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Heavy Metal Record Labels

Information about and links to heavy metal record labels.

Century Media Records

Profile of Century Media Records, including label history and releases.

Metal Blade Records

Profile of Metal Blade Records, including label history, bands and more.

Black Market Activities

Artists include Animosity, Behold The Arctopus, Ed Gein, From A Second Story Window, Khann, Psyopus, The Red Chord, The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza and more.

Candlelight Records

Artists include 1349, Bal-Sagoth, Blut Aus Nord, Dark Funeral, Daylight Dies, Dismember, Emperor, Gorgoroth, Ihsahn, Marduk, Scum, Vader and Zyklon.

Century Media

Artists include Arch Enemy, Cryptopsy, Dark Tranquility, God Forbid, Lacuna Coil, Manntis, Napalm Death, Shadows Fall and Strapping Young Lad.

Conquest Music

Artists include Vader, Monstrosity, Underthreat and Diabolic.

Dark Symphonies

Extreme progressive label. Artists include Autumn Tears, Elegeion, Morgion and November's Doom.

Displeased Records

Artists include Carcass, Eternal Solstice, Limbonic Art, Necrophagia, Sadist and Whiplash.

DRT Entertainment

Artists include Gwar, 36 Crazyfists, Clutch, Powerman 5000 and Soil.

Earache Records

Artists include Akercocke, Beecher, Cult Of Luna, Deicide, Ewigkeit, Municipal Waste and Usurper.

Ferret Music

Artists include 36 Crazyfists, A Life Once Lost, Chimaira, Every Time I Die, Funeral For A Friend, Misery Signals, Poison The Well, Scarlet, The Devil Wears Prada, Zao and more.

Hydra Head Records

Artists include Torche, Xasthur, Pelican, Jesu, Botch, Converge and more.

Galy Records

Canadian extreme music label. Artists include Soulscar, Atheretic, Shades Of Dusk, Beneath The Massacre, Vortex and Blinded By Faith.

Inside Out Music

Artists include Devin Townsend Band, Evergrey, Pain Of Salvation, Shadow Gallery and Symphony X.

Magna Carta Records

Artists include Billy Sheehan, James Labrie, Caliban, Sadus, Royal Hunt, Mike Portnoy and more.

Lifeforce Records

Artists include Cassius, Fall Of Serenity, Harlots, Heaven Shall Burn, Raunchy, This Or The Apocalypse and more.

Listenable Records

Artists include Aborted, Hate, Immolation, Incantation and Soilwork.

Metal Blade

Artists include Amon Amarth, As I Lay Dying, Black Dahlia Murder, Cannibal Corpse, Cradle Of Filth, God Dethroned, Gwar, Six Feet Under and Unearth.

Peaceville Records

British label's artists include Darkthrone, Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Gallhammer and more.

Napalm Records

Artists include Atrocity, Battlelore, Beseech, Darkwell, Enthroned, Leaves Eyes, Nightmare, Siebenburgen and Vesania.

Neurot Recordings

Artists include Isis, Neurosis, Oxbow, Om and more.

Nuclear Blast

Artists include Agnostic Front, Blind Guardian, Candlemass, Death, Death Angel, Dimmu Borgir, Exodus, Gorgoroth, Hammerfall, Meshuggah, Samael and Soilwork.

Olympic Recordings

Artists include Aborted, Behemoth, Chaosbreed, Fleshgrind, Immolation, Jungle Rot, Vital Remains and Withered Earth.

Prosthetic Records

Artists include The Acacia Strain, All That Remains, Gojira, Infernaeon, Kylesa, Neuraxis, Skeletonwitch, Withered, Yakuza and more.

Red Stream

Artists include Necrophagia, Enoch, Ravenous, Krieg, Forest Of Impaled, Bethlehem, Bloodthorn and Skepticism.

Relapse Records

Artists include Cephalic Carnage, Dillinger Escape Plan, Dying Fetus, High On Fire, Mastodon, Necrophagist, Neurosis, Suffocation and Zombi.

Roadrunner Records

Artists include 36 Crazyfists, Chimaira, Cradle Of Filth, DevilDriver, Ill Nino, Killswitch Engage, Murderdolls, Slipknot, Trivium and Type O Negative.

Rotten Records

Artists include D.R.I., Dog Fashion Disco, Goatwhore and Shamelady.

Willowtip

Artists include Arsis, Dim Mak, Gorod, Ion Dissonance, Misery Index, Necrophagist, Neuraxis, Sulaco and Watchmaker.

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