As you may know, I write this column because Examiner.com is an excellent place for evangelism and connecting with people curious about local news. They want specifics for their own area, and they want it from a citizen like them, not a big media stooge paid to dish out the payola.
Writing here helps me connect with Houston metalheads (and others in the tri-city South Texas area, namely San Antonio, Houston and Austin) about shows, bands and upcoming events. I do this because its whole life, underground metal has suffered from obscurity, and often the kind that means good things go away because not enough people notice. We all need to be rewarded in some way for what we do.
As this column has grown, I've found that people are receptive to a mainstream but not Big Media site like Examiner.com. They like the idea of people like them, driven by a passion for something that isn't their day job, unleashing the truth as they see it. And they like being informed about local metal and, because all things are connected, the metal scene that fuels that local metal.
For that reason, I've finally gotten off my fat, lazy, dusty posterior and made a banner for the Houston Metal Music Examiner page. Even more, I've hooked us up with a handy shorter to remember address so that you don't have to use the old school cumbersome one that I at least can never remember.
If you get a chance, post these around, like so:
You can use these handy HTML codez:
<p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/houston-metal" target="_blank"><img height="60" width="460" align="baseline" src="http://image3.examiner.com/images/blog/replicate/EXID10472/images/houston_metal_music_examiner.jpg" alt="" /></a></p>
I appreciate you helping us grow and cause more problems every day in the name of metal.
Comments
up on churchovmelkarth.com now.
Nice, reminds me of Havohej or GBK album covers.
I'm all the way over in Mississippi and might actually join the state of Texas as the non-existent hipster hellholes of Memphis TN aren't cutting it and good bands die young there. You can imagine the frustration. I think this and the Houston Metal Examiner sites are better than crap like Blabbermouth.
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