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Nuclear Blast

German independent record label, specialised in metal and related music styles
Organization record_label Q158886
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Summary

Nuclear Blast is a record label[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of record label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,857 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: Germany[3]
  • Instance of: business[4]
  • Founder: Marcus Staiger[5]
  • Genre: heavy metal music[6], hardcore punk[7]
  • Headquarters location: Donzdorf[8]
  • Commons category: Nuclear Blast[9]
  • Inception: 1987[10]
  • Parent organization or unit: Believe[11]
  • Official website: https://www.nuclearblast.de/[12]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Nuclear Blast[13]
  • Legal form: Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung[14]
  • Has characteristic: independent record label[15]
  • Has list: list of Nuclear Blast artists[16]
  • Social media followers: 150,077[17], 147,101[18], 2,670,000[19], 141,203[20], 135,971[21], 2,970,000[22], 3,130,000[23], 3,250,000[24]
  • P14750: 8DC7-D7B8-0872-1F0B-E96A[25]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Original Production[26]

  • Country: DE[27]

  • Began / founded: 1987[28]

  • Genre(s): death metal, heavy metal, melodic death metal, metal, power metal, symphonic metal, thrash metal[29]

  • Community tags: death metal, german, heavy metal, melodic death metal, metal, power metal, symphonic metal, symphonic power metal, thrash metal[30]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3bc70925-d654-4906-b7c0-5135d993495e[31]

Why It Matters

Nuclear Blast has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 26 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 15d ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'gl', '
    Gnd id → 1237377021
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56529|batch #56529]]: Import GNDs from dewiki"
  2. 6w ago · Jklamo · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → record label, business
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Instance of: business"
  3. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14750 → 8DC7-D7B8-0872-1F0B-E96A
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: 8DC7-D7B8-0872-1F0B-E96A, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
  4. 9w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-08-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Fandom article id → youtube:Nuclear_Blast_Records
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Fandom article id: youtube:Nuclear_Blast_Records, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/111007823|Nuclear Blast Records (#111007823)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/c"
  5. 19w ago · BorkedBot bot · 2026-05-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tiktok username → nuclearblastrecords
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  6. 19w ago · Leode8891 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → —
    Instance of → record label, business
    Inception → +1987-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Aliases → —
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ X (twitter) username: nuclearblast"
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