Metropolis Records

{{Short description|American record label}}

{{For|the Serbian label|Metropolis Records (Serbia)}}

{{Infobox record label

| name = Metropolis Records

| image = Metropolis Records Logo.png

| founded = {{start date|1993}}

| founder = Dave Heckman

| distributor = NAIL, Outside, INgrooves

| genre = Electro-industrial, synthpop, gothic rock, punk rock

| country = U.S.

| location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

| website = {{URL|www.metropolis-records.com}}

}}

Metropolis Records is a record label that was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1993, by Dave Heckman.{{cite web |url=http://www.metropolis-records.com/artist.php?id=198 |title=Metropolis Records |work=metropolis-records.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140423174700/http://www.metropolis-records.com/artist.php?id=198 |archive-date=April 23, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/dave-heckman-obituary-metropolis-records-digital-underground-music-philadelphia-20220804.html| date=4 August 2022 | title=Dave Heckman, music entrepreneur and founder and president of Metropolis Records, has died at 68| author=Miles, Gary }} The label's all-electronic format closely tracked with European contemporaries, such as Off Beat, and since 1995 has been instrumental in promoting and distributing underground electronic music in America.{{cite book |last1=Reed |first1=S. Alexander |title=Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music |year=2013|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199832583|oclc=1147729910|via=the Internet Archive|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/assimilatecritic0000reed |pages=283–284}}

On June 9, 1999, Metropolis bought the American industrial label, Pendragon Records. It assumed distribution responsibilities for Pendragon's back catalogue, as well as that of 21st Circuitry, another industrial label that had gone out of business.{{cite magazine |last=Comer |first=M. Tye |date=June 28, 1999 |title=rpm news |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_zDJToDVsTA4C/page/n29/mode/2up |access-date=April 13, 2020 |magazine=CMJ New Music Report |publisher=CMJ |location=New York |pages=31, 37 |volume=59 |issue=624}}