Equal Vision Records is an independent record label based in Albany, New York, specializing (with some exceptions) in the more hardcore or alternative-based rock genres.
Equal Vision Records was founded in the early 1990s by Ray Cappo (Youth of Today, Shelter, Better Than 1000).
In the beginning the label existed solely to distribute Shelter releases, but after label manager Steve Reddy bought EVR from Cappo in 1992, the focus was expanded and a wider variety of bands were brought on board.
The mid-to-late '90s saw a redoubling of the Equal Vision's hardcore efforts with such signings as Refused, One King Down, Ten Yard Fight, and Floorpunch. By the end of the '90s EVR found itself with an impressive stable of hardcore and punk bands, having added Bane, Trial, Converge and Saves the Day to its roster in the latter part of the decade.
Equal Vision has found recent mainstream success with the bands Coheed and Cambria and Armor For Sleep.
Current artists
- ActionReaction
- Alexisonfire
- Bane
- Before Today
- Betrayed
- Boysetsfire
- Chiodos
- Circa Survive
- Coheed and Cambria
- Fear Before the March of Flames
- Good Clean Fun
- Hot Cross
- Jonah Matranga
- Seemless
- Silent Drive
- The Fall of Troy
- The Snake The Cross The Crown
- The Sound of Animals Fighting
- Versus the Mirror
- Weerd Science
- YouInSeries
Inactive Roster
- 108
- Another Victim
- Armor For Sleep
- As Friends Rust
- Bars
- Bear vs. Shark
- Black Cross
- Breaking Pangaea
- Burn
- Codeseven
- Converge
- Copper
- Crown of Thornz
- Drowningman
- Earth Crisis
- Endicott
- Fairweather
- Fivespeed
- Floorpunch
- Give Up the Ghost
- H2O
- Hands Tied
- Killing Flame
- Liars Academy
- Man Will Surrender
- One King Down
- Prema
- Prevent Falls
- Project Kate
- Refused
- Saves the Day
- Serpico
- Shelter
- Shift
- Sick of it All
- Snapcase
- Ten Yard Fight
- The Hope Conspiracy
- The Rocking Horse Winner
- The Stryder
- This Day Forward
- Time in Malta
- Trial
- Understand
- Until the End
- Vaux