San Francisco's first hardcore label, the U.S.'s first industrial label.
Founded by Michael Fox and Steven Tupper in August 1979.
Subterranean Records also functions as a distributor. The Subterranean Studios is associated to Subterranean Records
Catalog numbers SUB 57 and SUB 71 (vinyl version) were never released.

From an email posted January 7, 2004 from Steve at Subterranean Records to the KBD (Killed By Death punk collectors) Yahoo group, listing pressing sizes of the label's releases at that time. This is for LPs and 7"s 1979-1991 only (including promotional copies), and not including CDs & cassettes (except for SUB 29):

SUB 1 - 6,000
SUB 2 - 1,400
SUB 3 - 4,643
SUB 4 - 1,400
SUB 5 - 1,500
SUB 6 - 1,000
SUB 7 - 9,700
SUB 8 - 2,310
SUB 9 - 1,700
SUB 10 - 3,800
SUB 11 - 500
SUB 12 - 1,000
SUB 13 - 1,800
SUB 14 (1st version) - 1,000
SUB 14 (2nd version) - 1,000
SUB 15 - 2,816
SUB 16 - 1,900
SUB 17 - 5,000
SUB 18 - 3,176
SUB 19 - 1,400
SUB 20 - 3,000
SUB 21 - 2,515
SUB 22 - 1,500
SUB 23 - 13,800
SUB 24 - still in print
SUB 25 - 27,091
SUB 26 - 3,219
SUB 27 - 5,649
SUB 28 - 1,200
SUB 29 - 100
SUB 30 - 2,254
SUB 31 - 2,000
SUB 32 - 4,386
SUB 33 - 1,951
SUB 34 - 2,000
SUB 35 - 11,000
SUB 36 - 3,500
SUB 37 - 2,000
SUB 38 - 3,000
SUB 39 - 2,200
SUB 40 - 4,468
SUB 41 - 1,500
SUB 42 - 12,609
SUB 43 - 4,930
SUB 44 - 4,186
SUB 45 - 2,066
SUB 46 - 4,822
SUB 47 - 1,210
SUB 48 - 1,635
SUB 49 - 3,286
SUB 50 - 1,208
SUB 51 - 1,965
SUB 52 - 2,534
SUB 53 - 6,862
SUB 54 - 1,469
SUB 55 - 2,844
SUB 56 - 2,127
SUB 57 - unreleased
SUB 58 - 1,811
SUB 59 - 4,988
SUB 60 - 1,429
SUB 61 - 1,546
SUB 62 - 2,891
SUB 63 - 4,060
SUB 64 - 342
SUB 65 - 1,328
SUB 66 - unreleased (later released in 2010)
SUB 67 - 1,260
SUB 68 - 1,065
SUB 69 - 1,010
SUB 70 - 4,485
SUB 71 - unreleased