I’m calling out you metal bloggers!

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
by Mark Carras

So most of the articles I have posted here recently have been about giving advice to bands. That will probably continue to be what I write about the most. Today however I want to focus on metal bloggers. Many of the same rules apply. Use Twitter, Friend Feed, Google readers “shared” feeds, and by all means use a respectable blogging service. Sorry, but MySpace is not a blogging platform.

Now most bloggers use Digg to get traffic, but Digg users hate metal. So you are wasting your time with them. This is why I started HeavyAsHell.com You think I really care about Blabbermouth being on that site? Blabbermouth is great, but everyone already knows about them. They don’t know about you though. Your little unknown metal blog is far more important to HeavyAsHell.com than Blabbermouth. Nothing against Blabbermouth, but having their content linked does us no good really. We need to offer something Blabbermouth does not. This means you! My dream is to have HAH be the place where metal and hard rock bloggers all meet to support each other, post their links, vote for each others content, and let metal fans have one place where they can find the best content from unknown bloggers. A few hundred small bloggers are way more powerful in my opinion than one popular one.

So I created the tool with you in mind. So why are you not using it? I’m not asking you to here, I want to know what would make you more interested in using this tool to get more readers. Yes, you can self submit. I know that many of you are spread around the world and the contests may not be something you can be part of, but the traffic you gain from being part of HAH is something your blog will benefit from. This is like Digg, but for fans and independent journalists of the heavy music scene. Don’t forget to tell your favorite bands to set up a band profile on HAH as well.

So please reply in the comments if you have a good reason why you are not an active member of HAH. Otherwise CLICK HERE and get started!