Full points for effort, but I don't like your chances. In the last few years ALL of the metal forums in Australia have died - Brismetal, Metalshop, Deflection 7, AUBM, Metal Obsession, etc. Everyone's moved to Facebook. Reason? Facebook is more versatile and among other things takes care of one important flaw of a web forum - trolling. Remember The Gates of Hell forum? Yes yes, I have been on either side of it myself, blah blah, but I can see how the average person would gravitate towards the more positive environment facebook provides. In the very least if you have witnessed it, you can be sure to have witnessed an era.
RIP, the metal forum.