by Zenae Zukowski | Oct 24, 2017 | News
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine has slammed Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel via Twitter over his book For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records, which was released this past summer. Mustaine appears to heavily disagree with Slagel’s memory about...
by Zenae Zukowski | Aug 22, 2017 | News
Next Tuesday (29), Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel’s memoir, For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records will be released. It will reveal the full story on how the label was created. Slagel started his career working in a record store and...
by Zenae Zukowski | Jun 26, 2017 | Books, News, Releases
Metal Blade Records recently celebrated its thirty-five year anniversary with a North American tour including bands such as Whitechapel, Cattle Decapitation, Allegaeon, and Necromancing the Stone. It wasn’t too long ago when we found out label and publishing...
by Bram Teitelman | Apr 6, 2017 | Books
If you could be a fly on the wall of Metal Blade founder and CEO Brian Slagel, you’d probably have seen some crazy stuff. Him as a young tape trader that decided to release a compilation of some of his favorite bands, including Slayer and Metallica. Him signing...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 16, 2016 | Photos
Earlier this week, New York City was the epicenter of metal, as the Epiphone Revolver Music Awards had their first east coast event at New York City’s Webster Hall. You can read about the winners here and check out photos of the performances here, but...