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Found parts of this on another board and figured some may of you may be interested. While there are certainly a lot of untalented acts on the list, the fact that you've probably never heard of most of these groups goes to show how pussified record labels have become. The vocalist for Twisted Method explained to me that despite having the best selling album of all the Ozzfest 2003 sidestage groups, getting picked up for three tours since then, and getting themselves a steady fanbase despite unimaginative music, their management had to pick up the tab for a website photo shoot. And a video, well, of course, that's out of the question.

 

Here you go...

 

1. Abandoned Pools Dropped By Warner Bros., Leave Exctasy

3. Adema Dropped By Arista

4. Apex Theory Dropped By Dreamworks

6. Beautiful Creatures Droped By Warner Bros., Sign W/JVC

7. Bionic(Jive) Dropped By Interscope

8. Jerry Cantrell Dropped By Roadrunner/Island

9. Clutch Dropped By Atlantic, Sign W/Navarre

10. Color Red Dropped By RCA.

11. Craving Theo Dropped By Columbia

12. Crazy Town Dropped By Columbia

13. Cyclefly Dropped By MCA/Geffen

15. Darwin's Waiting Room Dropped By MCA/Geffen & Break Up

17. Dope Dropped By Flip/Epic & Sign W/Artemis/Koch

18. Down Dropped By Elektra

19. Dragpipe Dropped By Interscope

20. Endo Dropped By Columbia

21. Epidemic Dropped By Elektra

22. Everclear Dropped By Capitol [About fucking time]

23. Everlast Dropped By Tommy Boy,Sign With Island

24. Five Pointe O Dropped By Roadrunner/Island & Break Up

25. 40 Below Summer Dropped By Sire/Warner Bros., Sign w/ Razor & Tie

26. From Zero Dropped By Arista

27. Godhead Dropped By Posthuman/Priority/Capitol, Sign W/Reality/Caroline

28. Goldfinger Dropped By Jive

29. Halfcocked Dropped By Megatronic/Dreamworks

30. Headstrong Dropped By Elektra

31. (hed)P.E. Dropped By Volcano/Jive

32. Kottonmouth Kings Leave Capitol

33. Tommy Lee Dropped By MCA/Geffen

34. Len Dropped By London

35. Loudermilk Dropped By Dreamworks

36. Mad At Gravity Dropped By Artist Direct

37. Marz Dropped By Psychopathic, Sign W/Elementree

38. Matthew Good Band Dropped By Atlantic & Break Up

39. Mesh STL Dropped By Jive

41. Monster Magnet Dropped By Interscope, Signs W/SPV

42. NATAS Dropped By TVT, Signs W/Psychopathic

43. Noise Therapy Dropped By Redline

44. Nonpoint Leaves MCA/Geffen

45. Onesidezero Dropped By Maverick/Warner Bros. & Break Up

46. Orgy Dropped By Elementree/Dreamworks, Start Own Label Called D1

47. Outspoken Dropped By Atlantic

48. Pearl Jam Leaves Epic

49. Pete Dropped By Warner bros.

51. Powerman 5000 Dropped By Dreamworks

52. Pressure 4-5 Dropped By Dreamworks

53. Professional Murder Music Dropped By Geffen, Sign W/Caroline

54. Project 86 Dropped By Atlantic, Start Own Label Called Team Black

55. Psycho Realm Dropped By Columbia

56. Pulse Ultra Dropped By Atlantic

57. Puya Dropped By MCA/Geffen

58. RA Dropped By Republic/Universal [not so sure]

59. Reveille Dropped By Elektra & Break Up

60. Sepultra Leaves Roadrunner/Island

61. Slaves On Dope Dropped By MCA/Geffen

62. Spike 1000 Dropped By Columbia

63. Stereomud Dropped By Loud/Columbia & Break Up

64. Systematic Leave Music Co./Elektra

65. Trik Turner Dropped By Interscope

66. Unloco Dropped By Maverick/Warner Bros.

67. Union Underground Leave Columbia

68. Cradle Of Filth Droped By Epic/Red Ink Sign W/Roadrunner/Island

69. Nothingface Droped By TVT & Break Up

71. Kidneythieves Dropped By Extasy/Warner Bros, Sign W/?

72. Depswa Dropped By Geffen

73. Hotwire dropped by RCA

74. Cave In dropped by RCA

75. Eve 6 dropped by RCA

76. Skrape dropped by RCA

77. Damone dropped by RCA

78. 3rd Strike broken up

79. Dry Cell dropped long ago

 

Counting down the days: Audiovent, Die Trying, Earshot, Ok Go, Pacifier, Quarashi, Sinch, Socialburn, Soil (can't imagine the new album doing well), Memento, Motograter, Revolution Smile, Twisted Method, Sloth, Year Of The Rabbit, Manmade God, Element Eighty, AM Radio, V-Shape Mind, Fingertight, Stage

 

Edit: Alien Ant Farm is getting a third album, due out in Fall, so they're off the list.

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I'm pretty surprised that Goldfinger was dropped by Jive...since they do have a pretty loyal fanbase which usually insures a gold record every time out....then again, I didn't really like their last album as much as I did Stomping Ground and Hang Ups.

 

I actually used to listen to Skrape...heh.

 

Orgy going to start their own label? Meh.

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Cradle of Filth being dropped doesn't seem like much of a stretch. They've burned through like 5 labels since they released their first album on Cacophonous.

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I'm pretty surprised that Goldfinger was dropped by Jive...since they do have a pretty loyal fanbase which usually insures a gold record every time out....then again, I didn't really like their last album as much as I did Stomping Ground and Hang Ups.

 

I actually used to listen to Skrape...heh.

 

Orgy going to start their own label? Meh.

I grabbed most of this list from another website, and Goldfinger was one of the few who I was "ehhh" about including in this list. I can't confirm they've been dropped, but Jive doesn't take low record sales lightly, as they've shown themselves to be very drop happy.

 

Skrape got fucked over huge by RCA. The album got pushed back several months, killing any momentum they had thanks to their support of the Spineshank/Nino tour, and received zero promotion upon "Up the Dose's" release.

 

Orgy's new CD is already out, and it's pretty bad ass.

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I'm pretty surprised that Goldfinger was dropped by Jive...since they do have a pretty loyal fanbase which usually insures a gold record every time out....then again, I didn't really like their last album as much as I did Stomping Ground and Hang Ups.

 

I actually used to listen to Skrape...heh.

 

Orgy going to start their own label? Meh.

I think they wanted to leave Jive. And I believe it was Jive's influence to make them act like they were 21 years old and cop Sum 41's act.

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I'm not too concerned by this, because out of all the dropped groups I've heard on this list, I can't honestly say that I think one of them made particularly good music. For the most part, I vote "good call, music business."

 

Of course, the major labels still form a cannibalistic enterprise that chews up most young talent and spits them out when they don't cross over. Which is unfortunate, but far less unfortunate when it's Dope and Eve 6 getting shitcanned.

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Pacifier counting down the days???? What's that about?? I really like Pacifier.

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Cold will prbably get dropped too, depending on how next album does

 

really hope Nonpoint starts their own label or joins up on another one because they are a very talented band and deserve all the good thingsd that come to them

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So...what's Pearl Jam doin? They released Lost Dogs to run their contract out...right?

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Pacifier counting down the days???? What's that about?? I really like Pacifier.

They had a minor hit with Bullitproof, so who knows? Their CD didn't exactly set the world on fire as far as sales go, but then again, they have a good reputation overseas so they may get themselves a second US CD.

 

Cold actually already got dropped, or "parted ways" if you believe the band over the record company. Various sources list the vocalist as having a drug addiction that he refused to get help for, thus them being dropped.

 

And yeah, Nonpoint does deserve better.

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How old is this list? Tommy Lee was dropped almost two years ago and I have really hard time believing it took this long for Crazy Town to get dropped.

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So...what's Pearl Jam doin? They released Lost Dogs to run their contract out...right?

I don't think they've decided yet. The main options seem to be:

 

1) sell the albums themselves, similar to how they did the bootlegs from the last tour

 

2) still release albums through Epic on a per-album basis

 

3) start their own label (I highly doubt they'd do this)

 

If I was a betting man, I'd pick #1.

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How old is this list? Tommy Lee was dropped almost two years ago and I have really hard time believing it took this long for Crazy Town to get dropped.

Someone on another board had just compiled it, likely looking at their album collection and seeing who was and wasn't signed anymore.

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Pacifier counting down the days????  What's that about??  I really like Pacifier.

They had a minor hit with Bullitproof, so who knows? Their CD didn't exactly set the world on fire as far as sales go, but then again, they have a good reputation overseas so they may get themselves a second US CD.

Bullitproof was a hit over there?? Cool. So this is just the US branch of the record company dropping them then?? That makes more sense. They're still reasonably popular in Australia, and obviously, NZ.

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So...what's Pearl Jam doin?  They released Lost Dogs to run their contract out...right?

I don't think they've decided yet. The main options seem to be:

 

1) sell the albums themselves, similar to how they did the bootlegs from the last tour

 

2) still release albums through Epic on a per-album basis

 

3) start their own label (I highly doubt they'd do this)

 

If I was a betting man, I'd pick #1.

#1 is the way to go.

 

LIFE OF AGONY has made a killing selling the albums off the web-site and proved you dont need record companies at all...Many other bands have done the same and succeded...

 

PJ would have ZERO problems getting their albums out on their own.

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Pacifier counting down the days????  What's that about??  I really like Pacifier.

They had a minor hit with Bullitproof, so who knows? Their CD didn't exactly set the world on fire as far as sales go, but then again, they have a good reputation overseas so they may get themselves a second US CD.

Bullitproof was a hit over there?? Cool. So this is just the US branch of the record company dropping them then?? That makes more sense. They're still reasonably popular in Australia, and obviously, NZ.

I wouldn't even call it a hit. I don't know where I heard it, but I downloaded it, and somehow, recognized it enough to recall a lot of its lyrics.

 

I'm just guessing that they may not get a second US album. Who knows if it'll happen.

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That pretty much looked like a list of every B and C list nu metal band.

 

And to think that they all propably got pretty nice signing advances only a few years ago...

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Not that i think many of you would care, but Ra has NOT been dropped from Universal per band member's om their message board saying so.

 

They have a new album due in month or two and here is a site with 4 tracks that will be on said album, including a nice cover song Police fans might enjoy.

 

New "Ra" songs!

 

Personally I think "The Only One" is an awesome song.

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Personally I think "The Only One" is an awesome song.

I take it the "Do You Call My Name?" copying is on purpose....it's pretty blatant and everything

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Personally I think "The Only One" is an awesome song.

I take it the "Do You Call My Name?" copying is on purpose....it's pretty blatant and everything

It is a bit similar yes, but different enough for me. I think it's a really good song but that's just me.

 

Seeing and meeting them in person totally sold me as a lifetime fan, and I love all their music so I guess that would make me Biased.

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12. Crazy Town Dropped By Columbia

Thank GoD they were dropped because they were awful. I HATE that "Butterfly" song so much.

 

And I called that they would be a one-hit wonder.

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Not that i think many of you would care, but Ra has NOT been dropped from Universal per band member's om their message board saying so.

 

They have a new album due in month or two and here is a site with 4 tracks that will be on said album, including a nice cover song Police fans might enjoy.

 

New "Ra" songs!

 

Personally I think "The Only One" is an awesome song.

Thank God. I absolutely loved their first album.

 

As for Crazy Town, yeah, I'm very glad they were dropped. I very rarely hate on nu-metal bands, but they were terrible. The album they put out after the "Butterfly" song was just incredibly terrible, with only two decent songs included.

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It is a bit similar yes, but different enough for me. I think it's a really good song but that's just me.

Well...there's one line that seems to be an exac copy of a line "DYCMN?"...it's even sung the same- I'm thinking it was on purpose...dunno why though

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