Metal Blade Records

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Metal Blade Records
Founded	1982
Founder	Brian Slagel
Status	Corporate
Distributor(s)	RED Distribution (US) Warner Bros. Records (1988–1993, US) WEA (Outside the US) Riot Entertainment (Australia)
Genre	Various metal subgenres
Country of origin	United States
Location	Simi Valley, 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 Arizona, 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 USA 1988–1992.

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), Tactics, Lizzy Borden, Anvil, Gwar, King Diamond, Job for a Cowboy, Whitechapel, Armored Saint, The Red Chord, Unearth and Between the Buried and Me. The only Metal Blade artist to ever achieve gold or platinum record status while still with the record company was the Goo Goo Dolls who were, ironically, one of the very few non-metal bands ever signed to the label.

History

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]

Artists

Current

• 3
• The Absence
• Across The Sun
• And Hell Followed With
• Aeon
• Aletheian
• Allegaeon
• Amon Amarth
• Anima
• Anterior
• Armored Saint
• As I Lay Dying
• As You Drown
• Austrian Death Machine
• Autumn
• Barn Burner
• Battlecross
• Behemoth
• Believer
• Between the Buried and Me
• 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
• Cellador
• Charred Walls of the Damned
• Dance Club Massacre
• Darkness Dynamite
• Dawn of Ashes
• Desaster
• Dew-Scented
• Diabulus in Musica
• Disillusion
• Don Jamieson
• Facebreaker
• Endless Collapse
• Epicurean
• Eryn Non Dae
• Evergreen Terrace
• Falconer
• Fates Warning
• Fleshcrawl
• Fleshwrought
• Fragments of Unbecoming
• Gaza
• Goatwhore
• God Dethroned
• Gwar
• Gypsyhawk
• Hail of Bullets
• Hatchet
• Hate Eternal
• House of Heavy
• Hordasken
• If Hope Dies
• Impious
• Intensus
• Into the Moat
• In the Eyes of a Dead Queen
• Jim Florentine
• Job for a Cowboy
• King Diamond
• King Of Asgard
• Kneqture
• Lay Down Rotten
• Lazarus A.D.
• Lightning Swords of Death
• Lizzy Borden
• Lost Perfection
• Machinemade God
• Malefice
• Mercyful Fate
• Neaera
• Negligence
• The Arcane Order
• The Ocean Collective
• One-Way Mirror
• OSI
• Overcast
• Paths of Possession
• Pentagram
• Powerwolf
• Primordial
• Psyopus
• Psycho Enhancer
• Ravage
• Razor of Occam
• The Red Chord
• Rose Funeral
• The Rotted
• Shai Hulud
• Sister
• Six Feet Under
• Skyforger
• Slamfist
• Soilent Green
• Sonic Reign
• Symphorce
• System Divide
• This Ending
• Thy Art Is Murder
• Thomas Giles
• Transatlantic
• Trigger the Bloodshed
• Unearth
• Vomitory
• We Are the End
• Whitechapel
• Winterus
• Woe of Tyrants

Former

• A Love Ends Suicide (Disbanded 2006)
• Ancient (Active)
• Anvil (Active)
• Angel Witch
• Angel Blake (Active, with Dynamic Arts Records)
• John Arch (Inactive)
• Artch (Active)
• Beyond the Embrace (Inactive)
• Bitter End (Disbanded 1992)
• Callenish Circle (Disbanded 2007)
• Chemlab (Active)
• Cradle of Filth (Active)
• The Crimson Armada (Active, with Artery Recordings)
• The Crown (Disbanded 2004, Reformed in 2009)
• Demiricous (Active)
• Dr Know (Active)
• Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (Active)
• Eidolon (On-hold)
• Fate (Disbanded 2009)
• Forever in Terror (Active, Independent)
• Fueled by Fire (Active)
• Galactic Cowboys (Disbanded 2000)
• Goo Goo Dolls (Active, with Warner Bros. Records)
• Hirax (Active, with Black Devil Records)
• I Killed the Prom Queen (On Hiatus)
• In Battle (Active, with Nocturnal Art Production/Candlelight Records)
• Incapacity (Active, with RAHW Productions)
• King's X (Active, with InsideOut Music)
• Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Disbanded 2010)
• Liege Lord (Disbanded 1990)
• Loss For Words (Inactive)
• Manowar (Active, with Magic Circle Music)
• The Mentors (Active)
• Metallica (Active, with Elektra Records now with Warner Bros. records)and later left Warner bros. in 2008
• Molotov Solution (Active)
• Mourn Thy Passing (Disbanded 1996)
• Omen (Active)
• Phoenix Mourning (Disbanded 2008)
• The Red Death
• Those Who Lie Beneath (Active)
• Sacred Reich (Active, with Hollywood Records)
• Shining Fury (Active, Independent)
• Since the Flood (Disbanded 2008)
• Slayer (Active, with American Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment)
• Spock's Beard (Active, Independent)
• Starwood (Status Unknown)
• Symphorce (Active)
• Tactics (Disbanded 1993)
• Talas (Inactive)
• Torchbearer (Active, with Vic Records)
• Torture Killer (Active, with Dynamic Art Records)
• Trouble (Active, with Century Media)
• Vader (Active, with Nuclear Blast)
• Voivod (Active, with Relapse Records)
• Winter Solstice (Disbanded 2006)
• Yob (Active, with Profound Lore Records)

See also

• Metal Massacre
• List of record labels
• Megaforce Records

References

1. ^ http://www.metalupdate.com/interviewmetalblade.html

External links

• Official website