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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.

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

• System Divide

• 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