For the Sake of Heaviness: the History of Metal Blade Records
Founder relates the ups and downs of the long-running metal label.
Tag: Metal Blade
Starwood
If It Ain’t Broke, Break It (Metal Blade ). Review by Vinnie Apicella.
Cattle Decapitation
Humanure (Metal Blade). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Tarot
Suffer Our Pleasure (Metal Blade). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
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Fragments of Unbecoming
Skywards - A Sylphe’s Ascension (Metal Blade). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
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The Crown
Possessed 13 (Metal Blade). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
Chinchilla
Madtropolis (Metal Blade). Review by Daniel Mitchell.
40 Grit
Nothing To Remember (Metal Blade). Review by Stein Haukland.
Engine
Superholic (Metal Blade). Review by Stein Haukland.
Beyond The Embrace
Against The Elements (Metal Blade). Review by Stein Haukland.
Bolt Thrower
Honour, Valour, Pride (Metal Blade). Review by Daniel L. Mitchell. ,
GWAR
Violence Has Arrived (Metal Blade). Review by David Lee Beowulf.
Fleshcrawl
Soulskinner (Metal Blade). Review by Daniel L. Mitchell.
Transatlantic
Bridge Across Forever (Metal Blade). Review by David Lee Beowulf.
Six Feet Under
True Carnage (Metal Blade). Review by Nathan T. Birk.
Dave Brockie Experience
Diarrhea of a Madman (Metal Blade). Review by Nathan T. Birk.
Amon Amarth
The Crusher (Metal Blade). Review by Nathan T. Birk.
Labyrinth
Sons Of Thunder (Metal Blade). Review by Nathan T. Birk .
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