Hellhound Records was a German
record label during the late 1980s and 1990s, self-described as "the heaviest label on earth". They became known for putting out
doom metal, with artists such as
Saint Vitus and
The Obsessed. In the early 1990s Hellhound signed a number of
Maryland doom bands such as
Internal Void,
Iron Man,
Revelation,
Wretched and
Unorthodox.[1] They quickly became a prominent label in the doom metal genre. Some of the Hellhound releases were distributed in the US by
Noise Records and Noise began pressing some of the later releases after Hellhound's demise. Noise released a compilation entitled Pure Noise which featured a number of Hellhound bands along with many Noise bands as well. Only a few Hellhound releases were re-released by current labels, such as
Southern Lord Records and Japan's
Leaf Hound Records.