Always bad news when the metal industry is hit in this way. All the best to Jeroen, Guido and the rest.

Holy hell, good job it was at 5am and not a couple hours later, it would have been horrific.

OMG that who burned it shood be linched and sadistical tourture like dark medeval days,
If its natuarl cases I understand shit hepens, I hope not so much material and staff is destroyed I hope all can be re placed

Bad news. I have no preferences when it comes to record labels, but damn, this just sucks.

I hope they will build it better and bigger.

Damn! These are some seriously bad and sad news! Thankfully, no one got injured. I hope these guys will build a better studio and also - that not too many good CD's have died...

You have contacts at Relapse Records?

Written by Carl Berg on 22.09.2010 at 20:39

You have contacts at Relapse Records?

Yes we know Guido and Jeroen. No answer yet, we'll give you some news when they will answer!

Written by Jeff on 22.09.2010 at 21:55

Written by Carl Berg on 22.09.2010 at 20:39

You have contacts at Relapse Records?

Yes we know Guido and Jeroen. No answer yet, we'll give you some news when they will answer!

Cool thanks dude!

Fuck you, Trogdor!

NO!

Well, glad to see no one was injured... Hoping for a quick rebuild/recovery for all those affected!

Written by Doc G. on 22.09.2010 at 22:03

Fuck you, Trogdor!

Hahaha, epic! I would buy you a beer if that function was still working

I take it they have insurace. So this is just another case of damage. It happens all the time and usually the affected parties end up with more money afterwards than they had before the incident. That should of course not imply anything. But it's not really metal news either.

Someone must really hate Brian Posehn...

Glad noone was injured, but very unfortunate.

Damnit the Hell hope the Relapse Rec will come back renewed and strong

Sad news... But good no one was injured.

Crap, that's really unfortunate about the Relapse Records offices of Europe burning. I'm glad that nobody was injured, and hopefully the building(s) will be rebuilt and the label-affiliated people can resume work as scheduled.

Written by corrupt on 22.09.2010 at 22:41

I take it they have insurace. So this is just another case of damage. It happens all the time and usually the affected parties end up with more money afterwards than they had before the incident. That should of course not imply anything. But it's not really metal news either.

Maybe I misunderstood what you're trying to say, but why isn't menntioning that a fire burned down the entire office and warehouse of Relapse Europe metal news? This will have a huge impact on their dealings in Europe because all of the distribution for Relapse releases throughout Europe was done from here and also all of the promotional stuff for Europe. If mentioning some skank that sings for a metal band is pregnant is considered metal news then sure as hell the burning down of the office and warehouse of a metal label is metal news.

Written by Carl Berg on 22.09.2010 at 22:23

Written by Doc G. on 22.09.2010 at 22:03

Fuck you, Trogdor!

Hahaha, epic! I would buy you a beer if that function was still working

that should be my beer then. he's referencing the pic i used... which features an California brush fire featuring a photoshopped Trogdor...



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and i agree with Marcel's last. this does suck. this will impact a lot of various operations for one of metals bigger/better labels. from inventory for mail order to undoubtedly fucking up things like tour support in the interim while the label employees whose stuff went up in flames scramble to adjust.

This is indeed a very sad news, maybe I don't understand completely the situation, but I'm sure as hell that this can affect badly the operations and business of Relapse Records (IMO, one of the best labels nowadays), I hope they will recover soon of this, hopefully, better than ever

RIP!!

Probably some old couple fucking behind the bushes of one of the buildings, and due to the friction,KAPOW, they self-ignited and burned the shit down

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 23.09.2010 at 07:48
Maybe I misunderstood what you're trying to say, but why isn't menntioning that a fire burned down the entire office and warehouse of Relapse Europe metal news? This will have a huge impact on their dealings in Europe because all of the distribution for Relapse releases throughout Europe was done from here and also all of the promotional stuff for Europe. If mentioning some skank that sings for a metal band is pregnant is considered metal news then sure as hell the burning down of the office and warehouse of a metal label is metal news.

If I recall correctly, I was complaining about that not being metal news as well I didn't call her skank though.
I just don't see how this affects anyone's music. Equipment can be replaced, merchandise reproduced. If anything there'll be a delay in their proceedings. Any good company today has decentralized backups of their office data so they're probably up and running again somewhere else. In two months or so after the investigation, the insurance will pay and they will set up new offices and rent a new warehouse. I can hardly see how this affects any of us as fans or any band's music in any way.

Written by corrupt on 23.09.2010 at 11:19

I can hardly see how this affects any of us as fans or any band's music in any way.

It does affect the European fans, or at least those that have outstanding orders with Relapse, because now their shipments will be delayed by quite a bit.
Okay, eventually they will of course receive what they ordered, but it will take a lot longer than usual.
Let's say I ordered something at Relapse, usually it would just take two days max (I of course live in The Netherlands hence the two days max) after they received my payment before I would receive the order at home. But because of the fire it will at least take lots lots longer. First the head office in the US/Canada would have to sort out who ordered what within Europe and who has paid and only then get to shipping the orders. The packing of the orders will take longer than usua because of the number of people working at the place there.
So, as you can see it does affect the fans directly.
Also does the fire affect the promotional activities for tours and releases. Remember that Relapse Europe handled ALL of that for Europe.
Yes, eventually it will all be running smoothly again, but at least the effects will be felt during the first couple of months after the fire.

Too bad. Luckily no one got hurt. Stuff can be replaced even though it will take some time of course

More bad news from "The Worst year in Metal:2010"

Pft. I bet it was a priest.

Man this was horrible news... Hopefully they can recover and get back to normal soon...! D:

Horrible news indeed! Fortunately, everyone is fine.