GaryOak69

I love the insinuation that /b/ is a board about gaming for disabled people. That's fucking rich.

It's all good. I guess the core was what role does distribution play in release strategies? Like, on my end in distribution, the labels give us release dates and physical stock, and we allocate those to potential buyers (either other distributors or stores) in each market. We've done a bit for releases with pressing numbers between 300-500 copies but those have never had as noticeable an impact with direct-to-consumer mail order as BM seems to have. So with each release do you send a percentage to distribution for potential store placement? Do you have a say in the sales side there? I know this is an inside look but heavy music has such a different market climate for physical media than other genres and I've always been interested.

What's your approach to distribution as a small label with an international market? I work at an American distributor so I have an inside view of certain deals, as well as the order process for stores and other distros. I've seen some Blood records at record stores around my city (the Kauan back catalog made its way here) and was wondering who you distribute through for international physical placement, and how that deal works out for warehousing given BM's small pressing quantities and large mail-order sales base. Definitely not asking specific numbers and contract details if you're not able/wanting to divulge. Love the label, it together with Profound Lore are the two metal labels I check out pretty much everything from.