How To Properly Assemble a Metal Band

1. Everything steel is good, and anything good must be compared to steel in any metal band, including the clothing must have steel or metals to look like steel, spikes etc.
2. You are allowed to be blonde with long hair but you have to be tough, for further examples look at Amon Amarth's 6'6 singer.
3. Pick a theme and stick to it. Manowar are warriors of true metal, and they don’t get to sing about anything else. Rhapsody has their Algalord chronicles. Hammerfall has their steel, hammers, and templar. Running Wild has pirates. Blind Guardian has Tolkein, and Amon Amarth stick to Odin and Thor and other Viking themed lores. None of them are allowed to sing about anything else.
4. If at all possible, do not be Michael Kiske. If this is not possible, pretend to not be or sound like Michael Kiske try to sound more like Emperor or Mayhem.
5. Your album cover should include at least one of the following: fire, steel, weird glowing magical items, irregularly muscular men, fists thrust into the air, weaponry, magic creatures (preferably dragons but hopefully not), or bright beams of light around somebody/something.
6. 16th notes are the only notes. Unless you’re singing, in which case you are not permitted to hold a note for any less than 2 bars. By the way, you need at least two guitar players. How else are you going to have dueling guitar solos?
7. If you can’t be Michael Kiske, you can at least be Timo Tolkki. Actually, PLEASE don’t be Timo Tolkki.
8. Wizards! You need wizards! If not, you need Thor, or something very dark!
9. Wear armor if at all possible. Hammerfall can give you an idea of the variety of acceptable armors, ranging from leather to ring-mail always remember to wear spike arm bands, See Kerry King of Slayer for examples.
10. Never leave Europe.For purposes of the above, Japan may be counted as part of Europe. Oh, and South America was colonized by Europeans, so it can count too. If you do make it to the US, try to be like Behemoth and do it years later after making all the fans salivate for your music and hold on dearly to every drop of notes you play on them.

Enjoy, and remember, if you hold notes especially high notes, you dont really count. and if you're not headbanging and twirling your hear like a true metal guitarist, you shall be punished.