Nothing beats hopping aboard the bandwagon. With every Tom, Dick, and Metal Hammer doing one, Dr. Steel decided to create his own. Why? Because he wants attention. Despicable, isn’t he?

Metal Hammer circa 1999, when Machinehead’s Rob Flynn was still sporting his Backstreet Boys do.

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The picture says it all. Five smarmy kids making faces and hand signs. Bro-core indeed.

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Ok, some really simple and awesome tips on how to spread the message of your band.
Tip:
1. I don’t know if this is a must, but if you are signed to a record company, make them publish your art on Spotify. Spotify is a must nowadays, sure, it might not give the bands and artists loads of money, but hey, it is legal and people loves it. File-sharing is good, great and awesome, but as a long-term I think that we all should install ourself on some streaming/online service for our musical cravings. And for 99 crones a month you will get millions of songs right in your mobile device (iPhone/Android e.t.c) without retarded commercial breaks (its free to use with retarded commercial breaks). And the best of all, you can stop buying ugly CD’s and start focusing on your LP/Vinyl collection.
Update – 3 March: I just read that you do not need to be a signed band to be published on Spotify, check out this LINK for more information

2. Spam sites like Rockhospital.com, I’ve heard that they love to spread the art of music through reviews, news and interviews. (Also, their “Video of the Day” is an awesome feature)

3. Rape your MySpace page with your songs, get millions of “friends”, spread the link to everything and everyone. Copy your MySpace link on your merchandise (stickers, thongs, t-shirts, hats, caps, shoes, skirts, wallets e.t.c) and I will promise you that you will be seen, by everyone and everything.

4. Stay in touch with your fans, party with them, be nice to them, give them stuff e.t.c – Fans loves bands, so if you love them, your love will promise you fame and fortune.

5. Play as many gigs as possible, contact your local venues if you can play there, get a smaller/bigger fanbase in-town and slowly work your way out of that shit-hole.

6. Join as many competition as you can with your band (some Swedish examples are: Rockkarusellen, Emergenza e.t.c)

To Be Continued…

I will update this post as soon as I find more useful tips, some of these tips are already known by your brain, but is worth reading once or twice for your brain to remember them.

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Rockhospital.com’s preeminent musical buffet is back! If you thought you had enough of Dr. Steel’s ramblings last year, welcome to a new nightmare. You see, when he began this Thrash Feast in ’09 a slew of impressive releases had just poured in from all over the world begging to be scrutinized. We’re already two months into 2010 and surprise, surprise: solid efforts from everyone’s favorite genre continue to flood Dr. Steel’s playlist. Whupping unholy ass for this installment is Overkill’s impressive 16th studio outing, “Ironbound.”
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