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News : Metal Blade Records sign with Riot! Entertainment

By on April 9, 2009

Riot! Entertainment Australia is proud to announce an exclusive distribution deal with Metal Blade Records. The deal is affective immediately.

Metal Blade are one of the most innovative and respected labels on the Metal Scene delivering Metal to the masses for over 25 years! Metal Blade is home to legendary artists such as early Slayer, Amon Amarth, Armored Saint, Cannibal Corpse, Fates Warning, GWAR, King Diamond, Lizzy Borden & Six Feet Under and of course to the stunning new breed of metal acts As I Lay Dying, Austrian Death Machine, The Black Dahlia Murder, Evergreen Terrace, Into the Moat, Job For A Cowboy, The Red Chord, Unearth, Whitechapel and many more.

Riot will unleash new product from, As I Lay Dying, Into the Moat, God Dethroned, Lazarus, A.D., Malefice, Razor Of Occam, Trigger the Bloodshed and more on the unsuspecting Australian public in the coming weeks.

“It is an absolute honour for Riot to take over distribution of a label I have long admired and respected and of course I own plenty of those groundbreaking releases. Brian Slagel and Metal Blade are one of the original founders of the Metal Scene and to be working with them will be a highlight for me” said Riot owner and CEO, John Howarth

“We are really looking forward to getting moving and really push the Metal Blade name and work with these amazing bands down here.”
www.metalblade.com

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