Metal Blade Records
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| Metal Blade Records | |||
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| Founded | 1981 | ||
| Founder(s) | Brian Slagel | ||
| Distributing label | Sony BMG Music Entertainment/ RED Distribution (US) WEA (Outside the US) |
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| Genre(s) | Metal | ||
| Country | US | ||
| Web address | http://www.metalblade.com/ | ||
Metal Blade Records is an independent record label which was founded in 1981 by Brian Slagel. It has offices in the USA, Germany and Japan. The label is distributed in the U.S. by Sony BMG Music Entertainment / RED Distribution.
Metal Blade artists that have appeared on the Billboard Top 200 chart include As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse, Fates Warning (the first Metal Blade band to have achieved this), GWAR, Slayer and Unearth. The only Metal Blade artist to ever achieve gold or platinum record status were the Goo Goo Dolls.
The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Simi Valley, California. They also have a warehouse in Arizona.
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[edit] Artists
[edit] Current Artists
- 3
- A Love Ends Suicide
- The Absence
- Aeon
- Amon Amarth
- Ancient
- Angel Blake
- Animosity
- Anterior
- Apiary
- John Arch
- Architect
- Armored Saint
- As I Lay Dying
- Behold... The Arctopus
- Beyond The Embrace
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Bolt Thrower
- Born from Pain
- Brainstorm
- Callenish Circle
- Cannibal Corpse
- Cataract
- Cattle Decapitation
- Cellador
- The Classic Struggle
- The Crown
- Demiricous
- Destroy Destroy Destroy
- Disillusion
- Ed Gein
- Epicurean (most recently signed)
- Evergreen Terrace
- Falconer
- Fates Warning
- Fleshcrawl
- Forever In Terror
- Fragments of Unbecoming
- From a Second Story Window
- Gaza
- Goatwhore
- God Dethroned
- Gorerotted
- Hate Eternal
- I Killed the Prom Queen
- If Hope Dies
- Impious
- In Battle
- Incapacity
- Into The Moat
- Job for a Cowboy
- King Diamond
- Lizzy Borden
- Machinemade God
- Middian
- Neaera
- The Ocean
- Paria
- Paths of Possession
- Phoenix Mourning
- Primordial
- Psyopus
- The Red Chord
- Shai Hulud
- Shining Fury
- Since The Flood
- Six Feet Under
- Sonic Reign
- Starwood
- Symphorce
- This Ending
- Torchbearer
- Torture Killer
- Transatlantic
- Unearth
- Vader
- Vomitory
- Yob
[edit] Former Artists
- Cirith Ungol (band)
- Betsy
- Bitch
- Omen
- Cradle of Filth
- Slayer
- Epidemic
- Galactic Cowboys
- Goo Goo Dolls
- GWAR
- Jacobs Dream
- Lamb of God
- Mortification
- Neal Morse
- Skrew
- Spock's Beard
- Immolation
- King's X
- Symphony X
- Tourniquet
- Mercyful Fate
- Little Caesar
- Winter Solstice
