Prosthetic Records has pulled its catalog from Spotify.
“There [does] not appear to be an upside,” Prosthetic co-owner E.J. Johantgen told LA Weekly. The only income from the service comes in “fractions of pennies,” even on their biggest titles.
Prosthetic is the third Los Angeles metal label to pull its repertoire from the digital music service, following Century Media and Metal Blade.
Sumerian Records founder Ash Avildsen issued a statement today criticizing MetalSucks.net co-founder Vince Neilstein for publishing a series of posts directed at Century Media for pulling its repetoire off Spotify. Avildsen’s statement follows:
Century Media and its associated labels, InsideOutMusic, Superballmusic, Ain’t No Grave Records, Hollywood Waste, and People Like You, have pulled their repertoire from Spotify. The label released the following statement: