And a few days later - band addition records suggests this would be July 17th 2002 - one of our staff members decided to plug the site on a (sadly now defunct) public metal forum, and thus opened the floodgates. uk URL, seeing as it was one of the rare web hosts that offered free PHP/MySQL hosting at the time. Yes that's right, in the earliest, pre-launch days, the site ran on a. Then, on July 14th we bought the domain name. Or I looked around and saw an Amorphis CD lying around. I was probably listening to Elegy at the time or something. Why Amorphis, we are often asked? I have no idea. With the help of a few friends (and some of their own friends), we went about to test the platform and started adding data, with the first band page being Amorphis, added on July 7th.

In early July of 2002, HellBlazer and I put this site online on the public Internet, but almost no one knew about it yet. Do you feel old yet? Or are you among those of our users who were not even born then? That's how long this site has been around. Link Metal Archives 20th Anniversary / 11:05

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