METAL BLADE TV - Metal Blade Records launchen METAL BLADE TV
Metal Blade Records gehen mal wieder einen Schritt voraus und launchen mit sofortiger Wirkung Metal Blade TV. Metal Blade TV ist die Domain für alle Metalfans, die sich gerne Videoclips und Interviews ihrer Lieblingsbands von Metal Blade reinziehen. Doch nicht nur das, auch befreundete Bands anderer Labels werden zu Wort kommen! Metal Blade hat kein Interesse daran, ausschließlich seine eigenen Bands zu promoten, schließlich gibt es genügend andere Bands und Firmen, die Aufmerksamkeit verdient haben und je mehr Aufmerksamkeit der gesamten Metalszene entgegengebracht wird, umso besser für alle Protagonisten.
Der Metal Blade Vorsitzende und Firmengründer Brian Slagel hierzu: "We are very excited about the launch of our own TV channel, Metal Blade TV! We are going to bring you not only content from Metal Blade artists, but from the entire world of Heavy Metal. We want to take you behind the scenes and see all the bands in a different way. Also there will be a lot of rare live video clips too! We really hope you enjoy this new venture from Metal Blade Records!"
Wie Brian Slagel bereits erwähnt hat, wird Metal Blade TV auch viele rare Videoclips aus der ruhmreichen Geschichte des Labels posten. Darunter mit Sicherheit auch sehr rares und bislang ungesehenes Material. Bleibt also mit Metal Blade TV am Ball und atmet Heavy Metal Geschichte!
Mit dem Metal Blade TV launch sind die folgenden Videos online gegangen:
- Cooking with John Bush and Joey Vera of Armored Saint: Part 1
- Primordial "All Empires Fall" Full Trailer in HD
-Lazarus A.D. Revolution Live @ Loudpark Japan
- Phil Sgrosso of As I Lay Dying takes on a tour of the not so metal instruments of the NAMM convention
A music starved kid named Brian Slagel, killing time in suburban Los Angeles, gets sick of watching the local metal scene being ignored by the major labels. Working days at legendary metal emporium Oz Records and nights putting together one of the first metal fanzines, The New Heavy Metal Revue, Slagel asks some distributor friends if they'd be interested in circulating a compilation of unsigned bands if he put it together. The distributors said yes and Metal Blade Records was born. Of course it wasn't quite that simple. Putting in long 17-hour days between Oz and Metal Blade, Slagel pieced together the bands that would grace the label's first release - The New Heavy Metal Revue presents Metal Massacre. Metallica, Ratt and Black 'N' Blue were just a few of the willing locals. Except before Metal Massacre, Metallica didn't exist.
So now for almost 30 years, Metal Blade Records has been setting the trend in heavy metal music without compromising its underground beginnings. Brian Slagel and Metal Blade Records have without a doubt had a major role in developing the American metal scene since day one and remains one of the most essential sources of metal music today. Since its beginnings in 1982, Metal Blade Records has unleashed some of the most influential and significant metal acts like Slayer, Metallica, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Six Feet Under, and King Diamond while developing acts like As I Lay Dying, The Black Dahlia Murder, Amon Amarth, Unearth, Behemoth, Job For a Cowboy, Whitechapel, Goatwhore, The Ocean, Soilent Green, Lazarus AD and 3 just to name a few. There are few who can argue that Metal Blade is one of the leading independent metal labels around! Constantly growing and expanding, Metal Blade has offices in Japan, Canada, and an office in the UK. Not to mention the already significant Metal Blade Records Germany who's been a strong and major force in the European scene for over a decade. By keeping a constant eye on the underground, adding some of the best bands out there to its roster, and sponsoring leading metal tours and festivals like the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival and New England Metal & Hardcore Festival, it is obvious that Metal Blade Records is here to stay!
