http://www.earache.com/news_stories/adema.html

Uh-oh.

they probably need money after the guzzler that is Deicide
but still......

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Good, hopefully Adema will make them enough money that they cna sign more METAL bands

All record Labels do that

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wtf, adema??? don't they suck if i recall? i mean earache has given rise to some of my favorite METAL bands, why the hell would adema get their attention.

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ahem... read my previous post

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This has got to be some kind of hoax..I mean..come on! Adema? You can't get more nu-metal!

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that band really lives up to the name of the compagny

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I must agree with BLS on this one.

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I must agree with BLS on this one. Still is a bit odd eh?

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nice double post

adema sucks....but that song was catchy

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I always knew Earache would push the bounds of brutality to it's absolute limits. With pussies like Morbid Angel and Carcass ruining their roster, it's good to see that they are returning to their underground roots.

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Well since signing them will help them out to sign more metal bands then its ok with me. As long as they dont keep on signing nu metal bands like that.

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no Carcass any more john, they were just wayyy too comercial for their own good, so they decided to split up in to more underground bands, remember?

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I used to listen to the song "The Way You Like It" all the time

NOT the way I like it.

Money fucks up everything. I'd like to see cash solely distributed through people throwing silver dollars off very tall buildings.

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I see something else that was a mistake. They used the words Adema, Napalm Death, Carcass, and Morbid Angel in the same paragraph. Talk about a typo.

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If you don't like adema, don't listen to them. I havn't heard them, and don't intend to after reading this thread.

But if Earache keep signing nu-metal, they will find out what Anthrax is.

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Yeah, but I'm sure Earache will keep - and excuse the bad gore pun - bleeding them for all they are worth with best of's (like Choice Cuts) and other compilations.

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Never heard of this band.

But from this:...
Adema stayed on the road for more than a year, touring with the likes of Linkin Park, Drowning Pool, and Disturbed. A review of Adema's debut in London's prestigious NME raved: "Adema's visceral, artfully succinct rock punch comes brilliantly wrapped in killer whistleable tunes." Rolling Stone wrote: "Moody, hard and melodic, a creative palette of soaring solos, singing lines and textures.
...I can just about fucking guess.

I hope Earache make a lot of money.

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Dude, I literally laughed out loud reading that. I think I woke up my kid brother.

Floridian death metallers MORBID ANGEL have parted ways with longtime label Earache Records, BLABBERMOUTH.NET can exclusively reveal. The band, whose last Earache album, 2003's "Heretic", has sold 21,295 copies in the U.S. to date, according to Nielsen SoundScan, are actively seeking a new label home. The SoundScan figures for the group's entire catalog are as follows:

"Altars of Madness" (1990): 41,394*
"Altars of Madness" (special edition) (2003): 6,837
"Altars of Madness" (re-release): 19,254
"Blessed Are the Sick" (1991): 56,127
"Blessed Are the Sick" (re-release) (2003): 4,953
"Blessed Are the Sick" (re-release) (1995): 22,296
"Covenant" (1993): 130,701
"Domination" (1995): 83,401
"Formulas Fatal to the Flesh" (1998): 45,000
"Gateways to Annihilation" (2000): 38,271
"Heretic" (2003): 21,295

* issued prior to the start of the SoundScan era (May 25, 1991)

ummmm

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the sales total for Covenant is pretty wicked, especially for a (insert type of metal here) band

how much money is that roughly

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well frankly MA can't have that many expenses on a label, their shows aren't extravagant, and considering they don't exactly need a wardrobe or anything i would say expenses verse sales is at least pretty decent in their favor, my guess is it won't be long before they get a new home, century media or relapse would be retarded not to pick em up though, cause like when you think of pioneers of classic death metal morbid angel is usually somewhere in the list

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Century Media, Nuclear Blast, MetalBlade, Relapse... when your a known band like Morbid Angel getting signed wont be hard.

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Time to start a record company

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Hmmm...whats wrong with that picture? That chick is wearing an ugly dress with ugly jeans under it. Talk about a fashion no no

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Earache Records has released a statement in response to reports that MORBID ANGEL have left the company and are actively seeking a new record deal. The statement reads as follows:

"MORBID ANGEL's contract is up and Earache hasn't yet picked up the option to re-sign the band. MORBID ANGEL's manager put Earache on notice about this. We have 14 business days to address this but it seems he jumped the gun after 14 days (not all business days), saying MORBID ANGEL are now free agents. Whether Earache will resign MORBID ANGEL remains to be seen. Either way, the official date is Friday, August 6th."

Whether??? God Damn Earache must be retarded....

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Signing Adema and possibly letting Morbid Angel leave their roster? I hope this isn't the start of a worrying trend at such a pioneering label as Earache.

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That would be comical if Morbid left because of the signing of Adema.

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That sounds about right

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Earache has had and still does have more queer bands than Adema, its just Adema is popular. So i doubt Morbid Angel would leave becuase of that.

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Who gives a shit about whos on whos label. Its a fucking label not a band...The bands are what I love and the label doesn't mean shit. I mean, if they're a good label with respectable bands and they respect the bands back then more power to em but if they sign a nu band who gives a fuck. It doesn't change the fucking bands on it. IN MY OPINION

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Yeah, I see what you mean m=l, but what if Adema get a bigger chunk of the label's resources to record their album at the expense of more underground bands? It would surely require that Adema are very successful in order for the other bands to reap the benefits of increased income at label level. When you consider that nu-metal is on the slide, I doubt that any of the underground bands will get to see any sort of increase in funding.

Atif: A (very) simple What If? calculation can be carried out using MS Excel in order to calculate how much money those album sales are worth. Check out the MS Word attachment below for how I did it - the formulas should be showing on the screen dumps, enabling you to create your own Excel Worksheet. I'm sure you know how to do this anyway. Once you've set the Worksheet up just change the estimates at the top of the page and et viola! Note that I've also included an estimate of income from their record deal as well but you can ignore that part if you wish.

Attached Files

MA WhatIf Calc.doc (76.5 KB, 61 views)

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what's wrong with earache? i haven't been here in about a month and i find out about all this crap. adema has nothing to do sharing labels with some of the best bands in the world

did you read any of the posts, we decided that they did it for the money that they could get and John has kindly provided the figures (applying his professional knowledge to something useful ) - which im yet to look at due to being on a linux box, void of microsoft progtams (apart from the irony of it having a microsoft keyboard and mouse), but that is not the point, the fact is

THEY DID IT FOR THE MONEY

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Hahaha! I've just noticed your sig, BoC!

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