Editing Roadrunner Records (section)

== Criticism ==
Since the 1990s{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}, Roadrunner Records has been criticised by several of its past alumni over its record contracts, business practices and management and promotion of its releases. Artists who have criticised Roadrunner include [[Megadeth]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Megadeth Frontman Slams Roadrunner Records |url=http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=50383 |access-date=2017-07-21 |website=Metalunderground.com}}</ref> [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Slipknot guitarist says band has never made money from record sales |url=https://lambgoat.com/blog/581/Slipknot-guitarist-says-band-has-never-made-money-from-record-sales |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=lambgoat.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kennelty |first=Greg |date=September 28, 2022 |title=COREY TAYLOR Explains SLIPKNOT's Split With Roadrunner Records, Plans For The Future |url=https://metalinjection.net/news/corey-taylor-explains-slipknots-split-with-roadrunner-records |access-date=2022-09-30 |website=Metal Injection |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Obituary (band)|Obituary]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=October 15, 2017 |title=OBITUARY Drummer Says Former Record Label Won't 'Negotiate' Deal To Reissue Classic Albums |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/obituary-drummer-says-former-record-label-wont-negotiate-deal-to-reissue-classic-albums/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021220821/http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/obituary-drummer-says-former-record-label-wont-negotiate-deal-to-reissue-classic-albums |archive-date=2018-10-21 |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=BLABBERMOUTH.NET |language=en}}</ref> [[Opeth]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kennelty |first=Greg |date=November 26, 2017 |title=Mikael Åkerfeldt Says OPETH Started Its Own Label Because Of A Bad Time With Roadrunner Records |url=https://metalinjection.net/news/drama/mikael-akerfeldt-says-opeth-started-its-own-label-because-of-a-bad-time-with-roadrunner-records |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220122060526/https://metalinjection.net/news/drama/mikael-akerfeldt-says-opeth-started-its-own-label-because-of-a-bad-time-with-roadrunner-records |archive-date=2022-01-22 |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=Metal Injection |language=en-US}}</ref> [[Chimaira]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=BraveWords |title=CHIMAIRA Reveal Details Regarding Their 2006 Departure From Roadrunner Records |url=https://bravewords.com/news/chimaira-reveal-details-regarding-their-2006-departure-from-roadrunner-records |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=bravewords.com |date=February 2008 |language=en}}</ref> [[Vision of Disorder]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Interview with Vision of Disorder |url=http://www.roughedge.com/features/vod0601interview.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304110200/http://www.roughedge.com/features/vod0601interview.htm |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=www.roughedge.com}}</ref> and [[Sepultura]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=July 9, 2003 |title=SEPULTURA's GREEN Explains ROADRUNNER Departure |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/sepultura-s-green-explains-roadrunner-departure/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200815174903/https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/sepultura-s-green-explains-roadrunner-departure/ |archive-date=2020-08-15 |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=BLABBERMOUTH.NET |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Blabbermouth |date=May 7, 2006 |title=SEPULTURA Frontman DERRICK GREEN Is Happy To Leave ROADRUNNER Behind |url=https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/sepultura-frontman-derrick-green-is-happy-to-leave-roadrunner-behind/ |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=BLABBERMOUTH.NET |language=en}}</ref>

[[Glassjaw]] members [[Daryl Palumbo]] and [[Justin Beck]] continue to speak unfavourably of Roadrunner, years after the problems the band experienced with them. They openly advise people not to buy their [[Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence|first full-length]] so as not to give the label money, and have repeatedly told fans at shows to illegally download the record.<ref name="forum.glassjaw.net">{{cite web |url=http://forum.glassjaw.net/viewtopic.php?pid=118594#p118594 |title=Glassjaw.net: The Justin Beck Interview (June 2008) (Page 1) – Glassjaw – GJN Forum |publisher=Forum.glassjaw.net |access-date=2010-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100702220543/http://forum.glassjaw.net/viewtopic.php?pid=118594#p118594 |archive-date=2010-07-02 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Palumbo has said: "Roadrunner is a joke. Roadrunner's not even a real label. It has the power to be one of the superpowers in the heavy music industry. While labels like [[Victory Records]], which is such a small [[Hardcore punk|hardcore]] label, is totally surpassing Roadrunner... It's like the scourge of the music industry.<ref name="showandtellonline.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.showandtellonline.com/_glassjaw/_interview_daryl_1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021117170849/http://showandtellonline.com/_glassjaw/_interview_daryl_1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 17, 2002 |title=Show & Tell – S&T chats with Daryl of Glassjaw |access-date=October 25, 2008 }}</ref> Beck has said: "Seriously, don't ever support anything from Roadrunner – they suck!"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2088288640270252305 |title=Glassjaw – Interview with The Suicide Girls |access-date=2010-08-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110519194615/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2088288640270252305 |archive-date=2011-05-19 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Palumbo has said that Roadrunner didn't put the band on enough tours: "We never toured half as much as we wanted to, I just wish we got to tour more in support of [''Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence'']"; and, "They are a miserable fuckin' corporation that does not bend for their bands, does not give their bands anything and they're just terrible businessmen....They had 2 cash cows, [[Slipknot (band)|Slipknot]] and [[Nickelback]], and every other project they had rode backseat to those bands, and then the second that the new Slipknot record came out and didn't go quadruple Platinum in the first few hours it was released they fuckin' turned their backs on Slipknot. That label just wants instant gratification where it sells its units and that's a joke. You can't run a major corporation with that as your business strategy"''.<ref name="2-4-7-music.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.2-4-7-music.com/newsitems/july02/glassjaw.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020811180558/http://www.2-4-7-music.com/newsitems/july02/glassjaw.asp |url-status=dead |archive-date=2002-08-11 |title=Glassjaw Interviews ~ Crud Magazine ~ Ozzfest 2002 Castle Donnington, England |publisher=2-4-7-music.com |access-date=2010-08-01 }}</ref>''