Petition: We Need An All Metal Video Channel...

[Lynne]

Hi guys/gals! Hope everyone is doing well this evening.

There is a rally currently taken place over on the VH1 Classic Message Board concerning a petition for an All Metal Video Channel. Currently we have over 200 supporters. We are 16 days into this, we are still in the infancy stages, but the progress and positive feedback has been outstanding. We need EVERYONE'S help, from the artists to the fans, if we are going to make this happen. Two artists, confirmed, have given their support for this cause. Hopefully many more will follow their lead. It takes all of 2 mins to link and sign. The rally leaders are John and I. John has worked on movements before with some success, but he and I cannot do this alone. The metal community MUST come together and support each other in order for this to happen.

Petition for an All Metal Channel:

Do you miss watching heavy metal videos? Did you stay awake countless hours jamming away to headbangers ball till the wee hours of the morning? Would you be willing to pay a little more to have an all metal music video channel? If you answered yes, then we could really use everyone’s support. Please click on the link below and help rally your support for an All Metal Video Channel. Currently, Vh1 has Soul, Country, Mega Hits, but there is no metal channel in the works. Our bands were deprived of their video airplay when MTV stopped playing music videos over a decade ago.

I personally blame MTV for the 90’s video crash and the fall out of the music industry. Many bands relied on this airplay and when that was stripped from them, bands could not survive. Hostility and frustrations began to soar which led to the separation of many a band. I must admit that I do have hidden hopes. I hope that an all metal channel will be the rebirth of metal music. I hope that this will encourage artists to remember the success that they once had, be able to put their personal differences aside, and give their original bands and their musical careers another shot. After all, life is too short and precious for such animosity. They had the success once before, and they can have it again.

If at the very least, I hope this will encourage our metal artists to start making music videos again. One artist quoted, “There is no sense in making a video because MTV will not play it.” (Dokken) That is unjust. Our artists must fight the music industry just to get their music out to be heard by their fans. Why should they pay a fortune to make a video that will never be played or seen? We need a place for the metal family to call their own. An All Metal Channel would be the answer. This will give our artists another opportunity in life to get their names and music back into the music industry and pursue their musical dreams.

We metal fans must come together and stick together to support these artists. We have over 30 years of metal history and it’s time our favorite groups, past and present, get the air time and recognition that they deserve. Without their fans, they have nothing. But with our help and support, we could hopefully help make their dreams come true again.

Here is the link: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/A0001/petition.html

Campaign Leaders,
-John & Lynne
“Not for you. Not for me. But for us.”-ra

Contact info: aislynn@triad.rr.com
Artist’s signatures are only valid upon confirmation received from their webmasters, managers or other reliable sources.

[el]

Screw Viacom...

Would hardcore/metalcore/whatevercore bands be played? (ie Misery Signals, It Dies Today, Dead to Fall, Zao, As I Lay Dying, Norma Jean...)

I guess it doesn't matter a whole lot since I don't watch TV anymore. But A for effort, and good luck.

PS Keep on rockin with Dokken.

[$ L B R $]

Hey el, i saw misery signals, eighteen visions and emery play the other night at the soma in san diego, the best show ive been to in a while, definitly good bands and i would support the channel if they play bands like those

[Lynne]

Thanks guys. We are looking at Metal from the 70s to present. Hard Core, Death Metal, Thrash Metal... there are so many subgenres to Metal Music. We are looking at something the way VH1 Classic has it set up now. 70s Metal Mania, 80s Metal Mania, 90s Metal Mania... all the way up to our current bands. We have a 24/7 proposed channel to fill. They can play it all. Anything is better than what they play on the radio these days. I haven't listened to it in 10 years!

Thank you EL. I am a Dokken Fan. But more of a GL Fan.

Oh, Confirmation came in not to long ago from a third artists that just offered his support for the cause.

Campaign Leaders
-Lynne & John
"Not for me. Not for you. But for US. Campaign"-ra

[Morphine]

I just signed it cause all of it is just flippin sweet.

[TTUFAN24]

Lynne, any petitions for a channel that only plays country music or rap. if they had those they would be sweet.

[Morphine]

VH1 has a country channel and when MTV actually plays music it's rap, you've got both of them.

[TTUFAN24]

i was referring to BET and CMT

[...andoutcomethewolves]

I would love to see reruns of the 80's Headbangers Ball.

[Lynne]

[cnelson]

Have there been any considerations to offer the tv station as internet as well? Unfortunately, I live in a state where they (most likely) will not offer a Heavy Metal tv station

[seven11dmd]

NO. NO NO NO NO NO NO NO we do not. get outta here with that poop. 200 supporters wow! too bad theres 300,000,000 people in the country. I could find more people to support high school marching band video channel.

[Lynne]