User:Kenpierce
Ken Pierce is a Music Journalist, Photographer and Blogger living in New York City.
A longtime fan of the Heavy Metal music genre and frequent concert goer, Ken began submitting stories and review content to The Metal Circus website which was based out of Barcelona, Spain. He was the only American actively participating on the website in 2003 and while his contributions were translated into Spanish after submission, the editorial staff left the original English piece below this to encourage a wider audience at Ken's suggestion. This allowed Ken to better build a media resource base in his native United States and cemented his interest in being a positive voice for the music that he loved so much. The need for a place to have narratives stateside led him to both Maximum Metal and Sea Of Tranquility, each being popular websites for Metal and Progressive Rock/Metal.
In April 2005 Ken founded and launched PiercingMetal.com, a Hard Rock and Metal reviews website that would focus on the live concert scene and explore numerous genre styles. Upon public launch, the new website featured every piece of previously written work for past mediums.
In April 2007 Ken launched the "PiercingMetal Musings" blog which while directly relating to a number of items on the traditional website, would allow for a more personal examination of some of the events discussed on the proper review site. It would also be the place where ideas were expanded into other entertainment mediums and topics of interest to this demographic such as comic books and their conventions and related film properties. Initially a Blogger/Blogspot medium, this was converted into WordPress sometime in 2009. All Blogger content was integrated into this new WordPress version and the Blogger account terminated.
In May 2010 Ken launched a new side blog entitled "The Chronicles Of PiercingKen"; It's premise would be to feature photography and narratives that did not fall within the context of the PiercingMetal.com website and its blog. The topics of this site are very broad and focus on regional tourism, fashion, dining and observations that were found interesting enough to be shared. The side website can also be found on the Social Networks of [Twitter], [Facebook] and [Instagram].
In June 2014 PiercingMetal was revamped into WordPress; The aforementioned "PiercingMetal Musings" Blog content would be integrated into this new installation along with all of the original websites nine plus years of creative content. One site for its media voice was the goal.
On April 4, 2019 PiercingMetal celebrated its 14th Anniversary of being online. The sites tagline is "Where Heavy Music & Pop Culture Collide".