Ghost Signs Major Label Deal Valued At Almost $1 Million

Is it just me or does it seem like the major labels converge at the beginning of each decade and only then do they start making moves on scooping up established metal bands? In the early 90's it was Carcass, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, etc, in the very early 2000's it was Shadows Fall, Lamb of God, Mastodon, and now it's Gojira, Ghost and who knows who else (Kvelertak and Baroness maybe?).
 
AeonicSlumber said:
Is it just me or does it seem like the major labels converge at the beginning of each decade and only then do they start making moves on scooping up established metal bands? In the early 90's it was Carcass, Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, etc, in the very early 2000's it was Shadows Fall, Lamb of God, Mastodon, and now it's Gojira, Ghost and who knows who else (Kvelertak and Baroness maybe?).
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The Carcass, Napalm, Godflesh, etc was simply an upstreaming for Earache who was distributed by Sony/Red at the time.
 
Those weren't distro deals though, Sony straight up licensed those releases and if I'm not mistaken, and Columbia straight up SIGNED Carcass.
 
Grats to them.

Does Neil think RoadRunner had a 750k deal to offer them? Does he think Ghost gives a fuck about 'metal'? They got paid, they are happy, its more than they ever would have made otherwise. I don't see this deal as relying on traditional metal fans to turn a profit. Ghost knows what they are getting themselves into.
 
AeonicSlumber said:
Those weren't distro deals though, Sony straight up licensed those releases and if I'm not mistaken, and Columbia straight up SIGNED Carcass.
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Well, all of those releases in question had Columbia/Earache on them. So i if i am remembering it had Sony money behind it, but those bands were still contracted via Earache, but Earache upstreamed them getting a cut of the money. Kind of like Sub Pop and Nirvana. More so now how Coheed was just pulled from Equal Vision and put on Sony. EVR wasn't happy about that.

Yes, it was more than a distro deal. They did sign Carcass outright after Heartwork, but never released "Swan Song" (or whatever it was to be titled before they broke up) and let it sit on the shelf as the Earache thing didn't last very long and Sony hated what they had recorded and felt it had no commercial potential. Carcass, Napalm Death, Entombed, Godflesh, Fudge Tunnel and one more who escapes me where part of the Sony temporary merger. Earache had to fight to get rights to Swan Song from Sony, but all the other titles Sony had Earache has since reissued.
 
AeonicSlumber said:
Can we have one thread without you shitting your trollfarts all over it?
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I seriously have no fucking idea who this band is or why they're worth 3/4 of a million dollars. All I've heard about them is "OMG GHOST IS PLAYING OH WAIT NO THEY'RE NOT, BUT THEY'RE DOING ONE SHOW AND 5 million fans from mars are coming to see them!"

Seriously, WTF.
 
TribunalRecords said:
Well, all of those releases in question had Columbia/Earache on them. So i if i am remembering it had Sony money behind it, but those bands were still contracted via Earache, but Earache upstreamed them getting a cut of the money. Kind of like Sub Pop and Nirvana. More so now how Coheed was just pulled from Equal Vision and put on Sony. EVR wasn't happy about that.

Yes, it was more than a distro deal. They did sign Carcass outright after Heartwork, but never released "Swan Song" (or whatever it was to be titled before they broke up) and let it sit on the shelf as the Earache thing didn't last very long and Sony hated what they had recorded and felt it had no commercial potential. Carcass, Napalm Death, Entombed, Godflesh, Fudge Tunnel and one more who escapes me where part of the Sony temporary merger. Earache had to fight to get rights to Swan Song from Sony, but all the other titles Sony had Earache has since reissued.
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Sad thing is that Swan Song is actually a pretty decent album. Well, I like it anyway.
 
nailz said:
I seriously have no fucking idea who this band is or why they're worth 3/4 of a million dollars. All I've heard about them is "OMG GHOST IS PLAYING OH WAIT NO THEY'RE NOT, BUT THEY'RE DOING ONE SHOW AND 5 million fans from mars are coming to see them!"

Seriously, WTF.
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So sorry you don't get the fun of GHOST. they are F U N band. their gimmick has paid off in a big way, besides they wrote some catchy songs about satan while channeling 70's rock.

Not everybody gets everything but to try and diminish what they have achieved is kind of lame.

I don't know 1/2 of the bands on PP this year, but do i come on here posting who the f*** is Kingcrow or whoever it is that is playing and why are they playing PP?!?! no, because i understand that the metal world and PP doesn't revolve around me. just because you aren't in the "circle of Ghost" doesn't mean that it isn't fucking huge circle.
 
RagePSV said:
Sad thing is that Swan Song is actually a pretty decent album. Well, I like it anyway.
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i LOVE that album and my favorite song is actually one of the outtakes from the session. "Edge Of Darkness"

Yeah, when you read back on those days it's amazing how Columbia/Sony was willing to just shelve the album and drop the band. Another example of a major label crushing a band to dust.
 
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