Shock Records was founded in 1988 by David Williams, Frank Falvo, and Andrew McGee.
[citation needed] The company was at its height in the 1990s, with many hits in the punk, grunge and alternative rock genres, including artists such as The Offspring, TISM, Satellite and Ricki-Lee Coulter.
[3] It also operated a number of sublabels, including Permanent Records, to showcase local emerging artists, such as Chance Waters.
[3][5] At that time still headed by Williams,[2] some of the assets of the company were sold[3] to CD duplicator, the Regency Media Group.
Its distribution centre was moved to Regency's Sydney warehouse[2][6] and the company was rebranded as Shock Entertainment.