Record Label
German record label for EBM, Electro-Industrial, Dark Electro and Synthpop music. It was founded in early 1989 by [[artist:Andreas Tomalla]] (a.k.a. [[artist:Talla 2XLC]]) after leaving [[label:Techno Drome International]] and cancelling the contract with [[label:ZYX Records]]. The label's name 'Zoth Ommog' was taken from a character in Lin Carter's *'Xothic Legend Cycle'*, based on the Cthulhu Mythos of [[artist:H.P. Lovecraft]]. Under the tagline *'Zoth Ommog (...for the toughest Aggrepo)'* Talla continued the early program of Techno Drome International with artists like [[artist:Bigod 20]], [[artist:Pankow]], [[artist:Aircrash Bureau]], [[artist:Leæther Strip]], [[artist:X Marks The Pedwalk]] (ex-[[artist:Scarecrow]]), [[artist:Armageddon Dildos]], [[artist:Orange Sector]] and many others. Besides companies such as [[label:Machinery Records]], [[label:Off Beat]], [[label:Energy Rekords]], [[label:Hypnobeat]] and [[label:Celtic Circle Productions]], Zoth Ommog was the driving force in the European electronic scene for almost one decade. After Talla decided to go for a more Trance/Techno direction with the labels [[label:Suck Me Plasma]], [[label:Technoclub Records]] and [[label:Tetsuo]] the record label was handed over to the A&R control of [[artist:Sven Freuen]]. When Freuen decided to leave Zoth Ommog in 1994, the label was run by Alexander Hergenhahn for a short period (about 7 month) before it was taken over by [[artist:Torben Schmidt]] ([[artist:Lights Of Euphoria]]) in 1995 (later founder of [[label:Infacted Recordings]]) who brought the label back to former strength by signing acts such as [[artist:Funker Vogt]], [[artist:Front 242]], [[artist:Numb]], [[artist:Front Line Assembly]], [[artist:In Strict Confidence]] and [[artist:Decoded Feedback]]. After two years, [[artist:Dennis Ostermann]] (In Strict Confidence) was added to the label as its promoter. Schmidt and Ostermann left the label in late 1998 right before it went under in late 1999. The last A&R for Zoth Ommog were [[artist:Andreas Lechleiter]] and [[artist:Vernon Baur]] with only releasing 4 CDs within the last 12 months of the label's existence. Some of the artists went to Zoth Ommog's unofficial successor [[label:Bloodline]] The labels [[label:Metropolis]] and [[label:Cleopatra]] re-released a number of Zoth Ommog albums in the U.S. From the ZOT CD 100 ([[release:133330]]) the label uses the following format of the catalogue number for all releases (Maxis, EPs, LPs): CD ZOT XXX. Therefore the last "below-100" Zoth Ommog release is [[release:152081]] (ZOT CD 19). Zoth Ommog was a label of [[label:298290]]. Distributed by [[label:37258]] til 1997, then Distributed by [[label:114148]].