CASTLE COMMUNICATIONS
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Independent
label: Castle Communications Plc was a British
independent record label and home video distributor founded in 1983 by Terry
Shand, Cliff Dane, and Jon Beecher. (Its video imprint was called Castle
Vision.) Starting out as a mid-price catalog reissue specialist, with labels
including The Collector Series and Dojo, Castle grew into the largest European
owner of repertoire outside the major record companies. In the 1980s they were
notable for releasing many heavy metal compilations albums under the series name
Metal Killers. Interest in these licensed releases led them to form their own
heavy metal imprint Raw Power, to sign and promote new rock acts, rather than to
just license older product from other more established labels. The first signing
to the Raw Power label was the NWOBHM act Hell's Belles, releasing their debut
album and single in 1985. After several years, the Raw Power imprint was retired
with the waning of heavy metal's popularity in the UK.The company was acquired
by the American music distributor Alliance Entertainment in
1994, by 1999 the label ceased to be used, being replaced by Castle Music as it
was absorbed into Sanctuary Records Group Ltd. The label dissolved when
Sanctuary became a subsidiary of Universal Music Group in
2007. Distributed By Castle Communications
Records.
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