Have None/Luca Brasi	Split	Cassette/Digital
HRR159	Wren	Host	Vinyl/Digital
HRR158	Giants	Against The Grain (single)	Digital
HRR157	Fall of Messiah	Empty Colours	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR156	Rolo Tomassi	The BBC Sessions	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR155	Giants	Break The Cycle (Single)	Digital
HRR154	Employed to Serve/A Ghost Orchestra	Split	Digital
HRR153	Giants	Break The Cycle	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR152	Down I Go	Iceland Extras	Vinyl/Digital
HRR151	Helpless	Helpless	CD
HRR150	More Than Life	Love Let Me Go	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR149	Eulogy	Eternal Worth	Vinyl/Digital
HRR148	Cursed Earth	Enslaved By The Insignificant	Flexidisc
HRR147	Haast's Eagled	II For Mankind	Vinyl
HRR146	Down I Go	You're Lucky God, I Cannot Reach You	Vinyl/Digital
HRR145	Svalbard	One Day All This Will End	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR144	Slabdragger	Rise of the Dawncrusher	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR143	Pariso	Pariso	Vinyl/Digital
HRR142	Years of Abuse	Social Order	Cassette/Digital
HRR141	We Never Learned to Live	Crystalline	Digital
HRR140	We Never Learned to Live	Shadows in Hibernation	Digital
HRR139	Rolo Tomassi	Opalescent	Digital
HRR138	Employed to Serve	Bones to Break	Digital
HRR137	Employed to Serve	Watching Films to Forget I Exist	Digital
HRR136	Rolo Tomassi	Stage Knives (Single)	Digital
HRR135	Rolo Tomassi	Grievances	CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital
HRR134	We Never Learned to Live	Silently, I Threw Them Skyward	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR133	Ohmms	Cold	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR132	Employed to Serve	Greyer Than You Remember	CD/Vinyl/Cassette/Digital
HRR131	Svalbard	Discography 2012–2014	CD
HRR130	VA	Digital Sampler	Digital
HRR129	Ohhms	Bloom	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR128	Body Hound	Rhombus Now	Vinyl/Digital
HRR127	Rough Hands	Nothing's Changed	Vinyl/Digital
HRR126	Brontide	Artery	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR125	We Never Learned to Live/Human Future	Split	Vinyl/Digital
HRR124	Employed to Serve	Change Nothing, Regret Everything	Vinyl/Digital
HRR123	More Than Life	Do You Remember	Digital
HRR122	Up River	Undertow	Vinyl/Digital
HRR121	More Than Life	What's Left of Me	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR120	Enabler	Flies	Vinyl/Digital
HRR119	Bastions	Bedfellows Part II: The Forgotten Daughter	Vinyl/Digital
HRR118	Maths/Throats	Split	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR117	Svalbard	Gone Tomorrow	Digital
HRR116	Svalbard	Svalbard	Digital
HRR115	MINE	Disappear	Vinyl/Digital
HRR114	Rough Hands	Rough Hands	Vinyl/Digital
HRR113	Monolith	A Votive Offering	Digital
HRR112	Brutality Will Prevail	Scatter the Ashes	Vinyl
HRR111	VA	Winter Spring 2013 Sampler	Digital
HRR110	Conan/Bongripper	Split	Vinyl
HRR109	Coliseum	Sister Faith	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR108	This Is Hell	The Enforcer	Vinyl/Digital
HRR107	Last Witness	Saccharine/Less Than Zero	Vinyl/Digital
HRR106	Bastions	Bedfellows Part 1: The Bastard Son	Vinyl/Digital
HRR105	Strife	Witness a Rebirth	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR104	MINE	MINE	Vinyl/Digital
HRR103	Throats	Throats (Repress)	Vinyl/Digital
HRR102	Full of Hell/Calm the Fire	Split	Vinyl/Digital
HRR101	Hang the Bastard	2009-2012	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR098	Kerouac	Heavy Hearted: Collected Recordings 2009-2011	Vinyl/Digital
HRR097	Cutting Pink With Knives	Populuxxe (Reissue)	Vinyl/Digital
HRR096	run WALK!	Health	Vinyl/Digital
HRR095	Pariso	2009-2011 Discography	Digital
HRR094	Desolated	Verse of Judas	Vinyl
HRR093	We'll Die Smiling	New Objectivity	Vinyl/Digital
HRR092	Nibiru	Earthbreeder	Vinyl/Digital
HRR091	Monolith	I, Misanthrope	Vinyl
HRR090	Last Witness	The Void	Digital
HRR089	Last Witness	Mourning After	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR088	Crocus	Our Memories Dress Me in a Dead Lust	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR087	Jackals/Grazes	Split	Vinyl/Digital
HRR086	Goodtime Boys	Are We Now or Have We Ever Been	CD/Digital
HRR085	Brontide	Coloured Tongues/MFBT	Vinyl/Digital
HRR084	Will Haven	Voir Dire	Vinyl/Digital
HRR083	run WALK!/ Sirs	Split	Vinyl/Digital
HRR082	Crossbreaker	Lows	Vinyl/Digital
HRR081	VA	Holy Hell Summer Sampler 2011	Digital
HRR080	Make Do and Mend	Make Do and Mend	Vinyl
HRR079	Abolition	Abolition	Vinyl
HRR078	Daggers	Euphoria	Vinyl/Digital
HRR077	Rosa Valle	Holy Bermuda	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR076	Brutality Will Prevail	Sleep Paralysis	CD
HRR075	End Reign	End Reign	Vinyl/Digital
HRR074	Witch Cult	Witch Cult	Vinyl/Digital
HRR073	Jackals/Self Loathing	Split	Vinyl/Digital
HRR072	Brontide	Sans Souci	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR071	Eisberg	Eisberg	Vinyl/Digital
HRR070	Gallops	Joust/Eukodol	Vinyl/Digital
HRR069	Rolo Tomassi	Eternal Youth	Vinyl/Digital
HRR068	Rolo Tomassi/Antares	Split	Vinyl
HRR067	Kerouac/Pariso	Split	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR066	The Ergon Carousel	Dead Banks	Vinyl/Digital
HRR065	Slabdragger	Regress	Vinyl/Digital
HRR064	Grazes	Myths	Vinyl/Digital
HRR063	Cthulhu Youth	Inflatable World…	Cassette
HRR062	Cthulhu Youth	Cthulhu Youth	Cassette
HRR061	VA	Happy Holy Roar Mega Box	Cassette
HRR060	Kerouac	Cold and Distant, Not Loving	Vinyl
HRR059	Baptists	Black Dawn	CD
HRR058	Maths	Ascent	Vinyl/Digital
HRR057	Touche Amore	…To The Beat of a Dead Horse	Vinyl
HRR056	run, WALK!	Instrumental EP	CD/Digital
HRR055	Throats/The Ergon Carousel	Kyuss Covers Split	Vinyl/Digital
HRR054	Hang the Bastard	Hellfire Reign	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR053	Black Mass	S/T	CD/Digital
HRR052	Bastions	Island Living	Vinyl
HRR051	Never Again	Year One	Vinyl/Digital
HRR050	VA	Happy Holy Roar Vol.4	Cassette
HRR049	Brutality Will Prevail	Root of All Evil	CD/Vinyl/Digital
HRR048	Young Legionairre	Colossus/Iron Dream	Vinyl
HRR047	Lone Wolves	A True Discourse	CD
HRR046	Rolo Tomassi	Cosmology	Vinyl
HRR045	Gallops	Gallops	CD/Digital
HRR044	Jackals	S/T	Vinyl
HRR043	Last Witness	Give Up	Vinyl/Digital
HRR042	We'll Die Smiling	Avant-Garde	CD/Digital
HRR041	run, WALK!	IHTAWSICSSOEAOMITS	CD
HRR040	Never Again	Live at The Albert, Brighton	Cassette
HRR039	Antares	L'Espirit de l'escalier	CD/Digital
HRR038	Throats	S/T	CD/Vinyl
HRR037	PABH/Holy State	Split	Vinyl
HRR036	Manuscripts/Betty Pariso	Split	Vinyl/Digital
HRR035	Trash Talk	East of Eden/Son of a Bitch	Vinyl
HRR034	Easy Hips/Dreamboats/Le Swing/Run, Walk!	New Roars on the Block	Vinyl
HRR033	Holy State/Brontide/The Tupolev Ghost/Shapes	Holy Monsters	Vinyl
HRR032	Rolo Tomassi/Throats	Split	Vinyl
HRR031	Livimorket	Dark Totality	CD/Digital
HRR030	VA	Happy Holy Roar Vol.3	Cassette
HRR029	Holy State	Live	CD
HRR028	VA	Spring '09 Digital Sampler	Digital
HRR027	The Ghost of a Thousand	This is Where the Fight Begins	CD/Vinyl
HRR026	Maths	Descent	CD/Vinyl
HRR025	Rolo Tomassi	Untitled (Reissue)	CD
HRR024	Brontide	Brontide EP	Digital
HRR023	Cutting Pink with Knives	Discography	Digital
HRR022	Maths	Live Acoustic Medley	Digital
HRR021	Holy State	Holy State EP	Vinyl
HRR020	VA	Happy Holy Roar Vol. 2	Cassette
HRR019	The Ergon Carousel	The Ergon Carousel	CD
HRR018	Devil Sold His Soul/Tortuga	Split	Vinyl
HRR017	Youves	Cardio-Vascular	CD/Digital
HRR016	Throats/The_Network	Split	CD
HRR015	Dananananakroyd	Sissy Hits	CD/Digital
HRR014	Mirror! Mirror!	Silicon Eyes/Wolfgang Bang	Vinyl
HRR013	Rolo Tomassi	Digital History/Beatrotter	Vinyl
HRR012	Maths/Throats	Split	CD
HRR011	Cutting Pink with Knives	Laser Hannon	Digital
HRR010	VA	Happy Holy Roar	Cassette
HRR009	Cutting Pink with Knives	St Mark/Airz	Digital
HRR008	Rolo Tomassi	Untitled (Reissue)	CD
HRR007	Cutting Pink with Knives	Populuxxe	CD
HRR006	Gallows	Demo	Vinyl
HRR005	Chariots	The Inner Life	CD/Digital
HRR004	Chronicles of Adam West	We Walk Unbalanced	CD/Digital
HRR003	Rolo Tomassi	Untitled	CD
HRR002	Bloody Panda/Kayo Dot	Split	Vinyl/Digital
HRR001	Phoenix Bodies	Raise The Bullshit Flag	CD/Digital

Compilations[]

For Christmas 2007 Holy Roar Records released a limited edition cassette tape compilation, "Happy Holy Roar!" featuring 20 previously unreleased/ self-released only songs by a variety of bands including some Holy Roar artists. The compilation was limited to 100 copies and sold out in just over a week.

Since then, Holy Roar Records have released the following via cassette:

and the following via digital release only:

In 2016, Holy Roar Records contributed an exclusive song to the Alcopop! Records Record Store Day release "Sensible Record Labels" Volume 2 compilation.

Holy Roar Records Subscriptions[]

In 2016, Holy Roar Records established a monthly subscription service to allow for fans of the label to keep up to date with new releases on a tier basis.^[15] The different price levels include a variety of benefits including discount, exclusive content, physical copies of all new releases, prize draws and subscriber news feeds that informs members of tours and new releases. The focus of the service is to reward loyal fans of the label whilst also continue to support new projects and the development of the label.

Podcasts[]

Since April 2015, Holy Roar Records have been producing podcasts^[16] hosted by Mario John Gambardella featuring different guests and their perspectives on the UK music scene.

Pink Mist[]

Since 2010, Holy Roar Records has been a member of , a London-based promoter and label collective alongside Big Scary Monsters and . The idea behind this collective was to create an alliance whereby resources were pooled in order to promote their bands to a wider audience.^[17] Their first release was a pink and white 12" vinyl limited to 300 copies and released in April 2011 on Record Store Day, "Hello Pink Mist".^[18] It consisted of 12 exclusive tracks (4 from each label) in which Holy Roar Records contributed tracks from run, WALK!, Hang the Bastard, Grazes and Bastions. Later that year, joined the collective^[19] to complete the current line-up.

In 2012, they released a download-only free compilation "Hello Pink Mist Volume 2"^[20] to coincide with the launch of their new website^[21] and in this same year, they were nominated for the Association of Independent Music Awards for "Best Small Label".^[22] In 2013, Pink Mist announced a pop-up shop in Boxpark,^[23] East London where they sold records and had in-store sessions and in 2014 they collaborated with Relentless (drink) to set up another pop-up shop at No.5 Denmark Street^[24] featuring live performances. Pink Mist was also listed in The Guardian's "The 10 British Record Labels Defining the Sound of 2014".^[25]

Due to individual circumstances, Pink Mist has become a looser entity over time as its initial founders went off in their own directions. However an extension of the brand is still particularly active and currently operates via Pink Mist live gigs which are run by the drive and dedication of promoter, Ross Allmark (DICE FM). In honour of Holy Roar Records' tenth birthday, Pink Mist presented the Holy Roar X (HRX)^[26] show, hosting bands at The Dome and The Boston Music Rooms in London on Saturday May 21, 2016. The line-up featured Rolo Tomassi, Svalbard (band), Hang The Bastard, OHHMS and many more.

Pink Mist is now predominately a live event promotion company, of which its full list of upcoming shows can be found on its website.^[27]

Truthseeker Music[]

In 2015, Holy Roar Records launched a brand new sister label, Truthseeker Music, which is headed up by Holy Roar intern Alex Leat.^[28] To date, they have released records by Human Future, Sonance, Annexia, Rope, Torpor, Palehorse, Earth Moves, 52 Commercial Road, Oak, Regurgitate Life, Howls, Yards, Hexis, Haunts, Row of Ashes and My Project Ghost.

References[]

External links[]

Interviews with Alex Fitzpatrick of Holy Roar Records