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Mausoleum Records is a Belgian-based heavy metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 label
Record label
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 headed by Alfie Falckenbach, once considered by Billboard
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 as "one of Europe
Europe
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's premier hard rock labels".

Recording artists

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  • Ace Lane
  • Achyronthia
  • Adam Bomb
  • After All
  • Always Fallen
  • Andralls
  • Angel Witch
    Angel Witch
    Angel Witch is a British heavy metal band which formed in London, England in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement.-Biography:...

  • Anvil
    Anvil (band)
    Anvil is a Canadian heavy metal band comprising Steve "Lips" Kudlow , Robb Reiner , and Glenn Five...

  • Arrest
  • Atlain
  • Axe Victims
  • Bad Steve
    Bad Steve
    Bad Steve was a German heavy metal band composed of former Accept members Jan Koemmet, Frank Friedrich and Dieter Rubach, as well as former members of more obscure bands Kanaan and Sin City. They supported Accept on a 1984 tour in Germany. Rubach later had a brief stint with Accept vocalist Udo...

  • Barón Rojo
    Barón Rojo
    Barón Rojo are a Spanish heavy metal band who reached international success in the 1980s. The band is led by siblings Carlos and Armando de Castro, previously from the band Coz, and it is considered one of the most important representatives of Spanish hard rock bands, along with Obús...

  • Beast
  • Belladonna
  • Blacklace
  • Bloody Six
  • Brainfever
  • Ceremony
  • Chariot
  • Chasar
  • Chinawhite
  • Cinderella
    Cinderella (band)
    Cinderella is an American heavy metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They emerged in the mid-1980s with a series of multi-platinum albums and hit singles whose music videos received heavy MTV rotation. They were famous for being a glam metal band, but then shifted over towards a more hard...

  • Courageous
  • Crackmind
  • Crossfire
  • Crucifixion
  • Custard
  • Cutty Sark
  • Danger
  • Dark Wizard
  • Darxon
  • Dead On
  • Donor
  • Double Diamond
  • EF Band
  • Ekpyrosis
  • Electric Earth
  • Enertia
  • Even Vast
  • Everfest
  • Expect No Mercy
  • Fact
  • Faithful Breath
  • Fisc
  • Flotsam and Jetsam
    Flotsam and Jetsam (band)
    Flotsam and Jetsam is a thrash metal band that formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1982.-1981-1986: The beginning:The band's original name was "Paradox" founded by Drummer Kelly David-Smith and two other guitarists, until 1982 when bassist Jason Newsted joined. Jason had come to Phoenix with his band...

  • FN Guns
  • Frost
    Jack Frost (musician)
    Jack Frost is the guitarist/founder of the heavy metal band Seven Witches and also a part of The Bronx Casket Company. Frost is also known for playing guitar on Savatage's tour in support of Poets and Madmen in 2001 and 2002 before being dismissed from the band for unspecified reasons...

  • GMT
  • Godiva
    Godiva (band)
    Godiva is a heavy metal band from Switzerland, founded in early 2001 as a cover band.By the summer of 2001, the band recorded their first 3-track-demo and, within the next year, Godiva supported bands such as Freedom Call, Shakra, Primal Fear and Dokken...

  • Gust of Anger

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  • Hades
  • Hardline
  • Hawkwind
    Hawkwind
    Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

  • Hazzard
  • Herman Rarebell
    Herman Rarebell
    Herman 'Ze German' Rarebell is a German drummer, best known for his time in the band Scorpions from 1977 to 1995, playing on 8 studio albums...

  • Hermetic Brotherhood
  • Highway Chile
  • Hirax
    Hirax
    Hirax is an American thrash metal band from Cypress, California. Starting in 1984 under the leadership of vocalist Katon W. De Pena , the band played in Los Angeles and San Francisco with the other new thrash metal bands of the area such as Metallica, Exodus, and Slayer...

  • Human Factor
  • Hyades
  • Imagika
  • Imago Mortis
  • Jerusalem
    Jerusalem (British band)
    Jerusalem was an early 1970s British heavy rock band.The five-member band released one self-titled album worldwide in 1972 on Deram Records , produced by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple...

  • K-West
  • Killer
  • Killing Machine
    Killing Machine (band)
    Killing Machine is an American Metal band found by Peter Scheithauer that has released three albums, the self-titled effort in 2000 via Candlelight Records , Metalmorphis in 2006, via Mausoleum Records and Chapter One in 2010, via Axe Killer....

  • King Karma
  • Kyrbgrinder
  • Legen Beltza
  • Limelight
  • Lion's Pride
  • Living Death
    Living Death
    Living Death was a German heavy metal band from Velbert, whose career spanned from the early 1980s until the early 1990s.-Biography:Living Death was formed in 1980 in Velbert, Germany by Reiner and Dieter Kelch, and Frank Fricke, starting out as a simple heavy metal band...

  • Mad Axeman
  • Magic Kingdom
  • Maggie's Madness
  • McCoy
    McCoy (band)
    McCoy was a British heavy metal band under the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era.The band was formed by John McCoy before he went to play in Gillan. Paul Samson would later form Samson.- Band members :*Roger Hunt*John McCoy*Paul Samson-External links:...

  • Merendine Atomiche
  • Mystery Blue
  • Native Instinct
  • Necromancia
  • Nitro
  • Nordheim
  • Obsession
    Obsession (band)
    Obsession is an American heavy metal band formed in 1982 famous for spawning the career of singer Michael Vescera.The band first came on to the scene on the Metal Massacre 2 compilation from Metal Blade Records. After that, the band released the albums Scarred for Life and Methods of Madness under...

  • Obus
  • Omen
    Omen (band)
    Omen is an American heavy metal band. The band was formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1983, by lead guitarist Kenny Powell, previously with the band Savage Grace and signed on with Metal Blade in 1984, with whom they released their debut Battle Cry .In 1985...

  • Ostrogoth
  • Panzer
  • Phantom-X
  • Prey
  • Reaper
  • Reign
  • Richie Kotzen
    Richie Kotzen
    Richie Kotzen is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.At a young age, Richie Kotzen was taken by music and first began playing piano at the age of five. At the age of seven he was inspired by the band KISS to learn the electric guitar...

  • Rise to Addiction
    Rise To Addiction
    Rise To Addiction is a British heavy metal band formed in 2004 by former Blaze Bayley guitarists John Slater and Steve Wray.A self-titled EP was released on Madman records in 2004 with the help of Harry Armstrong on vocals Rob Naylor on bass, and Ben Calvert on drums.RTA's full touring lineup Rise...

  • Rivera/Bomma
  • Rough Silk
  • Runamok
  • Saints' Anger
  • Scavenger
  • Schubert
  • Sergeant
  • Sinner
    Sinner (band)
    Sinner are a German heavy metal band formed by vocalist and bassist Mat Sinner in 1982 . They were part of the German heavy/speed/power metal scene. Their latest album, One Bullet Left, was released in 2011.-History:...


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  • Sledgehammer
  • Snowblind
  • Sphinx
  • Spirit Web
  • Starstruck
  • Steeler
  • Steelover
  • Steeltower
  • Stormbringer
  • Stormhammer
  • Stream
  • Suicide Watch
  • Swarm
    Swarm (band)
    Swarm , formed after the demise of Death Angel in 1997 by former members Rob Cavestany, Andy Galeon and Mark Osegueda, who were joined by Michael Isaiah...

  • Syar
  • System Shock
  • Tails Blue
  • Tank Buster Jack
  • Technocracy
  • The Ordeal
  • Together
  • Torch
  • Tormentor
  • Tox
  • Trance
  • TSA
    TSA (band)
    TSA is a Polish hard rock and heavy metal band.As is the case with the vast majority of heavy metal bands with acronym-based names, there appears to have been no actual meaning behind TSA's name, although in a 2003 press release one of the founders claimed that the acronym originally meant "Tajne...

  • Tush
  • Tyrant
  • Underdog
  • Vanadium
  • Villain
  • Versover
  • Voivod
    Voivod (band)
    Voivod are a Canadian heavy metal band from Jonquière, Quebec, Canada. Their musical style has changed several times since the band's origin in the early 1980s...

  • Warhead
  • Warlock
    Warlock (band)
    Warlock was a German heavy metal band, assembled in 1982. The band gained some commercial success in the mid 1980s. By the end of the decade, singer Doro Pesch was the sole original member who remained in the band, and thus proceeded to form Doro, a band that was essentially a continuation of...

  • Warning SF
  • Waxface
  • White Heat
  • Wicked Maraya
  • Wicked Mystic
  • Wildfire
  • Wolf
  • Witchfynde
    Witchfynde
    Witchfynde are a heavy metal band that was one of the forerunners of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. Witchfynde was formed in Derbyshire, England in 1974 by bass guitarist Richard Blower and vocalist Neil Harvey. Richard Blower discovered Montalo whilst in a band called Atiofel...

  • Wrekking Machine>

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