Category Archives: Milestones

The category used for anniversaries of band formations, seminal releases, comic book debuts and certain films.

PiercingMetal’s Official YouTube Channel Uploads 500th Video

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Hey there my fine readers, I’m taking a brief pause to share another bit of coolness with you all. Now many of you know how we like to shine the spotlight on special events and milestones when it comes to brand just as much as we like to continually showcase the content. Recently, I announced that the Official PiercingMetal YouTube was celebrating its 15th Anniversary and if you missed that post you can just click HERE to learn all of the inside scoop about it. It’s a fun read and in there I also share some of the favorite clips that have been posted over the years. Today’s announcement came to my email just yesterday when I learned that this Channel had officially uploaded its “500th” video. The announcement came from the VidIQ service which is a free and pay for use service aimed at working deeper in one’s YouTube Channel. I’ll link to them at the close but here is the graphic that announced my reaching this number of videos. To be honest, its pretty cool.

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PiercingMetal Celebrates 15th Anniversary of YouTube Channel

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Greetings my awesome Metal and Geek friends, it seems that we’ve hit another cool milestone for the outlet and need to aim the spotlight over to the Official PiercingMetal YouTube Channel which celebrates it’s own 15th Anniversary of existence today. This comes a little over a week after the actual 18th Anniversary of the PiercingMetal website which I discussed in a post that you can find by clicking HERE. This post is to reflect on some of the YouTube ideals and what I’ve done with it over this length of time and some of the stuff that I’ve learned about it all.

In the notice about the YouTube 10th Anniversary, I mentioned how I had first launched this Channel about three years after the birth of the PiercingMetal website and while it had existed as a “thing” for a few years by then, I never really knew what to do with it. I was so locked into the traditional reporting and the photography and never saw myself as what I referred to as a “Talking Head” to the screen. Eventually I would begin adding some live concert videos to the Channels content base but I really don’t do many of those anymore as they can trigger the copyright strikes and no one wants those hitting their Channel. I will say that the 10th Anniversary set me on a better creative path even though it wasn’t always a continuous one since I have other things keeping me busy on the website and the myriad amount of social media profiles that come part and parcel in the world of online publishing. For historical purposes I’ll reflect on the first video that I published on the Channel once more because everything has to start somewhere. This was the band Eluveitie at the Gramercy Theatre and I just love the sound that they bring to life onstage and I guess back then I had recorded it to post in hopes of getting more people into some of the more interesting bands I was getting to see. Funny thing is that I actually caught them a few weeks ago at the very same venue but the only video I did was one of the YouTube Shorts.   


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PiercingMetal Publishes 8000th WordPress Post

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Greetings and Felicitations my Legions and those who’ve just happened upon our little home on the web. I am ALWAYS excited to know that you have chosen to spend a little time on the PiercingMetal website and today I’m here to share some awesome news because we’ve just hit a bit of a publishing milestone. Not only was 2022 the year that the PiercingMetal outlet reached its 17th year online (documented HERE in case you missed it), but now I am here to celebrate that the website has just achieved the publication of “8,000” posts.

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MTV Celebrates It’s 40th Anniversary (1981-2021)

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It was forty years ago today when MTV first went live on the television waves and began entertaining the masses with music videos and commentary from their video disc jockeys or VJs as they became known as. Historically speaking, MTV launched with the video by The Buggles and their song “Video Killed The Radio Star” which I’ve embedded for your viewing pleasure down below. Though I’m a tried and true Metalhead, I’ve always had a soft spot for some of the New Wave classics and this song is one of my favorites to this very day. Enjoy.


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Happy 25th Birthday To Pokemon (1996-2021)

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If you’re one of the readers of the website who enjoys everything about the Pokemon franchise, let me be one of the first to wish you a “Happy Pokemon Day” as believe it or not, today is the 25th Anniversary of the property. Nintendo launched this game in February 1996 and since then its become an almost indelible part of the Pop Culture of Gaming. Now I must admit that gaming is not my strongest point but I am still quite the geek since I am all about the comic books, monster movies and assorted superhero anything. I am happy to find a property such as Pokemon reaching this milestone and think its pretty darned cool for anyone who enjoys its universe.

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As I don’t have the expertise to overview the franchises background, I’ll direct you to the official Wikipedia entry for them so you can be properly schooled and also to their own website because there is a ton of stuff being lined out in celebration. There’s even a virtual concert with Post Malone happening later on today but since I am watching something from Japan tonight at 10PM, I need to use the time to get the other stuff on the website happening. Suffice it to say there is a ton of Pokemon stuff out there for the interested consumer. From cartoon adaptations to toys, to plush dolls to puzzles and even costumes. I’ve met my fair share of Pokemon characters at the New York Comic Con over the years for sure and I always enjoy seeing the work that has gone into the costumes. Are you fans of the game? Did you ever try to catch them all? Chime in down below in the comments section and I will see you next time.

Official: https://www.pokemon.com/us/
Official Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon