REST IN PEACE RECORDS – Chicago’s Underground Metal Stronghold Since 1994
Founded on June 6, 1994, REST IN PEACE RECORDS (a.k.a. R.I.P. Records) stands as one of the long-running pillars of the American underground metal scene. Based in Chicago, Illinois, the label has spent over three decades championing uncompromising sounds across Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Doom Metal, and Black Metal. Operating under the motto “Melting […]
OCTOBER 31 to release special covers album of “Metal Massacre” compilation songs & reveal first tracks
The eight volumes of Metal Massacre released by Metal Blade Records in the 1980s were massively instrumental in chronicling (and furthering) the burgeoning heavy metal movement, particularly in the United States. Here, the earliest songs of Slayer and Ratt, for example, stood side by side each other as a declaration of intent: that HEAVY METAL […]