Apple's front-running digital music store iTunes has quietly
unveiled their much rumored and long-anticipated metal section last
night. The soft-launched
home page of heavy showcases the oft-ignored genre's biggest
recent releases front and center, with the placement of
Slayer, Nile,
Baroness, Rob Halford,
Skeletonwitch and more indicating a giant step in
the right direction for the digital powerhouse.
Getting more in-depth than just "New and Noteworthy" releases,
iTunes' metal page also showcases 60s/70s proto-metal heroes, and
emphasizes the best of sub-genres like power metal and doom
respectively. Now digital downloading metalheads everywhere can
rejoice in another mainstream victory for their long-running,
long-underestimated genre.
.....they should start treating Heavy Metal like H1N1, not so scary
anymore 