When one door closes, another opens.
Last year, people were shocked when independent label Victory Records announced that they were being purchased by Concord Records for an undisclosed amount of money, with Billboard claiming that the price was around “$27 million-$34 million for the Victory company.” But now ex-CEO/founder Tony Brummel and his team are back with a new label: Mission Two Entertainment.
“Same job, different name, bigger mission,” Brummel promised in a press release. “I started Victory Records in 1989 with $800.00. I made a different deal and I have not submitted like so many other ‘independents.’ I kept the entire staff. Let’s go!”
Mission Two Entertainment broke the news yesterday that they have already signed three bands: NYHC legends Cro-Mags, recently reunited 80’s hardcore troupe Insight, and hardcore punk supergroup Don’t Sleep. Both Don’t Sleep and Cro-Mags were previously signed with Victory.
The new label also launched Amuxe Publishing, their “cutting edge, dynamic, and risk taking independent music publishing entity.” This company works with other artists besides Mission Two Entertainment acts, like American Dreamer, Brodie Z, Jess Weimer, Sonic Graffiti, and Vein Collector.
The inaugural release will be delivered by Cro-Mags and is titled In The Beginning. The record drops June 19. In The Beginning is the first new full-length record by the hardcore legends in over two decades. A lyric video for “The Final Test” is out now.
As previously mentioned here on Punk Goes Prenatt, “Victory’s catalog will be working under Concord’s Craft Recordings, who own the back catalogs for artists and bands like AFI, Social Distortion, and former Victory Records band Taking Back Sunday…As for future releases, Concord’s chief business development officer Steve Salm said in a statement, ‘to the extent that we put out new albums from existing artists, Fearless [Records] is the most likely home [to market such albums].'”
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