METAL BLADE RECORDS

'Metal Blade Records'
'Founded'	1981
'Founder(s)'	Brian Slagel
'Distributing label'	Sony BMG/RED Distribution (US), WEA (Outside the US)
'Genre(s)'	Metal
'Country'	US
'Web address'	http://www.metalblade.com/

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'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, King Diamond, Job for a Cowboy, The Red Chord 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.

Contents

Artists

Current Artists

Former Artists

See also

External links

Artists

Current Artists

★ 3

★ A Love Ends Suicide

★ The Absence

★ Aeon

★ Amon Amarth

★ Ancient

★ Angel Blake

★ Animosity

★ Antemortem

★ Anterior

★ Apiary

★ John Arch

★ Architect

★ Armored Saint

★ As I Lay Dying

★ Beyond The Embrace

★ The Black Dahlia Murder

★ Bolt Thrower

★ Born from Pain

★ Brain Drill

★ 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

★ FATE

★ Fates Warning

★ Fleshcrawl

★ Forever In Terror

★ Fragments of Unbecoming

★ From a Second Story Window

★ Fueled By Fire

★ Gaza

★ Goatwhore

★ God Dethroned

★ Gorerotted

★ Hate Eternal

★ 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

Former Artists

★ Anacrusis

★ Sanctus

★ Cirith Ungol

★ ''Betsy''

★ ''Bitch''

★ ''Omen''

★ Chemlab

★ Chinchilla

★ Cradle of Filth

★ Slayer

★ Epidemic

★ Galactic Cowboys

★ Goo Goo Dolls

★ GWAR

★ I Killed the Prom Queen

★ Jacobs Dream

★ Lamb of God

★ Lord Belial

★ Metallica

★ Mortification

★ Neal Morse

★ Skrew

★ Spock's Beard

★ Immolation

★ King's X

★ Symphony X

★ Tourniquet

★ Mercyful Fate

★ Little Caesar

★ Vehemence

★ Slaughter House

★ Winter Solstice

See also

★ Metal Massacre

★ List of record labels

★ Metal Blade Records artists

★ Megaforce Records

External links

★ Official Metal Blade Records USA Homepage

★ Official Metal Blade Records Germany Homepage

★ Official Metal Blade Records Japan Homepage