How We Operate

The Offering is a Non-Profit web site that posts photos, album reviews and interviews of heavy metal and similar artists. Simply put, the site is for writers and photographers that are looking for an outlet to share their content. The site doesn’t turn a profit and thus the staff aren’t paid and the owner doesn’t make a profit. It is more of a place for people that just need a place to share their content on an international level. Currently we have staff members in the United States, Italy and Finland.

Working for the Offering

If you are interested in becoming a contributor for The Offering please send an email to TheOfferingMag@outlook.com. Preference will be given to writers and photographers in countries other than the United States, Italy and Finland to avoid competition. If you do both Writing and Photography that is also a huge plus. Photographers should include a link to their portfolio (social media is fine) and writers should include a sample. And although as mentioned above, staff members don’t get paid, there are lots of perks in working in the business.

History

The Offering started in January of 2008 as an outlet for owner Tim along with founders Cheyenne and Maria who were fans of the genre to post their live photos, interviews and album reviews. When the magazine first started, Tim was booking everything and posting everything to the web site. This became overwhelming when the staff had grown to 36 people all within the greater Chicagoland area. At that time, Tim took a step back and was getting a lot of help from Yvonne but as life went on, and people got older and got full time jobs, running the site became more and more difficult. Tim remained the owner, but started running the site with a President as he just didn’t have the time to keep up with it. At this point, Bruce and Ashka took over running the site and did a phenomenal job. The site grew by leaps and bounds under their care. Unfortunately due to personal matters Bruce and Ashka stepped away and at that point long time writer/photographer Alexiel Divine became and still remains the active President. The staff was greatly decreased as competition amongst writers and photographers all in the same market became too difficult to manage. As it is today, all writers and photographers independently schedule and post their own content with assistance in booking from other staff members when necessary. Currently the staff is active in three different countries but the magazine is looking to expand into other markets.