Selo ajudou a criar a história do Heavy Metal
Os primeiros selos especializados em Heavy Metal surgiram a partir de 1980 e sem dúvida, a Metal Blade de Los Angeles foi uma das principais gravadoras que incentivou o Heavy Metal principalmente devido ao amor pelo metal de seu fundador, Brian Slagel.
Os lançamentos incluem discos lendários de Slayer a Amon Amarth, de Voivod a Fates Warning, de Goo Goo Dolls a Cannibal Corpse, e muitos outros.
Para comemorar os 35 anos da gravadora que segue firme e com fé no Metal, a Loudwire listou os 35 lançamentos historicamente mais significativos já feitos pela Metal Blade.
Confira a lista:
- Various Artists, ‘Metal Massacre’ (1982)
- Slayer, ‘Show No Mercy’ (1983)
- Omen, ‘Battle Cry’ (1984)
- Voivod, ‘War and Pain’ (1984)
- Slayer, ‘Hell Awaits’ (1985)
- Hirax, ‘Raging Violence’ (1985)
- Fates Warning, ‘Awaken the Guardian’ (1986)
- Flotsam and Jetsam, ‘Doomsday for the Deceiver’ (1986)
- Trouble, ‘Run to the Light’ (1987)
- Sacred Reich, ‘Ignorance’ (1987)
- Liege Lord, ‘Master Control’ (1988)
- D.R.I., ‘4 of a Kind’ (1988)
- Goo Goo Dolls, ‘Hold Me Up’ (1990)
- Armored Saint, ‘Symbol of Salvation’ (1991)
- Cannibal Corpse, ‘Tomb of the Mutilated’ (1992)
- GWAR, ‘America Must Be Destroyed’ (1992)
- Crisis, ‘Deathshead Extermination’ (1996)
- King’s X, ‘Tape Head’ (1998)
- God Dethroned, ‘Bloody Blasphemy’ (1999)
- Vader, ‘Litany’ (2000)
- Supershine, ‘Supershine’ (2000)
- Immolation, ‘Close to a World Below’ (2000)
- Falconer, ‘Falconer’ (2001)
- The Crown, ‘Crowned in Terror’ (2002)
- As I Lay Dying, ‘Frail Words Collapse’ (2003)
- The Black Dahlia Murder, ‘Unhallowed’ (2003)
- Unearth, ‘The Oncoming Storm’ (2004)
- Bolt Thrower, ‘For Those Once Loyal’ (2005)
- Amon Amarth, ‘With Oden on Our Side’ (2006)
- Primordial, ‘To the Nameless Dead’ (2007)
- Hail of Bullets, ‘…Of Frost and War’ (2008)
- Bison B.C., ‘Dark Ages’ (2010)
- In Solitude, ‘The World. The Flesh. The Devil’ (2011)
- Cattle Decapitation, ‘Monolith of Inhumanity’ (2012)
- Between the Buried and Me ‘The Parallax II’ (2012)
