Pure Steel Records
Encyclopedia
Pure Steel Records is a record label
based on Germany, focused on heavy metal music
. Pure Steel produces CDs and LP
s.
Founded by Kay Anders and Andreas Lorenz in 2006, the main interest of Pure Steel is to spread the true and independent heavy metal sound inspired by the glorious 80s. After 2007, when thrash metal
and power metal
was growing again they introduced many bands to the metal world. They also collaborate with other labels to re-release notable metal albums on LP.
Pure Steel released the first official tribute to Warlock
/ Doro Pesch
in December 2008.
Agamendon , Angband
, Artizan , Arctic Flame , A Tortured Soul , Boomerang , Chimaera , Commandment , Crom , Crystal Tears , Deathfist , Desert Sin , Dragonsfire , Emerald , Enchanter , Eternal Reign , Eternal Winter , Fatal Embrace , Gorgons Eyes , Helvetest Port , Halloween , Hjallarhorn , Holy Cross, Icy Steel , In Solitude , Ivory Tower , Jackal , Mortician, Pandea , Power Theory (US band), Razorfist , Salem (UK band) , Savage Blade , Sencirow , Skullview , Steel Raiser , Stormrider , The Prowlers , Titan Steele , Valkyrie's Cry , Warcry , Warrant (German band)
, Wolfs Moon , Zandelle
Aska , Cage
, Crescent Shield , Emerald , Fatal Embrace , Pharaoh , Sacred Steel
, Seasons of the Wolf , Steel Prophet
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
based on Germany, focused on heavy metal music
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...
. Pure Steel produces CDs and LP
LP album
The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry...
s.
Founded by Kay Anders and Andreas Lorenz in 2006, the main interest of Pure Steel is to spread the true and independent heavy metal sound inspired by the glorious 80s. After 2007, when thrash metal
Thrash metal
Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...
and power metal
Power metal
Power metal is a style of heavy metal combining characteristics of traditional metal with speed metal, often within symphonic context. The term refers to two different but related styles: the first pioneered and largely practiced in North America with a harder sound similar to speed metal, and a...
was growing again they introduced many bands to the metal world. They also collaborate with other labels to re-release notable metal albums on LP.
Pure Steel released the first official tribute to 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...
/ Doro Pesch
Doro (musician)
Dorothee Pesch , popularly known as Doro Pesch or Doro, is a female rock vocalist, formerly of the German heavy metal band Warlock ....
in December 2008.
Bands
- CD Bands:
Agamendon , Angband
Angband (band)
Angband is a Persian power metal/ progressive musical group, formed in 2004 in Tehran.-Band history:Angband was formed in 2004 in Tehran by Mahyar Dean, a classically trained musician and author who is known for writing books about the bands Death and Testament...
, Artizan , Arctic Flame , A Tortured Soul , Boomerang , Chimaera , Commandment , Crom , Crystal Tears , Deathfist , Desert Sin , Dragonsfire , Emerald , Enchanter , Eternal Reign , Eternal Winter , Fatal Embrace , Gorgons Eyes , Helvetest Port , Halloween , Hjallarhorn , Holy Cross, Icy Steel , In Solitude , Ivory Tower , Jackal , Mortician, Pandea , Power Theory (US band), Razorfist , Salem (UK band) , Savage Blade , Sencirow , Skullview , Steel Raiser , Stormrider , The Prowlers , Titan Steele , Valkyrie's Cry , Warcry , Warrant (German band)
Warrant (German band)
Warrant was a German speed metal band that formed in 1983 in Düsseldorf. The band's members were Jörg Juraschek , Thomas Klein , Oliver May , and Lothar Wieners ....
, Wolfs Moon , Zandelle
- LP Bands:
Aska , Cage
Cage (band)
Cage is an American heavy metal band from San Diego, California.In early 2010, original bassist Mike Giordano and lead guitarist Anthony Wayne McGuiniss exited the band....
, Crescent Shield , Emerald , Fatal Embrace , Pharaoh , Sacred Steel
Sacred Steel
Sacred Steel may refer to:* Sacred Steel , a German extreme power metal band* Sacred Steel , a musical tradition within certain African-American Churches...
, Seasons of the Wolf , Steel Prophet
Steel Prophet
Steel Prophet is an American power metal band led by the founder and main writer Steve Kachinsky.-History:The band started in the middle of the 1980s in Middletown, Connecticut. The group's initial lineup consisted of Kachinsky on guitar, Gary Stocking on vocals, Wayne Faircloth on bass, and Harry...