Editing Combat Records (section)

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{{Short description|American record label}}
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{{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music -->
| name        = Combat Records
| image       = Combat records logo.gif
| parent      = [[Sony Music Entertainment|Sony]]<br />[[Koch Entertainment|Koch]]<br />[[EMP Label Group|EMP]]
| founded     = {{Start date|1982}}
| founder     = 
| distributor = Important/[[Relativity Records|Relativity]]/AMPED/SPV
| genre       = [[heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]
| country     = U.S.
| location    = New York City
}}

'''Combat Records''' was an American [[independent record label]] founded in 1982 and based in New York City. 

The label was made specifically for [[heavy metal music|heavy metal]] and [[punk rock]] acts. Notable artists include: [[Megadeth]], [[Circle Jerks]], [[Nuclear Assault]], [[Oz (Finnish band)|OZ]], [[Death (metal band)|Death]], [[Dead Brain Cells]], [[Possessed (band)|Possessed]], [[Crumbsuckers]], [[Agnostic Front]], [[Agent Steel]], [[Dark Angel (band)|Dark Angel]], [[Heathen (band)|Heathen]], [[Zoetrope (band)|Zoetrope]], [[Ludichrist]] and [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]]. In 2017, it was announced that Combat was being relaunched by Megadeth bassist [[David Ellefson]] and [[Thom Hazaert]] as a new label imprint under their [[EMP Label Group]].<ref name="XS">{{cite web|title=David Ellefson's EMP Label Group Brings Back Combat Records|url=http://xsrock.com/david-ellefsons-emp-label-group-brings-back-combat-records/|website=XS ROCK|publisher=XS ROCK|access-date=November 27, 2017|archive-date=December 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191231123113/https://xsrock.com/david-ellefsons-emp-label-group-brings-back-combat-records/|url-status=dead}}</ref>