Open days:

Saturday 25th October : Wolverhampton Art Gallery 10am - 4.30pm
http://www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk
Lichfield Street
Wolverhampton, WV1
01902 552 055

Thursday 6th November : New Art Gallery Walsall 6pm - 9pm
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk
The New Art Gallery
Gallery Sq, Walsall, WS2 8LG
01922 654400

Saturday 7th February : Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery 10am - 4.30pm
http://www.bmag.org.uk
Chamberlain Sq
Birmingham, B3 3DH
0121 303 2834

For further info and to check out the archive - www.homeofmetal.com

Home of Metal is a brand new project aimed at creating the first digital archive of metal music, memorabilia and fans stories, to tell the story of this unique moment of Midlands’ musical heritage. Launching at Wolverhampton Art Gallery on Saturday 25 October, 10am - 4.30pm, the project coincides with the 40th anniversary of when the term 'heavy metal' was coined by music journalist Lester Bangs when describing Black Sabbath.

The launch event at the city centre Art Gallery encourages fans of Judas Priest, Napalm Death, Godflesh, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin to come along and share their experiences of their favourite band. Fans are encouraged to bring memorabilia along with their personal stories to the gallery to be recorded - all of which will go towards the new digital archive, which aims to tell the true story of the birth place of metal. - Think antiques roadshow for Metal fans!

Each open day will be hosted by Kerrang! Radio DJ - the legendary Johnny Doom, a stalwart of the Midlands Metal scene, accompanied by special guests from industry or genre. A selection of memorabilia will be on display as well as screenings of film documentation and interviews from the bands. Refreshments will also be provided.

* For the Walsall date on Thursday 6th of November we have a specially commissioned performance by Einstellung who will pay tribute to Black Sabbath -
Einstellung are proud to have the opportunity to pay homage to Sabbath and thank them for allowing four like minds to meet. For this special evening Einstellung will be performing a Sabbath inspired piece. If you listen carefully within the simplistic motorik beats and slabs of Sabbath inspired riffage you may well be raising those metal fists in the air to some monstrously well know Sabbath gems.
http://www.myspace.com/einstellung

For details of special guests please check our blog we'll post up details as we have people confirmed.

The Wolverhampton date is part of Hello Digital Festival
Hello Digital is a major new festival bringing the mind blowing possibilities of the digital age explosively to life in a fully interactive four day event.
http://www.hellodigital.net/