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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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Year of foundation - 2006.
Discography:
"Сквозь дыру веков" 2010 LP
"Ширез-навырез" 2013 LP
"Феникс" 2015 LP
"Дымок кадильный" 2016 EP
"Тёмные романсы" 2018 LP
"За родимую матушку Русь" 2019 EP
"Первый мороз (cover Orplid)" 2019 Single
"Девичий" 2020 EP
"Чёрное Солнце" 2020 Single
"Сны, часть 1" 2020 EP
"По долинам и по взгорьям" 2021 Single

Biography
 
0 X í S T, as for zero exist, is a dark metal band from Riihimäki, Finland. The band was formed in 2008. 

0xíst's first CDEP Unveiling the Shadow World was released in April 2010 on Ostra Records and it includes the following tracks: Gazing Into the Void, Kingdom of Slumber, One over Infinity & Unveil the Shadow World. Right after the EP release 0xíst played their first live shows in southern Finland and Estonia. 

In August and September 2010 the band recorded a demo with two new tracks: Old World Vanished & …of Wood, Stone and Bone. A limited demo-CDr edition (100 copies) was released to prepare 0xíst’s first full-length album release.

Debut album Nil was recorded during the spring 2011. In October the band toured in Finland with Pantheist(UK).  0xíst continued playing live in the spring 2012 and did their first shows in Lithuania.

Nil will be released in October 2012 as a joined effort by French labels Ostra Records and Cold Void Emanations. The album includes 6 tracks and one intro.

0 X í S T plays metal that is slow, heavy, menacing and stands truthfully for what it is being described to be - dark metal.

George Degree,nombre de guerra de este joven Canario afincado en Palma de Mallorca. Comienza su incursión en el mundo de la música a la temprana edad de los cuatro años, estudiando piano hasta los doce, lo cual despertaría sus inquietudes musicales a la hora de crear. Es a los quince años cuando comienza a indagar en nuevos sonidos, topándose con la música Electrónica y el Techno en concreto, género que le dejaría huella de por vida. A los diecisiete años su pasión por este nuevo sonido le lleva a introducirse en el mundo de la producción y el djing, buscando un sonido propio a través del cual expresar sus conceptos e ideas, ya sea tras los platos o en el estudio. Influenciado por sonidos cada vez más extremos y experimentales, bebiendo de fuentes nacionales como Oscar Mulero, Reeko, Exium…, y el sonido Birmingham en general, sin olvidar nunca el Hardtechno. Sus producciones, al igual que sus sets rebosan de energía y dinamismo con una generosa dosis de dureza y oscuridad, siempre coherente y fiel a sus instintos musicales y gustos personales. Ha compartido cartel con artistas reconocidos como, entre otros: Marco Carola, Oscar Mulero, Event 7, Marc Marzenit.Y ha participado en diversos programas de radio como Digital Import Fm (New York), Only4Techno (Hessen, Alemania), Radio Fuga fm “Live Sets”(Madrid), Elio (Bulgaria), Brainfuckingbeatz (Homburg, Alemania)…Es en el año 2008, con el ebulliciente mercado discográfico digital,cuando ficha por el novedoso sello Teknatika, con el cual se siente identificado, dando salida a sus producciones publicando  varias referencias, desempeñando una productiva actividad en el susodicho sello español. En el mísmo año publica en el sello inglés Corrupt Systems y en el sello alemán Publyc Frecuency.Actualmente y desde Junio de 2010 dedica el tiempo exclusivamente a su sello digital Dark Mental,demostrando la calidad y actividad de sus dotes como productor. Dotes que, a día de hoy sigue perfeccionando con la idea de llevar su música a sus sets.

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