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The World Metal Alliance is a music organization founded in 1992.〔(WMA Music Organization Registration 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〔(WMA Recruitment Flyer & Membership Card 1992 )〕 to metal fans at concerts and in local metal clubs throughout Philadelphia and Southern New 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 mail. The majority of the content was from the membership including their comments, questions, suggestions, and the results of polls they voted in. The remaining content included organization statistics, recognition of outstanding members and an occasional article to provoke discussion between members in the letters section. The first edition of the Quarterly Report〔(WMA Quarterly Report First Edition 1992 )〕 was published in the Fall of 1992. By 1994 the rising cost of postage and growing number of members made it financially impossible to continue to communicate by conventional mail. The newsletter was discontinued and the final edition of the Quarterly Report was published in 1994.〔(WMA Quarterly Report Last Edition 1994 )〕 By 1996, four years after its formation, and 2 years after the last newsletter the flow of new members began to decrease. Although the World Metal Alliance continued to accept new members and remained a legally registered music organization, all other operations ceased and the WMA would remain silent for the next four years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Metal Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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