Metal Blade Records
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| Metal Blade Records | |||
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| Founded | 1981 | ||
| Founder(s) | Brian Slagel | ||
| Distributing label | Sony BMG/RED Distribution (US) Warner Bros. Records (1988–1993, US) WEA (Outside the US) |
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| Genre(s) | Heavy metal and various subgenres | ||
| Country | US | ||
| Web address | http://www.metalblade.com/ | ||
- "Metal Blade" redirects here. For the Mega Man weapon, see Mega Man 2 and Mega Man II.
Metal Blade Records is a 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. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Records in the USA 1988–1992.
Metal Blade artists that have appeared on the Billboard Top 200 chart include As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Fates Warning, Lizzy Borden (the first Metal Blade band to have achieved this), GWAR, King Diamond, Job for a Cowboy, The Red Chord, and Unearth. The only Metal Blade artist to ever achieve gold or platinum record status while still with the record company was the Goo Goo Dolls.
The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Simi Valley, California. It also has a warehouse in Arizona.
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[edit] Artists
[edit] Current artists
- 3
- The Absence
- Aeon
- A Love Ends Suicide(Now Let's Fighting)
- Amon Amarth
- Ancient
- Angel Blake
- Animosity
- Antemortem
- Anterior
- Apiary
- John Arch
- Artch
- Architect
- Armored Saint
- Austrian Death Machine
- As I Lay Dying
- Behemoth
- Behold... The Arctopus
- Beyond The Embrace
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Bolt Thrower
- Born From Pain
- Brain Drill
- Brainstorm
- Cancer Bats
- 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
- FATE
- Fates Warning
- Fleshcrawl
- Forever in Terror
- Fragments of Unbecoming
- From a Second Story Window
- Fueled By Fire
- Gaza
- Goatwhore
- God Dethroned
- Gorerotted
- Hatchet
- Hate Eternal
- Impious
- In Battle
- Incapacity
- Into the Moat
- Job for a Cowboy
- Khann
- King Diamond
- Lizzy Borden
- Machinemade God
- Middian
- Neaera
- The Ocean
- Paria
- Paths of Possession
- Primordial
- Preston and Alonzo's band
- Psyopus
- The Red Chord
- Shai Hulud
- Shining Fury
- Since the Flood
- Six Feet Under
- Sonic Reign
- Sons of Azrael
- Soilent Green
- Starwood
- Symphorce
- This Ending
- Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
- Torchbearer
- Torture Killer
- Transatlantic
- Unearth
- Whitechapel
- Woe of Tyrants
- Vader
- Vomitory
- Yob
[edit] Former artists
- Anacrusis
- Anvil
- Awful Truth
- Sanctus
- Cirith Ungol
- Betsy
- Behemoth
- Bitch
- Bitter End
- Chemlab
- Chinchilla
- Cities
- Cradle of Filth
- Criminal
- Cryptic Slaughter
- Dark Funeral
- Destiny's End
- Desultory
- Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
- Decoryah
- Epidemic
- Galactic Cowboys
- Goo Goo Dolls
- GWAR
- Hallows Eve
- Hecate Enthroned
- Heretic
- I Killed the Prom Queen
- Ignorance
- Immolation
- In Extremo
- In Ruins
- Intruder
- Jacobs Dream
- King's X
- Lamb of God
- Liege Lord
- Lord Belial
- Masi
- Mercyful Fate
- Mortification
- Nasty Savage
- Neal Morse
- Obsession
- Omen
- Panic
- Phoenix Mourning
- Predator
- The Red Death
- Sacred Reich
- Sacrifice
- Sacrilage
- Skrew
- Slaughter House
- Slayer
- Spock's Beard
- Symphony X
- Tourniquet
- Little Caesar
- Vehemence
- Viking
- Slaughter House
- Winter Solstice
