Revelation Records

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Revelation Records is an independent record label focusing originally primarily on hardcore punk. Formerly of New Haven, Connecticut, it is now based in Huntington Beach, California. It was founded in 1987 by owner Jordan Cooper, along with Ray Cappo of Youth of Today, with the sole intent of producing the Warzone Lower East Side Crew 7”. Within the year, they put out two more releases and a limited 4th pressing of Youth of Today’s Can’t Close My Eyes 7”, which had been originally released on Positive Force Records, just for the two of them to trade for vintage G. I.Joes and other action figures. In the first three years, the label put out 23 releases and pressed approximately 50,000 records, and it has continued to release an average of 7-8 albums a year.

Cappo left the business in 1988, to focus on his band Shelter and to start his own label Equal Vision Records (which he later sold to Youth Of Today roadie, former Revelation employee and friend, Steve Reddy), though his albums were still released by Revelation after that, and he also operated Supersoul Records.

Revelation, along with the bands it put out in the late 1980s, is usually credited with creating and cementing the “youth crew” sound of New York City hardcore, which bridged the gap from the earlier bands of almost a decade before and helped carry the music through the early 1990s. Those records firmly established Revelation’s reputation in the underground music scene.
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