“There were death threats flying around. They were burning my effigy at punk bonfires”: The tumultuous story of Peaceville Records, the underground label that helped shape extreme metal

Paradise Lost posing for a photograph in the early 1990s.

Along with Earache and Relapse, the UK’s Peaceville Records is one of metal’s great independent labels, acting as a launchpad to such extreme metal luminaries as Paradise Lost, At The Gates, Darkthrone and countless more. In 2017, Peaceville founder Hammy looked back on the history of a label that helped metal in the 1990s and beyond.

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