Pizza of Death Records
{{Short description|Japanese record label}}
{{Primary sources|date=September 2010}}
{{infobox record label
| image =
| parent = Toy's Factory (1994–?)
Howling Bull (?–1999)
| founded = 1994
| founder = Ken Yokoyama
| distributor = Toy's Factory
| country = Japan
| genre = Punk rock
| url = http://www.pizzaofdeath.com/
}}
Pizza of Death is a Japanese record label founded in Tokyo in 1994 by Hi-Standard guitarist Ken Yokoyama. It was created as a record label inside a larger record label, Toy's Factory. Pizza of Death then switched to under the Howling Bull label, before establishing itself as fully independent in 1999 with the release of Hi-Standard's Making the Road.Japanesewiki{{Circular reference|date=September 2015}} The label currently holds 22 bands, 5 of which are based in The United States and Europe. One of these is Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, which is associated with several well-known American punk musicians from the United States, including producer and bassist Fat Mike of NOFX.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pizzaofdeath.com/index_e.html |title=Pizza of Death |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722025212/http://www.pizzaofdeath.com/index_e.html |archivedate=2012-07-22 }}
Toy's Factory currently distributes this label.
Current bands
Japanese bands:
- Water Closet
- Comeback my Daughters
- Moga the 5
- Toast
- BBQ CHICKENS
- Hawaiian6
- Razors Edge
- The Genbaku Onanies
- Ken Yokoyama
- Asparagus
- Slimeball
- Upper
- F.I.B.
- Garlic boys
- WANIMA
- Suspended 4th
- Sabasister
North American and European bands:
Compilations
References
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External links
- https://www.webcitation.org/69unxG8vC?url=http://www.pizzaofdeath.com/index_e.html
- {{discogs label|Pizza Of Death Records}}
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Category:Mass media companies based in Tokyo