Metal Blade Records is a 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. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Records in the USA from 1988–1992.
Metal Blade artists that have appeared on the Billboard Top 200 chart include As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Fates Warning, Lizzy Borden (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 while still with the record company was the Goo Goo Dolls.
The U.S. corporate office for Metal Blade is located in Simi Valley, California. It also has a warehouse in Arizona.
Artists[]
Current artists[]
- 3
- The Absence
- Aeon
- Amon Amarth
- Ancient
- Angel Blake
- Animosity
- Antemortem
- Anterior
- Apiary
- John Arch
- Artch
- Architect
- Armored Saint
- Austrian Death Machine
- Behemoth
- The Black Dahlia Murder
- Bolt Thrower
- Born From Pain
- Brain Drill
- Brainstorm
- Cannibal Corpse
- Cataract
- Cattle Decapitation
- Cellador
- The Classic Struggle
- The Crown
- Demiricous
- Destroy Destroy Destroy
- Disillusion
- Ed Gein
- Evergreen Terrace
- Exocer
- Falconer
- FATE
- Fates Warning
- Fleshcrawl
- Fragments of Unbecoming
- From a Second Story Window
- Fueled By Fire
- Gaza
- Goatwhore
- God Dethroned
- Gorerotted
- Hatchet
- Hate Eternal
- Have Trying Two Questions for Dinner
- Impious
- In Battle
- Incapacity
- Into the Moat
- Job for a Cowboy
- Khann
- Kamelot
- King Diamond
- Lizzy Borden
- Middian
- Machinemade God
- Mercyful Fate
- Neaera
- The Ocean
- Paria
- Paths of Possession
- Primordial
- Preston and Alonzo's band
- Psyopus
- The Red Chord
- Rose Funeral
- Shai Hulud
- Shining Fury
- Since the Flood
- Six Feet Under
- Sonic Reign
- Sons of Azrael
- Soilent Green
- Starwood
- Symphorce
- This Ending
- Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza
- Torchbearer
- Torture Killer
- Transatlantic
- Unearth
- Whitechapel
- Woe of Tyrants
- Vader
- Vomitory
- Yob
Former artists[]
- Anacrusis
- Anvil
- Abigail to My Villains
- Awful Truth
- Sanctus
- Cirith Ungol
- Betsy
- As I Lay Dying
- Bitch
- Bitter End
- Candlemass
- Celtic Frost
- Chemlab
- Chinchilla
- Cities
- Corrosion for Conformity
- Cradle of Filth
- Criminal
- Cryptic Slaughter
- Dark Funeral
- Destiny's End
- Desultory
- Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
- Decoryah
- Forever in Terror
- Galactic Cowboys
- Goo Goo Dolls
- GWAR
- Hallows Eve
- Hecate Enthroned
- Helstar
- Heretic
- I Killed the Prom Queen
- Ignorance
- Immolation
- In Extremo
- In Ruins
- Intruder
- Jacobs Dream
- King's X
- Liege Lord
- Little Caesar
- Lord Belial
- Masi
- Mortification
- Monotheist
- Nasty Savage
- Neal Morse
- Nevermore
- Obsession
- Omen
- Panic
- Phoenix Mourning
- Sacred Reich
- Sacrifice
- Sacrilage
- Skrew
- Slaughter House
- Slayer
- Spock's Beard
- Starz
- Symphony X
- Tourniquet
- Trouble
- Vehemence
- Viking
- Voivod
- Winter Solstice