Skeleton Realm Records

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Skeleton Realm Records was an indie record label in Atlanta, Georgia founded by Doug Bleichner and Sam Wagstaff in 2013. The label specialized in releasing music by local and regional artists, with a focus on gorbcore, orbcore, and mind rock. Skeleton Realm has released albums by such bands as Stevie Dinner, The Clap, Lexie, Fantasy Guys, Breathers, Doug Bleichner, Sam Wagstaff, Mono Lisa, Jake Thomson, Frankie Broyles, Danthan Brail and Meat.[1]

An early iteration of Skeleton Realm Record's logo

Comedy Records

 
Album cover for The Insect World, a Skeleton Realm Records release.

Skeleton Realm Records released a comedy album in 2016 entitled "The Crow, LIVE at the Cloaca Lounge!" - an hour long rambling cacophonous series of "bird-screams" interspersed with jokes told by an Atlanta amateur stand up comedian named "The Crow."[2] The album was recorded at The Cloaca Lounge, a now defunct bird themed bar and club in Atlanta, Ga. The album was funded by Johnson & Johnson as an advertisement for the over the counter pain killer, Tylenol. The album has received largely negative reviews and was deemed inappropriate by local socialites.

This was the first and last comedy record Skeleton Realm Records would ever produce.

MeMoreTV Acquisition

In 2020, MeMoreTV purchased Skeleton Realm, this included Skeleton Realm Records, which had become a somewhat neglected area of the company. MeMoreTV absorbed Skeleton Realm in exchange for paying off its insurmountable debt but kept Bleichner and Wagstaff as CEO's and official "Brand Thought Leaders."

According to an official statement by MeMoreTV in 2021, "All musical content will now be released through our new venture, Fecal Spring." The company also stated that "...the Skeleton Realm brand that listeners have come to know and love will still feature what fans have always wanted; Doug Bleichner and Sam Wagstaff talking at them and making video content... [Skeleton Realm LIVE] fulfills that need and [Skeleton Realm] will exist solely as a visual entertainment brand moving forward."





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