Metal Blade Records are celebrating 40 years of banging heads and realigning spines with the release of a teaser clip from their forthcoming documentary you can view below. They also re-released Metal Massacre Volume One for the first time since 1984 on limited-edition vinyl. Metal Massacre showcased the best of Los Angeles’ unsigned acts of the time such as Metallica, Ratt, and Malice and many of the artists featured on this iconic compilation also appear in the documentary as well. Metal Massacre I was a project undertaken by Slagel and friend John Kornarens. Slagel was responsible for artwork and mastering facilities while Kornarens secured a studio to make the record. States Kornarens: “We were using the Yellow Pages a lot, total amateurs navigating the record like a high school projec...