The label helped create the history of Heavy Metal.
The first labels specializing in Heavy Metal emerged starting in 1980, and without a doubt, Metal Blade from Los Angeles was one of the main labels that encouraged Heavy Metal, mainly due to the love of metal of its founder, Brian Slagel.
The releases include legendary albums from Slayer to Amon Amarth, from Voivod to Fates Warning, from Goo Goo Dolls to Cannibal Corpse, and many more.
To celebrate the 35th anniversary of the label that remains steadfast and faithful to Metal, Loudwire has listed the 35 most historically significant releases ever made by Metal Blade.
Check out the list:
- Various Artists, 'Metal Massacre' (1982)
- Slayer, 'Show No Mercy' (1983)
- Omen, 'Battle Cry' (1984)
- Voivod, 'War and Pain' (1984)
- Slayer, 'Hell Awaits' (1985)
- Hirax, 'Raging Violence' (1985)
- Fates Warning, 'Awaken the Guardian' (1986)
- Flotsam and Jetsam, 'Doomsday for the Deceiver' (1986)
- Trouble, 'Run to the Light' (1987)
- Sacred Reich, 'Ignorance' (1987)
- Liege Lord, 'Master Control' (1988)
- DRI, '4 of a Kind' (1988)
- Goo Goo Dolls, 'Hold Me Up' (1990)
- Armored Saint, 'Symbol of Salvation' (1991)
- Cannibal Corpse, 'Tomb of the Mutilated' (1992)
- GWAR, 'America Must Be Destroyed' (1992)
- Crisis, 'Deathshead Extermination' (1996)
- King's X, 'Tape Head' (1998)
- God Dethroned, 'Bloody Blasphemy' (1999)
- Vader, 'Litany' (2000)
- Supershine, 'Supershine' (2000)
- Immolation, 'Close to a World Below' (2000)
- Falconer, 'Falconer' (2001)
- The Crown, 'Crowned in Terror' (2002)
- As I Lay Dying, 'Frail Words Collapse' (2003)
- The Black Dahlia Murder, 'Unhallowed' (2003)
- Unearth, 'The Oncoming Storm' (2004)
- Bolt Thrower, 'For Those Once Loyal' (2005)
- Amon Amarth, 'With Oden on Our Side' (2006)
- Primal, 'To the Nameless Dead' (2007)
- Hail of Bullets, '…Of Frost and War' (2008)
- Bison BC, 'Dark Ages' (2010)
- In Solitude, 'The World. The Flesh. The Devil' (2011)
- Cattle Decapitation, 'Monolith of Inhumanity' (2012)
- Between the Buried and Me 'The Parallax II' (2012)
