The long, intertwined roots of one of the world’s most successful independent metal labels can be traced back to a dorm room in a military boarding school two decades ago. Ash Avildsen, the future ...

During the course of its 26 years, Relapse Records has become one of the most respected American labels to specialize in metal. Last year alone, it put out praised albums from Inter Arma, Cough, and ...

Gear Gods scribe Trey Xavier makes a really good point with regards to sending unsolicited demos to record labels: Think of it like this – expecting a label to sign you based solely on a demo you send ...

Atomic Fire is the latest chapter in the history of metal label Nuclear Blast, founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger. The new label’s signings include Helloween, Opeth, Meshuggah, Amorphis, Michael ...

A handful of beloved record stores from that era still survive, including longtime crate-digger haven Stinkweeds. Almost ...

Bandcamp is easily the best download and streaming platform available to bands. It has everything a record label could ever want, too: the ability to offer streams and/or downloads, customizable ...