Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music Entertainment/RED Distribution. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Records in the United States from 1988 to 1993.
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| Metal Blade Records | |
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| Founded | 1982 |
| Founder | Brian Slagel |
| Status | Corporate |
| Distributor(s) | RED Distribution (US) Warner Bros. Records (1988–1993, US) Warner Music Group International (Outside the US) Riot Entertainment (Australia) |
| Genre | Various metal subgenres |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | Agoura Hills, California |
| Official Website | www.metalblade.com |
Metal Blade Records is a record label which was founded by Brian Slagel in 1982. The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Germany, Japan, Canada, and the UK. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music Entertainment/RED Distribution. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Records in the United States from 1988 to 1993.
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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, and included Metallica, Ratt, and Black 'N Blue.[1]
Metal Blade artists that have appeared on the Billboard Top 200 chart include The Goo Goo Dolls, Amon Amarth, Trouble, As I Lay Dying, Behemoth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Slayer, 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, D.R.I. and Corrosion of Conformity.
From 1985 to 1998, Metal Blade had a sublabel called Death Records, which released recordings by D.R.I., Corrosion of Conformity, 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.
Artists[edit]
Current[edit]
- 3
- Abiotic (band)
- The Absence
- Across The Sun
- Aeon
- Allegaeon
- Amon Amarth
- Anima
- Arch/Matheos
- Armored Saint
- As I Lay Dying
- As You Drown
- Austrian Death Machine
- Autumn
- Barn Burner
- Battlecross
- Behemoth
- Believer
- Between the Buried and Me
- Beverly Hellfire
- Beyond the Shore
- Beyond the Sixth Seal
- Bison B.C.
- Bitch
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Bolt Thrower
- Born from Pain
- Brain Drill
- Brainstorm
- Cannibal Corpse
- Cataract
- Cattle Decapitation
- Charred Walls of the Damned
- Church of Misery
- Dawn of Ashes
- Desaster
- The Devil's Blood
- Dew-Scented
- Disillusion
- Don Jamieson
- Ensiferum
- Facebreaker
- Falconer
- Fleshcrawl
- Fleshwrought
- Goatwhore
- God Dethroned
- Gwar
- Gypsyhawk
- Hail of Bullets
- Hammers of Misfortune
- Hate Eternal
- House of Heavy
- In Solitude
- Intensus
- Jim Florentine
- Job for a Cowboy
- King Diamond
- King of Asgard
- Lay Down Rotten
- Lazarus A.D.
- Lightning Swords of Death
- Lizzy Borden
- Malefice
- Mercyful Fate
- Neaera
- Negligence
- The Ocean Collective
- One-Way Mirror
- OSI
- Overcast
- Paths of Possession
- Pentagram
- Pilgrim
- Primordial
- Psyopus
- Pyrithion
- Razor of Occam
- The Red Chord
- Rivers Of Nihil
- Rose Funeral
- Shai Hulud
- Sister
- Six Feet Under
- Skyforger
- Slough Feg
- Soilent Green
- System Divide
- Thomas Giles
- Transatlantic
- Týr
- Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
- Unearth
- Vomitory
- Whitechapel
Former[edit]
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- A Love Ends Suicide (Disbanded 2006)
- Aeternam (Active)
- Aletheian
- Anacrusis (Active)
- Ancient (Active)
- Anterior (Disbanded 2012)
- Anvil (Active)`
- Angel Witch
- Angel Blake (Active, with Dynamic Arts Records)
- The Arcane Order
- John Arch (Inactive)
- Artch (Active)
- Beyond the Embrace (Inactive)
- Bitter End (Disbanded 1992)
- Callenish Circle (Disbanded 2007)
- Cellador
- Chemlab (Active)
- Cradle of Filth (Active, with Peaceville Records)
- The Crimson Armada (Disbanded 2012)
- The Crown (Disbanded 2004, Reformed in 2009)
- Dance Club Massacre
- Dark Funeral
- Darkness Dynamite
- Demiricous (Active)
- Diabulus in Musica
- Dr Know (Active)
- Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (Active)
- Eidolon (On-hold)
- Enthroned
- Epicurean
- Evergreen Terrace (Active, with Rise Records)
- Eryn Non Dae
- Fate (Disbanded 2009)
- Fates Warning (Active, InsideOut Music)
- Forever in Terror (Active, Independent)
- Flotsam and Jetsam (Active, Driven Music Group)
- Fragments of Unbecoming
- Fueled by Fire (Active)
- Galactic Cowboys (Disbanded 2000)
- Gaza[citation needed]
- Goo Goo Dolls (Active, with Warner Bros. Records)
- Hatchet
- Hecate Enthroned
- Helstar (Active, with AFM Records)
- Hirax (Active, with Black Devil Records)
- I Killed the Prom Queen (On Hiatus)
- If Hope Dies
- Impious
- In Battle (Active, with Nocturnal Art Production/Candlelight Records)
- In Ruins (Inactive)
- Incapacity (Active, with RAHW Productions)
- Into the Moat
- Jacob's Dream
- King's X (Active, with InsideOut Music)
- Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Disbanded 2010)
- Liege Lord (Disbanded 1990) (Reformed 2013)
- Lord Belial (Disbanded)
- Loss For Words (Inactive)
- Manowar (Active, with Magic Circle Music)
- Machinemade God (Disbanded 2008)
- The Mentors (Active)
- Metallica (Active, with Elektra Records now with Warner Bros. records) and later left Warner bros. in 2008
- Molotov Solution (On Hiatus)
- Mourn Thy Passing (Disbanded 1996)
- Omen (Active, with DSN Music)
- Phoenix Mourning (Disbanded 2008)
- Powerwolf (Active, now signed to Napalm Records)
- Ravage
- The Red Death
- Rigor Mortis
- The Rotted
- Those Who Lie Beneath (Active)
- Sacred Reich (Active, with Hollywood Records)
- Sacrifice (active)
- Shining Fury (Active, Independent)
- Since the Flood (Disbanded 2008)
- Slayer (Active, with American Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment)
- Sonic Reign
- Spock's Beard (Active, Independent)
- Starwood (Status Unknown)
- Symphorce (Disbanded 2011)
- Tactics (Disbanded 1993)
- Talas (Inactive)
- Taramis (disbanded 1993)[3]
- This Ending
- Thought Industry
- Torchbearer (Active, with Vic Records)
- Torture Killer (Active, with Dynamic Art Records)
- Tourniquet, (Active, with Pathogenic Records)
- Trigger the Bloodshed
- Trouble (Active, with Century Media)
- Vader (Active, with Nuclear Blast)
- Viking (Disbanded 1990, Reformed 2011, currently unsigned)
- Voivod (Active, with Relapse Records)
- Winter Solstice (Disbanded 2006)
- Woe of Tyrants
- Yob (Active, with Profound Lore Records)
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Features". metalupdate.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ "Death Records (3) - CDs and Vinyl at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ McFarlane, 'Taramis' entry. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 21 March 2013.
