Once upon a time, when I was a metal kid (a couple of decades ago) there were the paper fan-zines and the paper magazines...... for example, here in Italy, there were METAL SHOCK and FLASH......

Now, that we live in the future, after year 2001 and the space odyssey has passed by, there is internet and all that goes around with it......

once, to know something new about our favourite bands and their new albums, we had to wait a week or a month for the new nember of our metal -zine......now, we can be updated everyday of every metal news, we can just sit down and search on internet.......

Well...... this is the question: where did you take THEN your metal news? and where do you take NOW your metal news?

For me....... then







https://www.google.it/search?hl=it&site=...ck+rivista

https://www.google.it/search?hl=it&site=...ista+metal

and now



http://www.truemetal.it/



http://www.metallus.it/

Well... for me in the stone age there were 2 options...

https://www.google.it/search?hl=it&tbm=i...=aardschok

https://www.google.it/search?hl=it&tbm=i...tal+hammer

But nowadays the most i am checking...

http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/

This is where i get to know what shows will be worthy to go to and my friends always keep me posted on things from facebook since i don't use that garbage

(06-16-2015, 10:18 PM)beernd Писал(а): https://www.google.it/search?hl=it&tbm=i...=aardschok
https://www.google.it/search?hl=it&tbm=i...tal+hammer

good -zine AARDSHOCK, there is also a cover with Cristina Scabbia of LACUNA COIL

METAL HAMMER is published also here in Italy, and is a very good magazine, a little bit expensive, but very good......

(06-16-2015, 10:18 PM)beernd Писал(а): http://www.lordsofmetal.nl/

cool site LORDS OF METAL...... even if I don't understand your language......

http://www.metalinjection.net/video/obit...l-see-evar

Pretty darn cool site for the metal freaks.

I dont know how old are you mates but I'm guessing Im a lot younger than you. Internet was always relevant when I grew up so I checked the news from there. I wish i had the opportunity to follow fanzines and other good stuff. Followed metal hammer as long as i could but they made it more expensive every month. Sadly quit buying that too. Now my only resource is the webs.

(06-18-2015, 02:50 AM)Zakkyliar Писал(а): I dont know how old are you mates......

I'm pretty old, let me say...... old enough to remember that, when I was a metal kid, there was no PC and no world wide web, and the only way to know something about what was going aorund with metal were only the paper media (-zines and fan-zines)...... or, another good thing of the good old times gone, the tape-trading, with flyers and posters...... great times......

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(06-17-2015, 04:43 PM)beernd Писал(а): http://www.metalinjection.net/video/obit...l-see-evar

Pretty darn cool site for the metal freaks.

wow...... good cool site..... most of all for the sponsored links like "find a girlfriend" and "looking for beautiful russian girls?" really good metal topics

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wow...... good cool site..... most of all for the sponsored links like "find a girlfriend" and "looking for beautiful russian girls?" really good metal topics


You already found the best parts huh
Hell yeah back then there were not even pc's!
I saw the first one when i was in school at the age of 17...
God we are getting old...

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(06-18-2015, 02:50 AM)Zakkyliar Писал(а): I dont know how old are you mates but I'm guessing Im a lot younger than you. Internet was always relevant when I grew up so I checked the news from there. I wish i had the opportunity to follow fanzines and other good stuff. Followed metal hammer as long as i could but they made it more expensive every month. Sadly quit buying that too. Now my only resource is the webs.

Well, i am born in 1972 and had the luck to be a living proof of what should be a metalhead in the great 80's

(06-18-2015, 04:51 PM)beernd Писал(а): Well, i am born in 1972 and had the luck to be a living proof of what should be a metalhead in the great 80's

I am a little bit younger, but not so much, and I have still very clear in my memory what 80s have been...... a great decade, where everyone still belived that every dream could be possible...... now, people don't believe or trust anything, most of all nobody believes in himself......

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I am a little bit younger, but not so much, and I have still very clear in my memory what 80s have been...... a great decade, where everyone still belived that every dream could be possible...... now, people don't believe or trust anything, most of all nobody believes in himself......


Very good described, this is the reality back then and nowadays...

(06-18-2015, 07:33 PM)beernd Писал(а): Very good described, this is the reality back then and nowadays...

Maybe it was because of the cold war...... I mean...... a play is good when there are two players, ok? two and both equally strong and good enough to play and fight at the same level...... ok, there was the nuclear fear, but everyone from both parts believed that a victory and a better way to live it could be possible...... now there is only one "player", strong enough to say who can play and who cannot play and to decide the rules and change them during the match...... on the other side there are one or more (more or less little) players, that are only angry because they want to play and they cannot...... in the end it's only a big, huge (but still only) a game...... and what lasts is the fear......

anyway...... here a very good italian site



http://metalitalia.com/

every year they organize a very good festival...... this was the bill for this year



http://www.metalitalia-festival.com/category/speakers/