Editing Metropolis Records (section)

{{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 Music|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.<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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 }}</ref> The label's all-electronic format closely tracked with European contemporaries, such as [[Off Beat (label)|Off Beat]], and since 1995 has been instrumental in promoting and distributing underground electronic music in America.<ref name="assimilate">{{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}}</ref>

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.<ref name="cmju2">{{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|CMJ New Music Report]] |publisher=CMJ |location=New York |pages=31, 37 |volume=59 |issue=624}}</ref>