Best Record Label for Metal

[Alongside Death]

Relapse, Osmose, Nuclear Blast and Season Of Mist.

 

[Teh Grimace]

relapse officially wins fuck yeah.

 

[Necro Joe]

I like the a lot of bands from Relapse, Hydrahead and Willowtip but last year it was Rise Above that surprised me the most.

 

[Zephyrus]

Nuclear Blast
Metal Blade
Candlelight
Century Media
Seasons of Mist

 

[Nico]

Rise Above did put out some good stuff, yeah. Southern Lord might've been a good pick if they hadn't jumped on the fucking black metal bandwagon harder and heavier than any other label on earth, so that rules them out in fucking fashion.

And I don't get people saying Roadrunner, even for their early 90's output, because as far as quality goes, Osmose fucking wins the early 90's shit hands fucking down.

Edit: Dodens, do you fucking REALIZE how much your sig kicks arse? Fucking Pagan Altar

 

[skeptik]

Edit: Dodens, do you fucking REALIZE how much your sig kicks arse? Fucking Pagan Altar

YES

 

[~Neurotica]

as much as i know - Nuclear Blast

 

[Life Sucks]

Moribund Cult
Drakkar
No Colours
Earache/Elitist
Metal Blade (even though they have some metacore CRAP on their roster)

 

[CF87]

Not sure the current states in metal. Century Media,Peaceville have put out, and re-released my favorite albums so i'm aiming at them.

Metal-Blade use to be good.
RR was good at one point in the early 90's
Candlelight released older opeth, re-released candlemass albums.

All semi-big labels in metal have some qualities.

Relapse now is equivalent to RR.

 

[Carcassian]

Ever ? Earache, or their up-to 1996 catalogue.

Of recent years? For me, probably Metal Blade.

Of last year? I Hate Records.

 

[forthedyingbeautiful]

Wow, not really sure. I like Relapse a lot but how can I argue with Earache and Metal Blade.

 

[Killbot_Mk.2]

Nuclear blast followed closley by osmose just because thats where immortals start was

 

[Life Sucks]

One thing I just realized is that it is hard for me to say which metal label is best currently, because many of my favorite CDs were released in the early/mid 90s by bands that are no longer on the same record label or have since disbanded.

 

[Life Sucks]

I like Roadrunner back in the days of lotz of death metal bands. Some of the bands they've held onto (such as Deicide and Slipknot) are realy good. Roadrunner are definitly not the best though. I don't know many of the record labels personally, I just know the bands.

Deicide is not on Roadrunner anymore, and Slipknot is not good, nor are they even metal.

 

[Valerie]

Century Media, Nuclear Blast, Metal Blade, Earache

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

Napalm Records, because I like album covers that feature fat, naked goth chicks.

 

[Master_Debater]

Goo Goo Dolls used to fucking be on Metal Blade

 

[~Neurotica]

Napalm Records, because I like album covers that feature fat, naked goth chicks.

err... you like FAT naked goth chicks?...

 

[el barto]

osmose,regain. karmageddon are (re) releasing alot of great albums at the moment metal blade are excellent and as someone mentioned before earache and roadrunner took a nosedive quality wise in the last few years

 

[Saparmurat_Niyazov]

err... you like FAT naked goth chicks?...

More cushion for the pushin'.