Tooth & Nail Records

Tooth & Nail Records
Founded	1993 (1993)
Founder	Brandon Ebel
Distributors	US Catalog: Capitol/EMI CMG (1994–2013) RED Music (2013–present) International Catalog: EMI/Universal (1994–2013) Sony Music (2013–present)
Genre	Christian rock, pop rock, rock, punk, emo, metal, metalcore
Country of origin	United States
Location	Seattle, Washington
Official website	toothandnail.com

Tooth & Nail Records is a record label ^[1] founded by Brandon Ebel in California in November 1993. The label later moved to Seattle where it is today.

History

Brandon Ebel and Michael Knott conceived the label as a joint venture, before Knott backed out. ^{[2] [3]} Prior to forming Tooth & Nail, Ebel worked for Frontline Records. ^[4]

Tooth & Nail's first album released was Wish for Eden's Pet the Fish. ^[5] In 2002, the label bought out Takehold Records. ^{[6] [7]}

In 2013, Brandon Ebel sold the Tooth & Nail music catalog to Capitol Christian Music Group (formerly EMI Christian Music Group) and bought back the 50% stake in Tooth & Nail formerly owned by EMI, making it an independent record label. It retained rights to all future releases with a new distributor, RED Distribution. ^[8]

Overview

Eight Tooth & Nail-affiliated albums have been RIAA-certified as gold for sales of 500,000 or more copies. The label had one of its greatest successes when Underoath's Define the Great Line debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 2006. ^[9]

NPR described the label as having "altered the course of the Christian rock industry by launching and legitimizing the careers of MxPx, The O.C. Supertones and Underoath." ^[10]

RIAA gold certifications

Year	Artist	Album
2004	Jeremy Camp	Carried Me: The Worship Project
2002		Stay
2004		Restored
2006		Beyond Measure
2008		There Will Be a Day [11]
2006	Underoath	Define the Great Line
2004		They're Only Chasing Safety
2022	7eventh Time Down	God is on the Move [12]
2005	Kutless	Strong Tower
2006		Live from Portland [13]
1998	MxPx	Slowly Going the Way of the Buffalo

Nominations and awards

Year	Artist	Album / Song	Award	Result / Category	Other
2006	Norma Jean	O God, the Aftermath	Grammy	Nominated - Best Recording Package	Solid State Records
2007	Fair	The Best Worst-Case Scenario	Grammy	Nominated - Best Recording Package
	Underoath	"Writing on the Walls"	Grammy	Nominated - Best Short Form Music Video	Solid State Records/Tooth & Nail Records
2008	The Fold	Secrets Keep You Sick	Grammy	Nominated - Best Recording Package
2009	Hawk Nelson	Hawk Nelson Is My Friend	Grammy	Nominated - Best Recording Package	BEC Recordings/Tooth & Nail Records
	Jeremy Camp	Speaking Louder Than Before	Grammy	Nominated - Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album	BEC Recordings
	Underoath	Lost in the Sound of Separation	Grammy	Nominated - Best Recording Package	Solid State Records

Structure

Solid State Records
Parent company	Tooth & Nail Records
Founded	1997 (1997)
Founder	Brandon Ebel
Distributors	Capitol Christian Music Group (US; 1993–2013), RED (US; 2013–present), Sony Music (Worldwide)
Genre	Heavy metal, hardcore punk, metalcore
Country of origin	United States
Location	Seattle, Washington
Official website	solidstaterecords.com

Tooth & Nail has multiple current and former imprints:

• Solid State Records distributes metal and hardcore albums ^{[4] [14]} While it is primarily a Christian label, it has signed several bands with Christian members which don't label themselves as Christian bands, including Stretch Arm Strong, ^[15] Gwen Stacy, ^[16] He Is Legend, ^[17] the Famine, ^[18] Training for Utopia, ^[19] and the Agony Scene.
• BEC (Brandon Ebel Company) Recordings, a Christian rock record label that was formed in 1997 in partnership with EMI Christian Music Group.
• Plastiq Musiq (founded by Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric) primarily signed electronic music artists. Their collaboration with Tooth & Nail ended in 2001. ^[4]

Notable artists

Tooth & Nail Records

Current

• Emery
• John Van Deusen
• My Epic
• Mike Mains & The Branches
• Slick Shoes
• Tyson Motsenbocker

source: ^[20]

Former

• Aaron Sprinkle
• Abandoned Pools
• Acceptance
• Ace Troubleshooter
• The Almost
• Anberlin
• Anchor & Braille
• And Then There Were None
• AP2
• Artifex Pereo
• As Cities Burn
• The Blamed
• Bleach
• Blenderhead
• Blessed by a Broken Heart
• Blindside
• Bloodshed
• Bon Voyage
• Born Blind
• Brave Saint Saturn
• The Brothers Martin
• Capital Lights
• CHATTERbOX
• Children 18:3
• The Classic Crime
• Copeland
• Craig's Brother
• Crash Rickshaw
• The Crucified
• Damien Jurado
• Danielson
• Dead Poetic
• The Deadlines
• Death Therapy
• The Deluxtone Rockets
• The Dingees
• Disciple
• Discover America
• Dogwood
• A Dream Too Late
• Everdown
• Falling Up
• Family Force 5
• Far-Less
• Fighting Jacks
• Fine China
• FM Static
• Focal Point
• Focused
• The Fold
• For Love Not Lisa
• Frodus
• Further Seems Forever
• Ghoti Hook
• Aaron Gillespie
• Halo Friendlies
• Hangnail
• Havalina
• Hawk Nelson
• Hearts Like Lions
• Holland
• Hyland
• The Huntingtons
• I Am Empire
• Icon for Hire
• Ivoryline
• Jonezetta
• Joy Electric
• The Juliana Theory
• Kings Kaleidoscope
• Klank
• The Letter Black
• The Lonely Hearts
• Love & Death
• Lucerin Blue
• Luxury
• Mae
• Mantric
• Matt & Toby
• mewithoutYou
• Mike Knott
• Morella's Forest
• Mortal
• MxPx
• Neon Horse
• New Empire
• Nine Lashes
• Ninety Pound Wuss
• Number One Gun
• The O.C. Supertones
• Overcome
• Pedro the Lion (David Bazan)
• Plankeye
• P.O.D.
• Poor Old Lu
• Project 86
• Puller
• Queens Club
• Roadside Monument
• Rocky Loves Emily
• Run Kid Run
• Ruth
• Sainthood Reps
• Search the City
• Secret and Whisper
• The Send
• Sent by Ravens
• Seventh Day Slumber
• Showbread
• Side Walk Slam
• Since October
• Spoken
• Squad Five-O
• Starflyer 59
• Stavesacre
• Strongarm
• Swimming with Dolphins
• Sullivan
• Terminal
• Thousand Foot Krutch
• Twothirtyeight
• We Are the City
• The Welcome Wagon
• Unashamed
• The Undecided
• Underoath
• Value Pac
• Velour 100
• Waking Ashland
• Watashi Wa
• The Wedding
• Write This Down
• XXI

BEC Recordings

Current

• 7eventh Time Down
• Ashes Remain
• Cory Asbury
• Disciple
• Jordan St. Cyr
• Kings Kaleidoscope
• Kutless
• Lion of Judah
• Rhett Walker
• Tasha Layton
• The Young Escape

Former

• Aaron Gillespie
• Ace Troubleshooter
• Adam Cappa
• Adie
• All Things New
• Among the Thirsty
• An Epic No Less
• Jessa Anderson
• Bon Voyage
• Freddie Bruno
• Cadet
• Jeremy Camp
• Citizens
• The Cross Movement
• David Dunn
• Deepspace5
• The Dingees
• The Echoing Green
• Everman
• Falling Up
• Fearless BND
• Flight 180
• Fold Zandura
• Ghost Ship
• The Glorious Unseen
• Hangnail
• Hawk Nelson
• iLL Harmonics
• KJ-52
• Dustin Kensrue
• Joy Electric
• The O.C. Supertones
• Phillip LaRue
• Jadon Lavik
• Lost Dogs
• LPG
• Mainstay
• Manafest
• Andrew Marcus
• Mars Ill
• Sarah Masen
• Matty Mullins
• The Museum
• New Breed
• Nine Lashes
• Bebo Norman
• Peace 586
• Peace of Mind
• Pivitplex
• Plankeye
• Project 86
• Propaganda
• Rapture Ruckus
• Jaymes Reunion
• .rod laver
• Ryan Stevenson
• Seven Places
• Sev Statik
• Seventh Day Slumber (active, currently with Rockfest Records) ^[21]
• ShineBright
• Shuree
• Smalltown Poets
• Ryan Stevenson
• Jon Micah Sumrall
• Sup the Chemist
• Chris Taylor
• Telecast
• Tunnel Rats
• Ultrabeat
• Value Pac
• Adam Watts
• Josh White
• Sherri Youngward

Solid State Records

Current

• Becoming the Archetype
• The Devil Wears Prada ^[22]
• Extol ^[23]
• Fit for a King
• Haste the Day
• Miss May I ^[24]
• Norma Jean
• Oh, Sleeper
• The Ongoing Concept
• Phinehas ^[25]
• Silent Planet
• Wolves at the Gate

Former

Active former artists

• Advent
• The Agony Scene
• As Cities Burn
• As They Sleep
• August Burns Red
• Azusa
• Beloved
• Blindside
• Death Therapy ^[26]
• Demon Hunter
• Destroy the Runner
• Emery
• Few Left Standing
• Forevermore
• He Is Legend
• Life in Your Way
• Living Sacrifice
• Mantric
• MyChildren MyBride
• My Heart to Fear
• Once Nothing
• Showbread
• Soul Embraced
• Stretch Arm Strong
• Trenches
• Underoath
• Zao

Disbanded

• 3rd Root
• Bloodshed (members went on to join The O.C. Supertones and Project 86)
• Born Blind (members also in No Innocent Victim)
• The Chariot (members in '68 and I Am Terrified)
• Cry of the Afflicted
• The Death Campaign (members also in Officer Negative)
• Embodyment (members went on to form The Famine)
• Eso-Charis (vocalist Cory Brandan Putman now fronts Norma Jean, bassist Arthur Green and drummer Matthew Putman went on to join Living Sacrifice)
• The Famine (members also in Embodyment and Society's Finest)
• Focal Point (guitarist Ryan Clark went on to join Training for Utopia and is now in Demon Hunter)
• Gwen Stacy (members also in Once Nothing)
• Inhale Exhale (members also in Narcissus and Relient K)
• Luti-Kriss (went on to form Norma Jean)
• Officer Negative (members also formed The Death Campaign)
• Overcome (members in Some Dark Hallow and Sanhedrin)
• Selfmindead (members now in Benea Reach)
• Sever Your Ties
• Still Breathing
• Strongarm (members went on to form Further Seems Forever)
• Training for Utopia (members went on to form Demon Hunter)
• Twelve Gauge Valentine (members went on to join, Alesana, Swamp Basstard, and The Greenery)
• Warlord (members went on to Pilgrims and Roadside Monument)

On hiatus or inactive

• The Ascendicate (guitarist Ryan Helm went on to Demon Hunter, and start Damien Deadson)
• Dead Poetic (drummer Jesse Sprinkle currently working solo)
• Everdown (Urban Achiever Records)
• Figure Four (two members are currently with Comeback Kid)
• Lengsel (members now in Mantric)
• No Innocent Victim (members working for Facedown Records)
• Society's Finest
• Spitfire (Goodfellow Records; two members in Sunndrug)
• The Overseer (members in Project 86 and Wolves at the Gate)
• The Showdown (three members in Demon Hunter, one member in Still Remains)
• To Speak of Wolves (one member in Oh Sleeper)

See also

• Tooth & Nail Records discography
• List of record labels

References

1. "Capitol Christian Music Group Completes Acquisition of Tooth & Nail's Catalog, T&N to Re-Launch". Billboard. March 13, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
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19. "Demon Hunter Embrace Their Christian Band Status". Noisecreep. March 19, 2010. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
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22. Blabbermouth (September 24, 2018). "THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA Signs With SOLID STATE RECORDS". BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
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24. "Miss May I Enlist Bleeding Through, August Burns Red, Carnifex, Etc. Members For Newly Re-Recorded "Apologies Are For The Weak" Album". Theprp. July 10, 2024. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
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External links

• Official website
• Solid State Records