Scene-Shaping Earache Records Owner Digby Pearson To Receive Industry Award
By David E. Gehlke. Back in the days when physical product was still a sought-after item, dedicated buyers would often buy albums based on the record label. It is, in many ways, the ultimate sign of...
View ArticleNewcomer Test Your Metal Records Hopes To Redefine Band + Label Relationship
By David E. Gehlke. He’s in what many consider to be one of Canada’s most exciting melodic metal bands in a long time, Unleash the Archers, but apparently, having a full-time band with an active...
View ArticleInside European Booking Mainstay Continental Concerts
By David E. Gehlke. It may not appear as such today, but there was a time when the European metal scene lagged behind the American. The scene’s semi-formal launch was in the mid-80s, when European...
View ArticleGreyhaze Records Brings Classic Brazilian Metal Into the 21st Century
By David E. Gehlke. The Brazilian metal scene has far more to offer than Sepultura, Angra, and Krisiun. Just ask Greyhaze Records owner J Neto. As the official distributor of the legendary Cogumelo...
View ArticleEmerging French Label Debemur Morti Wages War on Underground Mediocrity
By David E. Gehlke. The precedent for French metal labels is Osmose Productions. The 1991 creation of Herve Herbaut, Osmose jumpstarted the careers of Dark Tranquillity, Immortal, Impaled Nazarene,...
View ArticleLegendary UK Label Music for Nations Returns to Action
By David E. Gehlke. Responsible for aiding in the launch of Metallica in Europe circa 1983, as well as being the label responsible for seminal releases from Anathema, Cradle of Filth, Paradise Lost,...
View ArticleIndustry Experience Sparks Creation of Louder Noise TV
By David E. Gehlke. There’s a proliferation of online music channels popping up these days. Some have failed after attempts at crowdfunding (i.e. RockZone TV); a rather high-profile one is in the works...
View ArticleNew Label Profile: Sailor Records
By David E. Gehlke. From a pure geographic perspective, Sailor Records has the Denver, CO market cornered. The scene’s best known bands include former Metal Blade power metallers Cellador, Rocky...
View ArticleVeteran Danish Thrash Outfit Hatesphere Experiences Highs and Lows of Music...
By David E. Gehlke. The necessary evil that is crowdfunding has rounded up its latest entrant: Well-respected Danish thrashers Hatesphere. With the release of their ninth album, New Hell, on the...
View ArticleSale of Century Media to Sony Further Clouds American Record Label Situation
By David E. Gehlke. Fifteen years ago, Century Media Records entered into a partnership with Nuclear Blast Records that saw the two labels join forces under one roof. Nuclear Blast uprooted its...
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