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Metropolis began signing acts as a record label in 1995, with groups such as Mentallo And The Fixer , Numb , and Front Line Assembly . It has arranged for its bands to tour together such as Numb and Front Line Assembly together in 1996, and Project Pitchfork and Front 242 in 1998 . It also established extensive distribution channels to a variety of commercial channels, providing access to major commercial markets for typically niche-interest groups. By the late 1990s it had become the dominant specialty record label in North America for Industrial and EBM . Several groups once signed on Wax Trax! Records later released on Metropolis, including Front Line Assembly , Front 242 , KMFDM , Doubting Thomas , PIG , and Noise Unit .

Among other artists on the Metropolis label are Apoptygma Berzerk , Assemblage 23 , Covenant , London After Midnight , Icon Of Coil , Battery Cage , VNV Nation , Claire Voyant , The Birthday Massacre , Mindless Self Indulgence (Now on Uppity Cracker) , Hanzel Und Gretyl and Electric Six .

Record labels distributed through Metropolis include A Different Drum , Alfa Matrix , Cleopatra , Projekt , Strange Ways , DSBP , and WTII .


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