Hello everybody -
My name is Joe Compton. I grew up on metal, loving metal. The father figure introduced me to Sabbath, KISS, Van Halen, and Priest at an early age and I took off from there. I am not a musician but I am a fan. I hope that makes it okay to be here. I do have a specific reason for how I found this forum and something to offer but I am just getting started here. I do something that can help hopefully a lot of you get seen and build a new audience but I don't just want to spam here. I love metal and talking metal so I do want to be someone who actually contributes to the conversations here. What I do is not going anywhere soon but you can get a clue from my forum name. I have told a couple Indie Metal artists about this place already, so hopefully they will come and be a part too. I have been lucky enough to meet some awesome and talented metal artists and hope to make a few more friends here.
Right now I have been really into Entombed, Khemmis (I just got into this kick ass band), Opeth, August Burns Red, and Amon Amarth. I always have my fall backs like King Diamond, Slipknot, Anthrax, Slayer, Dio, and Iron Maiden (who I named my Publishing Company after actually). Been enjoying the new Metallica to an extent but I think they have made some missteps, one of which is not including Lords of Summer on the actual album.
I live in Northern California and had attended every Ozzfest there was at Shoreline and then subsequently the last 3 mayhem festivals that were there. The last one was pathetic even though it had given me my first opportunity to see King Diamond ever.
Anyway if you want to know about or talk metal with me I am here.
Cheers,
Joe