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A roster with over 120 metal bands. Nuclear Blast Records boasts one of the most diverse rosters in the metal world. Our lineup includes legendary acts like Nightwish, Sabaton, Anthrax or Slayer, and rising stars like Beast in Black, Gatecreeper or Malevolence.
Sep 15, 2017 · A brief history of the last three decades of heavy. 1987: Markus Staiger founds Nuclear Blast in his hometown of Donzdorf. The first record released on the label is the compilation _Senseless Deat_h. 1990: Albums by death metal bands Atrocity, Master and Incubus sell more than 30,000 copies each.
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Jul 5, 2023 · Features. Metal Hammer. A beginner’s guide to Nuclear Blast records in five essential albums. By Matt Mills. ( Metal Hammer ) published 5 July 2023. Nuclear Blast has risen from an underground German label to one of metal’s most powerful institutions. Here’s how it did it – boiled down to just five albums. (Image credit: Nuclear Blast)
Years active. 1987–present. Labels. Roadrunner. Nuclear Blast. Shatter. Monte Conner is a former senior vice president of A&R for Roadrunner Records. His path into the music industry began while at Baruch College in Manhattan, where he hosted a weekly underground metal radio show, called “The Witching Hour,” at the school's radio station ...
- Dimmu Borgir – Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
- Death – The Sound of Perseverance
- In Flames – Clayman
- Immortal – Sons of Northern Darkness
- Anthrax – We've Come For You All
- Nightwish – Once
- Meshuggah – Obzen
- Testament – The Formation of Damnation
- Kreator – Phantom Antichrist
- Nails – You Will Never Be One of Us
A benchmark album in the evolution of symphonic black metal, this 1997 release hinted at Dimmu Borgir’s potential to extend far beyond the boundaries of the genre and reach an even bigger audience. While their third full-length may not have ended up being the one that truly saw them crack a new market, musically speaking alone, it’s the finest dist...
This was Death’s final studio effort before the tragic passing of their visionary founder Chuck Schuldiner, and their sole release on this label. This compelling album is evidence of just how far the band had progressed beyond the proto-death metal of their earlier output. The Sound of Perseverance is a brutal record, no doubt, but this album is la...
Clayman was the pinnacle of In Flames' earlier releases. While it may not be the heaviest or the most commercially successful album of their career, it remains one of the benchmarks for the entire melodic death metal movement. It sounds every inch the superstar record today, with Bullet Ride, Pinball Map and Only for the Weak being one of the fines...
The Norwegian black metal icons’ seventh album – and first on Nuclear Blast – came at a time when the genre that they helped shape had begun to branch out. With the rock press suddenly invested in Cradle of Filth, Dimmu Borgir and Satyricon, black metal was arguably at its commercial peak. But nothing could compete with the real deal, and thanks to...
Anthrax’s reputation had diminished somewhat in the five years since the release of Volume 8: The Threat Is Real, which is what makes their 2003 effort We’ve Come for You All such a fantastic achievement. Arguably the finest album of the John Bush era, Anthrax hadn’t sounded so vital, crunchy, and crucially, as contemporary for a long time. Their n...
Symphonic metal really came of age in the mid-2000s and it was Nightwish who were largely responsible for taking it to heights their underground scene could have ever dreamed. In hindsight, it seems impossible that a record with such glorious bombast could ever have failed, but Once is a genre benchmark, with a set of world class, soaring bangers t...
Any Meshuggah album is essential to any metal fan’s collection, but as we’re restricting ourselves to one release per band, we’re opting for their sixth album ObZen. Why? If we were being lazy, we could just say Bleed, what with it single-handedly redefining technical metal. But there’s far more to ObZen than that. Taking their mind-blowing technic...
This is the soundtrack to one of the all-time greatest comebacks in the history of metal. It had been just shy of a decade since an album of new Testament material had been released, but, damn, was it ever worth the wait. With former Slayer drummer Paul Bostaph’s making his studio debut for the Bay Area thrashers, his frantic stick work helped prop...
Did this Kreator album signify a comeback much like Testament? Not really. At the turn of the millennium, these German thrashers were consistently putting out superb records, slowly building their fanbase away from the glare of the zeitgeist. This meant that people who either discovered or rediscovered the band on their 13th album – their first for...
Nails’ 2013 17-minute-long effort, Abandon All Life had already captured the attention of those with a love of sludgy, hate-filled grindcore. But when the band signed to Nuclear Blast and released this, their third album, they were so unfathomably extreme that the entire metal scene and beyond sat up and took notice. You Will Never Be One of Us is ...
Nuclear Blast Records is a German record label with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. It was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Donzdorf. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by thrash metal, melodic death metal, grindcore, industrial metal, power metal and black metal bands ...
Inactive Nuclear Blast sublabel owned by Nuclear Blast and marketed in the US by Relapse Records, which was the result of Relapse's efforts to release American recordings of Nuclear Blast's artists like Pungent Stench, Disharmonic Orchestra, Benediction and Dismember .
