Metal Blade Records
| Metal Blade Records | |||
| Founded | 1981 | ||
| Founder(s) | Brian Slagel | ||
| Distributing label | Sony BMG Music Entertainment/ RED Distribution (US) WEA (Outside the US) | ||
| Genre(s) | Metal | ||
| Country | US | ||
| Web address | http://www.metalblade.com/ | ||
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, Slayer 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.
Artists
Current Artists
- Shai Hulud
- Six Feet Under
- The Absence
- Amon Amarth
- Ancient
- John Arch
- Armored Saint
- As I Lay Dying
- Behold... The Arctopus
- Beyond the Embrace
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Cannibal Corpse
- Cellador
- Forever In Terror
- Goatwhore
- I Killed the Prom Queen
- Into The Moat
- Bolt Thrower
- 3
- Job for a Cowboy
- King Diamond
- The Ocean Collective
- Primordial
- Unearth
- Vader
- Tourniquet
- Fates Warning
- Jacob's Dream
- Neal Morse
- Mortification
- Ed Gein
- Lizzy Borden
- From a Second Story Window
- Falconer
- Daysend
- Machinemade God
Former Artists
- Cirith Ungol
- Betsy
- Bitch
- Omen
- Slayer
- Epidemic
- Galactic Cowboys
- Goo Goo Dolls
- GWAR
- Lamb of God
- Skrew
- Spock's Beard
- Immolation
- King's X
- Symphony X
- Mercyful Fate
- Little Caesar
- Winter Solstice