Creating Game Music remixes for the world to enjoy!

Hello! Thank you for visiting my Patreon page, I am Jonny Atma and I make video game music remixes under the name 'GaMetal'.

What do you do? What's a GaMetal?  
I'm a multi-instrumental musician of over 15 years with a passion for video game and rock/metal music. GaMetal is my VGM project that I've been working on for the past 6 years, and for the past 2 years has been what I've worked on exclusively.

 What is Patreon?
Patreon is a way for you to support the artists and creators you love by donating a set amount (as low as $1) for each video/song/creation produced. You can also set a maximum amount you'd like to donate each month, for those wonderful months where I can release a much larger than usual amount of songs (such as GaMetal's May Madness event, where 7 songs were released in 2 weeks!)

In return for your patronage, you will receive rewards based on your donation amount! We'll get to those in just a moment.

 How will this help improve your music?
A lot of time and effort goes into making a GaMetal song/video. Between family life and a day job, I'm only able to release 2-3 songs a month. Supporting me through Patreon will help give me more time to not just work on more songs, but work on improving the quality of those songs as well as releasing other kinds of videos, for example, guitar tutorial videos, which I did in the past but currently don't have the time to do. I'd also eventually be able to release on a set schedule much more easily.

Ultimately, it would be a dream come true to make music for a living, and you can help make that happen! Who knows what could become if I could work on music full time.

 How will my donation(s) be used?
Since we're in the beginning stages of this Patreon campaign, most of the funds will be used to maintain or upgrade gear (replacing guitar strings or a worn out drum pad, for example), or to help pay the costs of things like the JonnyAtma.com website. In the future, if funds reach the amount I'd need to make this a full time job, that'd be awesome! More time working on music = more content for everyone to enjoy!

 How often do you release songs?
Currently I average about 2-3 GaMetal songs a month. Medleys, which are usually the most popular songs, take the most time to do. Those tend to be the 2 song months.

Let's hear some GaMetal history.
I've always loved video game music, I remember when I was a child, I would record game music from the TV onto a cassette tape using a boombox, so I could listen to it later on my walkman. Fast forward several years later to around 2005, I recorded my first video game covers of music from the NES game Contra and the Hyrule Temple theme from Zelda II.

In 2009, I started a whole project dedicated to VGM called Nintendo Experienced Shred as a personal challenge to create a kickass version of the Tetris A theme. After I had about 10 songs, I posted them on Youtube to share with the world. To my surprise, people actually liked them! (I cringe listening to my older material now, as the production quality was pretty bad, haha.) I changed the name of the project to GaMetal, recorded and released some more of my favorite game songs along with a few requests, and people continued to like them.

One of my major points of emphasis that I still follow to this day, was to not just do the obvious songs, for example the Mario Main Theme or Zelda Overworld Theme (we have enough remixes of those kind of songs!), but to also do a lot of songs that people don't normally remix. Some examples of these uncommon songs that I've covered would be Dark Meta Knight, the Final Boss theme from McDonald's Treasure Land Adventure, Interstice of the Dimension from La Mulana, The Ultimate Show from Super Paper Mario, and Count Canolli from Wario: Master of Disguise, just to name a few.

And when I do get to one of those obvious songs, I try to put some sort of unique spin on it, such as The Legend of Mario, a combination of Mario and Zelda themes, or Big Mute Blue City, a mashup of F-Zero's two most popular tracks.

For the next 3 years I continued releasing GaMetal songs for fun and to improve on my recording and arranging skills. However, at the beginning of 2012 everything was brought to a halt when someone found out we were sharing the same stage name (not GaMetal, but the name I was using for myself at the time), they got a bit upset about it and trademarked the name, and had my account deleted for trademark infringement. An account with three years of earned subscribers went poof in an instant.

This rattled me a good bit, and as a result I stopped doing GaMetal for a while, about a year to be exact. In 2013, I decided I had to come back with a vengeance. I practiced harder than I ever had, and completely retooled my recording process and, well, everything really. I came back under the new name Jonny Atma in April of 2013. I started releasing new material, and in a few months time I had regained the subscribers I had lost. Two years later, I now have almost five times the fan base I had before, and popularity is accelerating at an awesome pace. 

There are few things I love more in life than making music and releasing it for people to enjoy. I would love to do more. I have ideas for all sorts of other projects both GaMetal and non-GaMetal related, but between a day job and family life, my time is limited. That's why I ask you to become a Patron today: I want to make more music for you, and only you can help me make this happen!


Thank you for your time and your support, you all are the best! 

PS. Also, as my Patreon is brand new, I do plan on adding more rewards in the future!