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Metal Digest is an online magazine specializing in "bite-size" short-form news, reviews, and artist interviews, and longer special features. Foundation and ethos. Metal Digest was founded in 2021 by Creative and Promotional Media consultant Chelf Dortluke, and Musician, Archeologist, and Writer Adam McCann. Dedicated to presenting news and reviews from a broad spectrum of Rock and Metal Music, in an intentionally "one-page" format for mobile phone users; the online-only magazine's name was arrived on by nominative determinism. Both founder members had previously written for other publications in the field of Rock and Metal and wanted to have greater content and creative control. Within two months of the first reviews going live, a small nucleus of volunteer reviewers had been added to the writing team to increase the pace of articles being published, and over the following two years that has grown to a team of fifteen contributing writers. Style Metal Digest has the easily recognized hashtag of "be normless" and the tagline of "The Normless Magazine". With principal artistic control by Chelf, and editorial control by Adam, the short-form review and associated artwork is intended to be largely complete and visible on an average smartphone, so the end user is more inclined to visit a second article or review rather than scroll to the bottom of a long article and swipe out or back (dependant on the operating system of the user's device) and potentially leave the website. The default format is white text on a black background with artwork from the artist or band featured faded in. Readers who use tablets, laptops or pc's also gain a sidebar with an embedded Spotify playlist of the reviewer's choices from the previous month's new releases.