Holy Roar Records
Holy Roar Records was an independent record label run by Alex Fitzpatrick. The label began in January 2006 and put out its first release in June 2006,[1] the Phoenix Bodies album, Raise the Bullshit Flag. Fitzpatrick originally joked that the name was derived from a vision he had whilst on the hallucinogen LSD.[2] According to Fitzpatrick, the name “Holy Roar” was derived from a Torche song with the same title.[3]
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Founded | January 2006 |
Founder | Alex Fitzpatrick Ellen Godwin |
Defunct | 30 March 2021 |
Status | Defunct |
Genre | Hardcore punk, punk rock, extreme metal, experimental rock |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Location | London, England |
Official website | www |
History
Holy Roar Records was formed at the beginning of 2006, when Alex Fitzpatrick moved to London. After previously trialling “thecommunion” with friends in Birmingham during his university days, he and his girlfriend at the time, Ellen Godwin decided to start up a record label.[4] Utilising a loan, they released and promoted 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, Holy Roar Records released records by Gallows, Chronicles of Adam West (tech-metal) and Chariots (screamo). The label was still a hobby at this point, but Fitzpatrick decided to throw in his day job and take the label on as a priority.
Holy Roar Records curated a stage at Offset Festival (2014),[5] hosted a stage at Incubate Festival (2014),[6] partnered with Shock Records,[7] partnered with ArcTanGent Festival (2015) [8] and curated a stage at The Great Escape Festival in 2016.[9]
Holy Roar Records had over 150 releases and nominations by Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards for “Best Independent Label”[10] and the AIM Independent Music Awards for "Best Small Label" in 2016.[11]
On 7 September 2020, two women accused Fitzpatrick of sexual assault and rape on social media. No legal action was, or has been, taken.[12][13] Consequently, bands such as Rolo Tomassi, Apologies, I Have None, Svalbard and Renounced made statements on Twitter that condemned Fitzpatrick's alleged actions,[14] and all of the Holy Roar's staff members left the label.[15] On 9 September 2020, Fitzpatrick released a statement denying the allegations, whilst announcing that he had resigned from Holy Roar "with immediate effect [...] to focus on clearing my name".[16] A few days after Holy Roar's closure, Sammy Urwin and Justine Jones of Employed to Serve, (who were signed to Holy Roar before moving to Spinefarm Records in 2019) set up Church Road Records in order to release several albums that were supposed to be released through the label, including Svalbard's When I Die, Will I Get Better?, Palm Reader's Sleepless and Respire's Black Line.[17][18][19][20] Holy Roar was officially dissolved on 30 March 2021.[21]
Other activities
In 2016, Holy Roar Records established a monthly subscription service to allow fans of the label to keep up to date with new releases on a tier basis.[22]
Since April 2015, Holy Roar Records has been producing podcasts[23] hosted by Mario John Gambardella featuring different guests and their perspectives on the UK music scene.
Since 2010, Holy Roar Records has been a member of Pink Mist, a London-based promoter and label collective alongside Big Scary Monsters and Blood & Biscuits. The idea behind this collective was to create an alliance whereby resources were pooled in order to promote their bands to a wider audience.[24] 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".[25] 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, Tangled Talk joined the collective[26] to complete the current line-up.
In 2012, they released a download-only free compilation "Hello Pink Mist Volume 2"[27] to coincide with the launch of their new website[28] and in this same year, they were nominated for the Association of Independent Music Awards for "Best Small Label".[29] In 2013, Pink Mist announced a pop-up shop in Boxpark,[30] 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[31] featuring live performances. Pink Mist was also listed in The Guardian's "The 10 British Record Labels Defining the Sound of 2014".[32]
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 active and currently operates via Pink Mist live gigs which are run by the promoter, Ross Allmark (DICE FM). In honour of Holy Roar Records' tenth birthday, Pink Mist presented the Holy Roar X (HRX)[33] 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 more. Pink Mist is now predominately a live event promotion company.
In 2015, Holy Roar Records launched a new sister label, Truthseeker Music, headed up by Holy Roar intern Alex Leat.[34]
Artists
- A.A. Williams
- Abolition
- Antares
- ANTETHIC
- Apologies, I Have None
- Baptists
- Bastions
- Black Mass
- Bloody Panda
- Body Hound
- Bongripper
- Boss Keloid
- Bossk
- Brontide
- Brutality Will Prevail
- Burning Vow
- Calm the Fire
- Chariots
- Chronicles of Adam West
- Coliseum
- Conan
- Conjurer
- Crocus
- Crossbreaker
- Cthulhu Youth
- Cursed Earth
- Cutting Pink with Knives
- Daggers
- Dananananaykroyd
- Desolated
- Devil Sold His Soul
- Down I Go
- Dream Boats
- Easy Hips
- Eisberg
- Elephant Tree
- Employed to Serve
- Enabler
- End Reign
- The Ergon Carousel
- Eulogy
- Fall of Messiah
- Full of Hell
- Gallops
- Gallows
- Garganjua
- Giants
- Giver
- Goodtime Boys
- The Ghost of a Thousand
- Grazes
- Group of Man
- HAAST
- Hang the Bastard
- Helpless
- Holy Fawn
- Holy State
- Human Future
- IDYLLS
- Ithaca
- Jackals
- Kayo Dot
- Kerouac
- Last Witness
- Le Swing
- Livimørket
- Lonewolves
- Make Do and Mend
- Manuscripts
- Maths
- MINE
- Minors
- Modern Rituals
- Møl
- More Than Life
- Monolith
- Narrow Head
- The_Network
- Never Again
- Nibiru
- OHHMS
- Pariso
- Phoenix Bodies
- Pijn
- Portrayal of Guilt
- Pulled Apart By Horses
- Rend
- Renounced
- Rolo Tomassi
- Rosa Valle
- Rough Hands
- Run, WALK!
- Self Loathing
- Sirs
- Slabdragger
- Slow Crush
- Strife
- Svalbard
- Talons
- This is Hell
- The Tidal Sleep
- Throats
- Throes
- Tortuga
- Touché Amoré
- Trash Talk
- Up River
- We Lost The Sea
- We Never Learned to Live
- We'll Die Smiling
- Will Haven
- Witch Cult
- Wren
- Years Of Abuse
- Young Legionnaire
- Youves
Releases
Albums
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.
Since then, Holy Roar Records have released the following via cassette:
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In 2016, Holy Roar Records contributed an exclusive song to the Alcopop! Records Record Store Day release "Sensible Record Labels" Volume 2 compilation.
References
- Footnotes
- "Label Focus #9: Holy Roar Records". Drowned in Sound. Archived from the original on 10 January 2008. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Interview 015 - Holy Roar Records". This Is Fubar Productions. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Bearded Label Love: Holy Roar". Bearded Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Interview: Alex Fitzpatrick of Holy Roar Records". Punktastic. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Holy Roar Announce Stage at Offset". diymag. 14 July 2010. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Holy Roar to curate stage at Incubate". Holy Roar. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Holy Roar Records signs deal with Shock Records". Holy Roar. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Holy Roar to be official label partner to ArcTanGent festival". Holy Roar. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Holy Roar Alternative Escape". After Dark. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Metal Hammer Golden Gods Nominees". Planet Mosh. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "AIM Awards 2016 Nominees Announced". Proper Distribution. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- Anon. (8 September 2020). "Rolo Tomassi "End Relationship" With Holy Roar Records After Label's Founder Is Accused Of Sexual Abuse". Kerrang!. Archived from the original on 31 January 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- BrooklynVegan Staff (8 September 2020). "Holy Roar Records founder accused of rape, several bands respond". BrooklynVegan. Archived from the original on 14 May 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- "Holy Roar Records employees quit following rape allegations against founder".
- "Holy Roar Records Founder Accused of Rape, Multiple Bands + Entire Staff Quit Label". Loudwire.
- Hatfield, Amanda (9 September 2020). "Holy Roar founder denies rape allegations & resigns; several bands cut ties with label". BrooklynVegan. Archived from the original on 30 January 2023. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
- Anon. (18 September 2020). "Svalbard Will Still Be Releasing Their New Album, But On A New Record Label". Kerrang!. Archived from the original on 20 July 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- therazorsedge (2 October 2020). "Palm Reader Sign to Church Road Records and Announce Live Stream". The Razor's Edge. Archived from the original on 16 January 2021. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- "Respire join the Church Road family with forthcoming album 'Black Line'". Idioteq. 8 October 2020. Archived from the original on 6 October 2022. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
- Alexander, Phil (9 March 2021). "Employed To Serve's Justine Jones: "Putting spotlights on women in the industry is important"". Kerrang!. Archived from the original on 29 March 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- "HOLY ROAR RECORDS LTD overview - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
- "Holy Roar Records Bandcamp". Bandcamp. Retrieved 6 February 2017.
- "Holy Roar Podcasts". Itunes. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Label Profile: Pink Mist". diymag. 15 April 2011. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Hello Pink Mist". Banquet Records. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Tangled Talk Official". Tangled Talk. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Hello Pink Mist Volume 2". Punktastic. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Pink Mist". Pink Mist. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "AIM Independent Music 2012 Nominees". Huffington Post. 27 September 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Pink Mist Boxpark". Thrash Hits. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Relentless x Pink Mist". Culture Compass. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "10 Best Record Labels". The Guardian. 19 April 2014. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "Pink Mist - HRX". Pink Mist. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
- "NEWS: Holy Roar Records launch sister label, Truthseeker Music!". DEAD PRESS! | Alternative music news, reviews, interviews and more!. Retrieved 11 December 2017.
- General references
Interviews with Alex Fitzpatrick of Holy Roar Records