La Man's Ruin era un'etichetta nata nel 1994 dalla mente di Frank Kozik e situata nella Bay Area di San Francisco. L'etichetta pubblicò diversi album durante la seconda metà degli anni novanta, senza sottoscrivere un contratto con le band. La politica della Man's Ruin era molto aperta e le edizioni di Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age, Melvins, Fu Manchu e molti altri sono oggi ricercate dai collezionisti e considerate di altissimo valore.
Le edizioni Man's Ruin erano in vinile, fortemente limitate (meno di 5000 copie) e spesso in vinile colorato.
La Man's Ruin ha definitivamente chiuso i battenti nel 2002, lasciando i fan completamente senza informazioni: il sito ufficiale dell'etichetta semplicemente venne chiuso a causa dei mancati pagamenti e Frank Kozik sparì dalla circolazione. Molte delle band più famose ristamparono il proprio materiale sotto altre etichette.
Il nome dell'etichetta deriva dai tatuaggi tipicamente marinareschi che raffigurano pin-up, carte da gioco, dadi, ecc. Il motto della Man's Ruin era "Empty Pleasures and Desperate Measures since 1994", cioè "Piaceri vacui e misure estreme dal 1994".
Discografia E.A.R. - Delta 6 10" - MR-001 The Useless Playboys - Bim Bam 7" picture disc MR-002 The Tards - Rubber Room 7" - MR-003 Dale Crover - Drumb - 7" - MR-004 The Dwarves - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes But Blondes Don't Like Cripples 7" picture disc MR-005 Blag Dahlia - Haunt Me 7" - MR-006 Killdozer / Ritual Device - We Will Crush You split 10" - MR-007 Frank Kozik - Man's Ruin: The Posters and Art of Frank Kozik Libro MR-008 Useless Playboys - Drunk Elephant T-Shirt MR-009 Pervis - Simple 7" - MR-010 Steel Pole Bath Tub - Auf Wiedersehen 7" - MR-011 The Outsideinside - 9:33 7" - MR-012 Mono Men - Monster 7" - MR-013 The Melvins - Interstellar Overdrive 10" - MR-014 Kyuss - Into The Void 10" - MR-015 Brutal Juice - All American City - 7" - MR-016 Protein - My Blood 7" - MR-017 Roadsaw - American Dream 7" - MR-018 Tree - Home Front 7" - MR-019 Aunt Worm - Saucy Young Lady 7" - MR-020 X-Cops - Beat You Down 7" - MR-021 The Hellacopters - Supershitty to the Max! - LP/CDMR-022 The Nomads - Iron Dream 7" - MR-023 Unsane - Sick 7" - MR-024 Barkmarket - Peacekeeper 12" - MR-025 7 Year Bitch - Miss Understood 7" - MR-026 Daddy Longhead - Daddy Longhead 10" - MR-027 The Cowslingers - Trucker's Last Dollar 7" - MR-028 Hammerlock - American Asshole CDMR-029 The Onyas - Live For Rejection 7" - MR-030 Flux - Plains At Ground Zero 7" - MR-031 Cosmic Psychos - She's A Lost Cause 7" - MR-032 The Clarke Nova - Highway Star 7" - MR-033 Helios Creed - Abducted 7" - MR-034 Chrome - Chrome 10" - MR-035 Gamma Ray - If Only Everything 7" - MR-036 Action Suits - Cancer Father 7" - MR-037 Tree - God Grows Grass 7" - MR-038 Daddy Longhead - Classic CDMR-039 Trailer Hitch - Long Tall Tales... CDMR-040 The Heads - Delwyn's Conkers 10" - MR-041 The Demonics - R.I.P. S.T.P. 7" - MR-042 Ton-Ups - Kill Me Slow 7" - MR-043 Hammerlock - Knock Her Out 7" - MR-044 Infested - Who They Are 7" - MR-045 Six Minute War Madness - L'Ora Giusta 7" - MR-046 Drooler - King Of The Coal Mine 7" - MR-047 Fu Manchu- Godzilla 10" - MR-048 Barkmarket - L.RON LPMR-049 Earthlings? - EarthlingsMR-050 The Dwarves/Blag Dahlia - We Must Have Blood/Surfing The Intercourse Barn 7" - MR-051 Ultraviolet Booze Catastrophe - Electric Honkey 10" - MR-052 Sex Pistols/The Ugly - Pretty Vacant/Disorder/You Bug Me 7" - MR-053 Polar Bear - Polar Bear LPMR-054 Viletones - Screamin' Fist 7" - MR-055 Sex Pistols/Sofisticatos - Sex Pistols: "No Feelings", Sofisticatos: "New York Rocket" - MR-056 Magic DirtI Was Cruel 10" I Was Cruel, She-Riff, You Won't KnowMR-057 CroatanTerror In My Pants 7" Terror In My Pants, Fastened To The WallMR-058 Shyster - February CDMR-059 Croatan - Violent Passion Surrogate CD MR-060 Chrome - Tidal Forces CD MR-061 Schweinhund - Bastard 7" MR-062 Kyuss/Gamma Raysplit CD MR-063 Zeke - Woooooooooooooooooooooo Oooooooooooooooooooooooo Pig Sooooooooooooooooooooooo Oooooooooooooooooooooouie 7" MR-064 Killdozer - The Last Waltz CD MR-065 Adam Parfrey - An Sordid Evening Of Sonic Sorrows CDMS-066 Los Cowslingers - Mexican Blackbird 7" MR-067 Mover - Original Recipe LP/CD MR-068 Unsane - Amrep Xmas - CD MR-069 Fireballs - Holiday 7" - MR-070 Electric Wizard/Orange Goblin - Chrono.Naut/Nuclear Guru - MR-071 Altamont - Wanted Dead or Alive - 10" - MR-072 Acid King - Down with the Crown - 10" - MR-073 Speedbuggy - George Owens 10" - MR-074 Mens Club - Womam Driver 10" - MR-075 Solarized - Neanderthal Highway CDMR-076 Honky - Deezy 10" - MR-077 The Heads - Mao Tinitus 10" - MR-078 FuckEmos - Celebration 10" - MR-079 FuckEmos - Celebration CDMR-080 The Desert Sessions - #1 Instrumental Driving Music For Felons - 10" - MR-081 The Desert Sessions - #2 Status: Ships Commander Butchered - 10" - MR-082 Electric Wizard - Chrono.Naut - 10" - MR-083 Orange Goblin - Nuclear Guru - 10" - MR-084 Altamont - Civil War Fantasy - CDMR-085 Hot Rod Honeysname and release status unknownMR-086 MR-087 avrebbe dovuto essere Los Gusanos 7", ma non è mai stato pubblicato Acid King/Altamont - Down with the Crown/Wanted Dead or Alive - split CDMR-088 Flaming Burnout - Estrus Benefit Compilation CDMR-089 Sex Pistols/The Curse split 7" - MR-090 Drunk Horse - Drunk Horse CDMR-091 Helios Creed - Activated Condition CDMR-092 The Desert Sessions - #1 & #2 - CDMR-093 Hai Karate - Hai Karate 10" - MR-094 Hai Karate - Hai Karate CDMR-095 Fang - Electric Chair 7" - MR-096 The Heads - The Time Is Now CDMR-097 Various Artists - 500 Miles To Glory Compilation CDMR-098 Entombed - Entombed 10" MR-099 Natas - Delmar CDMR-101 Alabama Thunderpussy - Rise Again CDMR-102 Greenmachine - D.A.M.N. CDMR-103 Acid King - Busse Woods - CDMR-104 The Idiots/Jack Saints - Idiots/Jack Saints split CDMR-105 Gluecifer - Gary O'Kane 10" - MR-106 Electric Frankenstein - Listen Up, Baby 10" (vinile verde in edizione limitata a 3000 copie) MR-107 Electric Frankenstein / The Hookers - Electric Frankenstein/The Hookers split CDMR-108 The Hookers - The Hookers 10" - MR-109 Cheap Dates - Cheap Dates 10" - MR-110 The Desert Sessions - #3 Set Coordinates For White Dwarf - 10" - MR-111 The Desert Sessions - #4 Hard Walls And Little Trips - 10" - MR-112 The Desert Sessions - #3 & #4 - CDMR-113 Candy Snatchers/Cheap Datessplit CDMR-115 Hangnail - One Million Layers B.C. 10"/CDMR-116 Gluecifer/The Hellacopters - Respect the Rock America split CDMR-117 Entombed - Black Juju CDMR-119 Ton Ups - Tune Down CDMR-120 The Desert Sessions - #5 Poetry For The Masses (Sea Shed Shit Head By The She Sore) - 10" MR-121 The Desert Sessions - #6 Poetry For The Masses (Black Anvil Ego) - 10" MR-122 The Desert Sessions - #5 & #6 - CD MR-123 Valis/Kitty Kitty - Valis/Kitty Kitty split CD MR-124 Angel Rot - Unlistenable Hymns Of Indulgent Damage CD MR-125 The Demonics - Formaldehyde Injection CD MR-126 The Fuckemos - Can Kill You CD MR-127 The Fuckemos - Black Helicopters CD MR-128 Soulpreacher - Sonic Witchcraft CD MR-129 Iron Monkey - We've Learned Nothing 10" MR-130 Church of Misery - Murder Company 10" (Dark Purple vinyl) MR-131 Iron Monkey / Church of Misery - We've Learned Nothing / Murder Company split CD MR-132 Nebula - Sun Creature 10"/CD MR-133 Dozer - In the Tail of a Comet CDMR-134 Dozer - In the Tail of a Comet 10" - MR-135 Vodka Collins - Tokyo - New York - CD MR-136 The Demonics - Demons on Wheels CD MR-138 Goatsnake - Flower of Disease - CDMR-139 Cavity - Supercollider CD MR-140 Queens of the Stone Age/Beaver - The Split CD - MR-141 The Vectors - Some Raging Rock-n-Roll II 10" MR-142 Fatso Jetson - Flames For All 10" MR-143 Fatso Jetson - Flames For All CD MR-143CD Lost Goat - Equator CD MR-144 Stone Fox - Totally Burnt CD MR-145 L7 - Live: Omaha to Osaka - CD MR-146 Gaza Strippers - Laced Candy 10"/CD MR-147 Stisism - Coping With Society CD MR-148 Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes - CD MR-149 River City Rapists - River City Rapists 10" MR-150 Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age - LP MR-151 The Bulemics - Blurred Vision & Twisted Thoughts 10" - MR-152 The Bulemics/River City Rapistssplit CDMR-153 Alabama Thunderpussy - River City Revival CD MR-154 The Hellacopters - Doggone Your Bad Luck Soul 10" green vinyl MR-155 Greenmachine - The Earth Beater 10"/CD MR-156 Fu Manchu - Eatin' Dust 10" MR-157 Fu Manchu - Eatin' Dust CD MR-158 Sons of Otis - Templeball CD MR-159 Beaver - Lodge 10" MR-160 Beaver - Lodge CD MR-161 Mass - Mass CDMR-162) Fu Manchu - Godzilla's Eatin' Dust LP MR-163 Hammerlock - Anthems For Outlaws CDMR-167 Die Roboter - The Day of the Robots CD MR-170 Earthlings? - Human Beans LP #1 - Pete StahlMR-171 Earthlings? - Human Beans LP #2 - Dave CatchingMR-172 Earthlings? - Human Beans LP #3 - Fred DrakeMR-173 Goatsnake - Goatsnake I LP/CD MR-174 Unida - Coping with the Urban Coyote - CD MR-175 Alabama Thunderpussy - Constellation CDMR-177 Tummler - Queen to Bishop IV CDMR-178 The Fuckemos - Airshow 2000 CDMR-181 Euroboys - 1999 Man 10" - MR-182 Brant Bjork - Jalamanta - CDMR-183 The Hot Rod Honeys - Hungry and Horny CDMR-184 Euroboys - 1999 Man CD EPMR-185 Che - Sounds of Liberation CDMR-186 Natas - Ciudad de Brahman CDMR-187 Antiseen - Southern Hostility/Eat More Possum CDMR-189 Hellstomper - Hillbilly Motherfucker CDMR-191 The Men of Porn - Porn, American Style CDMR-192 High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense - CDMR-193 Euroboys - Long Day's Flight 'till Tomorrow 2LP/CDMR-197 Sons of Otis - SpaceJumboFudge CDMR-198 Earthlings? - Human Beans CDMR-199 Suplecs - Wreslin' with My Lady Friend CDMR-202 Disengage - Obsessions Become Phobias CDMR-204 The Cutthroats 9 - The Cutthroats 9MR-206 Acid King/The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight - Free.../The Father, the Son and the Holy Smoke split CDMR-2001 The Melvins - Electroretard - CDMR-2002 The Melvins - Electroretard - LP *testpressing exist*MR-2003 Drunk Horse - Tanning Salon/Biblical Proportions CDMR-2004 Croatan - Curse Of The Red Queen CDMR-2007 Operator Generator - Polar Fleet CDMR-2008 Dozer - Madre de Dios CDMR-2010 Beaver - Mobile CDMR-2012 Backbiter/Elope - Split CDMR-2015 Suplecs - Sad Songs... Better Days CDMR-2018 Trailer Hitch - Truth Is Fighting CDMR-2019 Altamont - Our Darling - CDMR-2020 Bottom - Feels So Good When You're Gone CDMR-2023 Begotten - s/t CDMR-2024
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