The convention was set up by Concrete Marketing who had in January 1988 created the first industry trade magazine for the heavy metal world – Foundations.
( November 2010) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)įoundations Forum was the first exclusively heavy metal music industry convention, held annually from 1988 to 1997 in Los Angeles. Please help improve this article if you can. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.