The Quietus

The Quietus is an online magazine covering music and popular culture from the mid 1970s to the present day. The Quietus regularly receives 600,000 page impressions and 122,000 unique visitors a month.
The Quietus was launched as a joint venture between the QuietusGroup and BSKYB/Sky.com. It ran as a blog since April 7, 2008, with a full website launched in early July 2008. As of September 2008, The joint venture was terminated, and The Quietus continued as an independent website. At the 2008 Record of the Day music industry awards, The Quietus was shortlisted for best website, and was voted best publication by UK students.
Writers who contribute to the Quietus include Steven Wells, Simon Reynolds, John Robb, Tommy Udo, Chris Roberts, Simon Price, Louis Pattison, Ben Myers, Joel McIver, Joseph Stannard, Jude Rodgers, Rebecca Nicholson and Taylor Parkes, many of whom were known for their work on magazines such as NME, Melody Maker and Sounds in the 1980s and 1990s. Guest writers for the site include former Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and Aidan Moffat, who writes a monthly sex advice column.
The Quietus was one of several websites to publish early reviews of tracks from Metallica's ninth studio album Death Magnetic after a listening party held in London on June 4, 2008.
Metallica's management company QPrime requested that The Quietus remove the review, and the site refused. The story was widely reported in the press and online as an example of Metallica's difficult relationship with the internet. The band later apologised to The Quietus and other sites involved.

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