World Metal Alliance
The World Metal Alliance (WMA) is a music organization founded in 1992. Its initial purpose was to inform and unite the heavy metal subculture in order to counteract opposition to heavy metal by groups such as the PMRC which were active at the time. During its first four years the World Metal Alliance operated using printed media and conventional mail. Eventually the organization would continue these efforts online with its website and forums. Pre-web era (1992–1996) The World Metal Alliance began to recruit members in May 1992 by distributing recruitment flyers to metal fans at concerts and in local metal clubs throughout Philadelphia and Sout Jersey. Each person who returned a completed membership application was sent a numbered membership card and blank recruitment flyer to copy and distribute to others. From 1992 to 1994 The World Metal Alliance published a newsletter called the Quarterly Report as a means of establishing open communication between members via conventional ...
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