If you grew up in Europe in the 80's, Music For Nations should have been a vital part of your Heavy Metal education. Few labels could brag about bringing so many American classics to the European Metal fans of the day. Their few original signings (ROGUE MALE, TANK, TIGERTAILZ..) never had the same impact on Metal History though, so our debt to MFN mostly comes from licensing some of the finest releases of US labels like Combat, Megaforce, Enigma and many others.

Their discography clearly shows they were the "Major Label" of the Zomba Music Group Metal subsidiaries. While Under One Flag handled most of the 2nd generation Thrashers and Active Records served as a testing ground for new and upcoming acts, MFN must have been the home of those bands that The Men In Charge thought had the most commercial potential. Subsequently the MFN discog is a mixed bag of totally essential Heavy Metal classics as well as poorly aged, effeminate garbage. With the exception of a few CANDLEMASS releases, hardly anything from 1990 and onwards deserves a mention on The Corroseum, so purely concentrating on the full 80's discography of the label felt like fair compromise.

Some notes:

• Some CD issues might have gone unmentioned. This should be most of what was available at the time though. Corrections welcomed.
  
  
• There's probably more license pressings among these than is currently mentioned. My research-drive tend to get rather lighthearted when dealing with, um.. more "unclean" material.
  
  
• Same goes for the Not Metal-comments. I mean, you can't expect me to actually hunt down and listen to a band calling themselves "Sugarcreek"!? Good ol' common sense should suffice.
  

Albums start right below - EPs & singles begin here.