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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 His mega hit ‘My Feelings For You’, was produced in cooperation with Avicii and sampled Cassius’ mighty original, quickly became a massive success after being released during Miami WMC and secured the Beatport No. 1 spot for a whole month and was playlisted by some of the worlds biggest DJs including; David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, Laidback Luke, Roger Sanchez, Axwell, whilst being repeatedly played by Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1 and licensed to many heavyweight labels like Superstar (Germany), Vicious (Austria), Work Machine (France) Vendetta (Spain).
By the age of 11 Sebastien had fallen in love with electronic music and was heavily influenced by Daft Punk, Cassius, Bob Sinclar, Thomas Bangalter  by the time he decided to start DJing. From 2006 to 2008, Sebastien became a resident at the Palas, a well known nightclub in the Cote D’Azur, where he played along side Axwell, Steve Angello, Benny Benassi, Little Louie Vega, and many more.

2009 was the year of success for Sebastien with notable releases such as ‘Funky Beep’ which had huge success during the 2009 Miami Winter Music Conference and received the support of nearly every top international DJ and became a huge Ibiza anthem during the summer months. Also, in March that year Sebastien met Avicii and the two artists decided to collaborate and worked together on many projects such as ‘Big Colossus’, ‘Wet Groove’, ‘Pastis’, ‘Even’ and of course their mega hit ‘My Feelings For You’, which was released in March 2010.
In October 2010, Sebastien’s release, ’Tweet it’ with Tim Berg (aka AVICII) and Norman Doray was signed to Steve Angello’s legendary Size Records. This track received huge support from the likes of Swedish House Mafia in their live sets and was hugely popular among DJs around the world and gained a high position on the Beatport Top 100 chart.
Since then Sebastien spent touring the world throughout France, Spain, Italy, UK, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Australia, Brazil, Australia, US etc... playing at some of the world’s most renowned clubs such as Cocoon (Frankfurt), Palais (Cannes), Ministry of Sound (London) to name a few.
More key tracks such as “Snus”, another collaboration with his friend Avicii, a remix of Albin Myers’ "Faking Love", Sebastien’s superhot remix of David Guetta’s "Turn Me On" feat. Nicki Minaj.
Other tracks like „Here I Come“ and the massive Beatport No. 2 hit “French Rules“ (both released on Stealth Records), „Fly Again“ and „Resonorg“ (both on Spinnin) also gained massive support from all the usual suspects.
After his first Ibiza residency at Space where Sebastien has played 10 times in 2012, he confirmed his Pacha Ibiza residency in 2013 with 9 dates split between the legendary Pure Pacha events and the new Epica nights. 
2014 started off very strongly for Sebastien Drums. His 2012 track „Here I Come“ was again picked by the Swedish House Mafia to become a highlight track in each and every DJ Set they played over the last year. This support was crowned with a Bootleg of „Here I Come“ and the Acapella of „Leave The World Behind“ produced by Axwell himself. This new version even became one of the key tracks of the Swedish House Mafia – movie „Leave The World Behind and their live Soundtrack album „One Last Tour“.
 His track „Wonka“ was released 18 July 2014 on Ultra . Besides that he has released the track „In The Stars“ (a collaboration with his friend Rib Adans) by giving it for free to his fans. 

In the summer of 2014 Sebastien Drums has been a resident DJ for the massive Neon Splash events at Privilege / Ibiza. He also played the first ever Neon Splash event in France.

2015 he released HORNS with the talented new comer Killogy receiving massive supports and just released a New funky track " PARADISE " on Armada .

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