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Fact sheet

Founded
May 2026
Acts
4
Albums
9
Songwriter
Hoblivion Graves

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The Mess Lab is an independent record label founded in May 2026 by songwriter and composer Hoblivion Graves. I create worlds, sounds and chaos.

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The Mess Lab is an independent imprint founded in May 2026, releasing original work across electronic, progressive metal, screamo/post-hardcore and West Coast hip-hop. The roster runs 4 acts deep — Velvet Voltage, Crabcore Confessional, Hero and Halcyon, Ghost Note — with 9 albums released to date. Songwriting and composition across the entire catalogue is credited to Hoblivion Graves. Tracks submitted to ShareThePros.com have ranked within the Top 50 Independent Music Charts.

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Written & composed by Hoblivion Graves

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Tracks submitted to ShareThePros.com have ranked within the Top 50 Independent Music Charts.

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Velvet Voltage

EDM / Hard Synth

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Neon-industrial cyberpop built on classic-metal scaffolding — the structures are borrowed as skeletons, the music and lyrics are entirely her own. The arc runs from the club-facing brattiness of Use Me and Lose Me through the Skinny Puppy-adjacent industrial of Ride the Voltage and the systemic aggression of Neon Justice for None, before Neon Reaper pivots hard into nineties British thrash with only a residual electronic shimmer left behind. Her world holds the Power Web and, later, the Data Stream. The lore is there if you want it and invisible if you don't.

Crabcore Confessional

Screamo / Post-Hardcore

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Screamo and post-hardcore played like a confession booth with the door kicked off — foreclosure notices, grudges and low-slung riffs. Their debut carries a title long enough to be its own paragraph, and their second record is a song-for-song duet with Velvet Voltage.

  • Caylem ShlomoScreams / Synths
  • Johnny SwitchbladeClean Vocals / Rhythm Guitar
  • Riff CarterLead Guitar
  • Vex MonroeBass
  • Mason DropkickDrums

Hero and Halcyon

Progressive Metal

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A progressive metal project working in full concept albums, with a released sound pushed toward high-intensity synth-metal. The Heiress of Blackwater House is their gothic long-form narrative; Strings Attached is a prog/synth-speed treatment of the same songbook Ghost Note reworked into G-funk.

  • Harrow "Hero" ThorneCo-lead vocals, guitar
  • Halcyon VesperCo-lead vocals, multi-instrumentalist
  • KaetheDrums
  • XylenLead guitar
  • OrryxBass

Ghost Note

West Coast G-Funk / Hip-Hop

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Ghosto "WestGhost" Shakur and Nathaniel "Note Dogg" Hoyle trade bars over dusted, negative-space production. Their debut No Strings on Me is a G-funk treatment of the same material Hero and Halcyon cut as Strings Attached.

  • Ghosto "WestGhost" ShakurVocals
  • Nathaniel "Note Dogg" HoyleVocals

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