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 ...

Record label owners are certainly well known within the music industry, but the average fan has no idea who owns or runs the label of their favorite artist. That's pretty much the case in metal music ...

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 ...

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 ...