Roadrunner Records

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Roadrunner Records
Parent company	Warner Music Group
Founded	1980; 44 years ago (1980)
Founder	Cees Wessels
Distributor(s)	300 Elektra Entertainment (in the U.S.) Warner Music Group (outside the U.S.)
Genre	Heavy metal hard rock alternative metal extreme metal
Country of origin	Netherlands
Location	New York City
Official website	www.elektramusicgroup.com/roadrunnerrecords (US site) roadrunnerrecords.co.uk (UK site)

Roadrunner Records is a Dutch–American record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock music. Founded in the Netherlands in 1980, it is now a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City. Formerly seen as one of the most powerful independent metal labels of the 1980s and 1990s, it would eventually become a massive host of metal acts; most seen in Roadrunner United and the following live concert. Since then, the label had continued to put out major releases, though by the 2020s, most major acts had left the label and it had been acquired by Warner Brothers, being relegated to something much smaller than before