Always at the forefront with an active role in emerging stylistic nuances Century Media has truly shattered the barriers and exemplified diversity in extremes while remaining rooted in the underground but giving bands opportunities outside of the normal means with major league international touring, commercial radio play, and music placement in high-profile films, TV and commercials. Despite all of the years and breakthroughs the company maintains their organic, family feel and business is still being conducted by fans of the music for fans of the music.

The #1 in Extreme Music! As the world's biggest independent Heavy Metal label we give you access to always the latest songs, official music videos, interviews, live performances and more from artists like Slayer, Machine Head, Nightwish, Eluveitie, Exodus, Anthrax, Meshuggah, Hatebreed, Testament, Sepultura, Children Of Bodom, Dimmu Borgir, Avantasia and many more.

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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Based in Oakland CA, Headless Lizzy & Her Icebox Pussy plays dark, heavy, guitar & electronics-driven music and noise. With roots in deathrock, industrial, and experimental metal their sound is a gestalt that includes and transcends each form.

Informed and inspired by the occult, the surreal, and the obscure, their lyrics illustrate a world of psychedelic proportions. This world is at times nightmarish and brooding. Then there is a triumphal calling of strength, of force, and of fire. 

Their first album, Gaping Mouth of Locusts, was released in 2011. Their second and latest offering, Criminalien Manipulature, came out in May of 2015. The band will be touring soon, and a third album release will soon follow.

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It’s a little bit weird if the number of followers increases while the number of plays remains constant. The few people I follow are artists that impressed me with their music and style (most of all “Radiofriendly”) and I am following them because I want to be informed whenever they upload new material. I can’t imagine how it might be possible to really follow hundreds of artists or just approve them worthy without listening to one single track. So I won’t waste one single second of my time by listening to a track of someone spending his days randomly clicking “follow” at thousands of profiles just to attract attention.

BIOGRAPHY

Solveris was formerly unknown as “Sons of Light“ and was founded in 2002. We had a regular line-up of six musicians but never managed to get all together at the same time. However, after our drummer and our bass player left in 2004 because of other bands they were playing in, we tried to get along with substitutes. But unfortunately they remained substitutes, and we split up in early 2005.

The band was reborn in late 2011 with Heiko (the first drummer, who was not so busy any more) and Raoul (who played one guitar at Sons of Light) and changed the name to “Solveris” (which means something like “spring sun”). To keep the line-up small, Raoul decided to do the guttural vocals himself (can't be too hard) and Heiko was forced to do some clean tunes while drumming. When Christian, one of the guitarists of “Fenfire”, joined the band as bass player, the line-up was completed.

Small note regarding new material: downloading is not disabled because of any fucking copyright reasons but because the recordings are not final yet. downloading will be available as soon as we're totally satisfied with the results.

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