Bare [ Sioux Falls, SD] Join Date : 8/22/2004 [ Founder, Owner & Developer ] Metal Music, Computer hardware & software, databases, web development, leather, sci-fi & horror movies, Stephen Kings "The Dark Tower" series, Budweiser & Camel Lights. ... and most importantly, the love of my life - Queen Diamond!

Queen_Diamond [ Vegas/Sioux Falls, SD] Join Date : 8/23/2004 [Co-Owner, Forum Moderator, Metal Database] I have a passion for discovering new bands and spend much ofmy spare time online exploring and researching unfamiliar genres and reading lyrics and reviews. I'm becoming a huge power metal dork but I like a variety of genres. I recently discovered Folk metal, and must say, I enjoy it very much. I'm also a fan of horror, video games, and softball. Currently listening to: Manowar - Warriors of the World Torture Killer- Swarm! Kataklysm - In The Arms Of Devastation King Diamond- Them Goatwhore - A Haunting Curse

DZ2573 [ San Antonio,Texas] Join Date : 5/24/2005 [ Metal Database ] I live in San Antonio,Txs. I have been listening to Hard rock since i was 6 yrs.old and discovered KISS for the first time soon after i moved on to all the great bands of the 80s,motley crue,Quiet Riot,Twisted sister,Etc. Then I found Metallica and Megadeth,Anthrax,Priest,Saxon and of course the beloved local scene of San antonio was Killer. Watchtower,Juggernaut,Syrus,Helstar Are just a few to name. I am currently playing Guitar with DAMIJand have been in too many bands to remember. I play all styles of music from rock to blues to Metal. Some of the bands I'm liking lately is Circus Maximus,Azraels bane and Pagans mind to name a few. Of course I love the classic metal bands Best Like watchtower,and Helstar !!!

voodoo [ Frederick, MD] Join Date : 8/2/2005 [ Reviewer, Forum Moderator & Metal Database ] I work for the federal government. Department of the Treasury, Financial Management Division. I am an IT specialist. I've been married since 1997.  I have 3 kids, including twins.  Most of my free time is spent with my family, or surfing the net and listening to all kinds of music, not just metal. Or watching soccer. I love soccer and will watch it any chance I can. Currently I have been listening to a lot of power and progressive metal.  Bands like Dream Theater, Silent Force, Suspyre, Beyond Twilight, Spheric Universe Experience, Blind Guardian, Excalion, Persuader, Helion, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden, Kamelot, Venturia, Leverage, Anubis Gate, Communic, Tribuzy and Manticora.

BreedingtheSpawn [ USA] Join Date : 10/19/2005 [ Reviewer ] I am 20 years old, and I am currently attending college. I have been listening to death metal for 2 years now. I also enjoy listening to grindcore and black metal. My favorite tv shows I like to watch are the Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, and Futurama. In my spare time I enjoy writing lyrics, and discovering new bands.

Jeremy [ Beats Me.] Join Date : 11/9/2005 [ Reviewer, Metal Database ] R.I.P Chuck Schuldiner, no matter how much time has passed, you'll always be missed!

SteveSaks [ Staten Island, New York] Join Date : 2/9/2006 [ Reviewer ] Listening to all types of Metal for many years, while growing up in Staten Island, New York . Anthrax, Overkill, Crumbsuckers and Agnostic Front.. what a scene that was back then in NYC...Metal Ruled. Currently listening to: Mike Hickey's new project called 'GOATREIGN'  killer riffing and leads..very OTT ! Project: Failing Flesh - The Conjoined- excellent new cd! Venom - Metal Black ..HellYeah! Venom-  MMV boxset ..on my Ipod! Testament...first 4 albums are on my Ipod..killer classics! Eternity Black  -3 song 2006 ep..killer riffs featuring Helstars very own Larry Barragan and Rob Trevino on guitar!.. Waiting to hear new Helstar as well..(band is writing new songs for their brand new return album!) Sacrifice- Forward To Termination Necro - The King Of Death Rap.. assorted tracks from all his albums..killer, heavy, dark ,sexual and metal influenced Death Rap.. KT Tunstall- Eye Of The Telescope, and various Live  Lady Sovereign -  catchy and fun female rapper from England..great energy! Waiting to hear the New Ozzy Osbourne - Black Rain- Also waiting to hear Neil Turbins new band -Deathriders- (already heard four demos  they are working on for his new album called "A Fate Worse Than Death" and they sounded killer!

paranoidmexican009 [ Houston, TX] Join Date : 2/16/2006 [ Metal Database ] Hey I'm Adam the paranoid mexican. I'm 17 years old, I joined LFM when I was 15. After being here for two years I'm really excited to be part of the LFM staff!! Hopefully I'll do a satisfactory job :) Heavy Metal is my religion, I love it with a passion. I like to BMX, play video games, and hanging out with my girlfriend whenever I don't work. I'm also the owner for Minions of the Watch, a forum dedicated to the band Iced Earth, it's listen their official website under the "fan sites" section. Stay Metal!!!!!

AceQ2K [ San Antonio, Texas] Join Date : 2/18/2006 [ Metal Database ] What's up everyone I'm Rey and im 25 yrs old...and right now im going to school full-time and enjoying some time off from working lol. I'm majoring in Electrical & Computer Engineering Technology so thats alot of fun...I've been pretty much listening to rock and metal music most of my life(KISS and Iron Maiden being my first favorite bands as a kid) well im not to sure what else ya want to know....so hit me up if you want to know anything else.

mdbettcher [ Sioux Falls, SD] Join Date : 3/27/2006 [ Metal Database ] I work in the IT department for a local hospital. I enjoy golfing, Miller Lite, and seeing live metal. Some of my favorites: Pixies, Iron Maiden, In Flames, King Diamond, Nevermore, Opeth, and Acid Bath. Listening To: Lamb Of God - Wrath King Diamond - Them Mastodon - Crack The Skye Mercyful Fate - Melissa Death Angel - Killing Season Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind Devildriver - The Last Kind Words

The Iron Maiden [ Topeka, Kansas] Join Date : 9/6/2006 [ Reviewer, Metal Database ] Greetings to those of the metalheaded variety! I'm Jodi, and I listen to a lot of metal. My favorite genres are death, traditional, power and thrash. I love spending time with my family (my boyfriend Joe and our 2 dogs), watching horror movies, writing, traveling, and going to shows. I currently write for a few webzines and a couple of in-print 'zines (both of which are currently on hiatus). Currently Listening To: Pestilence - Consuming Impulse Sodom - Get What You Deserve Vile - The New Age of Chaos Origin - Antithesis Iced Earth - Something Wicked This Way Comes Kreator - Enemy of God

H-Man [ Frederick, Maryland] Join Date : 9/17/2006 [ Reviewer ] I have a very real passion for music and all things Metal. I enjoyed my youth during the true metal years of the 1980's. I may be older than some or older than most, but the shows I have seen...And yes, I was there...the original Kiss Alive II tour with AC/DC and Bon Scott opening, the Van Halen II and Woman and Children First tours, Ozzy with Metallica opening on the Master Of Puppets tour, Rush on their Moving Pictures tour...Priest on the Defenders tour with Dokken, Dio on the Sacred Heart tour with Udo and Accept, Motley on the Girls tour with Whitesnake, Maiden on the (oh my God) Power Slave tour...I was fortunate enough to be there...to live and grow with metal during those hallowed formitive years. It will never be the same...ever... I also have played drums for just about 32 years and love to play live music. I have been in a few bands and the sound of the crowd still gives me goose bumps. If I could only be there again...

Josh F. [ Topeka, Kansass] Join Date : 10/3/2006 [ Reviewer, Metal Database ] Hey all, my name is Josh. I'm 24 and I'm from Kansas. Some of the biggest heavy metal influences on me would include watching Beavis & Butthead as a kid, Metallica's first four albums, Slayer's Reign in Blood, Opeth's Blackwater Park, Meshuggah's Chaosphere, and Lateralus by Tool.    As far as non-metal stuff I enjoy, I like to watch movies and tv shows. TiVo is the greatest thing ever!

SFUPrincipal [ Kentucky] Join Date : 12/28/2006 [ Metal Database ] Over the course of the past few years, I have worked in education. I taught at a rough alternative school in Kentucky for 5 years, that was my most interesting and rewarding job experience. I have listened to heavy metal since I was six years old. I am always looking for a new band or a new extreme form of music to fix my desires.

Dr. Pete [ Kansas City, MO] Join Date : 3/14/2007 [ Reviewer ] I'm Peter and I am a 26-year old metalhead from the Midwest. I have been into metal for the better part of ten years and with each day brings new music. Currently, I write for another webzine in addition to this one and am a copy editor for Heavy Frequency. In my CD player: Empyrium-Songs of Moors and Misty Fields Primordial-To the Nameless Dead Eluveitie-Slania Atrocity-Atlantis Moonsorrow-Kivenkantaja

Death8699 [ Chicago, Illinois] Join Date : 5/3/2007 [Metal Reviewer] Hey what's up, My page Death8699.com originated some time ago at least 8-9 years - the exact date is irrelevant but it was created solely to support METAL not just reviews and interviews but guitar tabulatures done by myself when I was doing them and playing guitar excessively. Not to mention a plethora more (by permission) done by other tabbers. Well I've decided to quit guitar completely so I could focus on the site completely. "Death8699" is a screen name on AIM I've had for many years. I thought it was a good idea to coin my domain as this, especially since it sounded underground enough to be solely a METAL page for you viewers and free too!!! I have a webman now doing the site trying to get updates in about 3-4 times a month to keep it on the cutting edge for underground music. Since I gave up my position as webman for the site, the sections haven't changed much over the years - the core ones being METAL album reviews, METAL tabs, METAL interviews to name a few. My focus for the site has always been to spread the word about new underground bands just emerging or haven't gotten much publicity they deserve. We may include some more well known acts in the Media section but underground bands please feel free to send us your material to get posted on the site. My focus also has been to help guitarists learn songs from the METAL tabs posted either for their own private use or as a cover for bands wishing to use them. The tabulatures have been given the most attention right now text-only files but also Power Tabulatures will be included as well. Death8699.com rose from primitive web building and graphics to now such a sophisticated and electrifying plethora of fonts, colors, etc. From 2002-2003 updates began to decline as I involved myself in a marriage and child to which now has become a divorce despite my efforts to keep it alive. The updates really went down during those times but I still managed to get some updates in and win the Golden Web Award (2003-2004) to which I submitted my site for reviewing. Unfortunately, a ton of data was lost from my Yahoo servers and since then basically I had to start back from scratch. As I mentioned, I decided to give my web building duties over to a friend of many years, Mario Feegrade from India! I have been working to restore the information lost and the site will be up to support METAL for many years to come. Just be patient about the updates because RiO works crazy hours so be patient about seeing new material posted. Thanks to everyone in the past and present for your contributions to my site making it once again soon the best METAL resource site for all of you brutal and twisted viewers!!! Here's a little more info about the site, broken down into the different sections: Bands that we support/promote, especially new and upcoming ones, will be featured here. We'll try to include sample or full mp3's of the bands so you can decide whether you should buy their CD. If you have a band that shows promise, email mp3's and a link to the band's page. Reviews are either done by me or contributors to the site. Each review has specific details about the album besides just the reviewers' opinions. We encourage you to send us your reviews which we will add to the site. Tablature archive features guitar music in easy to read form for guitarists and bass players. Most are sole interpretations of a particular band's song, but some of which are actually official transcriptions done by the bands themselves. Please send me your transcriptions preferably in this format. Interviews are usually done by contributors to the site and responses are made by the band members themselves! Links includes a wide variety of websites that are related to music or related to areas that interest me. -|- Ryan Fanucchi (Death8699) -|-

9er [ Colorado] Join Date : 5/3/2007 [ Reviewer ] Originally from Michigan, I'm now in Colorado working on a few film productions. I've written for Eclipse Magazine, Infernal Dominion, Digital Metal, Metal Coven and now... Living for Metal!!!! I'm also the Vice President of the WHMMA - More info soon! Just a few of my favorite bands: Iron Maiden Mercyful Fate/King Diamond GWAR Manowar Cannibal Corpse Deicide Morbid Angel Megadeth Dio

DeathRy [ Lawrence, KS] Join Date : 5/4/2007 [ Reviewer ] It was a cold day in late December 1976. The wind was howling, the snow was falling and I was 'a chargin' through Mrs. Ogle's vag-hole. When the birth ritual was completed, I carjacked the doctor and took the nurse to Vegas where I then spent the next 15 years running a brothel. After growing tired of that life (pimpin' ain't easy man), I moved to Central America where I wandered around the jungle, training the villagers in the ways of the Ninja and helped them overthrow their dictators. This pissed off the power hungry right-wing conservatives here in the ol' US of A and after Bush Sr. put a price on my head I had to hide out in Bea Arthur's twat for 9 horrendus months until the cast of Friends spoke on my behalf to the Senate and cleared my name. Ever since then, I have been living a semi-quiet life in Lawrence, KS, patiently awaiting my to hear from the celestial overlords from the Andromeda Galaxy. These beings are the basis of all religion and mythology. They visited our Earth eons ago and planted the seed for the human race so that we may heat up the planet for their cosmic sauna / day spa. GOOD JOB US!!!

Joe the Butcher [ Kansas City] Join Date : 11/8/2007 Greetings metalheads, I am Joe. I live in the middle of the midwest. My past times include frequenting shows, playing darts at the neighborhood bar, Spending time with my better half Jodi, my cat Oreo, and our two dogs Cain and Link. I am active in my local music seen with helping promote shows for Hunt Industries and also write for heavyfrequency.com, a midwest online metal magazine. I enjoy all genres of metal. Currently listening to: Origin, Heinous Killings, Cock and Ball Torture, Christ Hate, Indian, Coffins, Pungent Stench and BloodDuster.

The_Quadfather [ St. Paul, Minnesota] Join Date : 4/19/2008 Just your typical metalhead... except I broke my neck about 5 years ago resulting in my paralysis from the shoulders down. In the meantime, though, I have kept on keeping on with a variety of projects. I graduated from college in November 2007 and currently split time working as a paralegal and public speaker. Currently listening to: The Living Fields, Zero Hour, Epicurean, The Ocean, Winds, Faith No More, Moonsorrow, Augury, Pelican, Diabolical Masquerade...