Contact Information
Send me an email for any questions or inquiries about orders, trades, wholesale requests, demo submissions, reviews, promotion, etc.
Email: hypnoticdirgerecords@hotmail.com
Emails about order inquiries are always answered within 24 hours. Allow up to one week for any other inquiries but the majority of the time, all emails are answered within 24-48 hours.
Generally, e-mails sent to the above-mentioned email address are given priority over e-mails sent through myspace mail.
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DEMO SUBMISSION
If you wish to be a part of this lable, first off send me an email and let me know that you plan to send me a demo. I can answer any questions you may have on there or we can discuss your music if you wish. However that is as far as it will go through email messages.
You MUST send a physical demo in the mail. I will not listen to myspace profiles and I defidently will not acccept download links to listen to your demo online. There are too many requests for this every day and I do not have the room on my computer, or the time to constantly be downloading demo files. Don't be cheap!! Realize the fact that I will be spending hundreds and possibly thousands of dollars on your music if I accept you onto the roster. Spending a couple bucks on postage is not that big of a deal, and it leaves a better impression anyway! HDR is dedicated to its artists, and in turn expects the same kind of dedication from the bands who wish to be on the roster.
It is best to be creative while sending a demo. A Burned CD with tracklistings and info on your project/band is fine, and ultimetely it will be the music that speaks for you, but remember that the demo I receive is what will represent your project/band so whatever you feel best represents what you are trying to portray through your music/imagery is what you should send.
Please keep in mind, what we are about as a lable when sending a demo. I am not interested in hearing shitty basement black metal recordings about satan, fire and the oncoming apocalypse. What I want on the lable is something thoughtful, innovative, inteligent and/or depressive. As far as genres go, I am fairly open-minded. It doesn''t neccesarily have to be depressive black metal or ambient music, and it doesn't have to be 'dark' either. I am open to almost all genres of music and the further you can distance yourself from the thousand of clones that are out there, the better. Just use your best judgement when determining if you think you are a good fit to join our roster!
UPDATE - 12/07/09
***Due to financial reasons and time contraints, it is very unlikely that I will be signing any more bands for the foreseeable future unless it is too good of an oppurtunity to pass up. I apologize for these devolopments but due to low sales and being unable to break even on our activities, It is impossible for me to release another band/project's material.
If I take weeks or months to reply to a demo submission request, that either means I am not at all interested, or simply do not have the time to reply to endless requests day in and day out. Realize the workload that comes with running this lable and that I have never made a cent running this lable, but simply do it for my love of music and art. I am not required to reply back to emails that I have no interest in. It is not easy to run a lable properly by yourself, no matter how "underground" it may be and still have time to deal with other aspects and interests in my life.
With that said, do not let the above stated scare you away from asking about a demo submission but keep all this in mind while doing so.
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HYPNOTIC DIRGE RECORDS MAILING ADDRESS
(NEW)
Hypnotic Dirge Records
335 5th ave. NW
Swift Current, SK, S9H 0W7
CANADA
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