Over the last year, artists, musicians and creators have been continuing to embrace the new tools of the Web3 space to connect with their communities and have more autonomy over their work.
From Justin Bieber’s 2015 hit track “Company” becoming an NFT for fan royalty-sharing to Michael Jackson’s long-lost demo version of his song “Big Boy” released on the blockchain as digital vinyl.
Another big moment came at the end of the year when the American thrash metal band Megadeth launched a new NFT collection, aiming to strengthen its community in both physical and digital reality.
Megadeth is known as one of the “big four” American thrash metal bands alongside Metallica, Anthrax and Slayer. The group has millions of fans and followers across the globe, this includes their online community.
Cointelegraph spoke with members of the Megadeth Digital team- Isabel Caballero, Jillian Valentin, and Alex Viruet – who have been working to take the community into the Web3 space. According to Valentin, the “driving force” behind the band’s entry into Web3 is the band’s frontman, Dave Mustaine.
“He’s always up with the times and just wants to make sure that he solidifies every part of wherever history unfolds. He did that first by having a website at the beginning of the internet age when everyone was going against it.”
To promote one of its forthcoming albums in the mid-90s, the band did something no other band had done at the time – created the first official website for a band.
The idea for the website was to be “a virtual town in cyberspace called Megadeth Arizona where fans could gather in an online community and chat with each other, as well as find out information about Megadeth including news about their upcoming album, listen to samples of the record and get info on their tour dates.”
Original image from Megadeth’s first website. Source: Internet Archiv
This idea behind the website parallels the vision for many in the Web3 space but now with new tools to enhance those capabilities.
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