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MMP's team
Metal Mind Productions, founded in 1987, is one of the leaders in the independent phonographic field; it's also the main concert agency in Poland. We are the publishers and promoters of the best Polish rock and metal bands, like TSA, SBB, Homo Twist, Armia, 2 TM 2,3, Acid Drinkers, Satellite, Collage, Hunter, Closterkeller, Delight and Moonlight. During 20-year long activity we bought about 1000 licenses and sold over 10 000 000 records.
MMP is the distributor of numerous labels, especially Roadrunner Records. As for foreign distribution, MMP cooperates with such potentates as MVD (USA), Soulfood Sony (Germany) and Plastic Head (UK).
Moreover, MMP is the publisher of Metal Hammer, the biggest and the longest running Polish music magazine. In December 2005 it had been published for 15 years. Year 2006 saw the brand new graphics and layout. On 12th August 2007 MMP organized 4th edition of the METAL HAMMER FESTIVAL with TOOL (US) as a headliner.
As a concert agency, MMP have invited many world-class music stars to Poland. Legendary Monsters of Rock concert in 1991, featuring such bands as AC/DC, Metallica, Queensryche gathered 35 000 people. Metal Mind organized concerts of Faith No More, Chris De Burgh, Gordon Haskell, Placido Domingo, Chris Rea, and more. Thanks to us, the giants of rock, Deep Purple, frequently were guests in Poland. We were engaged in local production of such stars performances as Tina Turner, Jose Carreras & Monserat Cabballe, Aerosmith and UB40. Furthermore, we invite the best artists from the international music scene, who play both heavy and progressive music, like Black Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Yes and Apocalyptica. We organized over 1000 concerts of popular Polish and foreign bands. MMP is also responsible for the Metalmania Festival - the most prestigious metal festival in Eastern Europe!
In 2002 our company started music DVDs production, now we are considered the leaders of European DVD publishers. By the end of 2005 MMP had released almost 60 DVD titles (Deep Purple, Gordon Haskell, SBB, Tiamat, Michael Schenker, TSA, Armia, Acid Drinkers and many others). In 2006&2007 we released DVDs of bands like Anathema, Pain, Pendragon, Galahad, Landmarq, Mind Key, Obituary, Sinister, Grave, Catamenia, Neo, Andromeda, Blaze Bayley, Solitude Aeturnus, Vital Remains, Vader or Darzamat just to name a few. On the 9th June 2008 (10th June in USA) MMP will release live DVD by GORGOROTH. Here you can see a preview of "Black Mass Krakow 2004" DVD:
On 9th June 2008 (8th July in US) MMP released another must have for the lovers of progressive rock - "Coming To Town - Live in Katowice" - a brand new DVD by the legendary OLIVER WAKEMAN BAND:
Metal Mind Productions was very proud to announce in Autum 2006 a multi-record licensing deal signed with Roadrunner Records for their fantastic back-catalogue. MMP re-issued over 20 albums from the late 80’s/early 90’s, taken from the wide Roadrunner Records’ archives. This is a must-have offer for fans of good music - re-issues of classic material in new digipack editions, each title limited to 2000 copies, digitally remastered using 24-Bit process with bonus features like audio or video material, biography, liner notes from Artists and more. The selection of bands included Solitude Aeturnus, Crimson Glory, Atrophy, Heaten, Realm, Xentrix, Disincarnate, Pestilence, Znowhite, Sadus, Toxik, Gorguts or Last Crack. Summer 2007 brought another batch of Roadrunner re-releases - new, improved versions of albums from bands like Shelter, Front Line Assembly, Defiance, Treponem Pal, Karma To Burn and many more!
In January 2007 MMP announced another multi licensing deal this time signed with Nuclear Blast Records for their interesting, valuable back-catalogue.
In the first half of 2008 Metal Mind Productions will re-issue nearly 70 albums from their deep archives. The selection of bands includes Brutallity, Control Denied, Darkseed, Disharmonic Orchestra, Gardenian, Horde, Hypocrisy, Impulse Manslaughter, Macabre, Mortification, Night In Gales, Slaughter, Warhammer or Winter to name a few. Re-issues of classic material in new digipak editions, each title limited to 2000 copies, digitally remastered using 24-Bit process. The albums will include additional features like bonus audio or video material, biography, liner notes from Artists etc.
MMP also offers a full range of Event Agency services for external clients. Additional info available at our official website www.metalmind.com.pl.
