Monte Conner


















Monte Conner
Origin United States
Genres
Hard rock, Metal
Labels Nuclear Blast

Monte Conner is a former Senior Vice President of A&R for Roadrunner Records. He started at Roadrunner in December 1987. He has worked with numerous bands including, Slipknot,[1]Trivium and King Diamond.


The bands he has signed, in alphabetical order, are:
Amen, Annihilator, Artillery, Atrocity, Atrophy, Believer, Biohazard, Both Worlds, Brujeria, Buzzov-en, Jerry Cantrell, Keith Caputo, Cavalera Conspiracy, Chimaira, CKY, Coal Chamber, Cynic, Dååth, Death, Deicide, Defiance, DevilDriver, Dirty Americans, Disincarnate, Dommin, Downthesun, Earth Crisis, Exhorder, Fear Factory, Floodgate, Glassjaw, Gojira, Gorguts, Gruntruck, Heathen, Immolation, Kinetic Dissent, Last Crack, Leadfoot, Life Of Agony, Machine Head, Malevolent Creation, Murderdolls, Nailbomb, Obituary, Optimum Wound Profile, Pestilence, Porcupine Tree, Powersurge, Realm, Revoker, Rush, Sadus, Sanctity, Sepultura, Shank 456, Skin Chamber, Slipknot, Solitude Aeturnus, Sorrow, Soulfly, Spineshank, Star Star, Stone Sour, Storm Corrosion, Suffocation, Taking Dawn, 36 Crazyfists, Times of Grace, To My Surprise, Toyshop, Treponem Pal, Trivium, Type O Negative, Wednesday 13, Willard, The Workhorse Movement[2]


In addition, Conner initiated the following licensing deals for Roadrunner outside North America:
Acid Bath, Divine Heresy, Hatebreed, Heaven & Hell, Glen Hughes, Karma to Burn, Periphery, Queens of the Stone Age, Satyricon, Sevendust, Shadows Fall


He also brought in the following label deals to Roadrunner outside North America:
Energy Records, Ferret Records, Soundfront Records, Trustkill Records


His licensed catalogue records include the following bands for Roadrunner U.S.:
Angelwitch, Budgie, Destruction, Entombed, Hitmann, Gary Moore, Motörhead, Raven, Razor, Saint Vitus, Sodom, Uriah Heep


Conner conceived of and oversaw the Roadrunner United album and live DVD, compiled the MTV2 Headbangers Ball CD series and various compilations and soundtracks, oversees all Roadrunner’s catalogue reissues and remasters, A&R’s Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Nightwish and Opeth, as well as assists with various Loud & Proud imprint projects including Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Steve Miller Band, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Rob Zombie.


Past artists Conner has also A&R’ed but did not sign include: Chastain, Front Line Assembly, Holy Terror, The Great Kat, King Diamond, Shelter, Toxik, Whiplash.


Monte co-hosts a bi-annual radio show, Graybeard Roots, on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio.


Connor left Roadrunner on August 2, 2012, after much turnover at the label. On August 16, 2012, it was announced that Connor would be partnering with Nuclear Blast Records.[3]



Discography



  1. Annihilator - Alice in Hell

  2. Annihilator - Set the World on Fire

  3. Artillery - By Inheritance

  4. Trivium - The Crusade

  5. Trivium - Ascendancy

  6. Trivium - Shogun

  7. Trivium - In Waves

  8. Sadus - Swallowed in Black

  9. Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip

  10. The Great Kat - Beethoven on Speed

  11. King Diamond - Abigail

  12. Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine

  13. Fear Factory - Fear Is the Mindkiller

  14. Fear Factory - Demanufacture

  15. Fear Factory - Obsolete

  16. Fear Factory - Digimortal

  17. Fear Factory - Digital Connectivity

  18. Fear Factory - The Best of Fear Factory

  19. Fear Factory - Genexus

  20. Slipknot - 9.0: Live

  21. Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)

  22. Slipknot - Iowa

  23. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone

  24. Resident Evil Soundtrack

  25. Resident Evil: Apocalypse Soundtrack

  26. Life of Agony - River Runs Red

  27. Life of Agony - Ugly

  28. Life of Agony - Soul Searching Sun

  29. Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind

  30. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 25th Anniversary Re-Issue

  31. Dååth - The Hinderers

  32. Devildriver - Devildriver

  33. Devildriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand

  34. Devildriver - The Last Kind Words

  35. Devildriver - Pray for Villains

  36. Devildriver - Beast

  37. Floodgate - Penalty

  38. To My Surprise - To My Surprise

  39. Type O Negative - World Coming Down

  40. Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me

  41. Type O Negative - The Best of Type O Negative

  42. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

  43. Machine Head - The More Things Change...

  44. Machine Head - Burning Red

  45. Machine Head - Supercharger

  46. Machine Head - The Blackening

  47. Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds

  48. MTV2 Headbangers Ball

  49. MTV2 Headbangers Ball, Vol. 2

  50. MTV2 Headbangers Ball: The Revenge

  51. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted

  52. Cavalera Conspiracy - Blunt Force Trauma

  53. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage

  54. Soulfly - Soulfly

  55. Soulfly - Primitive

  56. Soulfly - 3

  57. Soulfly - Prophecy

  58. Soulfly - Dark Ages

  59. Soulfly - Conquer

  60. Soulfly - Omen

  61. Soulfly - Enslaved

  62. Soulfly - Savages

  63. Soulfly - Archangel

  64. Roadrunner United

  65. Malevolent Creation - Retribution

  66. CKY - Carver City

  67. Cynic - Focus

  68. Dommin - Love Is Gone

  69. Deicide - Legion

  70. Deicide - Deicide

  71. Deicide - The Best of Deicide

  72. Freddy Vs. Jason Soundtrack

  73. Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber

  74. Coal Chamber - Chamber Music

  75. Coal Chamber - Dark Days

  76. Coal Chamber - Giving the Devil His Due

  77. Coal Chamber - The Best of Coal Chamber


  78. Madball - Best of Madball

  79. Times of Grace - The Hymn of a Broken Man

  80. Chimaira - The Impossibility of Reason

  81. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains

  82. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.

  83. Sepultura - Roots

  84. Sepultura - The Roots of Sepultura

  85. Sepultura - Against

  86. Sepultura - Nation

  87. Sepultura - Under a Pale Grey Sky

  88. Death - Symbolic

  89. 36 Crazyfists - Bitterness the Star

  90. 36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance

  91. 36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside the Flames

  92. Wednesday 13 - Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead

  93. Taking Dawn - Time to Burn

  94. Obituary - The End Complete

  95. Obituary - World Demise

  96. Acidation - The Ivy

  97. Acidation - The Lake Of Sorrow

  98. Acidation - A Portal to the Past (Best Of Box Set)

  99. Lynyrd Skynyrd - God & Guns

  100. Stone Sour - Stone Sour

  101. Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May

  102. Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy

  103. Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones – Part 1

  104. Opeth - Heritage

  105. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings

  106. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events

  107. Suicide Silence - You Can't Stop Me

  108. Devilment - The Great and Secret Show

  109. Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed

  110. Anti-Mortem - New Southern

  111. Black Star Riders - The Killer Instinct

  112. Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War

  113. Devil You Know - They Bleed Red

  114. Willard - Steel Mill

  115. Workhorse Movement - Sons of the Pioneers

  116. downthesun - downthesun



References





  1. ^ "Roadrunner Record's Monte Conner speaks about signing Slipknot". The Gauntlet. November 6, 2009. Retrieved January 21, 2010..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  2. ^ "Monte Conner SignMeTo biography". SignMeTo. January 12, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2012.


  3. ^ "News Nuclear Blast announces U.S. partnership with Monte Conner, launches UK office headed by Mark Palmer!". Nuclear Blast. Retrieved 9 July 2014.




External links


  • Interview, HitQuarters March 2009








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