Cleopatra Records is a Los Angeles -based independent record label that has the sub-labels Hypnotic Records , Goldenlane, Stardust, Purple Pyramid, Deadline and X-Ray Records .
3-615: The Black Bible is a various artists compilation album released on October 13, 1998 by Cleopatra Records . Keith Farley of AllMusic credits The Black Bible for starting well but criticizes it for stagnating once the second disc starts and presenting "more than 30 tracks of middling-to-downright-obnoxious industrial music." Adapted from The Black Bible liner notes. Cleopatra Records Founded in January 1992 by Brian Perera, it specializes in gothic rock , deathrock , hard rock , heavy metal and reissues of out-of-print music. It
6-875: Is known for its compilations, usually collections of cover songs performed by bands signed to the label. In the mid-1990s, Cleopatra released tribute albums of goth, industrial bands covering artists such as The Cure , Siouxsie and the Banshees , The Sisters of Mercy , Fields of the Nephilim , Christian Death , Alien Sex Fiend , Specimen , Sex Gang Children and New Order . Other goth and industrial acts were compiled to cover songs by AC/DC , Pink Floyd , The Smashing Pumpkins (see: A Gothic-Industrial Tribute to The Smashing Pumpkins ), Guns N' Roses , Dead Can Dance and Skinny Puppy . Current and previous notable artists include: Gary Numan , Kat Parsons , Electric Hellfire Club , Switchblade Symphony , Leæther Strip , X Marks
9-552: The Pedwalk , Mephisto Walz , Kill Switch...Klick , Information Society , Heaven 17 , Genitorturers , Download , Rozz Williams , Missing Persons , Razed In Black and Blackburner . Today, Cleopatra is largely funded by its sub-labels ( Hypnotic Records , Deadline Music, Stardust Records, Master Classics, Magick Records, Purple Pyramid and Goldenlane Records), which between them offer prog rock reissues, metal and techno acts, as well as pop and easy-listening tributes. Having relegated
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