Name: Hirax "Raging Violence" by Metal Blade Records in RIFFS 3
Duration: 2 min 49 s
Description: The title track from 1985's "Raging Violence".

RIFFS 3

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'Omnipresent Perception' off Beyond Creation's 2011 album, 'The Aura.
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Omnipresent Perception

The infamous rock outlaws WEEDEATER return with 'Goliathan', their long-awaited new album. 'Goliathan' is the crossroad where true Southern rock/metal meets raw humor and old religion, and embodies the bands trademark shuffle and swagger rightly.  Syrupy slow riffs are buoyed by canyon-deep bass and some of the hardest-hitting drumming since Keith Moon. Full-on bruisers "Cain Enabler", "Claw of the Sloth", and the aptly-named "Bully" demonstrate that 'Goliathan' is vintage WEEDEATER and the soon-to-be gold standard of Southern sludge metal. 

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WEEDEATER - Cain Enabler

Kanine : Karnage

Revocation "Sarcophagi of the Soul" from the album "New Gods, New Masters"

Revocation "Sarcophagi of the Soul"

Demolish

Psycroptic single "Architects of Extinction"

Psycroptic "Architects of Extinction"

Desaster "Towards Oblivion" from the album "Kill All Idols"

Desaster "Towards Oblivion"

Amon Amarth "We Rule the Waves"

The King In The Dust

"With broken hands they raise their cries
The Neon Lord blinds their eyes"

A crown of wires lights his face
Electric glow in empty space
The streets are cracked the night is thin
He beckons all to step within

His words drip oil his tongue is rust
He promises gold but offers dust
A fragile hymn of static sound
Leads the lost to hollow ground

He whispers low
The lost will follow
Through hollow streets
Past dreams so shallow

Bow down low to the Neon Lord
He trades your soul for a neon cord
Follow the light it’s cruel and cold
The Neon Lord of Fools takes hold

He dances on the edge of truth
A phantom cloaked in wasted youth
Ignorance his faithful muse

He whispers low
The lost will follow
Through hollow streets
Past dreams so shallow

Bow down low to the Neon Lord
He trades your soul for a neon cord
Follow the light it’s cruel and cold
The Neon Lord of Fools takes hold

He speaks so sweet  
As echoes tread  
On vacant roads  
Where hopes are spread.

With broken hands they raise their cries
The Neon Lord of Fools , and lies...

The Neon Lord of Fools!!

Lies...

Neon Lord of Fools

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Make It Bleed

The title track from 1985's "Raging Violence".

Hirax "Raging Violence"

Legalise Drugs & Murder

Electric Wizard - Legalise Drugs & Murder

Cruel Force-Leather and Metal

Coagulating Darkness

Hellripper-Bastard of Hades

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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Hirax "Raging Violence"

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