Metal Enterprises

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Metal Enterprises
Active years 1982-2003
founder Ingo Nowotny
Seat Usingen
Label code 08335
Sub-label Nowotny's Noize, Nowotny Music Enterprises
distribution Bellaphone (temporarily)
Genre (s) Metal , Oi! , Right skirt

Metal Enterprises was a German metal and later right-wing rock label, (temporarily) distributed by Bellaphon .

Label history

The label was founded in 1982 as a heavy metal and hard rock label and operated by Ingo Nowotny. Among the best-known releases are the records Onkelz wie wir… (1987), Kneipenterroristen (1988), Lügenmarsch (1989) and It's so far (1990) by the German rock group Böhse Onkelz . None of the albums clearly shows tendencies that can be assigned to the right-wing extremist spectrum.

It wasn't until the end of the Böhsen Onkelz's contract period that the label turned from heavy metal and hard rock labels to right-wing rock. For this reason, the Böhsen Onkelz ended their collaboration with Nowotny. Metal Enterprises also released the best-of album Könige for one day in 1994 , which the band successfully stopped because of Nazi-heavy cover design. After the decision of the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt / Main on December 20, 1994, the label had to take the sampler 6. For Germany off the market, as songs by the band SpringtOifel were released on this sampler without their knowledge and consent, together with songs by several neo-fascist music groups, which was one Constitutes a violation of the so-called impairment ban.

The bands that have been transferred to Metal Enterprises are Kahlkopf , Boots & Braces and Saccara .

In 1993 Nowotny founded the Nowotny's Noize label, on which at least two CDs ( Kahlkopf - III and Boots and Braces - nice was the time ) were released.

In addition to the political controversies, the label also gained a dubious reputation towards the end of the 1980s because new albums of at best below average quality were recorded in the label's own studio (called Tanit or Woodland ) and under the names of previously signed but no longer active bands were published. This business policy was described by the term exploitation .

Discography

See also

literature

  • Christian Dornbusch , Jan Raabe: Directory RechtsRock-Label , in: (Ed.): RechtsRock - inventory and counter-strategies. Hamburg / Münster, Unrast Verlag, 2002, pp. 459–463, ISBN 3-89771-808-1

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