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be heard by the world at large it is a travesty that this genre is being denied for if it wasn't for this music many of the other bands we love so much wouldn't even be out there to begin with I mean you would be surprised to hear that many non-metal bands were influenced and decided to go into the music industry because of their favorite heavy metal bands.

One place that I have found online that is a great place for independent bands to get noticed and to network is myspace.com If you were to visit this site you would soon discover that most of the bands there are metal and that tells you that at this giant of online networking "Metal Music" is one of the top styles that people are listening to and enjoying on a daily basis. I myself am a Canadian performing artist I am the vocalist for a Metal band. I have become friends with many Canadian Metal bands that I have found on myspace and have seen them live or have done shows with them and many of these bands are blessing Toronto with their sound and I really think that they all deserve a shot at the big time. The best way to support your local metal bands to go out to their shows and request to hear them on your local radio because if the fans don't show their support they will become among the numerous talents that fall into the cracks and it is a shame. If this article helps to get one person to listen to one of these fantastic Canadian bands if it helps people notice that metal is still one of the most listened to music genres I have done my job and so have you. Most of these metal bands are very talented canadian artists that you should check out and show your support by going out to their shows.

I think that everyone that reads this article should in some way let the industry know that they love metal and they want to hear more of it because the squeaky wheel gets the grease and if they don't know people want to hear it they won't be so inclined to give it to us. Go to your local radio stations be them college, university, FM, AM or internet and request them to play metal, constantly bug them so that the listeners can have a taste of what is usually tucked away on the top shelf where non of us "children" can reach because who knows what we want better than them right? How would we know what we want to listen to?

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