The magazine focuses on the subgenres of heavy metal and hard rock, but also reports on similar styles.

Today, it is associated with Hi-Media S.A., a company that works with Rolling Stone, Metal Hammer, Michelin, among other brands in Germany.

[4] With more than 400,000 page views per month with 147,000 visitors,[5] Metal.de is the widest-reaching metal online magazine in the German-speaking world.

[6] On 27 October 2006, Metal.de celebrated its 10th anniversary with a show that featured Disillusion, Equilibrium, Neaera, Criminal and Undertow at LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart.

Along with record label Nuclear Blast, Metal.de has co-presented several German tours, including those by Behemoth and Cannibal Corpse,[9] Vader, Hate Eternal and Threat Signal,[10] and Suffocation and Fleshgod Apocalypse.