In 1992, music-industry legend Irving Azoff went out for ice cream with Gunter Ford, manager of the Florida death-metal band Morbid Angel, to discuss a possible signing. "The actual negotiations took 10 minutes," Ford told author Albert Mudrian in the extreme-metal history Choosing Death. "Irving asked me what kind of ice cream I wanted and we finished the deal." It was official: Ford's clients were officially major-label artists in North America, signed to Azoff's Warner Bros. subsidiary, Giant.Related The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time The most headbangable records ever, from Metallica's Black Album to Black Sabbath's 'Paranoid' These were the...
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