is there some NONE PA members here

just curious since the only one I see here is the same folks that I chat with on PA (and all of them are great people whom i all respect and admire)  , but are there some here that are members who have no conection to PA , and you may come from another community also.

or this will be PA 2, and offcurse that is great but yeah this is my curiosity talking and it hungers for interesting pure metal heads


Edited by Balthamel - 26 Mar 2010 at 2:42pm

yeah hard to change conservative  minds (or eyes)
which is not ment to sound like all metal heads are conservative (mostly this accure more in black metal ) and one other thing Ive seen in metal forum when the REAL metal heads are arguing the tones can be realy harsh, more harsh then in PA so the admins have to be allert about that issue

I come from a non-PA background. Just randomly came across MMA yesterday while browsing PA (I do that sometimes but I never registered or anything).

I'm such a stereotypical black metal conservationist that I won't give up with Metal Archives. ;-) I think the discography section is good there, and I think it's a great site to look for information about releases. Also, the amount of "unknown" bands is overwhelming there - and I happen to like quite obscure acts. So it's a little problem for me here to not find all the bands that I would like to write about, but after all, this is still a very young site (and I can do something for the lack of bands here that I listen to!). I like the review system & overall style of MMA, so I'm happy to contribute reviews here and see this site grow! Metal Archives surely isn't the sole source of truth, in fact, there's lots of errors in there.

I have only used PA as a very occassionla reference, and was never a member. Metal on the other hand.....happy to be here. Thanks all.

It�ll take a long time to build a database that can match metal archives extensive artist database ( It�s not long ago that they reached an impressive 70.000 artists), but what should make MMA a much more interesting site to visit is the exposure of the reviews on the front page with album covers ( It�s always been the feature I loved most about PA) and the opportunity to become involved as a collaborator on the site. As someone mentioned we should take great care that the tone and manners of members are kept in a civilized way, just as it is on PA. That way MMA will be the same great place to visit as PA is.

J-Man wrote: Sckxyss wrote: It'll be awhile before all the trve metalheads realize that this site is better than metal-archives.com  I honestly completely dislike metal-archives. It's got a very extensive database, but the people in the forums are complete a****les. I participated on the site for a few days, only to get criticized for my personal tastes in metal. AND the and pages don't have biographies, which isn't very helpful. I'm confident that if we give this site a year or two, and make sure that our members are respectful people, MMA will become MUCH better than metal-archives I rest my case.

and seconded....  give M@X his props... the man knows how to run a website.. ie...  he puts good people in charge of it to run it for him.  Not sure, since M@X is more metal than prog,  if he will taking a more hands-on approach to his site.. if he doesn't...  he'll have someone good to take care of his baby.. and first thing they'll do... is make sure the strengths of PA's become the strengths of this site.  This is the community side of it.

J-Man wrote: Sckxyss wrote: It'll be awhile before all the trve metalheads realize that this site is better than metal-archives.com  I honestly completely dislike metal-archives. It's got a very extensive database, but the people in the forums are complete a****les. I participated on the site for a few days, only to get criticized for my personal tastes in metal. AND the and pages don't have biographies, which isn't very helpful. I'm confident that if we give this site a year or two, and make sure that our members are respectful people, MMA will become MUCH better than metal-archives I rest my case.

I have often used EM (or Metal-Archives) for reference, especially when I have to review metal bands for Progressor - which happens more often than you would believe - and have to agree with Jeff. Obviously, I've never used the forum, or even looked at it, but have no trouble whatsoever in believing that it is visited by less than respectful people.

However, if I may, let's try to avoid bashing other sites as much as we can, even when they deserve it. The last thing we want is for someone from some other site to come here and start a flame war - and let's remember how p****d off we were every time someone bashed PA on another board.

the trick is.. to get them to come here... not to defend their site... but to come to this one and help make it better. As far as any miscreants coming here to start problems...  we'll deal with them as they come. Either a carrot.. or a .44 Navy colt at high noon

on that note... let's just leave mentions of others sites not directly related to the tasks at hand alone.

I was never a part of PA but my good friend Ian, an active member of PA, introduced me to this site and it's nice to be able to help this new site develop.

Raff wrote: However, if I may, let's try to avoid bashing other sites as much as we can, even when they deserve it. The last thing we want is for someone from some other site to come here and start a flame war - and let's remember how p****d off we were every time someone bashed PA on another board.