In 2010 band Slipknot's bassist Paul Gray died after accidentally taking an overdose of a mixture of fentanyl and morphine, for which there was no evidence of a prescription.

Slipknot's performance at the Civic Hall in 2000 was noted for turntablist Sid Wilson stagediving from the 20 ft high balcony onto the crowd, as per his trademark.

" Mein Teil " was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 48th Grammy Awards, but lost to Slipknot's Before I Forget.

The album, went head to head with heavy metal band Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone on the Billboard 200, seeing that both albums were released on August 22, 2008, therefore both albums were competing for the number one spot on the Billboard 200 albums charts.

Vision of Disorder supported Slipknot for Slipknot's original line-up's last two shows, which included the Palladium in Los Angeles and Trinity of Terrors in Las Vegas.

Although filling in the spot of rhythm guitar in 1999, Root is considered to be one of the band's main songwriters and has written lead guitar parts for Slipknot's later albums particularly on All Hope is Gone.

Iowa follows the lyrical style that vocalist Corey Taylor established on Slipknot's debut album ; it includes strong use of metaphors to describe overtly dark themes including misanthropy, solipsism, disgust, anger, disaffection, psychosis and rejection.

Not all artists who have worked with Rubin have enjoyed his production style: Although he and his band mates had some positive things to say about Rubin, Slipknot's lead singer Corey Taylor said that he only met Rubin four times during the entire recording process of Vol.

In 2001, nu metal reached its peak with albums like Staind's Break the Cycle, P. O. D's Satellite, Slipknot's Iowa and Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory.

It is an open discussion group in order to promote and persuade Slipknot's management in to a tour to happen and the feud to officially end with a friendship.

Band member Anders Colsefni stated in an interview that no specific effort was made to move away from Slipknot's influence, but to play what they wanted.

Of Slipknot's nine members, Joey was the third to join the band.

To My Surprise found its name from people's reaction to their music, primarily based on peoples prejudice based on Crahan's most notable band Slipknot's musical style.

CP + B and Burger King then filed counter-suit against Slipknot, stating that the Coq Roq band was fictitious, visually and musically bore little resemblance to Slipknot's style, and at best was a general parody of heavy metal bands that wear masks or try to achieve a mask-like effect, such as Mushroomhead, KISS or GWAR.

These companies are often children of or partially owned by general market labels such as Warner, EMI, and Capitol Records, giving successful artists an opportunity to " cross over " into mainstream markets.

* Assorted demos and alternate takes from the Decca and Warner Bros. era from the period 1958 – 1961, as well as additional alternate takes and unreleased tracks from the various labels Haley recorded with in the mid-1960s ( The Decca Years and More box set ( Bear Family, 1991 ) and The Warner Brothers Years and More box set ( Bear Family, 1999 ); and

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The company was then based in Riley Street, Darlinghurst and had three major labels, Warner Bros. Records, Elektra Records and Atlantic Records.

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A year later, the band came under fire again, this time as part of a campaign by conservative activist William Bennett, Senator Joe Lieberman, then-Senator Sam Nunn, and National Congress of Black Women chair C. Delores Tucker to get major record labels — including Time Warner, Sony, Thorn-EMI, PolyGram and Bertelsmann — to " dump 20 recording groups ... responsible for the most offensive lyrics.

So the band, now without a record contract, began to shop the project around to various labels like Curb / Warner Brothers.

The CBSO has recorded substantially for labels such as EMI Classics, Warner Classics, and Orfeo.

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None of these labels made the distribution transition after American Recordings left Warner Bros. Records in 1997, and its recordings were deleted.

He also owned the Mayfield and Windy C labels which were distributed by Cameo-Parkway, and was a partner in the Curtom label ( first independent, then distributed by Buddha then Warner Bros and finally RSO.

In less than a month of shopping the recordings, five labels ( Warner Bros, Elektra, Geffen, Capitol and Virgin ) were in a bidding war for Kravitz.

Maurice began shopping demo tapes of the band, featuring Donny Hathaway, around to different record labels and the band was thus signed to Warner Bros. Records.

In 2004, De La Soul released a new full album: The Grind Date on Sanctuary / BMG Records because the venture between Tommy Boy and Warner Bros. Records was shut down and the group's contract was shopped to the other WEA labels.

The Warner Music labels also adopted the Quadradisc format, but they, RCA and Columbia abandoned quadraphonic recording within a few years ; some of the RCA sessions were later remastered for Dolby encoding ( same as Peter Scheiber's original matrix system ) and released on CD.

Like its sister labels, Elektra's fortunes began to wane in the mid-1990s, in part because of a series of bitter corporate battles between senior Warner label executives which seriously damaged the collective reputation of the group.

It also developed a bit of a sullen reputation in the industry for not properly promoting many of its releases, thus earning the nickname " Neglektra " by many of its acts and was easily lagging behind its sister labels Warner Bros. Records and Atlantic Records.

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Reprise president Mo Ostin was retained as the head of the label and he went on to play a very significant role in the history of the Warner group of labels over the next four decades.

In the time since, Warner Bros. has often elevated the stature of Reprise to the rank of secondary parent label, as many of its subsidiary labels ( such as Straight and Kinetic ) have had their records released in conjunction with Reprise.

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In between their deals with Kent, Warner and Loma, Ike and Tina would record for seven other labels between 1964 and 1969.

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In November 2002, Robyn swapped labels at BMG ( from RCA to Jive Records ) and released the album Don't Stop the Music in Sweden.

In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.

Universal Music Group acquired PolyGram in 1999, resulting in a corporate reorganization of labels.

His organization, The Welk Group, consists of: his resort communities in Branson and Escondido ; Welk Syndication, which broadcasts the show on public television ; and the Welk Music Group, which operates record labels Sugar Hill, Vanguard and Ranwood.

ABC-Paramount subsequently purchased more labels from the Famous Music division of Gulf + Western – Dot, Steed, Acta, Blue Thumb, and Paramount, along with legendary Country and R & B label Duke / Peacock in 1974.

After the merger with Disney, ABC became sister company to a record label group once again, the Buena Vista Music Group ( which includes such labels as Walt Disney Records and Hollywood Records ).

But there also existed many small ' tape labels ' such as Snatch Tapes, Falling A Records, Datenverarbeitung ( in Germany ), Deleted Records, Face Like a Smacked Arse, Fuck Off Records, Music for midgets, Man's Hate ( which distributed the International Sound Communication compilation series ), New Crimes Tapes, Rasquap Products, Sterile Records and Third Mind Records that operated in opposition to the capitalistic aim of maximizing profit.

Tapes, Mindkill, Happiest Tapes on Earth, Apraxia Music Research, and Sound of Pig ( which released over 300 titles ), Portland's label From the Wheelchair to the Pulpit, and in Olympia, Washington on labels like K Records and brown interiour music.

The monopoly laws in America at the time did not allow the three labels to trade as one, and so the ' umbrella ' name of Kinney Music came into being.

The label is currently owned by the Universal Music Group and in 2006 was expanded to fill the role of an umbrella label group bringing together a wide variety of then EMI-owned labels and imprints specializing in the growing market segment of music for adults.

Mark Wilkins is listed in the 2002 edition of International Who's Who in Popular Music for founding Affiliated Independent Record Companies ( A. I. R. CO ), International Record Promotion ( IRP ), being West Coast CEO of The Independent Music Association ( IMA ) and co-founder, with IMA Founder Don Kulak, of the Independent Music Retailer's Association ( IMRA ), the latter of which was known for finding plaintiffs in two major class action lawsuits against major record labels.

Although the lyrics of Vector's music did not always contain the overt lyrics of Christian Contemporary Music with which the band was sometimes associated, Vector's albums were released under Christian labels, and were an example of Christian rock.

When the MCA and PolyGram labels merged in 1999 and created Universal Music, the practice was eliminated.

The Decca Broadway imprint is used for both newly recorded musical theatre songs and Universal Music Group's vast catalogues of musical theatre recordings from record labels UMG and predecessor companies acquired over the years.

Fischer's historically important recordings have been reissued on CD by EMI and by specialty labels such as APR, Music & Arts, Pearl, and Testament.

The thirty songs contained on the initial releases were re-licensed over the following two decades to multiple record labels, most notably Sony Music, which packaged the songs in CD form in 1991 ( although the product was withdrawn the following year as legal action was pending from The Beatles ).

The series originally consisted of two studio albums ( The Music Band, The Music Band 2, both in 1979 ) and a live album ( The Music Band Live, 1980 ), but after the band left MCA in 1981 and had already made records for other labels, MCA expanded the series with a compilation ( The Best of the Music Band, 1982 ) and a third original album of left-over material ( The Music Band – Jazz, 1983 ).