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Type of site | Music and social networking |
|---|---|
| Owner | BandLab |
| URL | reverbnation |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | October 31, 2006 |
| Current status | active |
ReverbNation.com is a website, launched in 2006, that focuses on the independent music industry. It aims to provide a central site for musicians, producers, and venues to collaborate and communicate. ReverbNation was bought for an undisclosed sum by music creation platform, BandLab, in November 2021. [1]
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band which was formed in Birmingham in 1969. They have sold over 50 million albums and are frequently ranked as one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Despite an innovative and pioneering body of work in the latter half of the 1970s, the band had struggled with indifferent record production and a lack of major commercial success until 1980, when the album British Steel brought them notable mainstream attention.
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