What an anniversary! After uncountable releases, TOP 1 chart entries in the international album charts as well as an gold award, it’s time to celebrate 25 years of rock and metal! Or to put it in other words, “Heavy Birthday”!
Napalm Records was founded 25 years ago by Markus Riedler in Eisenerz (Austria) and is one of the leading international labels in rock and metal!
With offices in New York and Berlin, as well as an international network of A&R consultants and local promoters, the label is firmly anchored in the scene. For a quarter of a century Napalm Records has combined tradition with modernity in its work and is known for always discovering young artists, promoting new trends and accompanying artists in the long term.
The renowned Napalm Records roster includes international artists such as Smashing Pumpkins, Alter Bridge, Hoobastank, Powerwolf, Monster Magnet, W.A.S.P., Hammerfall.
How did it all start then? Markus Riedler remembers:
“I still like to remember the start of the company, a fax machine, a typewriter and a 5-square-meter office and everything in my grandfather’s flat.” Now many gray hairs later, it fills me with pride to see what we’ve done for the past 25 years A powerful international team that has been able to do so many things and provides more surprises every day – truly a reason to celebrate, after all, Napalm Records has shaped the music scene during that time – many thanks to everyone behind the company and every day give the very best for another 25 years! ”
You can read the full story about Napalm Records in our current Napalm Records mailorder catalog HERE!
Since opening our office in Berlin in 2015, Thomas Caser is the second CEO of Napalm Records. He states: „25 years and still loud! We are proud of the last decades! Napalm Records is the best example of what ideas can become, when you work hard and with passion. Markus is a paragon for all successful businessmen. I am so proud that I could do my bit for the history of Napalm Records. And we will keep it up for the most interesting music genre! We managed to grow even in hard times. And we built up an outstanding team spirit – we are ready for the next 25 years!”
International and high-class congratulations – i.a. with Dee Snider, Moonspell, Warbringer, Heidevolk, Nervosa, Megaherz – can be seen below.
In the course of the company anniversary, Napalm Records invited almost all of it’s 40 employees from Germany, the USA and Austria to Eisenerz for the first time. From the sixth to the ninth of September, four exciting days were spent in the Eisenerz Ramsau.
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Rockers Tremonti have just released a lyric video for the second single from the band’s Napalm Records release, A Dying Machine. “Trust” recently impacted Active Rock radio and now the lyric video is available and can be seen HERE. The video contains background footage from the band’s recent European tour including their massive set from Graspop as well as opening for Iron Maiden.
A Dying Machine was released on June 8th and stormed the US sales charts giving the group their fourth Top 10 on the Independent Current Album Chart. A Dying Machine landed at #2 on the Top Hard Music Albums, #3 on the Record Label Independent Current Album, #7 Top Internet, #12 Top Current Artists and #57 on the Billboard Top 200. The album also shot up the iTunes chart hitting #3 on the Top Rock Albums and #6 on Top Overall Albums when it was released. The latest single “Trust” is currently impacting Active Rock radio.
The album is available for purchase here.
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Mighty Swedish Stoner force GREENLEAF just released their amazing and amusing music video for “Good Ol`Goat”.
Watch the video right HERE!
The band on their epic movie: “We wanted to do something funny and entertaining and Peder Bergstand came up with this idea. It’s a very fitting video since it’s packed with dad jokes and some of us recently became fathers. Enjoy the bass!”
On November 9th, Hear The Rivers comes into world via Napalm Records.
This album turns out to be quite the mesmerizing bag of tricks that seizes the Swedish Stoner sound and enriches it with so many wonderful things, like the just released unforgettable riff-o-rama „Good Ol`Goat“ or the slow soulfeeder „We Are The Pawns“. An absolute gem of an album that is best kept in the family – which is why former GREENLEAF- and Dozer drummer Karl Daniel Lidén (Craft, Bloodbath, Crippled Black Phoenix amongst others) produced it.
GREENLEAF summarize this record in the following way:
“Hear The Rivers is our full length number 7. Lucky number 7? Well, we like to think so! All the songs give us huge smiles on our faces and we are extremely proud of what we have done! As always we try to take our listeners on a trip with our music, make them wanna bang their heads, dance, smile and cry (of happiness of course). This is easily the biggest sounding record we have ever done and we hope people will enjoy it as much as we do!”
