About Uranium

Welcome to the original Uranium. This site is run independantly by metal fans, for the metal fans. We are NOT affiliated with FUSE TV in any way; we started this website in 2000, 2 years before the TV show's debut. Although our staff is small, we are strongly commited to bringing attention to metal's most innovative, thought-provoking bands, regardless of commercial visibility. Our goal is to remain on the cutting edge of metal's most extreme flavors and cover bands that don't receive the attention they deserve.

We don't make any money running this site, aside from the occaisional banner ad. We all have full-time jobs and/or attend university, and we devote what little spare time we have to this web site and the metal community.

Special thanks to the many fine record labels we have worked with in the past few years, the incredible bands, and most importantly, you, our audience. Thank you all for contributing to our vision....

- The Staff

Staff Members ::

Mike Smathers
smathers@uraniummusic.com
Founder, programming & design, writer

Age: 22
Location: Evanston, IL
Job: Student, Web Design & Programming
Words of Wisdom: Chill.

Favorite Bands: Lamb Of God, Opeth, Meshuggah, Blood Has Been Shed, Between The Buried And Me, Into The Moat, The Red Chord, Aftershock, System Of A Down, Soilwork, Edge Of Sanity, Arsis, Burn The Priest, Psyopus, Clutch, Burnt By The Sun, Candiria, Dark Tranquillity, God Forbid, Edge Of Sanity, Glass Casket, Psycroptic, Decapitated, In Flames, Finntroll, Kalmah, Into Eternity, Pantera, Strapping Young Lad, Symphony X, Tool, Shadows Fall, Down, From A Second Story Window, A Life Once Lost, Viscosity, Insurrection, Plague Bringer, and so many more...



Joe "Dmanx" Capaldi
dmanx@uraniummusic.com
Co-Webmaster, Staff Writer

Age: 23
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Job: MLB Event Staff, Clerk, Student
Words of Wisdom: "I'm flagged!"

Favorite Bands: Opeth, Dark Tranquillity, In Flames, Dimmu Borgir, Kalmah, Norther, Impaled Nazarene, Yyrkoon, Stormlord, Vehemence, Ensiferum, Wintersun, Therion, Amorphis, Into Eternity, Beyond the Embrace, Korpiklaani, Enslaved, Evergrey, Stratovarius, Mors Principum Est, Omnium Gatherum, Kataklysm, Katatonia, Borknagar, Dream Theater, Symphony X, Iced Earth, Morbid Angel, Death, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, Fear Factory, Children of Bodom, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Soilwork, Arch Enemy, Edge of Sanity, Manowar, SOD, Amon Amarth, Strapping Young Lad, Devin Townsend, Misery Index, Gardenian, Venom, Insomnium, Clutch, Emperor, Tool...



Kimberly Tester
kim@uraniummusic.com
Advertising, interviews, staff writer

Age: 23
Location: Evanston, IL
Job: Research Analyst, SESP @ Northwestern University
Words of Wisdom: "Holy jesus, what are these goddamn animals?"

Favorite Bands: As I Lay Dying, Clutch, Black Dahlia Murder, With Dead Hands Rising, Pink Floyd, Pantera, God Forbid, Glass Casket, Between the Buried and Me, Kalmah, Children of Bodom, Finntroll, Dimenzion Zero, Blood Has Been Shed, Avenged Sevenfold, Dying Fetus, Lamb of God, Meshuggah, Deadwater Drowning, Aftershock, The Red Chord, Psyopus, Massive Attack, From a Second Story Window, Into the Moat, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, Into Eternity, Opeth, Misery Index, Arch Enemy, Dillinger Escape Plan, Symphony X, The Crown, The Haunted, The Blinding Light, Crionics, Nevermore, Soilent Green, Hewhocorrupts, Arsis, Zyklon, Burnt by the Sun, Decapitated, Down, Psycroptic



Graham Landers
barfneck@uraniummusic.com
Reviews, interviews

Age: 25
Location: Hanover, MA
Job: Deepsend Records (www.deepsend.com)
Words of Wisdom: Get the Fuck Out of my Country

Favorite Bands: My Dying Bride, Explosions in the Sky, Katatonia, The Hellacopters, Anathema, Enslaved, Crowbar, Rotten Sound, Strapping Young Lad, VLE, Mogwai, Nine, Isis, Porcupine Tree, Jesu, Pelican, Neurosis, Suicide File, Modern Life is War, Life Of Agony "River Runs Red".



Brett Lubins
brett@uraniummusic.com
Interviews

Age: 25
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Job: Statement Manager, Marketing at ING DIRECT
Words of Wisdom: If it’s free, take it.

Favorite Bands: God Forbid, Corrosion of Conformity, At the Gates, 36 Crazyfists, Lamb of God, the Misfits, Pantera, Overkill, Judas Priest, One4One, Killswitch Engage, Anthrax (Joey Belladonna era), Down, Children of Bodom, Jag Panzer, The Black Dahlia Murder, In Flames, Mercyful Fate, Vintersorg, Caliban, Bleeding Through, Coheed and Cambria, Superjoint Ritual, Death, Metallica, Goatwhore, As I Lay Dying, Samhain, Hatebreed, Abdullah, Unearth, Nightrage, Atreyu, Wolf, Soilwork, Cradle of Filth, Therion, Edge of Sanity, Walls of Jericho, 3 Inches of Blood, Iron Maiden, Dying Fetus, Into Eternity, Life of Agony, Sepultura (Max Cavalera era), Megadeth, The Crown, Danzig, King Diamond and lots more...



Past Members ::

Although these members no longer actively contribute to Uranium, their contributions and friendship will forever be remembered. Uranium would not be what it is today without their help.


Roy Hemphill
roy@uraniummusic.com
Staff writer

Age: 20
Location: Whittier, California
Words of Wisdom: "The only opinion that matters is your own."

Favorite Bands: Antagonist, Black Sabbath, Botch, Candiria, Cannibal Corpse, Cephalic Carnage, Dillinger Escape Plan, Every Time I Die, Faith No More, Fantomas, From Autumn To Ashes, Lamb Of God, Poison The Well, Mindless Self Indulgence, Nine Inch Nails, Nora, Refused, Rival Schools, Samael, Therion, Wesley Willis, Weezer



Mike "Heroine Bob" Esposito
heroinebob@uraniummusic.com
Staff writer

Age: 20
Location: Tampa, Florida
Words of Wisdom: ""If our descendents don't study our times closely, they will find that they have again wasted the planet's fossil fuels,...that the sky has turned yellow by propellants from underarm deoderant,that they have again elected a senile president 2-meters tall, and that they are yet again the intellectual and spiritual inferiors of teeny-weeny Chinese." Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick"

Favorite Bands: Slayer, Gwar, SOD, Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Mayhem, Deicide, Death, Fear Factory, Dark Funeral, Therion, Cradle of Filth, Sepultura, Venom, Burzum, Motorhead, Tidfall, Pennywise, AFI



Scott "Damascus" Pickell
damascus@uraniummusic.com
Staff writer, photographer

Age: 23
Location: South Brunswick, NJ

Favorite Bands: Neurosis, Isis, My Dying Bride, pre-"Fine Day" Anathema, Evoken, Katatonia, Opeth, At the Gates, Carcass, Deadguy, Massive Attack, Portishead, Sigur Rós, Godspeed you Black Emperor!, Depeche Mode, Radiohead, and literally hundreds of other bands in dozens of genres, but i only have so much room here.



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