Metal Blade Records

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.metalblade.com
Employees: 25

Metal Blade Records is a heavy metal record label that is home to bands such as Black Dahlia Murder, As I Lay Dying, and Six Feet Under. The company was founded in 1982 by Brian Slagel, who then worked days at the Los Angeles metal emporium Oz Records and spent nights putting together one of the first metal fanzines, The New Heavy Metal Revue. He formed Metal Blade Records to focus on the LA metal scene that was being ignored by major labels. The company has discovered influential metal acts including Slayer, Metallica, and GWAR.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending March, 2008:
Sales: $5.0M

Officers:
Chairman and CEO: Brian Slagel
President: Michael Faley
VP Sales and Marketing: Dan Fitzgerald

Competitors:
Epitaph Records
Rotten Records
Victory Records

"Metal Blade" redirects here. For the Mega Man weapon, see Mega Man 2 and Mega Man II (Game Boy).

Metal Blade Records
Founded	1982
Founder	Brian Slagel
Distributing label	RED Distribution (US) Warner Bros. Records (1988–1993, US) WEA (Outside the US) Riot Entertainment (Australia)
Genre	Various
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. 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 Amon Amarth, Trouble, As I Lay Dying, 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, 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 who were ironically the only non-metal band ever signed to the label.

The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Agoura Hills, California. It also has offices in Arizona, Canada, Germany, Japan, and the UK.

Contents 1 Artists 1.1 Current 1.2 Former 2 See also 3 External links

Artists

Current

3 The Absence Aeon Aletheian Amon Amarth Anima Anterior Armored Saint As I Lay Dying As You Drown Austrian Death Machine Autumn Behemoth Believer Beyond the Sixth Seal Bison B.C. The Black Dahlia Murder Bolt Thrower Born from Pain

Brain Drill Brainstorm Cannibal Corpse Cataract Cattle Decapitation Cellador The Crimson Armada Darkness Dynamite Desaster Disillusion Epicurean Eryn Non Dae Evergreen Terrace Falconer Fates Warning Fleshcrawl Fragments of Unbecoming Goatwhore God Dethroned GWAR Hail of Bullets

Hatchet Hate Eternal House of Heavy Hordasken Impious Into the Moat Job for a Cowboy King Diamond Lay Down Rotten Lazarus A.D. Lizzy Borden Machinemade God Malefice Mercyful Fate Molotov Solution Neaera The Arcane Order The Ocean Collective One-Way Mirror Overcast Paths of Possession

Primordial Psyopus Razor of Occam The Red Chord Rose Funeral The Rotted Shai Hulud Since the Flood Six Feet Under Soilent Green Sonic Reign Symphorce This Ending Trigger the Bloodshed Unearth Vomitory We Are the End Whitechapel Woe of Tyrants

Former

A Love Ends Suicide (Disbanded 2006) Ancient (Active) Anvil (Active) Angel Blake (Active, with Dynamic Arts Records) John Arch (Inactive) Artch (Active) Beyond the Embrace (Inactive) Callenish Circle (Disbanded 2007) Cradle of Filth (Active, with Roadrunner Records) The Crown (Disbanded 2004) Demiricous (Active) Dr Know (Active) Dirty Rotten Imbeciles (Inactive) Fate (Disbanded 2009)

Forever in Terror (Active, Independent) Fueled by Fire (Active) Goo Goo Dolls (Active, with Warner Bros. Records) Hirax (Active, with Black Devil Records) I Killed the Prom Queen (Disbanded 2008) In Battle (Active, with Nocturnal Art Production/Candlelight Records) Incapacity (Active, with RAHW Productions) King's X (Active, with InsideOut Music) Loss For Words (Inactive) Manowar (Active, with Magic Circle Music) The Mentors (Active) Metallica (Active) Phoenix Mourning (Disbanded 2008) Shining Fury (Active, Independent)

Since the Flood (Disbanded 2008) Slayer (Active, with American Recordings/Sony Music Entertainment) Starwood (Status Unknown) Symphorce (Active) Talas (Inactive) Torchbearer (Active, with Vic Records) Torture Killer (Active, with Dynamic Art Records) Trouble (Active, with Century Media) Vader (Active, with Nuclear Blast) Winter Solstice (Disbanded 2006) Yob (Active, with Profound Lore Records)

See also

• Metal Massacre
• List of record labels
• Megaforce Records

External links

• Official website

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