Metropolis Records is a record label founded in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...
in 1993 by the late Dave Heckman.
The label's all-electronic format closely tracked with European contemporaries, such as
Off Beat, and, since 1995, has been instrumental in promoting and distributing underground electronic music in America.
On June 9, 1999, Metropolis bought American industrial label
Pendragon
Pendragon or ( wlm, pen dreic, ''pen dragon''; composed of Welsh , 'head, chief, top' and / ''dragon'', 'dragon; warrior'; borrowed from the Latin word , plural , 'dragon , br, Penn Aerouant) literally means 'chief dragon' or 'head dragon', but ...
. It assumed distribution responsibilities for the back catalogues of Pendragon, as well as of label
21st Circuitry that went out of business at the time.
Artists signed
References
External links
Official site
Electronic music record labels
American independent record labels
Record labels established in 1995
Industrial record labels
Goth record labels
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