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Head Not Found is a Norwegian record label, a sublabel of Voices Music & Entertainment, specializing in various heavy metal subgenres. They describe the genres as Black, Death, Doom, Thrash, Gothic, Viking Metal and Ambient. Their parent label is Voices of Wonder. Head Not Found was founded in 1992 and its offices are in Oslo. [1]

Contents

The original founder was the Norwegian zine editor Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen. [2]

Artists

The following artists released albums through Head Not Found: [3]

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References

  1. "Head Not Found on Encyclopedia Metallum" . Retrieved 6 June 2012.
  2. Dayal Patterson, Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult, Feral House, 2013, p. 238.
  3. VME release catalog Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine