Founding
World Serpent was well known for distributing music by many post-industrial, apocalyptic folk, neofolk, avant-garde and otherwise esoteric or experimental artists, such as Death In June through New European Recordings|NER, Current 93 through Durtro, Sol Invictus through Tursa, Coil through Threshold House, Nurse With Wound through United Dairies,and many others. Many of these artists also ended up collaborating with or being influenced by one another, causing the World Serpent name to become synonymous with many of the artists and labels distributed through the company throughout the 1990s and into the early 2000s. It is testament to the legacy that World Serpent left behind, that they still provoke reaction, with people still debating about them, nearly a decade after they ceased to be. They pushed boundaries, broke new ground, and flew in the face of the music industry. The blueprint they left behind has been copied and much imitated,with their influence still being seen today in many of the new breed of internet labels.
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