InsideOut Music is Europe’s leading label for progressive rock music, with artists like Transatlantic, Pain Of Salvation, King’s X, Frost*, Demians, Unitopia, Kaipa, Shadow Gallery, Devin Townsend Project, Redemption, Aspera  & Riverside. InsideOut Music website.

SPV GmbH is one of the longest running independent record labels from Germany. SPV currently works with artists such as Raven, Freedom Call, Sodom, Skinny Puppy, The Other, The Answer, Molly Hatchet and Axel Rudi Pell. SPV website

Superball Music is a new record label from Germany featuring …And You Will Know Us By Trail Of Dead, Oceansize, Long Distance Calling, The Butterfly Effect, Cog, Ceasars Rome, Six Gallery and Pure Reason Revolution. Superball Music website.

Volcom Entertainment is a record label from California, USA and artists include Valient Thorr, Year Long Disaster, Tweak Bird, Riverboat Gamblers,Birsd Of Avalon, Guttermouth, Totimoshi and Die Hunns. Volcom website.

Austrian record label with various metal, rock and goth artists such as Monster Magnet, Karma To Burn, Hatesphere and Atrocity. Napalm Records website.

US rock label incl. artists Papa Roach, Disturbed, Buckcherry, Motlet Crue, Drowning Pool and The Last Vegas. Eleven Seven website.

Indie Recordings is a metal label from Oslo, Norway, who’s current metal legion includes Norwegian artists like Enslaved, Keep Of Kalessin, Shining(NO), Solefald, Sarke, Vreid, Borknagar, Wardruna, Iskald, Funeral, Cronian, Trinacria, In Vain, Ov Hell and Audrey Horne. Indie Recordings website.

On Saturday July 3 Park Brakkenstein in Nijmegen, The Netherlands was the location of the 2nd FortaRock festival. Diversity is the key word to FortaRock – The Festival, representing many different styles like death, thrash, black, emo, math and folk metal. Two stages, thirteen bands in total, incl. Bullet For My Valentine, Killswitch Engage, Kreator, Fear Factory, Behemoth, Ensiferum, Watain, Baroness, Decapitated & Ex Deo. FortaRock website.