Roadrunner Records
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Roadrunner Records is a record label, concentrating mainly on heavy metal music. The label was originally titled Roadracer Records. Roadrunner is distributed by the Universal Music Group through a share of the label owned by Island Def Jam.On October 11 Roadrunner Records released "Roadrunner United with 4 bands consisting of various band members from their roster. Each band had a captain, which are as follows: Joey Jordison (Slipknot), Matt Heafy (Trivium), Dino Cazares (Fear Factory) and Robert Flynn (Machine Head). October 12 marked the label's first #1 record, Nickelback - "All The Right Reasons."
Artists on Roadrunner
- 36 Crazyfists
- 3 Inches of Blood
- Anyone
- Artillery (during 1990)
- Caliban
- Carnivore
- Chimaira
- Cradle of Filth
- Cynic (broke up after their debut 1993 album, Focus)
- Deicide (from early '90s to early '00s)
- DevilDriver
- Downer (broke up shortly after debut 2001 album)
- Dresden Dolls
- Fakiton
- Fear Factory (quit after the band's first disbanding)
- Ill Niño
- Jerry Cantrell
- Killswitch Engage
- Life of Agony (during the 90's)
- Machine Head
- Mercyful Fate (from early '80s to early '90s)
- Murderdolls
- Nickelback
- Obituary
- Opeth
- Pestilence (from late '80s to mid '90s)
- Sepultura
- Shelter
- Slipknot
- Sonic Bloom
- Soulfly
- Spineshank
- Still Remains
- Stone Sour
- Suffocation (during early to mid '90s)
- The Agony Scene
- Theory of a Deadman
- Thornley
- Tin Foil Phoenix
- To My Surprise
- Trivium
- Type O Negative
- Wednesday 13
- Xentrix (late '80s to early '90s) *
