After a six-year run of making the premiere metallic station on-line, Gimme Radio — and its Gimme Metal channel — are official shutting down on April 29. Since their 2017 launch, Gimme has change into a house to a vibrant group of metallic followers through high quality, unique programming and content material from excessive profile musicians like Dave Mustaine to the deepest corners of the underground scene. Gimme has additionally been a longtime supporter of Decibel — I even had a present on the channel for a pair years — so, the entire Decibel crew is saddened to see good firm run by nice folks name it day.

“Similar to I used a Black Sabbath line to announce the launch of Gimme, I’m utilizing one right here to sign its finish: ‘I’ve Seen the Future and I’ve Left it Behind’ from the music “Supernaut” off Black Sabbath Vol.4 — the primary report I ever purchased,” wrote founder Tyler Lenane in a press release on April 10. “We’ve taken the journey full circle — we touched the long run and now, no less than for the second, are compelled to go away it behind. However, I assure you, somebody will take what we began, develop and fulfill this imaginative and prescient and it’s going to be good for followers, good for artists, and good for an business struggling to help and serve them.”

Learn Lenane’s full assertion right here.