Fuck the record industry.

YES!

WHAT WILL OPETH DO OMG

Did they fire Monte Conner too?

Wow

Woah

don't care

WHAT WILL SLIPKNOT DO OMG

Some of the other countries offices have been hit too, guess people are going to cry over this, or not

it was about time

luckily Porcupine Tree release their albums on different labels in different regions

Today's Roadrunner Records have nothing to do with the label that brought forth some of the most amazing metal bands back in the day.

Now, the price of becoming flat/bland as a music label is being paid...

Thank god I already have every slipknot release ever released ever

what the fuck? Didn't expect this.

Damn.

Roadrunner sucks the cack anyway

Glassjaw will be happy to hear this

apparently it's being morphed into warner and will keep the bands... but not a lot of their employees by the look of it

I'm just curious as to why this is happening.

a lot of bands just became not so kvlt

>implying roadrunner is kvlt

roadrunner decides how their bands should sound like, so fuck them.

Dont care till this happens to Victory Records.

I'm just curious as to why this is happening.

There weren't enough money to cover the annual bonuses of Warner Music executives and they simply decided to lay off some people.

Just saying though, the real cause can be even more stupid...

balls in your court nickleback.

wow...how does that meeting go? We love your music guys, but you just aren't cost effective enough.

"wow...how does that meeting go? We love your music guys, but you just aren't cost effective enough."

I can't imagine there are any large record labels who give a shit about liking bands, so long as they can market it they don't care

"Dont care till this happens to Victory Records."

That would be doing it a favor.

Except for Counterparts, Victory sucks.

That's what they get for selling out to Warner Brothers

that's a shame, they put out some great releases over the years.

"Except for Counterparts, Victory sucks."

and Streetlight Manifesto, Comeback kid and close your eyes

Streetlight are leaving the second their new album drops anyway

Damn this is pretty brutal

say what you want about them sucking now (because they do) but back in the day these guys were one of the most important labels for extreme metal until they decided to (or were forced to) change what they did

respect given where respect is due

Am I the only one who is sad to see the metal industry in decline. I don't know about you but I don't want in the future to listen to independent tracks from some godforsaken myspace page.

We have the internet now though. Bands can self-promote and release things by themselves fairly easily. Tesseract was huge before they even released a God damn album.

i can assure you the closure of roadrunner records doesnt in any way mean that metal is in decline

if anything its a positive sign

Am I the only one who is sad to see the metal industry in decline. I don't know about you but I don't want in the future to listen to independent tracks from some godforsaken myspace page.

damn. im pretty sure nickelback and slipknot alone bring/brought in more than enough money to the fund the company

Slipknot hasn't had an album since 2008

Not suprising. All major labels are serioulsy fucking metal bands. If its not a dedicated metal label they want you to be Disturbed (there metal right?)

Today's Roadrunner Records have nothing to do with the label that brought forth some of the most amazing metal bands back in the day.

Now, the price of becoming flat/bland as a music label is being paid...

Couldn't have put it better myself. Growing up and working for a family run private business, I was always taught that if you have everything handed to you on a silver platter, how the fuck will you ever learn to feed yourself? It's like when Roadrunner was marginally doing well back in the 90s when they signed every dm band that moved, that's when they peaked and totally changed the face of metal (thus were successful). Now look at them? Nickelback? Look at what they've turned Opeth into. They fucking deserve this for stooping to the lowest denominator.

respect given where respect is due

This is true but if you piss all over your legacy for money, you deserve what you get!

Slipknot hasn't had an album since 2008

This doesn't change the fact that they can still sell millions of tickets.

if this is an indication of a slow-but-sure decommercialization of metal, count me in

The entire industry is in decline because you can successfully be independent without having to rely on a middle man to promote you and pull strings.


I thought it was music piracy that made the industry to decline.

it was about time

yeah wow this is a really ignorant comment right here

just think about all those people that were fired, what if you're 50+

good luck finding a new job these days

The entire industry is in decline because you can successfully be independent without having to rely on a middle man to promote you and pull strings.


I thought it was music piracy that made the industry to decline.

feel bad for the guys that lost their jobs outright.

shitty situation

but back in the day you could buy an album because of one song with a good chance of the whole album being good. I think its more due to musicians focusing on getting big with the songs that go to the radio and not the rest of the album. piracy has just helped expose it.

rip

The days of buying an album because you liked one song on the radio only to find out that the rest of the album is pure shit is pretty much over.

Ahhhh, those were the days...Almost brings a tear to my eye how much money was wasted.

"feel bad for the guys that lost their jobs outright."

agreed. regardless of the impact this has on music itself, the fact that so many people basically got fired immediately really sucks.

Fuck Roadrunner. They became the Victory of metal and did themselves in by alienating their original fans. Hopefully someone buys the rights to and reissues all their 80's/90's metal classics.

Also the metal industry is in decline because the scene fucking sucks. All the new bands are just worshiping Suffocation and the like and its just become very stagnant.

fuck roadrunner, they deserve this

Oh no, now where will Killswitch Engage go.

Music is in decline. Games are outselling music and so many just pirate crappy mp3's. We, the internet, have killed the thing we love so much.

I went into a record store this week and the shelves are full of greatest hits and music from old bands. We say bands don't need labels but sadly potentially good new music get buried in the sea of shit online. Like it or not we needed the labels to sift the shit out for us.

Look at the festivals, its like grandad weekend. Wake up and smell the shit, Roadrunner are the latest casualty.

This is why they dissolved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roadrunner_Records_artists

Fun times all around.

Whoever posted this article, fucking fail.

http://themetalden.com/index.php?p=28024

If you see what I see, RR will in FACT stay a label, just shrinking a little.

Glassjaw will be happy to hear this [2]

fucking bands over and signing nickelback, ok

This shit has been going on for years. Dream Theater has been transfered through like 5 or 6 major labels throughout their career? Yet the entire time it was always owned by Warner Music Group. They just fire people that worked with the bands, whether they were friends with the band or not.

Glassjaw will be happy to hear this [3]

Cees Wessels

Sees weasels

Oh well, hopefully less bands will get signed solely for profit now.

rush is on roadrunner

They will survive

Rush definitely doesn't need a label. They are big enough to self-release everything.

damn, too bad.

who gives a shit

I'm not worried for the bands, or for "metal".

I'm worried for the employees who were dropped like flies at a moment's notice...

yeah wow this is a really ignorant comment right here

just think about all those people that were fired, what if you're 50+


It sucks that they were caught up in this mess but oh well, what do you do?

Thought it said Razorback Records at first, I was almost worried.

what happens to the new Rush album? it's being released by roadrunner/anthem.

And another one bites the dust

bye roadrunner...they're lucky i even said goodbye. fuck that hubris shit

TBH my friends' band Bleeding Oath are getting pretty big in the underground scene in the UK (also featured in the latest Terrorizer mag and were their unsigned band of 2011) and they've only just self-released their first EP which contains just 2 songs. Yet their approach to music and sense of humour (including getting famous musicians such as Mikael Akerfeldt, Jason Aalon Butler, Andrew WK, Liam Cormier, the whole of DragonForce, and more to tell them to "fuck off") has seen them get a lot of attention, and shows that labels are losing their influence.

Gojira's new album is supposed to come out on road runner. This is the album i have been looking forward to most for the past couple years. WHAT WILL COME OF GOJIRA?

wow surprised to hear about this.

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Opeth and Porcupine Tree are in this label arent't they?

36 Crazyfists (excluding US)
8 Foot Sativa (NZ)
Adaje
Airbourne (excluding Australia)
Alexisonfire
Alter Bridge (excluding North America)
The Amity Affliction[1]
Atreyu (excluding US)
At The Skylines
Baptized In Blood
Behind Crimson Eyes (Australia)
Ben Smith And The Associates (US Only)
Berri Txarrak (Basque Country)
Betzefer (excluding US)
Biffy Clyro (US and Japan)
Bleeker Ridge
Billy Talent (US only)
Black Stone Cherry
Brigade (Japan)
Brujeria
Cavalera Conspiracy
CKY
Close to Me[disambiguation needed ]
Clovve
Collective Soul
Convent of Mercy (band) (Australia)
Dååth
Defiance
Delain
Delight (Poland)
De Novo Dahl
The Devil Wears Prada (excluding North America) [2]
Direwolve
Divine Heresy (excluding US)
Dommin
Doug Stanhope
Down (excluding US)
DragonForce (US, Australia, France and UK)
Dream Theater
Dry Ivory
Electric Eel Shock (Japan)
Eric Stadler
FC Five (Japan)
Fiction Plane
Funeral for a Friend (excluding US and UK)
Garrett Lewis
Garrett "Baby Hands" Metts
Gojira
Grand Magus
Hail the Villain (US only)
Hamlet (Spain)
Hatebreed
Heaven and Hell (excluding US and Canada)
Hopesfall (excluding North America)
Horse the Band (Australia and Japan)
Inglorious (US and UK)
Jonas Goldbaum (Germany)
Killswitch Engage
Kids In Glass Houses
Kiss (UK and Europe)
Korn
Lamb Of God (excluding North America)
Lenny Kravitz
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lucidream
Machine Head
Madina Lake
Make Them Suffer (Australia)
Mastodon (excluding North America)
Megadeth

Murderdolls
Negative (Europe)
Nickelback (excluding Canada)
Nightwish (US)
Nights Like These
Opeth
Pain (Nordic Territories and Europe)
Patmos
Periphery (Excluding US and Canada)
Porcupine Tree (excluding Japan)
Queensrÿche
Ratt
The Red Shore (Australia)
Requiem (UK Only)
Rob Zombie
Revoker
Royseven
Rush (excluding Canada)
Sammy Hagar
Satyricon (excluding US and Norway)
Shihad
Shinedown (excluding US)
Silverstein (Australia)
Slash (Europe)
Slipknot (excluding Scandinavia)
Soziedad Alkoholika (Spain)
Sons of Sadism
Soulfly
Spoil Engine
Staind (excluding US)
Steadlür
Stereoside
Steve Miller Band
Stone Sour
Taking Dawn
The Parlor Mob
The White Room (Australia)
The Wombats (US)
Theory of a Deadman
Throwdown (excluding US)
Times of Grace
Trivium
Underoath (excluding US and Canada)
Within Temptation
Young the Giant

^current

Omg, 8 Foot sativa

wow. this is actually pretty serious

was flipping out but then i saw:

[quote]Slipknot (excluding Scandinavia)[quote]

so im all good

Bomb The Music Industry!

wow roadrunner has some real turd bands on there now.

i still maintain that Brujeria is one of the funnest side projects ever. their old bio on RR back in 1998 was amazing