Metal Blade Records

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Metal Blade Records
Founded	1982
Founder	Brian Slagel
Status	Corporate
Distributor(s)	RED Distribution (US) Warner Music Group (Outside the US) Riot Entertainment (Australia) Fontana Distribution (US) Sony Music Entertainment (CAN) Diamante Music Group
Genre	Heavy metal, extreme metal
Country of origin	United States
Location	Agoura Hills, California
Official website	www.metalblade.com

Metal Blade Records is a heavy metal record label 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 RED Distribution, and in Canada by Sony Music Entertainment. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Records in the United States from 1988 to 1993.

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]

Metal Blade artists that have appeared on the Billboard 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., Corrosion of Conformity and Cattle Decapitation.

From 1985 to 1998, Metal Blade had a sublabel called Death Records, which released recordings by D.R.I., Corrosion of Conformity, 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.

Artists

Current

Former

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)
As I Lay Dying (on hiatus)
Austrian Death Machine (on hiatus)
Beyond the Embrace (inactive)
Bitter End (disbanded 1992)
Callenish Circle (disbanded 2007)
Cellador
Chemlab (active)
Cirith Ungol (disbanded 1992)
Cradle of Filth (active, with Nuclear Blast)
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 hiatus)
Enthroned
Epicurean
Epidemic
Evergreen Terrace (active, with Rise Records)
Eryn Non Dae
Fate (disbanded 2009)
Fates Warning (active, Inside Out Music)
Forever in Terror (active, with In-Demand Records)
Flotsam and Jetsam (active, Driven Music Group)
Fragments of Unbecoming
Fueled by Fire (active)
Galactic Cowboys (disbanded 2000)
Gaza
Glorior Belli (active, with Agonia Records)
Goo Goo Dolls (active, with Warner Bros. Records)
Hatchet
Haunted Garage
Hecate Enthroned(active Crank Music Group)
Helstar (active, with AFM Records)
Hirax (active, with Black Devil Records)
I Killed the Prom Queen (active, with Epitaph Records)
If Hope Dies
Impious
In Battle (active, with Nocturnal Art Production/Candlelight Records)
In Ruins (inactive)
Incapacity (active, with RAHW Productions)
Into the Moat
Jacobs Dream
Junk Monkeys (disbanded 2003)
King's X (active, with Inside Out 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)
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)
Predator (disbanded 1988)
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 Nuclear Blast)
Sonic Reign
Spock's Beard (active, independent)
Starwood (Status Unknown)
Symphorce (disbanded 2011)
Tactics (disbanded 1999)
Talas (inactive)
Taramis (disbanded 1993)^[4]
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 Records)
Vader (active, with Nuclear Blast)
Viking (disbanded 1990, reformed 2011, currently unsigned)
Voivod (active, with Relapse Records)
We are the End
Winter Solstice (disbanded 2006)
Woe of Tyrants
Yob (active, with Profound Lore Records)

References

↑ "Features". metalupdate.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
↑ "Death Records (3) - CDs and Vinyl at Discogs". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
↑ "Metal Blade Records announce the signing of WOVENWAR featuring members of As I Lay Dying and Oh, Sleeper.". www.metalblade.com. Retrieved 2014-04-14.
↑ McFarlane, 'Taramis' entry. Archived from the original on 3 August 2004. Retrieved 21 March 2013.

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