Content Standards

Version 1. Last updated 3 July 2026. Every upload is reviewed by a human before it can air.

What Metal TV plays

• Music videos only. A produced video for a studio recording: performance videos, narrative videos, animation, visualisers with real production intent.
• Under 11 minutes.
• Decent quality. Aim for 720p or better; we re-encode everything for broadcast, and we may decline files too rough to sit alongside the rest of the channel.
• Metal. The channel is underground and independent metal in all its forms.

What it does not play

• Live footage (concert recordings, rehearsal-room clips) and lyric videos. A static image with a song is not a music video either.
• Generative AI music. The music must be written and performed by people. AI-assisted visuals and album artwork are fine.
• Content you do not have the rights to upload: see the Upload Licence.

Extreme content

Metal is art, and metal art can be dark, morbid and confronting; that is part of the genre and it is welcome here. The line is reasonable taste in service of the music's expression: horror imagery, gore and provocation that belong to the song's world are fine, gratuitous real-world cruelty, hate content, or shock material with no artistic connection to the music are not. Reviewers flag borderline videos for a judgement call rather than auto-declining, and the operator's decision is final. Community behaviour is covered separately by the community guidelines.

Review

Every upload goes through processing and then a human review before it enters rotation. You can see the status on your band page next to each track. If a video is declined you will see that too, and you can get in touch if you think we got it wrong.