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8 unusual facts about Metal Blade Records


Gorerotted

Ben Goreskin and Tim Carley of Gorerotted are currently working under the name The Rotted and are signed to Metal Blade Records and have previously released albums on Relapse Records, IBD Records and Deepsend Records.

Impious

Also in February 2004, Impious signed a worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records.

In Solitude

The album, Sister, was released through Metal Blade Records on October 1, 2013 and was produced and mixed by Martin "Konie" Ehrencrona.

In Solitude signed a worldwide deal with Metal Blade Records in 2010, as Henrik Palm joined the band, and in November of that year the band began recording their second full-length album, 'The World, The Flesh, The Devil.'

Metal Massacre

Metal Massacre is a series of compilation albums released through Metal Blade Records.

The Locust Years

The album was issued in 2006 and reissued in 2010 by Metal Blade Records.

The Rotted

Their debut album Get Dead or Die Trying was released on Metal Blade Records worldwide in the summer of 2008, and unusually includes 2 instrumental tracks; 'A Brief Moment Of Regret', which was picked up and used by a high street clothing store in their playlist during the summer of 2008, and a cover of the theme music from British Horror film 28 Days Later

This Ending

The band landed a deal on Metal Blade Records, and recorded their first full-length album, Inside the Machine, in September 2006.


Battlecross

Following a Metal Blade Records Showcase at SXSW in March 2012, the band was announced to open Occupation Domination, a full United States Tour with Headliners Origin (band) and support bands Cattle Decapitation, Decrepit Birth and Rings of Saturn.

Grip Inc.

Entitled Power of Inner Strength, the album was distributed via California-based label Metal Blade Records.

Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God's Flesh

It was released in 1993 on Metal Blade Records and featured cover art from the Apotheosis of Homer by Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí.

Overkill L.A.

Brian Slagel from Metal Blade Records was present at one of these shows and asked Overkill to do a three song demo.


see also

With Roots Above and Branches Below

"Dez Moines" is also available as downloadable content for the video game Guitar Hero World Tour and was released on May 7, 2009 as a part of the Ferret/Metal Blade Records Pack.