Monte Conner

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Monte Conner is a former Senior Vice President of A&R for Roadrunner Records. He started at Roadrunner in December 1987. He has worked with numerous bands including, Slipknot,^[1] Trivium and King Diamond.

The bands he has signed, in alphabetical order, are: Amen, Annihilator, Artillery, Atrocity, Atrophy, Believer, Biohazard, Both Worlds, Brujeria, Buzzov-en, Jerry Cantrell, Keith Caputo, Cavalera Conspiracy, Chimaira, CKY, Coal Chamber, Cynic, Dååth, Death, Deicide, Defiance, DevilDriver, Dirty Americans, Disincarnate, Dommin, Downthesun, Earth Crisis, Exhorder, Fear Factory, Floodgate, Glassjaw, Gojira, Gorguts, Gruntruck, Heathen, Immolation, Kinetic Dissent, Last Crack, Leadfoot, Life Of Agony, Machine Head, Malevolent Creation, Murderdolls, Nailbomb, Obituary, Optimum Wound Profile, Pestilence, Porcupine Tree, Powersurge, Realm, Revoker, Rush, Sadus, Sanctity, Sepultura, Shank 456, Skin Chamber, Slipknot, Solitude Aeturnus, Sorrow, Soulfly, Spineshank, Star Star, Stone Sour, Storm Corrosion, Suffocation, Taking Dawn, 36 Crazyfists, Times of Grace, To My Surprise, Toyshop, Treponem Pal, Trivium, Type O Negative, Wednesday 13, Willard, The Workhorse Movement^[2]

In addition, Conner initiated the following licensing deals for Roadrunner outside North America: Acid Bath, Divine Heresy, Hatebreed, Heaven & Hell, Glen Hughes, Karma to Burn, Periphery, Queens of the Stone Age, Satyricon, Sevendust, Shadows Fall

He also brought in the following label deals to Roadrunner outside North America: Energy Rekords, Ferret Records, Soundfront Records, Trustkill Records

His licensed catalogue records include the following bands for Roadrunner U.S.: Angelwitch, Budgie, Destruction, Entombed, Hitmann, Gary Moore, Motörhead, Raven, Razor, Saint Vitus, Sodom, Uriah Heep

Conner conceived of and oversaw the Roadrunner United album and live DVD, compiled the MTV2 Headbangers Ball CD series and various compilations and soundtracks, oversees all Roadrunner's catalogue reissues and remasters, A&R's Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage, Korn, Nightwish and Opeth, as well as assists with various Loud & Proud imprint projects including Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Steve Miller Band, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Rob Zombie.

Past artists Conner has also A&R’ed but did not sign include: Chastain, Front Line Assembly, Holy Terror, The Great Kat, King Diamond, Shelter, Toxik, Whiplash.

Monte co-hosts a bi-annual radio show, Graybeard Roots, on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio.

Connor left Roadrunner on August 2, 2012, after much turnover at the label. On August 16, 2012, it was announced that Connor would be partnering with Nuclear Blast Records.^[3]

Discography[]

1. Annihilator - Alice in Hell
2. Annihilator - Set the World on Fire
3. Artillery - By Inheritance
4. Trivium - The Crusade
5. Trivium - Ascendancy
6. Trivium - Shogun
7. Trivium - In Waves
8. Sadus - Swallowed in Black
9. Jerry Cantrell - Degradation Trip
10. The Great Kat - Beethoven on Speed
11. King Diamond - Abigail
12. Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine
13. Fear Factory - Fear Is the Mindkiller
14. Fear Factory - Demanufacture
15. Fear Factory - Obsolete
16. Fear Factory - Digimortal
17. Fear Factory - Digital Connectivity
18. Fear Factory - The Best of Fear Factory
19. Fear Factory - Genexus
20. Slipknot - 9.0: Live
21. Slipknot - Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
22. Slipknot - Iowa
23. Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
24. Resident Evil Soundtrack
25. Resident Evil: Apocalypse Soundtrack
26. Life of Agony - River Runs Red
27. Life of Agony - Ugly
28. Life of Agony - Soul Searching Sun
29. Disincarnate - Dreams of the Carrion Kind
30. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 25th Anniversary Re-Issue
31. Dååth - The Hinderers
32. Devildriver - Devildriver
33. Devildriver - The Fury of Our Maker's Hand
34. Devildriver - The Last Kind Words
35. Devildriver - Pray for Villains
36. Devildriver - Beast
37. Floodgate - Penalty
38. To My Surprise - To My Surprise
39. Type O Negative - World Coming Down
40. Type O Negative - Life is Killing Me
41. Type O Negative - The Best of Type O Negative
42. Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
43. Machine Head - The More Things Change...
44. Machine Head - Burning Red
45. Machine Head - Supercharger
46. Machine Head - The Blackening
47. Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds
48. MTV2 Headbangers Ball
49. MTV2 Headbangers Ball, Vol. 2
50. MTV2 Headbangers Ball: The Revenge
51. Cavalera Conspiracy - Inflikted
52. Cavalera Conspiracy - Blunt Force Trauma
53. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage
54. Soulfly - Soulfly
55. Soulfly - Primitive
56. Soulfly - 3
57. Soulfly - Prophecy
58. Soulfly - Dark Ages
59. Soulfly - Conquer
60. Soulfly - Omen
61. Soulfly - Enslaved
62. Soulfly - Savages
63. Soulfly - Archangel
64. Roadrunner United
65. Malevolent Creation - Retribution
66. CKY - Carver City
67. Cynic - Focus
68. Dommin - Love Is Gone
69. Deicide - Legion
70. Deicide - Deicide
71. Deicide - The Best of Deicide
72. Freddy Vs. Jason Soundtrack
73. Coal Chamber - Coal Chamber
74. Coal Chamber - Chamber Music
75. Coal Chamber - Dark Days
76. Coal Chamber - Giving the Devil His Due
77. Coal Chamber - The Best of Coal Chamber
78. Madball - Best of Madball
79. Times of Grace - The Hymn of a Broken Man
80. Chimaira - The Impossibility of Reason
81. Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
82. Sepultura - Chaos A.D.
83. Sepultura - Roots
84. Sepultura - The Roots of Sepultura
85. Sepultura - Against
86. Sepultura - Nation
87. Sepultura - Under a Pale Grey Sky
88. Death - Symbolic
89. 36 Crazyfists - Bitterness the Star
90. 36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance
91. 36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside the Flames
92. Wednesday 13 - Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead
93. Taking Dawn - Time to Burn
94. Obituary - The End Complete
95. Obituary - World Demise
96. Acidation - The Ivy
97. Acidation - The Lake Of Sorrow
98. Acidation - A Portal to the Past (Best Of Box Set)
99. Lynyrd Skynyrd - God & Guns
100. Stone Sour - Stone Sour
101. Stone Sour - Come What(ever) May
102. Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
103. Stone Sour - House of Gold & Bones – Part 1
104. Opeth - Heritage
105. Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
106. Dream Theater - A Dramatic Turn of Events
107. Suicide Silence - You Can't Stop Me
108. Devilment - The Great and Secret Show
109. Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed
110. Anti-Mortem - New Southern
111. Black Star Riders - The Killer Instinct
112. Thy Art Is Murder - Holy War
113. Devil You Know - They Bleed Red
114. Willard - Steel Mill
115. Workhorse Movement - Sons of the Pioneers
116. downthesun - downthesun

References[]

External links[]

• Interview, HitQuarters March 2009