About
Finnish record label founded in 1990 by Riku Pääkkönen. Initially a mailorder/distribution company for rock and metal releases, but soon started to release albums of Finnish metal bands. In March 2002 Spinefarm became part of Universal Music, when Universal Music Oy became the majority shareholder of Spin-Farm Oy (the record company that runs Spinefarm). In 2005 Universal bought the whole company and on December 31st 2014 Spin-Farm Oy was merged to Universal Music Oy. Founder Riku Pääkkönen left the company in 2011, but continued working on [l532289], a Spinefarm sub-label. Spinefarm has two regional offices outside of Finland: Spinefarm UK in London, United Kingdom, and Spinefarm US in New York, United States. Other territories are covered by either Caroline / Universal Music or by local distribution partners. Sometimes credited for distribution as "Spinefarm".
Sub-labels
Hawaii Sounds
Now defunct
Freeride
Ranka Recordings
Spikefarm Records
Sister-label of [l=Spinefarm Records], dealing mostly in melodic black/death metal.
Odor
Odor is a division of Spinefarm Records.
Ranch
Finnish garage rock, hard rock & stoner label
Spinefarm
Finnish distributor, associated with Spinefarm Records. Use only when credited on releases as a distributor, rights owner, licensor, etc.
Spinefarm Records U.K.
Spinefarm Records UK was officially launched during the Autumn of 2007.
Freeride Records
Snakefarm Records (2)
Roots rock label launched by [l=Spinefarm Records].
Contact
Spinefarm Records Merimiehenkatu 36 D 00150 Helsinki Finland +358-94542710 +358-945427133 contact@spinefarm.fi