| Encyclopaedia Metallum |
 | | URL | Encyclopaedia Metallum | | Commercial? | No | | Type of site | Music database, reviews | | Registration | Optional | | Owner | Morrigan, Hellblazer | | Created by | Morrigan, Hellblazer | | Launched | July, 2002 | | Current status | Active | Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or just MA) is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music. However, there are exceptions for bands which fall under disputed genres not accepted by the website; see the site rules for further information. Image File history File links Metal-archives. ...
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Heavy metal redirects here. ...
Encyclopaedia Metallum logo Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or just MA) is a website which lists bands from various forms of heavy metal music. ...
Encyclopaedia Metallum attempts to provide additional information on each band, such as a discography, logos, pictures, lyrics, line-ups, biography, trivia and user-submitted reviews.
The site also provides a system for submitting bands to the archives, and users are encouraged to use it. As of May 2008, the site boasts 59,000+ bands listed, 137,000+ releases, 35,000+ reviews and 154,000+ registered users (105,000+ of which are "currently active").[1] It is one of the top 500 most-visited websites in three countries[2], and the fifth most popular music website.[3] 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...
User interaction
As an incentive to get people to submit data, the site uses a "point" system, in which registered users gain points and move up ranks with the amount and value of data and information they submit. When joining as a member of the site all new members start off with the ranking of "mallcore kid". The more valuable and complete the information, the more points are awarded. Also submitting reviews of band releases is another way to gain points on the site. Typically though, the website offers more points to those who submit info about a band itself. The most points are given to users when actual bands they submit to the site are accepted.
The website is notably completely free of advertisements, and as of October 2007 is run completely independently. Some however, question whether or not this affects the quality of the website. Since the middle of 2005, frequent visitors noticed that the site was often down, though the stability situation began to improve in the beginning of 2006. Through the first three months of 2007 the site ran relatively free of downtime, with the exception of late March. The site also went down unexpectedly for five days at the end of December.[4]. This was in part due to an issue with the company that hosted the site. When the company changed its business strategy, Metal Archives was left out of the process and was subsequently ignored. The issue has since been corrected and the site is running normally again. Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...
Accepted bands The site is known for its extremely strict rules, especially those which mandate band submissions. Encyclopaedia Metallum only accepts bands which it deems metal, but many bands that once were rejected were accepted later on, and vice versa. The only exceptions are: side projects of members of metal bands that have a release on a label with worldwide distribution, bands that are no longer considered to be metal, but were in the past and grindcore bands that bear close similarities to death metal. Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of crust punk, most commonly associated with death metal, a very different though similarly extreme style of music. ...
This article is about the musical genre. ...
Traditional/heavy metal and NWOBHM genres have stringent rulings; users are warned in the rules section, to consider bands submitted under these classifications as "ambiguous", in the sense that if a band is submitted with these terms as their genre, the music will be extensively reviewed by the moderators before they decide whether or not to accept the band onto the website.[5] This is because in the past, some submissions labeled with those genres have turned out not to be metal, according to the site's guidelines. Some bands which are commonly referred to as Traditional/heavy metal and NWOBHM, such as Def Leppard and Stryper, are on the website due to only one or two of the bands' albums meeting the website's specifications. Heavy metal redirects here. ...
The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) emerged in the late 70s, in part a reaction to the contemporary decline of traditional heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, all three of which had been submerged by a mixture of personal problems, tiredness and...
Def Leppard are an English hard rock band from Sheffield who formed in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement. ...
Stryper is a Christian metal band from Orange County, California, USA. Formed in 1983, they are pioneers in the mainstream popularization of Christian rock music. ...
Additionally, there are some non-metal bands featured on the site that are considered to be part of the metal scene despite not being metal themselves (usually dark ambient and folk bands, examples being Mortiis, Elend, Nest, :Of The Wand & The Moon:, Autumn Tears, Stille Volk, etc). These bands are selected by the moderators "in an admittedly arbitrary fashion," and their submission by normal users is discouraged.[6] Dark ambient is a subgenre of ambient music which emerged in the 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of new synthesizer and sampling technology in the electronic music genre and other technical advances in music. ...
Folk can refer to a number of different things: It can be short for folk music, or, for folksong, or, for folklore; it may be a word for a specific people, tribe, or nation, especially one of the Germanic peoples; it might even be a calque on the related German...
Mortiis is an electronic band from Norway fronted by HÃ¥vard Ellefsen, who is also known as the namesake of the band. ...
Elend is the name of an Austro-French band formed in 1993 by composers and multi-instrumentalists Iskandar Hasnawi and Renaud Tschirner. ...
Nest is the creative music works of Finnish musicians A. Tolonen and T. Saxell. ...
Autumn tears - USA symphonic gothic musical band. ...
Stille Volk (meaning The Silent People in Dutch and German) is a pagan folk band from the Pyrenees area of France. ...
Bands excluded by the website Genres that are sometimes associated with extreme metal, such as grindcore and metalcore, are also absent as they are seen to have more in common with punk than metal. Some grindcore bands are accepted if they are more associated with Death metal (e.g. Napalm Death, and Pig Destroyer). Many users believe that metalcore bands have been completely banned from the website since a bulletin was posted that simply stated, "Please stop submitting -core bands. Please." [1] However, this is false; many metalcore bands appear on the archives and many more have been added since the bulletin was posted, but the moderators have become more strict on what metalcore bands can be added and generally work case-by-case rather than saying all, or zero, metalcore bands will be accepted. Most of the metalcore bands that are allowed are the ones heavily influenced by melodic death metal. Glam metal is rejected if the website owners consider the band more hard rock than metal. Industrial metal is only allowed if the site's staff consider it "more metal related than industrial", for example; the band Rammstein is not allowed, while industrial rock pioneers Ministry were finally accepted in March, 2006 (based on the newer output of this band which has incorporated a lot of thrash metal influence). Another recent accepted band once blocked by the administration is the industrial group Pitchshifter based on their first three metal-influenced albums. Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an evolution of crust punk, most commonly associated with death metal, a very different though similarly extreme style of music. ...
Metalcore is a fusion of extreme metal and hardcore punk that began in the United States. ...
Punk Rock is an anti-establishment music movement that began about 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified by The Ramones,the Misfits, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ...
This article is about the musical genre. ...
Napalm Death are a grindcore/death metal band from Birmingham, England. ...
Pig Destroyer is a Virginian Grindcore band. ...
Metalcore is a fusion of extreme metal and hardcore punk that began in the United States. ...
Melodic death metal, (also referred to as Gothenburg metal, melodeath, and post-death) is a subgenre of death metal. ...
Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s - early 1980s in the United States. ...
Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws elements from industrial music and heavy metal music. ...
For other uses, see Ramstein. ...
Ministry is an influential, Grammy-nominated American industrial metal band founded by frontman Al Jourgensen in 1981. ...
Pitch Shifter redirects here. ...
Bands that are associated with the nu metal label are completely forbidden and have been since the website started. However, certain bands which are commonly regarded as nu metal were also accepted, if the moderators considered certain albums "metal" enough. Nu metal (also called aggro metal, or nü metal using the traditional heavy metal umlaut) is a musical genre that has origins in the mid 1990s. ...
The site runners have standards which exclude some bands that are considered by some sites (such as the BBC[7] and Allmusic [8] and others) as founding and definitive heavy metal acts, such as Led Zeppelin and Blue Cheer; the website's runners consider these acts as hard rock, despite their often-attributed influence and history. However, there are some websites specialising in rock and metal music that, like Encyclopaedia Metallum, also exclude Led Zeppelin [9] or just mention Led Zeppelin as "hard rock" [10]. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation). ...
The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ...
For the bands 1969 eponymous debut album, see Led Zeppelin (album). ...
Blue Cheer is a San Francisco-based rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s, who helped to pioneer heavy metal music. ...
Hard Rock redirects here. ...
In fact, many of what are often viewed as the original 1970s heavy metal bands are missing from the website, such as Blue Öyster Cult, Uriah Heep, Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, Dust, Power of Zeus and many more. A small amount of users have questioned these exclusions on the website's messageboard in the past.[11] On the other hand, other 1970s bands such as Deep Purple, Flower Travellin' Band, Scorpions, Sir Lord Baltimore, Rush, Rainbow, Thin Lizzy, Budgie and Pentagram are accepted. The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ...
Blue Öyster Cult is an American rock band formed in New York in 1967 and still active in 2008. ...
Uriah Heep are an English rock band, formed in December 1969 when record producer Gerry Bron invited keyboardist Ken Hensley (previously a member of The Gods and Toe Fat) to join Spice, a band signed to his own Bronze Records label. ...
Vanilla Fudge was an American psychedelic band that recorded albums from 1967 to 1970. ...
Subfamilies Cactoideae Maihuenioideae Opuntioideae Pereskioideae See also taxonomy of the Cactaceae A cactus (plural: cacti, cactuses, or cactus) is any member of the succulent plant family Cactaceae, native to the Americas. ...
At the dawn of the 70s, hard rock and early heavy metal were almost completely dominated by British innovators. ...
This article is about the rock band. ...
Flower Travellin Band were an esoteric Japanese psychedelic rock/ heavy metal outfit active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, consisting of Akira Joe Yamanaka (vocals), Hideki Ishima (guitar), Joji George Wada (drums) and Jun Kozuki (bass). ...
For other bands named The Scorpions or other meanings of scorpion, see scorpion. ...
Sir Lord Baltimore was a short lived 1970s American heavy metal band, from Brooklyn, NY. They released two albums on Mercury Records at the start of the seventies. ...
Rush is a Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario; presently comprised of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ...
Rainbow were a hard rock and heavy metal band formed by former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore in 1975. ...
Thin Lizzy are a hard rock band who formed in Dublin, Ireland in 1969. ...
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Pentagram are a long-running American heavy metal band from Virginia, most famous as performers of Sabbathesque doom metal. ...
History The Encyclopaedia Metallum was founded in July 2002 by two Canadians from Montreal using the pseudonyms HellBlazer and Morrigan. They have been interviewed twice about their site. The first interview was given to the now defunct MetalGospel.com site, and the second interview was given to the Finnish magazine Miasma during May and June of 2005, and the issue was published in mid-October of the year.
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See also This is a list of online music databases: AccuRadio All Brazilian Music All Music Guide BNR Metal Burnt Wolf CADENSA - The catalogue of the British Library Sound Archive CDDB Choral Public Domain Library Color Of My Sound Coris Jpop Page Digitaldreamdoor Disco Record Vault Discogs Diskografi. ...
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