Oliver Withöft, co-owner of independent record label Century Media, passed away on January 20th, 2014 after falling ill several months ago. He was 49. Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1964, he studied linguistics, business, and history in both Germany and the UK. Robert Kampf started Century Media Records 25 years ago simply to create a suitableOliver Withöft, co-owner of independent record label Century Media, passed away on January 20th, 2014 after falling ill several months ago. He was 49. Born in Dortmund, Germany in 1964, he studied linguistics, business, and history in both Germany and the UK. Robert Kampf started Century Media Records 25 years ago simply to create a suitable label home for his own band, Despair. He was looking for a trustworthy and strong partner to lead the company with and found this person in his best friend and fellow musician Oliver Withöft, who joined in eighteen months later, sharing the same love and passion for music and metal in particular. Since that very day, these two friends developed one of the most important independent record labels on the planet. Today the company has around 100 people on the payroll in Dortmund, London, Los Angeles, Berlin, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Melbourne, and the Netherlands. A lot of musical careers were developed over the years: Lacuna Coil, Shadows Fall, Suicide Silence, In This Moment, Otherwise, Iced Earth, Die Broilers, Arch Enemy and Heaven Shall Burn are just a few of them. Century Media became a brand name recognized across the world. Oliver Withöft was always [...]
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