Metal.de

Metal.de
Type of site
 News and reviews
Website metal.de
Alexa rank Increase 202,687 (November 2017)[1]
Launched 1996
Current status Active

Metal.de is a German-language online magazine that has existed since 1996. The site specializes in music genres Metal and Hard Rock, but also reports on other genres like Hardcore punk, Metalcore, Punk rock, Crossover or Progressive rock. The foundation in 1996 is one of the first German-language offers in the metal sector on the World Wide Web.

Metal.de is a subsidiary of Versus Media UG based in Kämpfelbach. Publishers are Norman Sickinger, Markus Endres and Marc Furrer. Since September 2017, Jan Wischkowski and Alex Klug are content editor in chief[2]

With more than 400,000 page views per month with 147,000 visitors[3], Metal.de is the widest-reaching metal online magazine in the German-speaking world.

History

Metal.de went on 1 October 1996 under the name The Dark Site online. The first editor-in-chief Truhe programmed the site himself and built up the content with friends. As early as 1997, the team added small audio clips in real audio format to the CD reviews. In 1998, the first major update followed, as well as its own small search engine, the first German metal mailing list and a newsletter. Since 1999 there have been cooperations with advertising partners and event organizers, as well as another update. This year also renamed Metal.de. In 2004, a new forum was activated and the layout and logo were also revised.[4]

In March 2011, the technology and design of the site changed once more. Single genre portals were Introduced, which allowed to filter of the content by individual metal genres.

In addition to the online offer Metal.de is represented with its own stand at festivals. For example, since the middle of the 2000s, Metal.de organizes autograph sessions at Summer Breeze Open Air.

References

  1. ↑ "Metal.de Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  2. ↑ "metal.de : Impressum". www.metal.de. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  3. ↑ "metal.de". IVW. April 2017. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
  4. ↑ "20 Jahre metal.de - Die Geschichte des Magazins". metal.de. Retrieved 2017-11-03.
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