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Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor:
Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it strides into its fourth decade.

What perhaps makes this achievement all the more notable is the fact that Slagel never even intended to start a label. Working in an LA record store and writing for various publications, Slagel was acutely aware that many great bands in the local metal scene were being ignored, and he decided to release a compilation of tracks drawn from these ranks. "There were a lot of really good bands and I was just bummed out that nobody could hear them. It just seemed like I could help them out and have some fun at the same time, and that compilation was the first Metal Massacre," he states. Collating tracks from then unknown bands including Ratt, Bitch, Cirith Ungol, and Metallica amongst others, the compilation sold out immediately. "How important is Metal Blade to our career? They're only the reason we are enjoying the worldwide success we have today," states Metallica's James Hetfield. "Without Brian's openness to some raunchy teens with a crap sounding cassette tape we would be who knows where, and playing who knows what!" With the popularity of the tape spurring Slagel on, the first seeds of Metal Blade were sown. "After the success of those compilations I just started putting out records of bands that I was friends with, but without ever really intending it to be a label at all," he explains. "After I put out four or five releases I started to feel like something was happening, and I decided to quit the record store and quit college and see where it went."

Battling through the first few lean years, when the label consisted solely of Slagel working out of his mom's poorly ventilated garage in the San Fernando Valley, it gradually grew in both revenue and stature. Within a few years Metal Blade would go on to release the debuts of Slayer, Armored Saint, Trouble, and Corrosion Of Conformity amongst others, fanning the flames of the burgeoning metal scene and launching careers of bands that would go onto reap global success. "Without Metal Blade, there is a damn good chance we never would've made it out of L.A," says Slayer's Kerry King. "That was the one bit of luck we needed. You can be the most awesome band on the scene, and if no one notices you, you don't catch on. And Brian Slagel is still one of the biggest metalheads I know!" This genuine love and devotion to metal is central to the relationship many of the artists have with Metal Blade, and King Diamond credits much of its relevance and strength to this passion. "I refer to it as having 'boots on the ground'," the mighty Dane states. "It's not like a major label where some people might be into what you're doing but a lot of them just see it as a job – there's a genuine love for metal there. Through staying true to that and doing their own thing they've carved out a very specific niche that they control, and as an artist it's wonderful to be a part of that."over the years. Clearly without those people we couldn't do what we do, and to everyone out there who has helped us along by being a fan we are so very grateful to you."

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The VELES band unites musicians who have set themselves the task of combining Russian musical folklore, the legacy of Russian classical music and sound of heavy / thrash metal.
On the Russian stage, such a synthesis is presented for the first time. And we can safely say that there are no analogues even in world music.
"VELES" acquired its characteristic and easily recognizable sound, primarily due to the powerful academic vocal of Denis Dianov.
Instrumental composition, along with the traditional for heavy rock guitars, bass and percussion, includes a cello. 
Russian folk songs, works of Russian classics and songs of the authorship of the participants of the group "VELES", which are presented on the debut album "The Tsar's Dogs", immerse the listener in the atmosphere of the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
The team is distinguished by a high level of performance and sound quality not only in recording, but also at live concerts.
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Группа «ВЕЛЕС» объединяет музыкантов, которые поставили перед собой задачу сочетать русский музыкальный фольклор, наследие русской классической музыки и жесткое звучание heavy/thrash metal.
На российской сцене подобный синтез представлен впервые. И можно смело утверждать, что аналогов не имеется даже в мировой музыке.
«ВЕЛЕС» приобрел своё характерное и легко узнаваемое звучание, в первую очередь, благодаря мощнейшему академическому вокалу Дениса Дианова.
Инструментальный состав, наряду с традиционными для тяжелого рока гитарами, басом и ударными, включает в себя виолончель. Для записи приглашаются сессионные музыканты, владеющие народными духовыми инструментами: жалейкой, свирелью, волынкой.
Русские народные песни, произведения русских классиков и песни авторства самих участников группы «ВЕЛЕС», которые представлены на дебютном альбоме «Псы государевы», погружают слушателя в атмосферу времен правления Ивана Грозного. 
Коллектив отличает высокий уровень исполнения и качества звучания не только в записи, но и на живых концертах.

Luca Ascari as The X  from Italy . During 2000 years,The X dedicated to projects on the search for contemporary electronic rhythms sounds (Jungle, Drum'bass, Electro etc. ..) in a Electropop project called Khallàs with the Album "Pop affinity and divergences" Italian sung with Slovenian vocalist Natasha Pribac.Electronic sound with ethnic references and collabaration by musicians and vocalists from north Africa. In parallel give birth to "Double Six Project" an electronic Journey with world ethnic sounds references with assets of 2 albums chill ambient style.In 2010 world artists collaborations as the U.S.A. vocalist Diana Gen from Tucson Arizona,from Uk the vocalist Kherry Lucia Hernandez,and from NYC the artist vocalist Kyle Monroe. These collaborations and many other gave birth to the album " Entertainment" a mixture of many differents track and music genres based on the all collaborations by The X. In first 2012 months "Transmutation" album, ambient soundscape with professional Italian vocalist StefaniaLapertosa.Sound approach to a languid tones, avantgarde , surreal and dreamy atmospheres with minimal environmental and technical . A psychedelic sound fashinating plot tended to express the necessity of introspection. Reached a level of maturity are able to fuse electronic beats, ethereal vocals ,acoustic instruments and singing in a armonic cartilage. .Fundamental association with The X , is the artist composer musician Andrew Manning (Ulr2raViolet) from UK with wich is born the project "Luminescence" experimental album by 2 two shrewd jugglers of electronic and ambient sound .An exchange of views and interpretations of songs by The X and Ul2raViolet. Remixing tracks from each other, with a result of a magical mix with ethereal atmospheres, sound manipulation, deconstructions and reconstructions ,a cosmic music without borders, full of whistles sidereal, suffused with drones and slow, sprinkled with small dissonances environmental, a futuristic sound collage. In 2013 new album by The X " Unseasonable Pleasure" result of collaboration with many professional artists (vocalists and musicians) from different world places. Rachel Rae (UK) Samara Lustemberg (Belgium) Andrew Maning 's Ul2raViolet (UK) Sinta Margot Spector (South Africa) Noye + Crois (Japan) Stefania Lapertosa (Italy) Vladimir Korin (Russia) Samantha Owens (U.S.A.) Koichiro Shigeno (Japan).Eccentric arrangements, avant-garde shades, experimental cosmic etheric vocalism,dissonant cold,inert, ghostly electronic, in a fusion of magic, irony and pathos. Music for brain,not for heart, but with some startled to heart. In first months of 2014 The X released a new EP (Neoclassical/Avantgarde Dark/Noise Style with the German composer vocalist Petra Kutschera).In 2015 New start in Industrial style, demos with american Sound Enginer (from California Jeremiah Whitman) from Los Angeles Caroline Ladd and from Poland Mdlene Korps as Magotiv.New works Electro Minimal/Noise Ambient style with Adam Mankowski as Limited Liability Sounds from Poland.
New collaboration  with composer vocalist Belita Adair as Killer Cult Demon from Las Vegas,gloomy harmonies as occult cerimonial,electronic dissonance and dark arrangements. Now The X is working to 2 new differents albums 1st with a ground-breaking research on the sound of the 80's such as ambient shoegaze drone in contemporary indie rock style..(with the collaboaration af Aura (Canadian vocalist recognized in home...)..2nd innovoation Alternative Indie Rock  Neofolk sound proj Called  Grave Closure with composer vocalist David Antony Rogers from UK.

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