Mascot Label Group

Mascot Label Group
Founded	1990
Status	Active
Genre	Metal, Rock, Guitar & Blues
Country of origin	Netherlands
Official website	mascotlabelgroup.com

Mascot Label Group is a 100% independent record company specialized in rock, metal and blues music. Grounded in 1989 in The Netherlands the company now has offices in Rotterdam (head office), New York, London, Cologne, Paris, Miland and Stockholm. The company was originally founded in 1990 under the name Mascot Records, then renamed Mascot-Provogue in 1999 and has been known as Mascot Label Group since 2010.

Mascot Label Group is also a label member of American Association of Independent Music A2IM.

Labels

• Mascot Records - Rock label with artists such as Black Label Society, Bootsy Collins, Volbeat, Gojira, Black Country Communion, Steve Lukather, Shaman's Harvest & more.

Mascot Records recently brought Volbeat to success from scratch in Europe (over 10 platinum and gold records). Their attendance at headlining shows went from 25 to 10,000 people in 3 years. In the US Volbeat has also grown from scratch to over 100.000 records sold and over 500.000 digital sales, selling well over 1,000,000 records in Europe. In June 2012 Black Country Communion reached number 1 rock album chart entry in UK, as well as top chart positions in 10 European countries.

• Provogue Records - Blues/Rock label featuring Joe Bonamassa, Beth Hart, Gov’t Mule, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Warren Haynes, Robben Ford, Walter Trout, Leslie West, Robert Cray & more

Provogue Records built the new star in the genre Joe Bonamassa from the ground up in Europe. Playing for 50 people in London in 2007 and selling out the Royal Albert Hall with capacity of approx 5,000 people in 6 minutes in 2009. Besides that he sold well over 1,000,000 albums in Europe and charting the last 8 records in at least 10 countries. In May 2012 Joe Bonamassa latest studio album charted nr 2 in the overall album charts in the UK.

• Music Theories Recordings - featuring Spock's Beard, Memories of Machines, Flying Colors & more

Flying Colors charted in multiple countries including nr 81 in US billboard charts and #18 in the indie charts.

• Cool Green Recordings - Recently founded alternative/indie label with Australian desert rockers Tracer, biggest Dutch alternative band De Staat, underground favorites Crippled Black Phoenix and the well-known cult band Masters Of Reality of Chris Goss (co-writer/producer Kyuss/Queens Of the Stone Age) & more.

External links

Official Mascot Label Group website