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Jacob Mendez
Jacob Mendez

This is the end of the era on the Polish stage. The iconic label declared bankruptcy

Bankruptcy entry Metal Mind Productions It was published in the National Register of Debt. We read there that the decision was announced by the Economic Department of the Katowice – East District Court.

“The court decided to call the creditors of the bankrupt to report the receiver to the trustee through the ICT system serving court proceedings, within thirty days from the date of the announcement of the declaration of bankruptcy in the register,” says the message.

Metal Mind ceases to exist after nearly 40 years

The label and concert agency was founded in 1988 in Katowice by Tomasz Dziubiński. After his death in 2010, the company’s races were taken by his wife Mariola Dziubińska.

Metal Mind focused primarily on various metal and rock species on the Polish publishing market. The company boasted of selling over 10 million media. As a distributor, she introduced public giants to our country as Roadrunner Records.

The MMP catalog contains plates of such contractors as SBB, Homo Twist, Army, Luxtorpeda, Cree, Acid Drinkers, Collage, Hunter, Kat, Turbo.

Since 1990, MMP has been publishing a Polish -language version of the monthly “Metal hammer” – This is currently the longest -on -the -mentioned magazine on music. Current editor -in -chief Dariusz Świtała He assured that the newspaper would continue to appear.

Metal Mind Productions brought great stars to Poland

It was MMP who organized a memorable concert Monsters of rock in 1991 with the participation of groups AC/DC, Metallica and Queensrychewhich gathered 35,000 at the Silesian Stadium in Chorzów. viewers. In total, the company from Katowice organized over 1000 concerts of many world stars.

She brought such different performers to the Vistula, such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Jean Michel Jarre, Placido Domingo, Judas Priest, Faith No More, Chris de Burgh, Korn, Tool, Type about Negative, Jethro Tull, Marillion, Gordon Haskell, Saxon, Disturbed, Black Label Society, Soulfly and Serj Tankian.

This Metal Mind was also behind the iconic festival Metalmaniaorganized with breaks from 1986 to 2018. It was there that the biggest stars of various varieties of metal occurred, and thanks to Tomasz Dziubiński, the Polish audience in the late 1980s could see not only the review of the Polish scene, but also Helloween, Overkill, Running Wild and Creator.

The company also ran festivals such as Metal Hammer Festival (Among the stars appeared, among others Tool, Judas Priest, Opeth, Megadeth, Panther, Wizard, Bruce Dickinson, Marilyn Manson, Paradise Lost Whether Moonspell) and Hard Rock Heroes (Whitesnake, Graham Bonnett, Deep Purple, Nazareth, Jorn).

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