Counterfeit Music Ltd was founded in 2023 out of Cleveland, Ohio — a city shaped by heavy industry, working-class resilience, and a long tradition of underground culture that never needed anyone's permission to exist. The label was started with a straightforward conviction: the most uncompromising music deserves a home built with the same level of conviction.

The catalog spans extreme metal, heavy electronic, and underground hip-hop. Three worlds with little overlap on the surface united by a sound from outside the mainstream's comfort zone, by artists who prioritized impact over accessibility and refused to soften their edges for a wider audience. That's the thread that runs through everything released under this name. Abnormal Form, Future Instinct, Slow Murder, and One Take Jake represent the first chapter of the roster that shares that exceptional standard.

Counterfeit Music provides real support and infrastructure to artists we believe in without asking for any music ownership, creative control, or compromise in return. Artists retain full ownership of their music. The label's job is to make sure it reaches people.

Cleveland has always produced people who do things the hard way and mean it. Counterfeit Music operates in that same spirit of independence accountable only to the music itself. This is still the beginning. But the standards are already set: heavy, honest, and uncompromising. That doesn't change.