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Status
  
Active

Location
  
Donzdorf, Göppingen

Headquarters
  
Donzdorf, Germany

Founded
  
1987

Country of origin
  
Germany

Official website
  
www.nuclearblast.de

Founder
  
Markus Staiger

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Distributor(s)
  
RED Distribution (U.S.)BMG Rights Management (Europe)

Genre
  
Heavy metalhard rockhardcore punkextreme metal

Artists
  
Albums
  
Gods of Violence, Brotherhood of the Snake, The Last Stand, The Holographic Principle, Endless Forms Most Beautiful

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Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic death metal, grindcore, industrial metal, power metal and black metal bands, as well as tribute albums.

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Music

More recent signings include names such as Wednesday 13, Slayer, Opeth, Decapitated, Danzig, Cradle of Filth, Edguy, Nightwish, Symphony X, Suffocation, Machine Head and Fear Factory.

History

Nuclear Blast was formed in 1987 after founder Markus Staiger travelled throughout the United States for four weeks and saw a gig of his favorite band BL'AST!. The label's first release was a vinyl compilation called Senseless Death (NB 001) featuring US hardcore bands like Attitude, Sacred Denial, Impulse Manslaughter and others.

Swedish band Meshuggah became the first band in the history of Nuclear Blast Records to crack the Billboard 200, landing at number 165 with their 2002 album, Nothing. Meshuggah also became the first Nuclear Blast band to be reviewed in Rolling Stone magazine.

In 2004, Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish released Once on Nuclear Blast, which rocketed to the top of the charts in multiple countries, including Finland, Germany, Norway, Greece, Sweden, Austria, and more. It became the first release in the company's history to reach number 1 on the German charts. Slayer released the album Repentless in 2015 which went to number 4 on the Billboard 200 making it the highest charting Nuclear Blast release in the USA.

References

Nuclear Blast Wikipedia


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