This may come as a surprise to young music fans, but there once was a time when there was no such thing as record labels specializing in heavy metal -- not until the early 1980s, anyway, at which ...

Celebrating the storied label's 35th anniversary, the book is an inside look at how Slagel built Metal Blade from a one-man operation in his mom's non-air-conditioned garage to the preeminent ...

"The noise began 23 years ago. A music starved kid named Brian Slagel, killing time in suburban LosAngeles, gets sick of watching the local metal scene being ignored by the major labels. Working days ...

"From the renowned and enduringly popular video game franchise Mega Man (also known as Rockman), threezero is proud to present the MDLX Mega Man / Rockman (Metal Blade Version), featuring the hero who ...

Show us a record label more important to the definition and evolution of heavy metal than Metal Blade Records, and we’d still be skeptical. From launching the careers of thrash’s biggest acts to ...

Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel just announced a new book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records. The book is the follow-up to Brian Slagel’s 2017 book For the Sake of ...

Metal Blade Records has been around since 1982 and is currently home to artists such as The Black Dahlia Murder, King Diamond, Killswitch Engage, Behemoth, and Cannibal Corpse. After 37 years of ...