Darkest Labyrinth

Darkest Labyrinth
Founded	2000
Founder	Kiwamu
Distributor(s)	Daiki Sound (JASDAQ: 3350)
Genre	Gothic rock, EBM, electro-industrial
Country of origin	Japan
Location	Tokyo
Official website	http://darkestlabyrinth.jp/

Darkest Labyrinth is a Tokyo based record label, distributor, and web store specializing in gothic and visual kei artists in genres such as Electro-industrial, darkwave, gothic rock, EBM, and industrial metal.

Originally called Cure, Darkest Labyrinth started as an Osaka-based project to release works by label-owner Kiwamu's own band BLOOD. The label expanded to distribute music by international Gothic and Post-Industrial artists in Japan. In 2007 the label started to sign other artists, making its first deals with international groups such as Virgins O.R. Pigeons (Greece), Spectrum-X (Italy) and GPKism (Australia). That same year they released their first compilation record "V.A. - Darkest Labyrinth" featuring various tracks from Japan's dark underground music scene.

Currently Darkest Labyrinth releases works by a variety of international and Japanese artists. As of March 2009 Darkest Labyrinth has released 50 titles from the label and distributed 280 titles from other labels for Japanese major distribution. The most successful artist on the label so far is BLOOD who have sold over 20 000 CDs.

Artists signed

• BLOOD
• GPKism
• Spectrum-X
• Noir du'Soleil
• SUICIDE ALI
• 2 Bullet
• Rose Noire
• Seileen
• Marlee
• Takuya Angel
• Angelspit

Note: some artists are only signed to Darkest Labyrinth for Japanese releases, while they are signed to other labels for Europe, North America, etc.

Labels distributed

• Alfa Matrix
• Aural Music
• Deadscarlet Records
• Decadance records
• SOUND BASE MUSIC
• THORNTREE RECORDS
• Subsound Records
• URGENCE DISK
• HTD Records

See also

• List of record labels
• List of electronic music record labels

External links

• Official Site
• English web-store
• Japanese web-store
• Official MySpace
• Digital Music Store at HearJapan