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4.9 - Submitting videos

  • Most singles are usually accompanied by a video. We feature only OFFICIAL VIDEOS, released through the band's official channels or by their label. Which means: no live sound recordings! However, there are videos with live footage and studio sound - those are OK, but once again - only if the are OFFICIALLY released by the band or their label. "Lyric videos" are accepted now, but only if they are OFFICIAL - meaning they HAVE to be released by the band or their label.

    We don't feature promotional videos by the band or their representatives which were made just to inform the fans that a new album is on the horizon or where to buy the new album!

    There's a lot of custom-made videos floating around, usually with anime footage. Learn to distinguish between them.

  • If there are several significantly different versions of the video, add them all, the first one without anything additional, the others with (... version) added to the title. This does not apply to lyric videos. We have a separate category for those (see below).

  • Finding band videos
    At the moment we only accept videos on YouTube. If you find one on an official band or label account, all you need is the YouTube link to add it on Metal Storm.

  • Video title
    You will most likely have to do some cleanup. The title will be pulled from YouTube automatically, but these often contain additional information that is not part of the song title. Please remove everything that is not the song title, such as "official video", "lyric video", or "new album out ...".

  • Video thumbnails
    You don't have to worry about video thumbnails. When you paste a link in the video form, the thumbnail will be automatically pulled from YouTube.

  • Type
    We distinguish between "regular" and lyric videos. Only use "lyric video" if the video is officially tagged as such on YouTube.

  • Year
    This is the year the video was released, not the album! If there's no way to find out, please contact staff, rather than adding a guess.

  • Director
    A video's director is often listed in the video description on YouTube. If you cannot find one, please leave this field empty. However, we would appreciate it if you did some additional digging in other places, should this information be missing on YouTube.