2-15-2007

Well, it's been five years since this site has been updated, and a lot has happened. We have grown exponentially over the last 5 years, and the people who formed this club have long since graduated. Let me tell you the story of what's happened in the past five years...

The first huge change came when former president Danny Mazzeo arrived at the club. He had a vision of actually holding metal concerts at W&M. Together with his officers at the time, especially Martin Waldman, he doggedly persued the late-night activities fund and UCAB as well as his own fundraisers to raise the money necessary to start having concerts at W&M.

These first concerts featured rudimentary sound and very, very underground bands - sometimes even student bands. At first, they were not very well recieved, but over time word of the club spread. With each passing semester, the concerts became better in quality and had greater turnout. After a 3 year stint, as concert organizers, Danny and Marti graduated. With this, the torch was passed to a new generation. This included, for the first time ever, more girls than guys as officers. The new officers were Alex Gade, Kristie Dorfler, Kelly Creed and the only male, Matt Fuller.

This past semester, the Metal Club recieved more signups at the Student Activities Fair than it had ever recieved before. The listserv now contains well over 100 members, and the concerts have continued to rock, with bigger and better things planned this semester than ever before. And all the while, we have not updated this website even once. Some things that should not have been lost, were lost - it's very existence was forgotten. Until, one day, a band's agent brought it to the attention of Matt Fuller and it was decided, with the help of expert webmaster Luke VanderHart, that this website would become functional again.

As time goes on, we'll update each successive page, to bring the whole site up to date, and clean up the ugly relics of paleolithic code. Our plans include adding pictures of past concerts, having links to websites of bands that have played at concerts, maintaining a list of local concerts that are playing in the region on a monthly basis, and giving bands that find this website a way to contact the officers - and actually having a FAQ page.

With the Gods of Metal on our side, we will prevail!