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Century Media Records
Century Media Records is an independent record label with offices in the United States, Brazil, Germany, Australia, France, Italy, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom.
Century Media was founded by Robert Kampf in Dortmund, Germany in 1988 and has gone on to start the careers of such famous...
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Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir (pronounced /ˌdɪmuː ˈbɔrɡɪr/ in English) is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. Dimmu borgir means "dark castle" or "dark fortresses" in Icelandic and Old Norse. The name is derived from a volcanic formation...
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- 1993
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Deicide
Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion, are ranked second and third place in best-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era.
Deicide was formed in Tampa, Florida July 21, 1987, after...
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- 1987
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Opeth
Opeth is a Swedish heavy metal band from Stockholm, formed in 1990. While the band has been through several personnel changes, singer, guitarist, and songwriter Mikael Åkerfeldt has remained Opeth's driving force since joining promptly after its...
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- 1990
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Nightwish
Nightwish is a symphonic powergothic metal band from Kitee, Finland, formed in 1996 by songwriter/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen. Nightwish is Finland's most successful band with more than...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jul 1996
Children of Bodom
Children of Bodom is a Finnish heavy metal band from Espoo, formed in 1993. The band consists of guitarist and vocalist Alexi Laiho (vocals/lead guitar), Roope Latvala (guitar), Janne Wirman (keyboards), Henkka Seppälä (bass), and Jaska Raatikainen ...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
Napalm Death
Napalm Death are an English extreme metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. The band was formed in the village of Meriden (near Coventry), England in May 1981 by Nicholas Bullen and Miles Ratledge.
Although other groups had previously played...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
The Flower Kings
The Flower Kings are a Swedish progressive rock group. Formed in August 1994 by veteran guitarist Roine Stolt as a touring band to support his solo album The Flower King, the band stayed together after the tour and have gone on to become one of the...
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- 1993
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Satyricon
Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band.
Satyricon was formed in 1990 by Czral (Carl-Michael Eide) and Wargod. Haavard (Ulver) soon joined them. Satyr took over lead vocals in 1991. Satyricon's current drummer, Frost, who joined the band in 1992,...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
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Emperor
Emperor were a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1991. Over the years, the band's music changed to what can be called "extreme symphonic metal" in their later days. They dissolved in 2001, but reunited in 2006 and again in 2007 for a few festival...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2001
Celtic Frost
Celtic Frost was a heavy metal band from Zürich, Switzerland. They are known for their heavy influence on the extreme metal and gothic metal genres. The group was first active from 1984 to 1993, and re-formed in 2001. Following Tom Gabriel Fischer's...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Jun 1984
Tad Morose
Tad Morose is a Swedish heavy metal / power metal band formed in 1991 and led by guitarist Christer 'Kunt' Andersson. Their full-length debut was Leaving the Past Behind, a minor hit that established the band within the continental European heavy...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Hellhammer
Hellhammer was an influential extreme metal band from Switzerland, active during 1982–1984. They are regarded as a key influence on black metal, and one of the founders of death metal. Two former members went on to form Celtic Frost in 1984....
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1984
Sick of It All
Sick of It All is an American hardcore punk band, from Queens, New York, formed in 1986. Founded by brothers Lou Koller (vocals) and Pete Koller (guitar), Armand Majidi (drums) and Rich Cipriano (bass). They have been known to be a major part of the...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1984
Blind Guardian
Blind Guardian is a German heavy metal band formed in the mid-1980s in Krefeld, West Germany. The band is often credited as one of the seminal and most influential bands in the power metal and speed metal subgenres, Blind Guardian was a part of...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1984
Arch Enemy
Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996. Founded by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage. The band has released seven...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1996
Behemoth
Behemoth is a Polish blackened death metal band from Gdańsk, formed in 1991. They are considered to have played an important role in establishing the Polish extreme metal underground, alongside bands such as Vader, Decapitated, Vesania and Hate....
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
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Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy is a Canadian death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 1988. The band has sold over 300,000 records.
Cryptopsy was formed in 1988 by drummer Mike Atkin, guitarist Steve Thibault and vocalist Dan Greening (who would later take the...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Einherjer
Einherjer is a Viking metal band from Haugesund, Norway, founded in 1993. Some of their albums are heavily folk influenced, while other albums feature a more traditional black metal sound. Their lyrics retell Norse legends, and each of their albums...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1993
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2004
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The Haunted
The Haunted is a Swedish metal band, formed in 1996 in Gothenburg, Sweden. The original members were Patrik Jensen (also member of Witchery) (guitar), Jonas Björler (bass), Adrian Erlandsson (drums), Anders Björler (guitar), and Peter Dolving ...
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- 1996
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Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil is an Italian rock band from Milan, Italy, formed in 1994. Formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, the band was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music, and the members have been known, musically, for composing...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1994
Iced Earth
Iced Earth is an American heavy metal band from Tampa, Florida that combines influences from thrash metal, power metal, progressive metal, opera, speed metal and NWOBHM. Iced Earth has been known to have a volatile and oft changing line-up. Founding...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
Borknagar
Borknagar is a progressive black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1995 by Øystein Garnes Brun. The band's style combines folk metal and black metal with progressive and melodic elements. Borknagar's lyrics often deal with philosophy,...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
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Moonspell
Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal/dark metal band with death/doom metal elements, formed in 1989 as Morbid God. After renaming themselves Moonspell in 1992, they released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before of the release...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Devin Townsend
Devin Garret Townsend (born May 5, 1972) is a Canadian musician and record producer. He was the founder, songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist in extreme metal band Strapping Young Lad from 1994 to 2006 and has had an extensive career as a solo artist...
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- May 5, 1972 (age 37 years)
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Earth Crisis
Earth Crisis is a vegan straight edge metalcore band from Syracuse, New York, that recorded and performed from 1991 until they broke up in 2001. They have reunited and been active again since 2007. A new record was released on Century Media records...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2001
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Finntroll
Finntroll is an extreme metal & folk metal band from Helsinki, Finland. They combine elements of black metal, death metal, and folk metal with a type of Finnish folk music called Humppa. Finntroll's lyrics are mostly in Swedish, the only exception...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- May 1997
Orphaned Land
Orphaned Land is an Israeli progressive metal band that formed in 1991. Its music contains Middle-Eastern and Jewish influences.
In 1992, the band changed its name from the original Resurrection (not to be confused with Resurrection, a Floridian...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Aborted
Aborted is a Belgian death metal band from Waregem, formed in 1995. Founded by vocalist Sven de Caluwé, Aborted released a demo tape and eventually were signed to Uxicon Records. Since then the band has released three splits (on Soulreaper Records,...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Samael
Samael is a heavy metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland.
Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are an early 2nd Wave black...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- Apr 1987
The Gathering
The Gathering is a Dutch band which came to fame in the second half of 1990s with vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen.
Their first two albums, Always... (1992) and Almost a Dance (1993), which played a part in the formation of gothic metal, were...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Theatre of Tragedy
Theatre of Tragedy is a Norwegian band from Stavanger, originally assembled in 1992 and best known for their earlier albums, which provided a great deal of influence to the gothic metal genre. The band made use of contrasting vocals - male bass...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1993
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Dark Tranquillity
Dark Tranquillity is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They are one of the longest-standing bands from the original Gothenburg metal scene and one of the pioneers of the melodic death metal genre, along with In Flames and At the...
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- 1989
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Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1995. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, Heavy as a Really...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
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Ulver
Ulver (Norwegian for “wolves”) is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt - Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (1994), Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
Michael Amott
Michael Amott (born July 28, 1970 in London, England) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, founding member of the bands Arch Enemy, Spiritual Beggars, and Carnage, as well as a member of the death metal band Carcass. He is the older brother of...
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- Jul 28, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost are a heavy metal band formed in 1988 in Halifax, England. While the band's earlier albums are classified as death/doom metal, they later began to incorporate several different styles of rock into their recordings and are now mainly...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1988
Bloodbath
Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup from Stockholm formed in 1998.
A year after being formed, the band, then consisting of Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth) on vocals, Dan Swanö (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale, etc.) on drums, Anders "Blakkheim"...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 2000
Duff McKagan
Michael Andrew "Duff" McKagan (born February 5, 1964), is an American musician who is best known for his thirteen-year tenure in the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. He is currently the bassist for the hard rock band Velvet Revolver, lead vocalist and...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1964 (age 45 years)
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Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth is a Norwegian black metal band based in Bergen, Norway. The band was founded in 1992 by Infernus (who's also the only original member remaining), and the name was derived from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings in...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1992
The Juliana Theory
The Juliana Theory was an American rock quintet from Greensburg and Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The Juliana Theory signed to Christian record label Tooth & Nail Records despite not being a Christian band as such. The group later signed to Epic Records...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- Feb 9, 2006
Mayhem
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway. They are regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene. Mayhem's career has been highly controversial, primarily due to the suicide of vocalist...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1983
Ayreon
Ayreon ( pronunciation (help·info)) is a project by Dutch composer and musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen. Ayreon's musical style derives mostly from heavy metal and progressive rock, but combines them with genres like folk, classical and electronica...
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- 1995
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Naglfar
Naglfar is a Swedish black metal band formed in 1992. The group was formed by Jens Rydén and Kristoffer Olivius, originally under the name Uninterred.
Naglfar formed in 1992. The band was originally called Uninterred, and was founded by Jens Rydén...
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- 1992
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Kalmah
Kalmah is a melodic death metal band from Pudasjärvi, Finland that formed in 1998. In less than a year after its formation, Kalmah was signed by Spinefarm Records. "Kalmah" is Karelian and could be translated as "to the grave" or "to the death."...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1999
Norther
Norther is a Finnish melodic death metal band from Helsinki, Finland whose style incorporates elements of power metal.
The history of the band starts in early 1996 under the name of Requiem, and was assembled by guitarist Petri Lindroos and drummer...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1996
Nevermore
Nevermore is an American metal band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 after the break-up of the power metal band Sanctuary. The band incorporates elements from styles such as thrash, power, progressive and neo-classical metal into their...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1991
Soilwork
Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are currently signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1995
Hansi Kürsch
Hans Jürgen Kürsch, better known as Hansi Kürsch (born August 10, 1966 in Lank-Latum, Germany) is the lead vocalist of power metal band Blind Guardian. Together with André Olbrich, he is also the principal songwriter for the band. He was also the...
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- Aug 10, 1966 (age 43 years)
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Jon Schaffer
Jon Ryan Schaffer (born March 15, 1968 in Franklin, Indiana) is a heavy metal guitarist and songwriter. He is the founder of the heavy metal band Iced Earth.
At the age of 14 Jon got his first guitar and began writing music. At the age of 16 he...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1968 (age 41 years)
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Sentenced
Sentenced was a doom/gothic metal band that played death metal in their early years. The band formed in 1989, in the town of Muhos, Finland, and broke up in 2005. Founding member Miika Tenkula's death in 2009 effectively ended any hopes of reforming...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 2005
Arcturus
Arcturus was a metal band formed in Norway in 1987 under the name Mortem. In 1990, the band changed their name to Arcturus (meaning Bear Guardian), after the Behenian fixed star Arcturus.
The band released four official full-length albums. Arcturus...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1990
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Caliban
Caliban are a five-piece metalcore band from Germany. They have released seven studio albums to-date, and two split albums with the band Heaven Shall Burn. Although the band's sound is "metalcore", the band has stated that they have come from a...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ is a Greek metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene.
The permanent line-up consists of brothers...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1987
Tiamat
Tiamat is a heavy metal band that formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1988. Their music has been the subject of debate, utilizing subgenres like black metal, progressive, doom/death and gothic, but more recently they have focused on what has been...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
Old Man's Child
Old Man's Child is a melodic black metal band from Norway.
Old Man's Child was founded in 1993. Its roots go as far back as 1989 when Galder, Jardar, and Tjodalv were in a death/thrash band called "Requiem". The band is the brainchild of Galder ...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1989
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Extol
Extol is a Christian extreme metal band from Bekkestua, Norway that formed in 1993. In 2007, they announced they were splitting up to work on separate projects. They are known for playing a variety of different styles of metal which include...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1993
Turisas
Turisas are a Finnish folk metal band from Hämeenlinna. They were founded in 1997 by Mathias Nygård and Jussi Wickström and named after an ancient Finnish God of war.
Turisas is a folk metal band, incorporating elements of power metal, with some...
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1997
Tarja Turunen
Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈtɑrjɑ ˈturunen]) (born 17 August 1977) is a Finnish singer-songwriter and composer, whose work includes two solo albums, with the third coming in 2010.
She's best known as original member...
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- Aug 17, 1977 (age 32 years)
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Tuomas Holopainen
Tuomas Holopainen (born December 25, 1976) is a Finnish composer, musician, poet and producer. Known best for heavy metal music, he has also studied jazz and classical styles, but he didn't appreciate these styles explaining to be influenced by...
Date of birth:
- Dec 25, 1976 (age 33 years)
Tankard
Tankard is a thrash metal band from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, founded in 1982. After losing their guitarist because of their image as a bunch of drunks, they moved on to issue their first record in 1986. From that point on, the band has...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1982
