Brian Slagel to Host First In-Person Tour 

of Metal Blade Museum 

in Las Vegas!

Presents Metal Blade Museum Tour Video Part 2

& the 40th Anniversary Parties Continue!

Metal Blade Museum Tour

Las Vegas, Nevada

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Metal Blade Museum Hours 12pm to 5pm 

(All Ticket holders who arrive at 12noon will get a Guided Tour by Brian Slagel)

 

Price: $19.82

Availability: 20 Tickets

 

Purchase Link: https://www.indiemerch.com/metalbladerecords/item/117731 

Metal Blade Museum Tour Video Part 2: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAyu0wUIOuo

LAS VEGAS, Nevada – Metal Blade Records continues its 40th Anniversary Celebration in 2022 with a slew of new events and a kickass exhibit. The fiercely independent label that launched Metallica, Slayer, Armored Saint, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, and dozens more iconic heavy metal bands, invites fans to live shows in Brooklyn, New York, and Las Vegas, Nevada, home to the Metal Blade Museum, a specially curated exhibit stocked with timeless memorabilia and artifacts spanning the label’s history, from 1982 through the present day. Metal Blade Records founder Brian Slagel will personally host the first tour of the Metal Blade Museum for 20 ticket holders at noon on Wednesday, July 20.

Technical death metal merchants RIVERS OF NIHIL headline the first Metal Blade Records 40th show on August 6 at Brooklyn’s famed St. Vitus venue, with a DJ set from REVOCATION’s Dave Davidson.

Only a limited number of tickets will be available to the public!

Ticket Link:  https://link.dice.fm/MetalBlade40

SACRED REICH, an integral part of the thrash movement still churning out classics on Metal Blade, tops the bill on September 17 at The Space in Las Vegas. A Metal Blade Records 40th show at the Las Vegas House Of Blues on October 5 will feature a major headlining act to be announced later this summer

 

Ticket link: https://thespacelv.com/event/sacred-reich/

 At these events celebrating the label’s history, Metal Blade will raffle 40th Anniversary swag bags. Fans can purchase celebratory shirts and other merchandise, including the “decade” themed tees launched alongside the Metal Blade 40th Playlists, collected here: https://www.metalblade.com/40thanniversary

 

About Metal Blade Records:

Founded upon owner Brian Slagel’s enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it celebrates its fourth decade.

 

Metal Blade Records launched Metallica, Slayer, Armored Saint, Fates Warning, GWAR, Cannibal Corpse, Amon Amarth, Whitechapel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Cattle Decapitation, and dozens more genre giants, shaping four decades and counting of hard rock, metal, and extreme music culture. Brian Slagel worked as a record store clerk when he founded Metal Blade in 1982, reserving a spot for a young Lars Ulrich on his Metal Massacre compilation series. Metal Blade grew from humble beginnings in Los Angeles to become an international powerhouse, selling millions of albums while remaining fiercely independent. In 2017, Slayer’s Kerry King inducted the label into the Hall of Heavy Metal History. Slagel’s The Sake of Heaviness: The History of Metal Blade Records arrived the same year.