I am, scary enough as that sounds. I have just written a book which is out now called For the Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records, and yeah here we are. You've been very experienced ...

Record label owners are certainly well known within the music industry, but the average fan has no idea who owns or runs the label of their favorite artist. That's pretty much the case in metal music ...

Show us a record label more important to the definition and evolution of heavy metal than Metal Blade Records, and we’d still be skeptical. From launching the careers of thrash’s biggest acts to ...

Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel just announced a new book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records. The book is the follow-up to Brian Slagel’s 2017 book For the Sake of ...

"The noise began 23 years ago. A music starved kid named Brian Slagel, killing time in suburban LosAngeles, gets sick of watching the local metal scene being ignored by the major labels. Working days ...