Serge Manzato and Denis Halleux joined the label in April and July of that year.
The three of us are friends, and we equally own and manage the label.
We launched the label according to our passion for music and our desire to support artists and bands that we admire.
Although we come from different musical backgrounds, we all fell in love with music in our childhood.
Initially music enthusiasts, some of us have also been active in the music scene for years.
We all have our area of expertise and are highly complementary in the label management.
MEUSE MUSIC RECORDS+EVENTS is an independent music label, mail order and events promoter company for
Atmospheric/Melodic Black/Doom, Funeral Doom, Black, Post-Black, ..., Shoegaze, ..., and everything we like in between...
We are based in Liège, Belgium, on the banks of the Meuse river, from which the label takes its name.
Our production prices are fair, and we don't artificially inflate production delays.
We work with manufacturers who are not here to ruin your music or your/our business!
We promote your work and releases through our own promotional platform and campaigns, which are accessible to a large panel of contacts
active in specialised music press and webzines, as well as reviewers active on social media and in print.
We can also take care of the storage, selling and distribution of your products, either globally or in part, depending on the chosen collaboration solution.
If you need a recording studio and/or a sound engineer to finalise your work, we can put you in touch with great people from all over the world.
Our goal is to promote underground music and support the artists and bands we like.
Nothing more, nothing less.
From this perspective, our mission is to help artists and bands produce physical formats of their music and offer it to the world in a form that is different from the digital consumerist model.
CDs and vinyl records are beautiful and desirable objects to many people, including us.
We consider each submission and request on a case-by-case basis, and our deals are built in collaboration with you.
We have ready-made deals and terms of business, but everything remains possible and adaptable!
We want to see our artists, bands and label grow together and become known and recognised for their artistic work, while also earning money to keep projects and the label itself alive.
If you share our views on artistic matters and the music business, give us the opportunity to listen to your music and discuss your requirements!
We don't sell it on our pages, but you're free to promote it on yours.
We consider digital music sales and streaming platforms to be the biggest organised theft of all time and a huge disrespect to artists and bands and their work.
In our view, such sales only generate piracy and a noticeable lack of sales of physical products.
We'd like to live in a world where musicians could focus on being musicians and selling their music,
rather than becoming unpaid employees of streaming majors travelling the world selling T-shirts just to barely make a living.
We believe that underground music should retain its underground essence and we prefer to leave the digital music market to mainstream artists and bands,
for whom digital music can eventually generates real income.
We do not represent you, your physical products or your merchandise at festivals, concerts and other venues, but we will be present at our own events with your physical products.
The label is not a booking agency. But we're always keen to help you find dates and locations for you to play live. This is for 'our' artists/bands.
Similarly, while we are not a management agency, we are always happy to provide advice on matters unrelated to physical products and production topics.