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Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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Re: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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Cool site, I love the detail each band has. I learned a lot about my favorite bands than I did on Wikipedia or similar. Although, I think each album's user reviews are my least favorite part. You will commonly see every review score from 100% to 0% with justification like "I don't get it, it just sounds whiny" but in long-winded review format.

I've read a ton of clever, whimsical (usually highly critical) reviews. The reviews are full of examples of fine twists on the employment of the English language. That said, I don't pay much attention to them usually. It's pretty easy to judge music simply by listening to it but at least the combined percentages can give you a good idea of which album to start with for a given band.

I feel the same way, a lot of the time I'll have a browse at reviews to get a bit of context on an album, and at some level pay more attention to the aggregate review score than I do individual ones. However I will admit that occasionally a review sticks with me, the most recent example being Within Destruction's Yokai, I believe the term used was "Weeb Core" and I now refer to a lot of deathcore bands that have added cringe levels of Japanese influence or trap beats as weeb core.

Re: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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!mab or !metal for DDG and Kagi, in case someone is interested ;) I often use them to find out if some band I found in the depth of my hard disk still exists, or to help decide what genre to sort some band in.

This! I use it constantly since its way easier than trying to type on the search bar from a mobile

Re: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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If there is anything like the Metal Archives for electronic music or rock music (actually any genre) out there, I'd like to know about it. It's simply the greatest music encyclopedia I've come across, albeit entirely focused on metal. As much as I appreciate Discogs and RateYourMusic, they tackle different things and don't really function as encyclopedias, the former functioning more as a catalogue and the latter as…

It’s not totally an archive per se but I discovered this site for electronic music when it was originally a Flash application: https://music.ishkur.com/

Strong second for Ishkur's guide. It isn't encyclopedic, it's taxonomic, not to mention opinionated, funny, well-curated, and canonical.

Re: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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Ah, yes. The site that has a thousand reasons why the band you're looking for isn't "metal" enough to be in its database, but then has an entry for Rush: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Rush/1206

Definitely a conversation starter with the pony-tailed set!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeOrddRaSM8

Re: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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post #39
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't take that list too seriously. Metal-archives genres tend to not delve into "styles" as much. But there are certainly many distinct sub-genres and one can't exactly argue that Black Sabbath, Dimmu Borgir and Cannibal Corpse sound similar. I agree that the community itself takes the genre thing way too far and it often ends up being pretty funny. Then again, electronic music probably gives metal a run for it…

Lemme give it a shot: Cookie Monster (includes Black Metal) Hardcore (see Pantera) Metal (see Metallica) Crap (see Poison)

Crap is obviously too broad since Metallica and Pantera would also fit under it.

Re: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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Somewhat surprising and very nice to see metal-archives posted here. It seems rare these days to see continual high quality from a single website, but metal-archives has just been solid good for a real long time. Many things have been tainted or destroyed with the maturity of internet business.

More decades, let's go!

Re: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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post #39
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't take that list too seriously. Metal-archives genres tend to not delve into "styles" as much. But there are certainly many distinct sub-genres and one can't exactly argue that Black Sabbath, Dimmu Borgir and Cannibal Corpse sound similar. I agree that the community itself takes the genre thing way too far and it often ends up being pretty funny. Then again, electronic music probably gives metal a run for it…

Lemme give it a shot: Cookie Monster (includes Black Metal) Hardcore (see Pantera) Metal (see Metallica) Crap (see Poison)

> Cookie Monster (includes Black Metal)

But what about Pterodactyl-fronted Black Metal: https://youtu.be/UZlZuYp1fZc?t=164

Re: Metal Archives 20th Anniversary

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post #11
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

There may not be. There seems to be something obsessive about metal fans to catalog and classify and document. I mean, look at the wiki page on subgenres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_genres It fills me with awe and giggles.

I wouldn't take that list too seriously. Metal-archives genres tend to not delve into "styles" as much. But there are certainly many distinct sub-genres and one can't exactly argue that Black Sabbath, Dimmu Borgir and Cannibal Corpse sound similar. I agree that the community itself takes the genre thing way too far and it often ends up being pretty funny. Then again, electronic music probably gives metal a run for it…

FWIW the community doesn't take itself particularly seriously, at least not the "metal" part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkdkZN1rduo

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