by Zach Shaw | Jan 19, 2016 | Label Moves, News
Spinefarm Records has been adding some pretty cool names to its roster. However, the label’s next big move involves acquiring another label, Candlelight Records. Edward Christie and Steve Beatty, owners of the U.K. based label Candlelight, have reportedly sold the...
by Bram Teitelman | Jan 27, 2015 | Label Moves, News
While Roadrunner is still a strong label in it’s own right, a pair of former executives have continued to recruit bands that had been on the label to their current labels. We’ve seen that happen at Nuclear Blast, where Monte Conner has signed more than a...
by Bram Teitelman | Nov 14, 2014 | Interviews, News
While Finnish label Spinefarm Records has been part of the Universal Music Group since 2002, they’ve only recently started making inroads in America. Last year, the label hired former Roadrunner president Jonas Nachsin as worldwide GM of the label, and made a...
by Zach Shaw | Feb 20, 2014 | News Ticker
Spinefarm Records has announced the addition of Maria Ouellette as its Senior Director of International and Darren Dalessio as Director of A&R. This comes a few months after Jonas Nachsin was appointed as Spinefarm’s general manager worldwide....
by Metal Insider | Oct 18, 2013 | Events
A panel of metal industry experts got together today on the New York University campus for the CMJ Music Marathon to discuss “The Struggle For Metal’s Soul,” attempting to decipher what metal explosions of the decade have meant for the genre. But the...