Heavy music creators: what happens after the song is finished?

I’m curious about something, especially from people making metalcore, post-hardcore, deathcore, nu-metal, modern metal, or other heavy music with AI.

Once you finish a song, do you actually try to move beyond Suno, AI-music communities, or Discord?

I don’t just mean uploading it to Spotify or YouTube.

I mean trying to connect with the wider music world:

• music media
• radio
• curators / playlists
• reaction channels
• collaborations
• contests
• live opportunities
• actual heavy-music listeners outside the AI-music space

I’ve been trying to do this myself, and the more I look into it, the more I feel there’s a gap between “I made the song” and “now how do I actually enter the music scene?”

There are plenty of AI-music communities, but from what I’ve seen, a lot of the activity tends to stay inside those communities.

So before I decide what might actually be useful, I’d really like to hear from people who have tried.

Have you tried to move your music outside the AI-music bubble?

What did you try?

What actually worked?

What failed?

What was the biggest barrier?

And if you haven’t tried yet — what’s stopping you?

I’m seriously interested in how AI-made heavy music can become part of the wider heavy-music scene instead of becoming its own closed circle.

Would love to hear your experiences and thoughts.