Deadline Music
Deadline Music is a record sub-label wholly owned and operated by Cleopatra Records. Deadline was founded at the turn of the century during a revival of 1980s glam/hair metal bands in which there were new albums from Quiet Riot, White Lion, Warrant, Cinderella, Bret Michaels, and L.A. Guns. The label produced a series of compilations, including This Is Hair Metal, More '80s Hair Metal, and the box set Hollywood Rocks!.
Deadline released an album by Queensrÿche in April 2013. The band had split into two factions with founding vocalist/frontman Geoff Tate leading a new group of musicians while the remaining members carried on with a new vocalist. Dubbed "The Heaviest Rÿche Ever", Tate's version of the band included longtime guitarist Kelly Gray plus Quiet Riot bassist Rudy Sarzo and AC/DC drummer Simon Wright. This group recorded and released Frequency Unknown. Los Angeles hard-rockers Bulletboys also released a new album, Elefanté, in 2015
In 2014, Deadline teamed with Canadian Thor for…
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- Reissue Production
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- United States