Alfie Falckenbach was a Belgian producer, label founder, and entrepreneur who gave European heavy metal a proper doorway instead of another damp rehearsal-room wall. I place him in the thick of the early 1980s, founding Mausoleum Records in 1982 with the label’s first run burning through 1982–1986 before its later revival from 1990–2016. Through Mausoleum he pushed bands such as Killer, Ostrogoth, Warlock, Anvil, Faithful Breath, Omen, and Nazareth into wider circulation. Later he built Music Avenue and Blues Boulevard, proving his ears were not welded shut at metal volume. He even stepped up as singer with Blues Karloff from 2014–2016. Not bad for a man usually spotted in the small print.