Exciting News: New sister site for METAL online !

Sean Trane wrote:     That black all over the forum  is so sombre and dark   Geeez, that place (MMA) looks like PA, but no-one found the light switch yet  >>> must be hidden somewhere         hint: it's in AC/DC 's section at flick of the switch

Wonder if it would be a market for www.classicrockarchives.com as well :-)

The T wrote: Sean Trane wrote:     That black all over the forum  is so sombre and dark   Geeez, that place (MMA) looks like PA, but no-one found the light switch yet  >>> must be hidden somewhere         hint: it's in AC/DC 's section at flick of the switch   It looks ok to me. It's a METAL forum. No flowers or purple clouds there...

You do realize I was joking??

Edited by Sean Trane - April 04 2010 at 20:39

nice! looking forward to the jazz one

Maybe some unexpected guests might sign up .

I'm very excited about this new site and have signed myself up :)

I have just taken a look at the new site, and noticed that there are albums included in progarchives, but don't have all the information about the album (like who are the musicians and so). I was wondering if it wasn't possible to just re-use the information from such albums instead of waiting for someone to go in and help the admins to get it? Also, I was just wondering if by chance it were possible to sign in on that site with the account I created here, or would I have to sign up again?

if I may rain a bit on the parade - I steadily lose more & more interest for MMA each time I go & read bios.

I know that it is way too much to ask the new site to instantly write bios that are comparable to PA in objectivity and briefness. And as much as I love the bands that I've checked out so far at MMA, the bios all come across as products of record company Marketing departments.

Being that this aspect was what initially drew me to PA, I have to honestly say that MMA is quickly losing any attraction it should have on me.

Henry Plainview wrote: someone_else wrote: Maybe some unexpected guests might sign up . I've always wondered why they choose Metallica for inducing detainee mental breakdowns instead of Peter Brotzmann or Merzbow. I guess it makes sense to use something that won't drive the soldiers insane when you're using loudspeakers, but there's a movie about a metal band in Baghdad under Saddam, so I don't think it's completely foreign to them. But it is still loud and annoying, I guess.

I always thought that too.

Meshuggah and Merzbow would be the two I would pick.

M@X wrote: ^MMA will 1 day have original bio like PA . 1 thing we might consider for PA bands in MMA, is to use the PA bio for MMA . Also, we might blank all the bios at MMA since they are the Last.FM's. We need to figure this out with MMA sub-genres teams. Any suggestions ?

Getting people to do the work

i understand the challenge. Lord knows, that when I first wenta searchin' for music sites, that PA,  Gibraltar & BNR Metal had been around for some time. So I came across a mostly finished product.

Which is probably my point in a roundabout way. MMA is up against long running sites that have established their style & their "audience".  And that means that comparisons will be made and preferences may not change. PA members are likely the biggest part of the visits to MMA. But the new site needs more than just us checking it out. And it may not get too many second or third visits unless it gets up to speed very very quickly.