| RECORD LABEL | BANDS AND/OR OTHER RELEVANT INFO |
| Armageddon Music | Holy Moses, etc. |
| Casket Records | Area 54, |
| Century Media | major label |
| CMC International | the home of lots of bands from the 80s |
| Columbia Records | major label |
| Cruz del Sur Music | Mahavatar, Widow, etc. |
| Dark Symphonies | Novembers Doom, Autumn Tears, Rain Fell Within, etc. |
| Elevate | progressive metal label: DGM, Fallin' Time & Power Of Omens |
| Earache | Music for the extreme generation |
| Elegy Records | |
| Evil Eye Records | Piston, Loomer, Clone, Fabulous Disaster, |
| EMI Music Germany | major label |
| Fat Wreck records | Punk label |
| Full Moon Productions | |
| Hall Of Sermon | Lacrimosa, Breath of Life, |
| Hammerheart | mainly black and death metal bands |
| Hate War Productions | |
| High Vaultage Records | famous for its reissues |
| Inside Out Music | Spock's Beard, Symphony X, Tiles and Vanden Plas |
| Kill Rock Stars | Sleater Kinney, Bangs, The Gossip, etc. |
| King Biscuit Entertainment Group | releases famous live concerts from the past |
| Laser's Edge | Progressive rock/metal label from the USA |
| Lion Music | Jarra |
| Limb Music Products & Publishing | Lana Lane, Ivory Tower, KenZiner, Rhapsody and Patrick Rondat |
| Lookout Records | The Eyeliners, The Donnas, Bratmobile, etc.etc. |
| Lost Disciple | |
| Magna Carta | Cairo, Dali's Dilemma, Magellan and Shadow Gallery |
| Mascot Records | home of several progressive bands |
| Massacre Records | Anvil, Pretty Maids, Majestic, Fates Warning, etc.etc. |
| Metal Blade Records | Heavy Metal label; needs no further introduction |
| Monster Records | for the true metal fanz!!! |
| Mausoleum Records | Blacklace, Killer, Ostrogoth, Spirit Web, etc. |
| Munster Records | record label in Spain, u.w. PUSSYCATS |
| Musea | French progressive rock label |
| Music For Nations | major label |
| Napalm Records | |
| Neat Records | NWOBHM label: Savage, Witchfynde, |
| Necropolis Records | |
| Nightmare Records | distributes independent and import hard rock and metal albums |
| Nocturnal Music | u.w. The Sins Of Thy Beloved |
| Noise Records | DORO, Elegy, Kamelot, |
| Now & Then | well-known AOR label: Dante Fox, Bob Catley, Survivor, etc.etc. |
| Nuclear Blast USA | Stratovarius, Hammerfall, Pegazus, |
| Nuclear Blast Germany | Stratovarius, Hammerfall, etc.etc. plus mailorder site |
| Omega Records | Avalon, Mind Masque and Time Machine |
| Osmose Productions | underground death/black metal label |
| Pink And Black records | Fabulous Disaster, The Flipsides |
| Point Music | Backslash, |
| Razor & Tie | famous for its re-issues on CD (VIXEN) |
| Renaissance Records | famous for its re-issues on CD |
| Roadrunner Records | largest independent label in the Netherlands |
| Rock Inc. | distribution & promotion label in The Netherlands |
| Shrapnel Records | mainly guitar orientated bands |
| Sister Records (Japan) | Lolita No.18, Droop, Mummy The Peepshow, etc.etc. |
| Sonic Age Records | Valkija, Overlorde, and many other bands |
| Sony Music | major label |
| Spitfire Records | major label: My Ruin |
| SPV/Steamhammer Records | major label: Doro, Blackmore's Night, Zed Yago, Lita Ford, etc. |
| Steel Cage Records | the 440's, Hammerlock, and many other bands |
| Think Tank Media | home of Lana Lane and Rocket Scientists |
| Thunderbaby records | the Great Girl-Group-Label for Cool Chicks! est. 1991 |
| Universal | major label |
| Virgin Records | major label |
| Warner Music Group | major label |