Greetings All

Erm, I'm probably the least prog-oriented person here... I generally gravitate to the heavier end of things too, but I can't disown my 80s metal roots.

It's such a shame how few on PA seem to even know we're here. Glad you've found us!

Yeah, I like a lot of different stuff.  I'll listen to alt country or jazz or pop. Do tend to prefer older music. I've figured out that when it's made with machines, as opposed to people actually playing musical instruments, it rarely works for me. I can appreciate a lot of modern music and understand why others might like it (and there is quite a bit I enjoy) but I guess I'm just getting old.  Now get off my yard! 

Welcome to MMA. Nice to see you here . Even for music fans who are mainly interested in prog, there are still limits to what PA has to offer, and MMA (and the jazz related sister site JMA: http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/), have other things to offer. 

I know most of the artists you list and a couple are among my favorites too (at least some of their releases), but like Patrick (Vim Fuego) I´m probably mostly interested in the harder edged genres of metal (thrash, grind, death, doom, and secondary black).

Although I´m often in disagreement with how PA is run, and I seldom visit JMA, all three sites are pretty damn brilliant if you ask me. PA is without a doubt the greatest progressive rock database and review site on the web, and I haven´t seen anything like JMA either. MMA has lots of compitition though, but one of our greatest assets is our inclusiveness (and how friendly we are ). We don´t just include what we think is "real" metal, but try and listen to what the general opinion on an artist is before we add them (if they are a borderline case...everything that´s clearly metal is added no questions asked). I personally consider MMA a very liberal place. Leave the conservatism to Encyclopedia Metalium (which in other respects is a brilliant site too).

One thing I never understood is that Max hasn´t exploited advertising all three sites on the frontpage of the other sites. Why not give people who are members of one site an easy opportunity to discover the other two sites? Lots of people who love metal also love both progressive rock and jazz, and the other way around too. He must be interested in spreading the word about MMA and JMA (PA is pretty well established and not in as great a need of attention as the two other sites).