If you were alive between 2003 and 2016, I'm pretty willing to bet you remember the car brand Scion.

Scion was an offshoot of Toyota based in North America that produced eight models of cars throughout their lifespan as a brand before being absorbed into Toyota in August 2016.

But I'm not here to talk about that.

I'm here to talk about Scion's record label, Scion Audio Visual or Scion A/V.

Or more specifically, the fact that a car brand put out incredible rock and metal releases from bands like Wormrot, and Enslaved, and Revocation, and Immolation, and Meshuggah and more.

Magrudergrind remains a criminally underrated grindcore band that seems to have just kind of stopped.

They formed in 2002 and, after a string of releases, dropped their 10" EP Crusher in 2010.

The EP is six tracks long and 11 minutes total, and caps off about eight years of crushing constant material from Magrudergrind.

Scion A/V putting out a Wormrot EP in 2011 was an insane move.

Wormrot had just put out their debut album Dirge four months prior on Earache Records.

And it's not like Wormrot was this huge name that would draw a ton of attention to Scion A/V.

They were just a really great up-and-coming band at the time.

Enslaved was on a rampage at this point in their career.

The band just put out Axioma Ethica Odini in 2010 and would go on to put out another great record called Riitiir in 2012.

But between those two releases were two smaller ones in 2011: The Sleeping Gods released on Scion A/V, and then a shorter 7" called Thorn on Soulseller Records.

Immolation quickly followed up their 2010 record Majesty and Decay with an 18-minute EP called Providence on Scion A/V in 2011.

Immolation took Providence very seriously.

In a 2012 interview with Metal Crypt, Immolation guitarist Bob Vigna said, "Well, first off, with this EP, we really wanted to make something special." Melvins' The Bulls and the Bees falls right into the middle of what I personally think is Melvins’ best era, which is their double-drummer lineup of Dale Crover and Coady Willis.

The Bulls and the Bees is five tracks of double-drummer, sludge-ridden riffage that, frankly, I think has two of Melvins' best songs.

Witch Mountain should be about 20 times bigger than they are, or were.

The band put out four fantastic doom records between 2000 and 2018, and that run of excellent riffage also includes the 2012 7" Bloodhound.