HellRaiser Group (hrg)

HRg ran one of the longest disciplined release schedules of any late-90s scene group. Most of those packs were anchored by Iron_Lung, whose 72 entries in 1997 alone made him one of the era's most prolific single artists. The group's core identity was hirez, and when Otium Man and Iron_Lung wanted to keep their ASCII output separate from the main pack, they spun off Galza in 1999. By that point HRg was firmly in CIA's orbit (the "CIA HirEZ" sub-imprint), and when Diamond and Iron_Lung defected to ACiD hirez in September 1999, the writing was on the wall. What made HRg matter wasn't any single piece, it was the consistency.

first/last release: 1996/12 - 2000/05
years active: 1996 (1), 1997 (11), 1998 (10), 1999 (6), 2000 (3)
(sub)packs released: 31
smallest/largest pack: hrg-30/hrg-11
lifetime artworks: 791
lifetime lines: 85 178

average # of lines per artwork: 182
average # of artworks per pack: 26
longest serving member(s): hrg (1996/12-2000/03)
most productive member: iron_lung (264)
extensions: JPG (307), ASC (257), ZIP (2), DIZ (8), NFO (27), APL (1), MAN (1), GIF (82), ANS (45), PCX (1), TXT (2), EXE (2), FLC (1)

links: