quality underground metal distros
 

I didn't quite know where to put this, but I figure this is better than the Lounge.

Anyways, my question is simple; I'm looking for quality metal distros, that have reasonable prices, and a decent selection of tape/vinyl. I stress the tape/vinyl angle, because I really don't see the point in purchasing CDs anymore.

Hells Headbangers Records is alright. I've always gotten quality service from them, their prices aren't the best but are tolerable, but the turnaround time is a bit much (around five business days).

Nuclear War Now! has a limited selection, and their prices always seem to be higher than those of HHR. That said, they generally have real gems in stock that would take crawling across several webstores to find.

Redstream has the most annoying search function in the world. Unless I'm missing something, they don't tell you (Item X) is out of stock in the search result page, but rather you have to click on the link to find out. This makes looking for limited release items a real headache. Still, their prices are good.

My favorite distro I've ever run across was Extremist Records, which was run by the guys in the grind band Drogheda. Seven inches were dirty cheap (like $6, max), free shipping could be achieved with orders as small as $30, and they'd always throw in random free stuff. Great turn around time, too. Yeah, the selection was limited, but still.... so cheap. Sadly, they no longer exist, :(

I haven't gone through the catalogue here or know anything about them really (so they might not have what you're looking for), I just came across them when I was looking for a summer job. Import and Domestic Extreme Metal Music - Metal Music Store

My OP was moved..... to the Stereo & Production Equipment forum. link

Am I the only one who thinks this was the most random place to movie this thread to?

Where does it belong? I'll move it there.

Rock/Metal forum. Moved.

My favourite Canadian distros:

Sepulchral Productions – more limited selection but lots of essential black, death metal bands with postage being free for Canadians (ran by the criminally underrated Frozen Shadows members).

Tour De Garde – good bm distro for demo tapes and cassettes. You might want to check this one out as well hip hop bunny hop, though I don’t know how much postage would be for the U.S. The tapes start at $6 Canadian as well.

Profound Lore – usually covers a wide range of genres, cheap prices, good postage for Canadians, never had any problems with them.


Trading boards are good as well both for albums that are OOP and second hand stuff.

FYI, Negative Existence/United Guttural still have their rather amazing sale going on. Up to 40% off for Negative Existence which is... amazing.