Longtime collaborators and inventive powerhouses Leo Valeri (Model of Sacrifice, Shibori Threads) and Ryan “Tuck” O’Leary (Match For A King, Beacon Administration Group) have formally launched Papercut Recordings — a brand new dwelling for uncompromising artists.
The label is constructed on one pressing precept: return inventive management to the artists. By pairing equitable funding with clear enterprise practices and lived expertise as musicians, Papercut Recordings goals to empower artists via partnership, not exploitation.
“If there’s one factor we have seen sufficient of, it is seeing new expertise get steamrolled,” Valeri and O’Leary mentioned. “Our mission is to return inventive management and energy to the individuals who earned it – the artists. We offer truthful, clear funding paired with real-world experience from people who find themselves metallic musicians themselves, dwelling and respiratory the scene alongside you. It is about partnership, respect, and constructing one thing genuine collectively.”
To mark its launch, Papercut Recordings has introduced its first two signings:
- Blackshape – whose shadowy, cerebral mix of post-metal, math rock, and ambient minimalism has earned them a popularity for emotionally brutal, cinematic compositions.
- Limbs – the Florida-born, northeast-based post-hardcore disruptors identified for his or her ferocious stay reveals and sharp, emotionally uncooked songwriting.
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