– January thirtieth, 2024 –
Without equal Heavy Steel museum options artifacts from Slayer, Metallica, Deep Pink, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Skinny Lizzy and lots of extra!
Tickets HERE!
Steel Blade Data is happy to announce that its Las Vegas, NV based totally museum, in the past most effective open at the weekends, will now be open EVERY DAY. Throughout the museum, fanatics will have the ability to wander the halls of heavy steel historical past, accrued all through the lifestyles and occupation of Steel Blade’s founder and Chairman/CEO, Brian Slagel. You’ll see pieces like outdated promo fabrics, outdated display flyers from the Sundown Strip and past, plaques, props from excursions and track movies, unique promotional pictures from bands’ album releases, unique art work from bands’ quilt artwork, merch, tools, and so, so a lot more.
For a greater thought of what the museum holds, take a look at those movies which provide a snappy excursion in the course of the museum with Steel Blade’s very personal, Brian Slagel.
Pt 1 HERE | Pt 2 HERE
And whilst out and about in Las Vegas, make sure you prevent through Steel Blade Data‘ retailer on the Vintage Mall Of The united states. Stuffed with Steel Blade collectibles and out-of-print pieces that may’t be discovered anyplace else, fanatics can consult with the positioning to get their repair of uncommon vinyl, t-shirts, CDs and extra. (Vintage Mall of The united states 9151 S Las Vegas Blvd # 344 Las Vegas, NV 89123 – instructions HERE)
About Steel Blade Data:
Based upon proprietor Brian Slagel‘s enduring pressure to seek out nice bands and get their track out to as many of us as conceivable, since 1982 Steel Blade has introduced wave after wave of tough, leading edge, and incessantly genre-defining track to the ever-hungry steel plenty. It’s this ethos that has noticed Steel Blade building up a shocking and numerous catalog, climate the more than a few storms going through any unbiased label, and in an age of declining file gross sales boast essentially the most a hit years of its life because it celebrates its fourth decade.
Steel Blade Data introduced Metallica, Slayer, Armored Saint, Fates Caution, GWAR, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Homicide, Livestock Decapitation, and dozens extra style giants, shaping 4 many years and counting of arduous rock, steel, and excessive track tradition. Brian Slagel labored as a file retailer clerk when he based Steel Blade in 1982, booking a place for a tender Lars Ulrich on his Steel Bloodbath compilation collection. Steel Blade grew from humble beginnings in Los Angeles to change into a global powerhouse, promoting thousands and thousands of albums whilst ultimate fiercely unbiased. In 2017, Slayer‘s Kerry King inducted the label into the Corridor of Heavy Steel Historical past. Slagel‘s For the Sake of Heaviness: The Historical past of Steel Blade Data arrived the similar 12 months.
In 2022 Steel Blade Data celebrated its fortieth Anniversary by the use of two reside presentations in Las Vegas – one that includes Killswitch Have interaction and any other that includes Sacred Reich. Along with those two packed reside presentations/events, the label reissued its first free up, the compilation album Steel Bloodbath, plus specifically branded fortieth Anniversary small batch vodka and rum, and a West Coast taste IPA beer. Brian Slagel additionally noticed the discharge of his 2d ebook, Swing of the Blade: Extra Tales from Steel Blade Data that was once launched on Would possibly ninth and was once met with rave critiques from fanatics and press alike. One fan on Excellent Reads known as the ebook “a sentimental adventure via Brian’s steel origin-story reminiscences from his deep and huge standpoint as founding father of Steel Blade that I loved very a lot” whilst MetalTalk.web wrote that “Swing Of The Blade is an endearing, truthful, and stress-free adventure into the deeper international of Brian Slagel, the primary guy in the back of the mythical Steel Blade Data…that is very a lot Brian in his personal phrases, recounting stories from the early days of Steel Blade via to a short lived post-pandemic epilogue, the place he expresses his be apologetic about that the ebook hasn’t coincided with the fortieth anniversary of the label.” To spherical out the birthday celebration, Brian Slagel spread out the label’s number of heavy steel memorabilia to fanatics in Las Vegas, NV, marking the hole of the legitimate Steel Blade Data Museum this is open each Saturday.
The celebrating rolled over into 2023 and in October AXS TV picked up and premiered the Denise Korycki documentary of Steel Bloodbath: The Tale In the back of the Mythical Album. Full of all-star interviews, uncommon pictures, the movie tells the tale of the groundbreaking 1982 Steel Bloodbath vinyl compilation-a sonic birthday celebration of the burgeoning Los Angeles Steel scene, which helped release the careers of iconic acts Metallica and Ratt, and in the end resulted in the start of the mythical unbiased file label Steel Blade Data. The movie boasts useful remark and anecdotes from Steel Blade founder Brian Slagel and his good friend and collaborator John Kornarens, two metalheads with a dream who made Steel Bloodbath a fact; in addition to Metallica contributors Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield; Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy; and Black N’ Blue singer Jamie St. James, amongst many others.
In finding Steel Blade On-line:
https://www.metalblade.com
https://metalblade.bandcamp.com
https://www.fb.com/metalbladerecords
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https://www.youtube.com/MetalBladeRecords
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https://www.metalblade.com/museum
