The long, intertwined roots of one of the world’s most successful independent metal labels can be traced back to a dorm room in a military boarding school two decades ago. Ash Avildsen, the future ...

Atomic Fire is the latest chapter in the history of metal label Nuclear Blast, founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger. The new label’s signings include Helloween, Opeth, Meshuggah, Amorphis, Michael ...