Heavy Metal Record Labels Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-09-08 · 27 entries checked · 21 flagged · 55 issues confirmed · 21 corrected · 34 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

Avalanche Recordings — The label's first release is stated as Godflesh's Messiah EP in 2000, but it was actually released in 1999.

Avalanche Recordings — Zonal's The Quatermass Project Volume 1 is listed as a 2000 release, but it was actually released in 2001.

Baratos Afins — Arnaldo Baptista was the vocalist and keyboardist of Os Mutantes, not vocalist and bassist.

Baratos Afins — The claim that Baratos Afins released 'Brazil’s first heavy metal albums, SP Metal Volumes 1 and 2' is inaccurate; SP Metal was a compilation series, not the first heavy metal albums in Brazil, as earlier Brazilian heavy metal albums existed (e.g., by Stress o

Black Mark Production — The label was founded in 1990, not 1991.

Black Mark Production — The label was originally based in Stockholm, Sweden, not Berlin.

Black Market Activities — Lamb of God has never been on Black Market Activities

Black Market Activities — Cancer Bats were never on Black Market Activities

Broke Records — The entry states Broke Records was founded in 2023, but the label was actually founded in 2021.

Broke Records — The entry claims the label was founded by Andre Benz and Brandon De Oliveira, but Broke Records was founded solely by Andre Benz; Brandon De Oliveira is not a co-founder.

Century Media Records — The claim that Century Media was acquired by Sony Music for US$17 million is unverified and likely invented, as the actual purchase price was not publicly disclosed.

Century Media Records — Architects (the British metalcore band) were never signed to Century Media; they were signed to Epitaph, Distort, and others.

CMC International — Tom Lipsky left Roadrunner Records' Loud & Proud division around 2013 and is not currently president of that division.

CMC International — The sale price of Sanctuary to BMG Rights Management in 2013 was approximately €46 million, but the dollar equivalent was roughly $60 million, not $71.875 million.

Combat Records — The entry states that Important Record Distributors housed Megaforce Records in the mid-1980s, producing early Megaforce albums such as Metallica’s *Kill ’Em All* and *Ride the Lightning* and Anthrax’s *Fistful of Metal*; in reality, Megaforce was its own labe

Combat Records — The entry claims 'The Combat logo appeared on the back of every Megadeth album on Capitol Records up through 1992's Countdown to Extinction.' This is inaccurate; the Combat logo appeared on *Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?* and *So Far, So Good... So What!* b

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