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For every genre of music there are a handful of record labels that pave the way for influential and groundbreaking artists to emerge. Labels that are the pioneers in their respect genres and give talented artists the opportunity to become legends.
In Heavy Metal, no one will disagree that one of the most important labels is METAL BLADE RECORDS. "The noise began 27 years ago." A music starved LA kid named Brian Slagel, gets sick of watching the local metal scene being ignored by the major labels. Working days at legendary metal emporium Oz Records and nights putting together one of the first metal fanzines, The New Heavy Metal Revue, Slagel asks some distributor friends if they'd be interested in circulating a compilation of unsigned bands if he put it together. The distributors said yes and Metal Blade Records was born. Slagel pieced together the bands that would grace the label's first release - "The New Heavy Metal Revue presents Metal Massacre". Metallica, Ratt and Black 'N' Blue were just a few of the willing locals. Except before Metal Massacre, Metallica didn't exist.
So now for over 27 years Metal Blade Records has been setting the trend in heavy metal music without compromising its underground beginnings. Brian Slagel and Metal Blade Records have without a doubt had a major role in developing the American metal scene since day one and remains one of the most essential sources of metal music today. Since it’s beginnings in 1982, Metal Blade Records has unleashed some of the most influential and significant metal acts like Slayer, Metallica, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Six Feet Under, and King Diamond while developing acts like As I Lay Dying, Unearth, The Black Dahlia Murder, Amon Amarth, Job For a Cowboy, The Red Chord, Hate Eternal, Shai Hulud, Soilent Green, Whitechapel, Goatwhore, The Ocean, Brain Drill, Epicurean and 3 just to name a few. There are few who can argue that Metal Blade is one of the leading independent metal labels around!
Key new releases by Metal Blade include:
The Black Dahlia Murder - Deflorate preview
Amon Amarth - The Crusher (Bonus Edition) preview
Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God (LOUDTRAX ALBUM OF THE MONTH)
The Red Chord - Fed Through The Teeth Machine preview
BEHEMOTH - Evangelia preview
3 - Revisions preview
For more information on everything Metal Blade visit www.metalblade.com
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