Real first name: Marty
Age: 25 (will be 26 in two weeks)
Location: A little suburb outside of Detroit, Michigan
Job/school?: College student (see the "Gen Info" section below)
Favourite five bands of the moment: Megadeth, Exodus, Machine Head, Iron Maiden, Slayer (bear in mind that these aren't necessarily my overall five favorite bands)
Current favourite album: Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Non-musical interests: Weightlifting, Swimming, Metaphysical Philosophy, Computers, Gaming, Old-School Cartoons, Urban Studies, Volunteerism, Hanging Wit' My Homies, Sociology, etc.
How you discovered Metal Reviews: I think I accidentally found it when looking for a review of St. Anger about five years ago.
Gen. info: I'm a pursuing a double major in Mathematics and Computer Science, and I'm striving to become a professional software developer. When I'm not doing school work, I'm usually working out, doing outside comp-sci related studies (right now, I'm trying to teach myself Java and SQL, and I'm the VP of my school's ACM - Association For Computing Machinery chapter), hanging out with my buds, reading, gaming, and of course, listening to rock/metal.
How did you discover metal?: Quite by accident, actually. I used to be one of those "metal is just noise" types. Until I started sporadically hearing it either in my friend's car or when playing video games. Eventually, I had to admit to myself that I like the genre. And so now I've been a fan for almost nine years.