# Metal Blade Records

Metal Blade Records es una compañía discográfica estadounidense fundada en 1982 por Brian Slagel, con oficinas en los Estados Unidos, Alemania y Japón. Tiene como distribuidora a Sony BMG Music Enternatinment/RED Distribution en los Estados Unidos. Anteriormente, su distribuidora fue Warner Bros. Records, desde 1988 hasta 1992. Varios artistas de Metal Blade han aparecido en las listas del Billboard 200, entre los que destacan Fates Warning (la primera banda de Metal Blade en alcanzar este logro), As I Lay Dying, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, The Black Dahlia Murder, GWAR, King Diamond, Job for a Cowboy, The Red Chord y Unearth. El único grupo en alcanzar un disco de oro o platino con un contrato vigente con Metal Blade ha sido Goo Goo Dolls.
Las oficinas de la compañía discográfica se encuentran en Simi Valley, California.

## Artistas
### Actuales

| Abnormality Act of Defiance Aeon Allegaeon Amon Amarth Anaal Nathrakh Anima Arch/Matheos Armored Saint As I Lay Dying Barn Burner Battlecross Behemoth Beverly Hellfire Beyond the Shore Beyond the Sixth Seal Bitch The Black Dahlia Murder Bloodclot Blood Stain Child Bolt Thrower Brainstorm Byzantine Candiria Cannibal Corpse Cataract Cattle Decapitation Charred Walls of the Damned Church of Misery The Crown | Cult of Luna Cut Up Dawn of Ashes Desaster Destrage The Devil's Blood Dew-Scented Disillusion Don Jamieson Downfall of Gaia DragonForce Ensiferum Exumer Facebreaker Falconer Fleshcrawl Fleshwrought Flotsam and Jetsam Gehennah Goatwhore God Dethroned GWAR Gypsyhawk Hail of Bullets Hammers of Misfortune Harm's Way Hate Hate Eternal House of Heavy If These Trees Could Talk Igorrr In Solitude Intensus | Jim Breuer and The Loud & Rowdy Jim Florentine Job for a Cowboy Killswitch Engage King Diamond King of Asgard Lay Down Rotten Lightning Swords of Death Lizzy Borden Malefice Mercyful Fate Mother Feather Mount Salem Native Construct Neaera Negligence The Ocean Collective Oh, Sleeper One-Way Mirror OSI Overcast Paths of Possession Pentagram Pilgrim Poison Headache Polluted Inheritance Primordial Psyopus RAM Razor of Occam The Red Chord | Return to Earth Revocation Rivers of Nihil Rose Funeral Sacrifice Satan's Wrath Serpentine Dominion Shai Hulud Sister Six Feet Under Skyforger Slough Feg Soilent Green System Divide Theories Tommy Giles Rogers Transatlantic Tombs Trioscapes Twitching Tongues Týr Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats Unearth Visigoth Vomitory Whitechapel Wovenwar |

### Pasados

| Anacrusis Anima Anvil Batushka Betsy Bitch Candlemass Cataract Chemlab Chinchilla Cirith Ungol Cities Corrosion of Conformity Cradle of Filth Criminal Crisis Cryptic Slaughter Dance Club Massacre Dark Funeral Decoryah Diabvlvs in Mvsica Diamond Head Dies Irae Dirty Rotten Imbeciles Dr. Know Epidemic Fate Galactic Cowboys Goo Goo Dolls GWAR | Hecate Enthroned I Killed the Prom Queen Ignorance Immolation In Extremo In Ruins Jacobs Dream King's X Lamb of God Lay Down Rotten Lord Belial Mercyful Fate Metallica Merauder Mortification Neal Morse | Omen Panic Phoenix Mourning Rigor Mortis The Red Death Sanctus Scar Symmetry Skrew Slayer Spock's Beard Symphony X Tourniquet The Crimson Armada The Crown Vehemence Voivod Slaughter House Winter Solstice |