Roadrunner Records
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Roadrunner Records (Roadrunner Music Group B.V.) is a record label that concentrates on rock and metal bands. It is currently a subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
The label was launched in the Netherlands in 1980 and was originally called “Roadracer Records”. Roadrunner’s initial business was importing North American metal-band recordings into Europe. In 1986 Roadrunner opened its US headquarters in New York City and later opened offices in England, Germany, France, Japan, Australia and the latest in Denmark. Early successes included albums from King Diamond (the first Roadrunner artist to enter the Billboard Top 200 albums chart) and Annihilator. The label also handled early Metallica releases in the Scandinavian region. The end of the 1980s saw the release of two albums that are now considered classics of their respective genres: Obituary’s Slowly We Rot and Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains.
The 1990s saw the arrival of acts such as Life of Agony, Machine Head, Sepultura and Type O Negative. As the 1990s wore on, several of Roadrunner’s bands managed to make an impact on the mainstream, most notably Sepultura and Type O Negative. Sepultura’s 1993 album, Chaos A.D., became the first Roadrunner band to crack the Top 40 on the Billboard album chart. Type O Negative became the first Roadrunner band to receive a certification from the RIAA; this was a Gold award (and later Platinum award) for the 1993 album Bloody Kisses, which was certified in 1995.
The label was launched in the Netherlands in 1980 and was originally called “Roadracer Records”. Roadrunner’s initial business was importing North American metal-band recordings into Europe. In 1986 Roadrunner opened its US headquarters in New York City and later opened offices in England, Germany, France, Japan, Australia and the latest in Denmark. Early successes included albums from King Diamond (the first Roadrunner artist to enter the Billboard Top 200 albums chart) and Annihilator. The label also handled early Metallica releases in the Scandinavian region. The end of the 1980s saw the release of two albums that are now considered classics of their respective genres: Obituary’s Slowly We Rot and Sepultura’s Beneath the Remains.
The 1990s saw the arrival of acts such as Life of Agony, Machine Head, Sepultura and Type O Negative. As the 1990s wore on, several of Roadrunner’s bands managed to make an impact on the mainstream, most notably Sepultura and Type O Negative. Sepultura’s 1993 album, Chaos A.D., became the first Roadrunner band to crack the Top 40 on the Billboard album chart. Type O Negative became the first Roadrunner band to receive a certification from the RIAA; this was a Gold award (and later Platinum award) for the 1993 album Bloody Kisses, which was certified in 1995.
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slipknot 4 live !!!!!!
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or19937 wrote:
One ofthe best labels ever
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Watershed and Fear of a Blank Planet FTW.
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best label at all
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Thanks for uploading albums! Great work!
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Hey if you want same new music then check out my new song "Wake Me Up". Its energetic as hell. :) /Percy http://www.last.fm/music/Percy+Mejhagen
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DEVILDRIVER FOR THE FUCKING WIN.
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Slipknot!
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I hate those Explict and Album Version crap - -' It's messing up tags...
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RyanNinja wrote:
PLEASE REMOVE [Explict Version] from the Cavalera Conspiracy album so that it scrobbles properly!!
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Blessedheart wrote:
Great, now can you do that for all the other Roadrunner albums with the (Album Version) (or similar) tags, for example Type O Negative and Machine Head?
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Ser3f wrote:
Thank you.
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Ser3f wrote:
Get rid of the fucking [Album Version] shite on Fear Of a Blank Planet so the album will scrobble propperly.
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