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Where You Can Hear Great Metal and Guitar-Driven Hard Rock
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SNAKENET METAL RADIO
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SnakeNet is my absolute favorite Metal Broadcast. They play everything Metal from the 1970s to Present Day. They also hit every genre of Metal; NWOBH, Thrash, Death Metal, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Progressive Metal, Power Metal, Hollywood 80s Metal, etc.
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KNAC.COM
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As great as KNAC 105.5 was, KNAC.COM is thousands of times better carrying on the Pure Rock attitude that never died with the FM broadcast. Check out their website for more information.
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HARDRADIO
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The Terror of The Internet. Hardradio is the Heavy Metal Supersite broadcasting the best of traditional Metal and guitar-driven Hard Rock from the 1970s to Present Day. Check out their website for more information.
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Web Sites Promoting The California Metal Scene
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ALL ACCESS MAGAZINE [Los Angeles]
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AAM is a music and entertainment publication/web site. "Keeping Local Music Alive" featuring the Los Angeles music scene. Based in LA the site features what's new in the world of "Rock", columns, interviews, reviews, live photos, CD review's and more. Information can be found on L.A.'s best artist/groups, clubs, and YES you can list your tour dates on a cool message board!
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NCMU.COM [Northern California Metal Underground]
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Dedicated to the underground metal artists and enthusiasts of Northern California. News, reviews, event calendar, band profiles and MP3s.
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POWERSLAVE.COM: Voice of the California Underground Rock and Metal Scene
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A website documenting the Underground California Metal Scene. Check out www.PowerSlave.com for the best information on Metal in Northern California. This site offers Band Profiles, Live Show schedules, MP3 music samples for downloading as well as Album/Show reviews and Interviews. Further, there is an email magazine you can subscribe.
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ROCK CITY NEWS [Los Angeles]
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This is the most informative site documenting the Los Angeles music scene. The website is based on the only music magazine that matters in LA County. This site features Rock news with columns, interviews, reviews, live photos, and more. This site also displays information on 1,000's of L.A.'s Best Bands. Other features include cool band pages & sounds, a club calender, and a list of home pages for all rock clubs.
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SDMETAL.ORG [San Diego's Online Metal Community]
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The only website in San Diego that offers news, reviews, message board, private messages, downloads, chat and surveys. This site is totally interactive and user friendly. Anyone can become a member for free. Members can post news, reviews, and events and also use the chat and message board. Members can also post comments on any news or reviews and rate them on a 5 star system. This is great for anyone who is into metal in San Diego. Log-in, interact, and support the San Diego metal scene.
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Great Sources of Information on the World Wide Metal Scene
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APESHIT
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APESHIT is a heavy music webzine dedicated to metal, rock, hardcore, and beyond, featuring band interviews, album reviews, industry news, live photos, and forum. We aim to bring music to the people with a more professional, objective, and straight-to-the-point approach without all of the empty hype and cliched media bs. Death to false metal!!
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THE BNR METAL PAGES
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The Internet encyclopedia of information and opinions about over 1400 metal bands, ranging from the 70's to the present day. This is truly an encyclopedia on Metal bands. Some of the information included for each band featured on this site includes:
- The origin of the band
- The status of the band (Active or Split Up)
- A small biography of the band
- The current lineup of the band
- The previous members of the band
- The releases of the band in chronological order
- Bands related to the featured band
- Links to official and unofficial website for the band
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DARKSOUL7.COM
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For Metal and Hardcore of America.
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THE METAL TRAVEL GUIDE
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The Metal Travel Guide was created to help the travelling Metalhead to find the places where the scene is meeting. Gathered together is information on more than 1500 Metal and Rock pubs, clubs, venues and record stores in almost 90 countries. Browse through the website, check out the locations in reality and enjoy your evening! This guide is also a handy address directory for bands who are looking for places to play.
"I [Denis] have used this website quite often while planning my trip to WOA 2006"
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BLABBERMOUTH.NET
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The best source on the internet for all Metal News world wide, and some tabloid crap too.
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METALEXILES.COM
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A great website for new, reviews, and interviews. This website also includes polls, FAQ, Metal Forum, Music Downloads, Newsletter, and much more.
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THE ELECTRIC BASEMENT
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This website is truly one of my favorite online Metal magazines. The Electric Basement offers news, reviews, interviews, its own online radio station, photo gallery, a trivia page, message board, and much more. My favorite part of the Electric Basement is the fact that the News page actually has NEWS, updated daily with fresh metal news from around the world. The Electric Basement is required reading for all fanatical rivetheads.
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METALUPDATE.COM
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Metal Update is a website where you can sign up to have a weekly newsletter sent to your e-mail address. The Metal Update email newsletter provides news, album release dates, tour dates, and information about Metal happenings in traditional media and on the net. Best of all, the Metal Update is free. If you wish to keep up with what is going on in the world wide metal community, send an e-mail to subscribe@metalupdate.com with subscribe as the subject heading or fill out the handy form found at:
http://www.metalupdate.com
This is a must for anyone who calls themselves a metalhead.
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THE METAL OBSERVER
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The Metal Observer your comprehensive online source for current and critical reviews, extensive interviews and articles and much more around the Hard Rock & Heavy Metal scene, like mp3s, wallpapers, band histories etc. Now, featuring The Metal Observer Radio, hosted by "The Rev"!> http://www.metal-observer.com/gb/tmoradio.html
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ROUGH EDGE
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Rough Edge is one of the best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal reports on the net. Check them out daily for the latest hard music news, reviews of new CDs, reports of live performances and as a gathering place for those of us who like it rough.
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SEATTLE METAL ONLINE (SeattleMetal.com)
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Seattle Metal Online (SMO) is so much more than just a 'band list' type
website. Its an active community, a Brotherhood, made up of nearly all the
metal bands in Western Washington. SMO is a focal point where the bands and
local industry are able to maximize the effectiveness of networking
opportunities. The site was created by Carrie Schuman and Joe Jauregui(Fury
161) in August of 2000 and with the help of Court Harris(Symptom, FMLY) and
Terry Mriglot (Drunk As Usual, Poverty's Child Productions) and many others,
it evolved into the strong family-like organization that it now is.
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Record Companies That Are Keeping The Music Alive
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METAL BLADE RECORDS
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After 15 years Metal Blade is strong as ever. Continuing with great established acts and ground breaking new ones, Metal Blade is poised to keep the flag of metal flying for many years to come!
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CENTURY MEDIA
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Since 1988 Century Media Records has consistently become one of the world's leading independent metal record label, with seven current offices worldwide. Delivering quality releases from an array of artists that span the genres of traditional, goth, death, black, power metal and hardcore, Century Media's influence on the world's current metal scene(s) has steadily incresed throughout this decade.
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NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS
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Specializes in Metal and Hardcore music signing such bands as HammerFall, S.O.D., Death, Meshuggah, and many other great bands.
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Fun Stuff For Southern California Metalheads |
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LongHairedMen.Com
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This website profiles men with long hair and the women who love them. The profiles include a short description of the person being profiled, the person's email address, and the person's website if one exists. If you see someone you like, you can send email to this person by clicking on their photo. I am on page 3 (Whoo Hoo!!) of the California section.
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