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F r o m W i k i p e d i a , t h e f r e e e n c y c l o p e d i a
American independent record label
Metal Blade Records is an American independent record label founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The US office for Metal Blade is located in Sherman Oaks, California . It also has offices in Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label currently is distributed in the US by The Orchard , and internationally by Sony Music Entertainment . It was distributed by Warner Bros. Records in the United States from 1988 to 1993.
History [ edit ]
Metal Blade Records was founded by Brian Slagel , who at the time was a record store employee in suburban Los Angeles, as a way to increase the recognition of local metal bands. The label's first release was a compilation album called The New Heavy Metal Revue presents Metal Massacre Metallica , Ratt , and Black 'n Blue .[1]
Metal Blade artists that have appeared on the Billboard 200Goo Goo Dolls , Amon Amarth , Trouble , As I Lay Dying , Behemoth , the Black Dahlia Murder , Cannibal Corpse , Fates Warning (the first Metal Blade band to have achieved this), Lizzy Borden , Anvil , Gwar , King Diamond , Job for a Cowboy , Whitechapel , Armored Saint , The Red Chord , Unearth , Between the Buried and Me , Dirty Rotten Imbeciles , Corrosion of Conformity and Cattle Decapitation .
From 1985 to 1998, Metal Blade had a sublabel called Death Records, which released recordings by, and signed bands like D.R.I. , Corrosion of Conformity , Civilian Terrorists, Mission of Christ, School of Violence, Cryptic Slaughter , The Mentors , Cannibal Corpse , Atheist , Angkor Wat, Loss for Words, Dr. Know, Beyond Possession, and Dark Funeral .[2]
In 2010 Metal Blade Records joined the RIAA .
IronClad Recordings is an imprint .[citation needed
On January 18, 2017 Metal Blade Records was inducted into the Hall of Heavy Metal History for their large contribution to the Heavy Metal library. Brian was inducted by special guest Kerry King of Slayer .[3] BMG Rights Management published The Sake of Heaviness: the History of Metal Blade Records , a book on the label's history, co-written by Mark Eglington and the label's founder Brian Slagel.[4]
In 2019 Metal Blade Records opened a store in Las Vegas, Nevada that sold rare and out-of-print items from them and their artists.[5]
Notable artists [ edit ]
Current [ edit ]
Act of Defiance
Aeon
Allegaeon
Amon Amarth
Anaal Nathrakh
Anima
Arch/Matheos
Armored Saint
As I Lay Dying
Battlecross
Behemoth
Beyond the Sixth Seal
Bitch
The Black Dahlia Murder
Blood Stain Child
Brainstorm
Byzantine
Candiria
Cannibal Corpse
Cataract
Category 7
Cattle Decapitation
Charred Walls of the Damned
Church of Misery
The Crown
Cult of Luna
Cut Up
Dawn of Ashes
Desaster
Destrage
The Devil's Blood
Disillusion
Don Jamieson
Downfall of Gaia
DragonForce
Entheos
Ensiferum
Exumer
Fates Warning [6]
Fleshcrawl
Fleshwrought
Flotsam and Jetsam
Goatwhore
God Dethroned
Gwar
Hail of Bullets
Hammers of Misfortune
Harms Way [7]
Hate
If These Trees Could Talk
Igorrr
In Solitude
Ingested
Intronaut
Jim Breuer
Jim Florentine
Job for a Cowboy
Killswitch Engage [8]
King Diamond
King of Asgard
Lightning Swords of Death
Lizzy Borden
Malefice
Mercyful Fate
Mother Feather
Neaera
Negligence
The Ocean Collective
OSI
Paths of Possession
Pentagram
Poison Headache
Primordial
The Red Chord
Revocation
Rivers of Nihil
Sacrifice
Satan
Serpentine Dominion
Shai Hulud
Six Feet Under
Skyforger
Slough Feg
Soilent Green
System Divide
Transatlantic
Tombs
Twitching Tongues
Týr
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
Vio-lence
Vomitory
Whitechapel
Wovenwar [9]
The Zenith Passage
Abiotic
The Absence
Akercocke
Aletheian
Anacrusis (active)
Ancient (active)
Anterior (disbanded 2012)
Anvil (active)
Angel Witch
John Arch (inactive)
Artch (active)
As I Lay Dying (active, with Nuclear Blast )
Atheist (active)
Attacker (active)
Austrian Death Machine (on hiatus)
Autumn
Believer (active, Independent)
Between the Buried and Me (active, with Sumerian)
Beyond the Embrace (inactive)
Bison B.C. [10]
Bolt Thrower
Born from Pain
Brain Drill (disbanded 2019)
Callenish Circle (disbanded 2007)
Cellador
Chemlab (active)
Cirith Ungol (disbanded 1992; reformed 2016)
Cradle of Filth (active, with Nuclear Blast )
The Crimson Armada (disbanded 2012)
Cycle Sluts from Hell
Dance Club Massacre
Dark Funeral
Darkness Dynamite
Demiricous (active)
Dew-Scented
D.R.I. (active)
Eidolon (on hiatus)
Enthroned
Epidemic
Evergreen Terrace (active, with Rise Records )
Falconer
Flotsam and Jetsam (active, Driven Music Group)
Fragments of Unbecoming
Galactic Cowboys (disbanded 2000)
Goo Goo Dolls (active, with Warner Bros. Records )
Hatchet
Hate Eternal
Haunted Garage
Hecate Enthroned (active; signed to M-Theory Audio)
Helstar (active, with AFM Records )
Hirax (active, with Black Devil Records)
I Killed the Prom Queen (inactive)
Impious
In Battle (active, with Nocturnal Art Production/Candlelight Records )
Into the Moat
Jacobs Dream
King's X (active, with Inside Out Music )
Lazarus A.D. (disbanded 2015 [11]
Liege Lord (disbanded 1990) (reformed 2013)
Lord Belial (disbanded, then reactivated)
Manowar (active, with Magic Circle Music )
Mentors (active)
Molotov Solution (on hiatus)
Mount Salem
Omen (active, with DSN Music )
Overcast
Powerwolf (active, now signed to Napalm Records )
Psyopus (disbanded 2012)
Pyrithion
The Red Death
Rigor Mortis
Sacred Reich (active, with Hollywood Records )
Sacrifice (active)
Sister (active)
Slayer (active)
Sonic Reign
Spock's Beard (active, independent)
Symphorce (disbanded 2011)
Taramis (disbanded 1993)[12]
This Ending
Thought Industry
Tommy Giles Rogers
Torture Killer (active, with Dynamic Art Records)
Tourniquet (active, with Pathogenic Records)
Trigger the Bloodshed
Trouble (active, with Century Media Records )
Unearth (active, with Century Media Records)
Vader (active, with Nuclear Blast )
Viking (disbanded 1990, reformed 2011, currently unsigned)
Voivod (active, with Century Media Records )
Woe of Tyrants
Yob (active, with Profound Lore Records )[13]
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ "Scorpions Among Nominees for Hall of Heavy Metal History" . Rolling Stone . Retrieved May 16, 2017 .
^ "BMG Will Release a Book on Metal Blade Records on Their Iconic History Later This Summer" . Billboard . Retrieved June 27, 2017 .
^ "Metal Blade Records opens store in Las Vegas, NV – rare and out-of-print items now for sale!" . Metal Blade Records . Retrieved June 6, 2023 .
^ "Fates Warning signs worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records" . Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved February 4, 2021 .
^ "Harm's Way | Metal Blade Records" . Archived from the original on August 12, 2020. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
^ "Killswitch Engage | Metal Blade Records" . Archived from the original on May 9, 2021. Retrieved May 8, 2021 .
^ "Metal Blade Records announce the signing of WOVENWAR featuring members of As I Lay Dying and Oh, Sleeper" . metalblade.com. Archived from the original on April 21, 2016. Retrieved April 14, 2014 .
^ "Bison Bc Interview @ Louder Than Hell" . Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved February 8, 2019 .
^ "Lazarus A.D. Drummer Ryan Shutler Dies" . loudwire.com . May 18, 2015. Archived from the original on June 13, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2016 .
^ McFarlane, 'Taramis' entry. Archived from the original on August 3, 2004. Retrieved March 21, 2013.
^ "Artists | Metal Blade Records" . Archived from the original on April 29, 2021. Retrieved May 8, 2021 .
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