The following artists (musicians or bands) have had releases with the German independent record label Nuclear Blast.

• 96 Bitter Beings

• Aborted
• Accept (ex)
• After Forever (ex)
• Agathodaimon (ex)
• Agnostic Front (ex)
• Alcest
• Alesana (after Artery Recordings and Revival Recordings)
• All Shall Perish (ex)
• Am I Blood (ex)
• Amaranthe
• Amorphis (ex)
• Anthem
• Anthrax (EU only)
• Arsis (US only)
• Ashes of Ares (ex)
• As I Lay Dying
• Augury (US only)
• Auri
• Avantasia
• Avatarium
• Aversions Crown

• Bal-Sagoth (ex)
• Battle Beast^[1]
• Battlecross (ex)
• Beast in Black
• Behemoth
• Belphegor
• Benediction
• Beyond the Black
• Biohazard
• Blackbriar
• Black Star Riders^[2]
• Blackguard (Europe only) (ex)
• Bleed from Within
• Bleed the Sky (ex)
• Bleeding Through (Europe only) (ex)
• Blind Guardian
• Blues Pills
• Brujeria
• Before the Dawn
• Broken Teeth
• Bury Tomorrow (ex)

• Callejon (ex)
• Candlemass (ex)
• Carcass
• Carnifex
• Cathedral (ex)
• Cellar Darling
• Children of Bodom (ex)
• Chimaira (Cleveland Ohio) (ex)
• Cipher System
• Chrome Division
• Clawfinger(ex)
• Coldseed (ex)
• Communic
• Comeback Kid
• Conjurer (band)
• Control Denied (ex)
• Corrosion of Conformity
• Cradle of Filth
• Crematory (ex)
• Crobot
• Crucified Barbara (US only)
• Cryptopsy

• The Damned Things
• Danzig (ex)
• Darkane (ex)
• Darkseed (ex)
• Dark Sermon^[3] (ex)
• David Shankle Group (ex)
• Death (ex)
• Death Angel
• Deathstars
• Decapitated
• Decrepit Birth
• Defecation
• Demonaz
• Demonoid (ex)
• Destruction (ex)
• Despised Icon
• Devilment
• Devil You Know
• Dew-Scented (ex)
• Diablo Boulevard
• Die Apokalyptischen Reiter
• Dimmu Borgir
• Disbelief (ex)
• Discharge
• Disharmonic Orchestra (ex)
• Dismal Euphony (ex)
• Dismember (ex)
• Dissection (ex)
• Divinity (ex)
• Doro^[4]
• Dreadful Shadows (USA Only)

• Earthless
• Echoes of Eternity (ex)
• Edguy
• Ektomorf (ex)
• Eluveitie
• Enforcer^[5]
• Enslaved
• Emperor (ex)
• Epica
• Equilibrium
• Ex Deo (ex)
• Exodus
• Exhorder
• Eyes Set To Kill

• Face Down (ex)
• Fallujah
• Farmer Boys (ex)
• Fear Factory
• Filter (ex)
• Fireball Ministry (ex)
• Fit for an Autopsy
• Fleshgod Apocalypse
• Flotsam and Jetsam (ex)
• Forbidden
• For Today (ex)
• Fuming Mouth

• Gardenian (ex)
• Gatecreeper
• Generation Kill
• Ghost Bath
• Godgory (ex)
• Golem (ex)
• Gorefest (ex)
• Gorgoroth (ex)
• Gotthard
• Grand Magus
• Grave Digger (ex)
• Graveworm
• Graveyard
• Green Lung

• Hackneyed (ex)
• HammerFall (ex)
• The Halo Effect
• Hatebreed
• Hardcore Superstar
• Heathen
• Hell
• The Hellacopters
• Helloween (ex)
• Helltrain (ex)
• Hollow (ex)
• Holy Grail
• Horde (ex)
• Hypocrisy

• I
• Illuminate (ex)
• Immortal (ex)
• In Flames
• Immolation
• Indica

• Kadavar^[6]
• Kataklysm
• Keep of Kalessin (ex)
• Khemmis
• Killer Be Killed
• Knorkator (ex)
• Korpiklaani
• The Kovenant (ex)
• Kreator

• Lacrimosa (United States only)
• Lamb of God
• Light the Torch
• Like Moths to Flames (ex)
• Lingua Mortis Orchestra^[7]
• Liquido (ex)
• Lock Up
• Lordi (ex)
• Lovebites
• Luca Turilli's Rhapsody

• M.O.D. (ex)
• Machine Head
• Madball
• Malevolent Creation (ex)
• Mandragora Scream (ex)
• Manowar (ex)
• Mantic Ritual (ex)
• Marilyn Manson
• Master (ex)
• MaYan
• Melechesh
• Mendeed (ex)
• Meshuggah (ex)
• Metal Allegiance
• Ministry
• Misery Index (ex)
• Mnemic (ex)
• Mortification (ex)
• Municipal Waste
• My Dying Bride
• Mystic Prophecy (ex)

• Nails
• Narnia (ex)
• Nightwish
• Nile
• Nokturnal Mortum (ex)
• NorthTale
• Northward
• Nothing Left^[8]

• Obscura
• Omnium Gatherum (ex)
• One Man Army and the Undead Quartet (ex)
• Opeth (ex)
• Opprobrium (ex)
• Orchid^[9]
• Origin
• Orphanage (ex)
• Overkill

• Pain
• Paradise Lost
• Pegazus (ex)
• Phil Campbell and the Bastard Sons
• Possessed
• Primal Fear (ex)
• Prime STH (ex)
• Pro-Pain (ex)
• Psycroptic
• Pungent Stench (ex)
• Pyogenesis (ex)

• Rage
• Raise Hell (ex)
• Raunchy (ex)
• ReVamp (ex)
• Rhapsody of Fire (ex)
• Ride the Sky (ex)
• Rings of Saturn (ex)
• Ringworm
• Rob Zombie
• Rise of the Northstar (ex)

• S.O.D. (ex)
• Sabaton
• Samael (ex)
• Satyricon (ex)
• Savatage (United States only)
• Scar Symmetry
• Scorpion Child
• Secret Sphere (ex)
• Sepultura
• Sinergy (ex)
• Sinister (ex)
• Sinner (ex)
• Sirenia (ex)
• Skyclad (ex)
• Slaughter^[10] (ex)
• Slayer (ex)
• Soilwork
• Sonata Arctica (ex)
• Sonic Syndicate (ex)
• Soulfly
• Speckmann Project (ex)
• Stahlhammer (ex)
• Steel Prophet (ex)
• Stormwitch (ex)
• Stratovarius (ex)
• Subway To Sally (ex)
• Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky (ex)
• Such A Surge (ex)
• Suffocation
• Suicide Silence (ex)
• Suicidal Tendencies (ex)
• Susperia (ex)
• Svalbard
• Swashbuckle (ex)
• Sylosis
• Symphony X

• Tankard (ex)
• Tarot
• Tasters (ex)
• Terror 2000 (ex)
• Testament
• Texas in July (Europe only)
• Textures
• Theatre of Tragedy (ex)
• The 69 Eyes
• The Abyss (ex)
• The Accüsed (ex)
• The Adicts
• The Black League (ex)
• The Crinn (US only)
• The Defiled
• The Duskfall (ex)
• The Exploited
• The Halo Effect
• The Hellacopters
• The Night Flight Orchestra
• The Vintage Caravan
• The Charm The Fury
• Therion
• Threat Signal
• Threshold
• Thunderstone (ex)
• Thy Art Is Murder
• Tiamat (ex)
• Timo Tolkki (ex)
• To/Die/For (ex)
• Tuomas Holopainen
• Turilli / Lione Rhapsody
• Twilight Force

• Unleashed

• Vader
• Vein.fm
• Venom Inc.
• Voivod

• Warmen (ex)
• Warrior (ex)
• Watain
• We Came as Romans (Europe only)
• Wednesday 13
• While Heaven Wept
• White Skull (ex)
• Winter (ex)
• Wintersun
• Witchcraft
• Witchery (ex)
• Within Temptation (Hydra only)
• Wolf Hoffmann
• World Under Blood