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Re: Map of Metal

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Post by dude250711 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:41 PM UTC

busfahrer wrote: post #10

Seeing as this is HN, I was expecting something on chemical properties of iron etc, but was pleasantly surprised

Grateful it's not an agentic start-up.

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by voidUpdate » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:41 PM UTC

mr_mitm wrote: post #14

a3w wrote: post #12

To be excapt: This is a Mäp of Metäl, no hair was cut in making the map.

As a German, metal umlauts look so confusing

m̈ëẗäl̈ üm̈l̈äüẗs̈ (awww, you can't put an umlaut on a space) (oh wow the HM font does not like what I just did. It looks fine in the monospace font)

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by dwa3592 » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:43 PM UTC

Love it. gonna be listening yardbirds all day today. The map also feels like a jeans.

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by yawgmoth » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:52 PM UTC

TwoNineA wrote: post #6

Great map. There might be some categories missing, couldn't find any Katatonia, Agalloch, Alcest nor Tiamat. Alcest and some Deftones are considered blackgaze and Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room fall more into grey metal.

It's interesting because some of these bands are older than these terms. Alcest wasn't considered blackgaze until albums inspired by their own sound became popular, for example.

Metal also has history where a genre is aesthetically defined as well as sonically, which complicates things.

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by Semaphor » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:53 PM UTC

pjgalbraith wrote: post #5

Didn't expect to see something I made on HN while my wife is trying to find something to watch on TV. So about the site in case anyone is interested. I made it with a friend who was studying multimedia. He helped with the data and I did the coding. Took about a week or two. The site was originally Flash (remember that). But I ported it to HTML5 a few years ago. It still has those Flash vibes I think. Posted the code…

Any chance to get a high resolution photo of the sketchbook version? Would love to also have a look at that :)

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by Thaxll » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:54 PM UTC

Not sure why there is Swedish death metal when Melodic Death exists.

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by BoggleOhYeah » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:00 PM UTC

Thaxll wrote: post #26

Not sure why there is Swedish death metal when Melodic Death exists.

Swedish death is a specific sound like Entombed, which is fairly different than melo-death bands like In Flames.

I'm not entirely sure why those specific song choices for the Swedish Death category. The older At The Gates albums are more like the original Swedish sound but Slaughter of the Soul (included in Swedish Death) is essentially THE Melo-death album.

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by Kelteseth » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:08 PM UTC

Nu Metal not having any Linkin Park songs is a crime.

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by leopoldj » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:09 PM UTC

Most awesome site ever created.

Re: Map of Metal

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Post by kgarten » Wed, May 20, 2026, 1:09 PM UTC

Reminded me a bit on the design space of Metal logos: https://renecutura.eu/metalvis/