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[loonarclaws]

“Loving you was like loving the dead..”

[clouds-of-wings]

Power Metal reddit currently has a discussion about Nuclear Blast, about what has changed with them and why, and man I have learned a lot of disturbing facts about what has happened there in the past 5 years. Someone posted an in-depth investigative article about it (from November 2021), which you should read if you speak German and are interested, otherwise or if it's too long here are the main points...

If you're into Nightwish, Sabaton, Blind Guardian etc., this is relevant information.

In 2018, the French Believe Music, which is a large corporation that mainly specializes in digital distribution, became majority owner of NB

Believe is not really interested in physical media like CDs and vinyls even though the people who worked at NB told their new corporate overlords that metal fans like physical media, both because many fans of especially the oldest and most successful bands are 50+ and because it's more ingrained in the subculture. Believe doesn't care and doesn't listen. They have their experiences from pop and hip-hop, where phone-based streaming subscriptions are the norm, and that's all they want to know. They are also ignoring printed magazines and don't advertise there much anymore.

Less focus on physical media means that bands now earn less, that they rank less highly in album charts, which in turn means that they lose negotiation power when they try to plan tours and negotiate with venues etc., because they "look" less successful

Believe has been dealing with this by signing mainly bands that are easy to market digitally and ending co-operations with bands that aren't, even ones that had been with NB for decades (like Rage and Nile, who went to Napalm)

The personal cooperation between bands and NB has really suffered, everything is more profit-oriented and impersonal, a lot of budgets have been decreased and the real decisions are made by Believe in Paris, not by any specific NB team

Believe has been stock market traded since 2021. Their stock value went down at first, was at about the price it had started out at when the article was written - I looked it up and in March 23 it's down 40% from its original value. Ouch.

The original founder of NB started a new label, Atomic Fire, and took "Amorphis, Helloween, Opeth, Sonata Arctica, Meshuggah, Primal Fear, Agnostic Front, Rise Of The Northstar, Silver Lake, White Stones and Michael Schenker Group" with him, also because Believe didn't really do much to keep many of these bands

It's certainly interesting to learn about, also because I had already wondered if NB, and some of their bands, had intentionally taken a more "commercial" approach in recent years, but I didn't know about the Believe thing. I thought it maybe had something to do with losses from the pandemic or something. Turns out they have a new owner.

[catloverxddd]

[sammysclawsnblud]

Black No. 1 makes me wanna dramatically fall down a cliff in victorian gowns

[enochianprayerbook]

13 years since the death of the Green Man, Peter Steele 🥀⚰️

[ssevakkk]

Some patches I made:)

[xxshixunightmarexx]

(^_−)−☆_:(´ཀ`」 ∠):ʅ（◞‿◟）ʃ♪( ´θ｀)★彡　♱ ༺

[liz-zardii]

I DON’T WANNA BE ME

[strrawberrystar]

PETER STEELE WOULD HAVE LOVED ME AND THAT'S THE STANDART

[tria-haec]

Me?

I know why

[entityxserenity]

Peter Steeles voice was made by mixing blackstrap molasses, crunchy autumn leaves, gasoline, smoke, a single mint leaf, and honestly menstrual blood send post

[vmprshrk]

Loveliest gift🖤

Bronntanas an-galánta🖤

[per1w1nkl3]

peter steele's voice got me blushing and kicking my feet at nine in the morning

[serpentem-antiquum]

[enochianprayerbook]