XM Liquid Metal And Sirius Hard Attack Playlist Expansion
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This petition is a petition addressed to heavy metal fans everywhere, specifically those that have access to Sirius or XM Satellite Radio.
By signing this petition, you agree that the Sirius "Hard Attack" and XM "Liquid Metal" channels have a severely limited playlist. It is understood that the record labels have a good amount of power over what gets played on these stations, and that this will not change. However, if enough people sign this petition, it may be enough to get them to expand their playlists.
As they stand currently, these stations play an absurd amount of the popular metalcore genres, as well as a good amount of nu-metal (including bands like Korn, Deftones, and (Hed) PE, that are distinctly not in the realm of metal), new releases for a limited amount of time, and long-standing legends (Sepultura, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Testament et. al). In such a state, the station is not enough to discourage from bringing CD's or other music, or even from changing the station within the receiver.
While these things are expected to be in a playlist of a popular metal station, a great variety of metal goes unheard and unplayed on these stations. There are many different kinds of metal that are vastly underrepresented on these stations:
Death Metal (outside of Cannibal Corpse, very little of this is played if it's not new)
Power Metal (essentially anything not named DragonForce is avoided)
Progressive Metal (with the exception of Dream Theater and occasionally Symphony X, this is avoided)
Doom/Drone Metal (there are many great bands to be had here, like My Dying Bride, Sunn O))), Wall Of Sleep, Anathema...)
Avantgarde Metal (bands like Scholomance and Unexpect are never played)
Black Metal (these are almost never played, save for in specialized programs)
By signing this petition, you are joining me in asking that these stations expand their playlist to the point at which they will keep the listener interested and discourage them from bringing their own CD's in a car. The ultimate goal of a station should be to keep the listener entrenched in it for as long as possible, and by expanding their playlist, these stations would do well to achieve this goal.
By signing this petition, you agree that the Sirius "Hard Attack" and XM "Liquid Metal" channels have a severely limited playlist. It is understood that the record labels have a good amount of power over what gets played on these stations, and that this will not change. However, if enough people sign this petition, it may be enough to get them to expand their playlists.
As they stand currently, these stations play an absurd amount of the popular metalcore genres, as well as a good amount of nu-metal (including bands like Korn, Deftones, and (Hed) PE, that are distinctly not in the realm of metal), new releases for a limited amount of time, and long-standing legends (Sepultura, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Judas Priest, Testament et. al). In such a state, the station is not enough to discourage from bringing CD's or other music, or even from changing the station within the receiver.
While these things are expected to be in a playlist of a popular metal station, a great variety of metal goes unheard and unplayed on these stations. There are many different kinds of metal that are vastly underrepresented on these stations:
Death Metal (outside of Cannibal Corpse, very little of this is played if it's not new)
Power Metal (essentially anything not named DragonForce is avoided)
Progressive Metal (with the exception of Dream Theater and occasionally Symphony X, this is avoided)
Doom/Drone Metal (there are many great bands to be had here, like My Dying Bride, Sunn O))), Wall Of Sleep, Anathema...)
Avantgarde Metal (bands like Scholomance and Unexpect are never played)
Black Metal (these are almost never played, save for in specialized programs)
By signing this petition, you are joining me in asking that these stations expand their playlist to the point at which they will keep the listener interested and discourage them from bringing their own CD's in a car. The ultimate goal of a station should be to keep the listener entrenched in it for as long as possible, and by expanding their playlist, these stations would do well to achieve this goal.
110 Signatures
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Danny Comellas
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Brian Fluker
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The Living Fields
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Jess
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Starry
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Matt Winton
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- Metal Music For Ever
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David Slea
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- More Metal Less Junk
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Luke
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- You forgot Industrial metal!
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James M
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- also, play more thrash!
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Chris Laskovic
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- В
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Scott Burnham
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Benedikt Steinar Vйsteinsson
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Ryan
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David E. Gehlke
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Michael D Smith Jr
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Julia Colbeck
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Barry Gilpin
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Jimmy
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- They play not nearly enough thrash.
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Alfredo
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- rawr
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Jason McCall
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- love metal. all of it. so thats why i wanna hear all of it.
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Garrett Kunz
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Marta
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Thomas Zayas
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- equal rights.
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Benjamin Krock
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Chris Bynum
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- NO Nu-Metal!!! Need separate Prog Power Metal station...have called XM multiple times!!! This petition gives me hope! Keep it going!!!
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todd D
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Mark (Deth) Gelina
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- Hail METAL!!!
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Matthew Gilham
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- I agree with the listing of neglected genres, and would further comment that there is currently a strong bias towards playing American metal. Most metalheads recognize that a significant portion of quality metal comes from Europe, and we would like to see those standout European bands better represented.
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James S
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Michele
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- Please play more of the REAL metal that was played prior to the switch on 11/12/08 and less corporate metal. THANKS!
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DAVID CHISUM
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- where is nightwish,rhapsody, savage circus
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matt wallace
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- power to the headbangers
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Rob brown
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- what happened to my metal man
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ricky williams
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Christopher Killian
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- Bring back my old Liquid Metal. None of this washed-down garbage b.s. non-metal crap you play half the time now. Add some variety, hearing the same crappy non-metal song 4 times in 1 day is ridiculous and uncalled for!!
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David Bledsoe
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- more artists and deeper tracks! PLEASE!
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matt sipala
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- love to hear new music, and i think this is the best radio station around besides howard 100, they talk about how they play all realms of death metal, but i dont hear that, more music please
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Jeremy Serafini
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- not happy with merger. why not have 2 metal channels? or have a true metal channel and play the hard rock on another channel. WTF
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Caitlin Chandler
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- I'm really happy to stumble upon this, I whole-heartedly agree.
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Mercedes F.
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Patrick Cote
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- I want my Liquid Metal back!
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Maxime Cauchon
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Julie parй
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Frederick
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Curt Crandall
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- Why not one or two more metal stations to split up metal genres. And get rid of Octane... they claim to play hard stuff, but it's always weak crap!
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Justin Andrew Gray
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- long live metal satan rules
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David Velazquez
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- And have them to have the recent playlist available in their web-sites.
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britton maxwell
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Dave PG
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- We'll decide what we want to hear
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Zavh Dinsmore
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- Agreed, Very limited playlist.
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