EverGrim | March 28, 11:20 |
Цинциннат | March 28, 11:17 |
Constant Hunger | March 28, 10:24 |
Arluna | March 28, 09:46 |
Insomnivore | March 28, 09:44 |
Utopia Within | March 28, 04:52 |
Deceased Society | March 27, 23:13 |
Rising Fear | March 27, 21:40 |
TvKills | March 27, 20:32 |
Off Section | March 27, 17:48 |
Stillborn's Cry | March 28, 15:20 |
Cold Cry | March 28, 15:15 |
Useless | March 28, 15:11 |
Temple of Sin | March 28, 15:09 |
Slavic Rebirth | March 28, 15:09 |
Infection | March 28, 15:08 |
Innocence Pure Mutilated | March 28, 15:06 |
Mad Hatter | March 28, 15:06 |
Sentient Ignition | March 28, 15:05 |
Symptoms of Insanity | March 28, 15:04 |
Sonata Arctica | Clear Cold Beyond | Mar 28th |
Ethereal Dawn | The Tales of the... | Mar 28th |
Celtian | En tierra de hadas | Mar 28th |
Coffinworm | When All Became None | Mar 28th |
Arð | Take Up My Bones | Mar 28th |
Crescent | The Retribution | Mar 28th |
Avalon | The Final Move... | Mar 28th |
A/Oratos | Ecclesia Gnostica | Mar 28th |
Trivium | Silence in the Snow | Mar 28th |
March to Die | Tears of the Gorgon | Mar 27th |
Exhorder | Mourn the... | Mar 27th |
The Infernal Sea | Hellfenlic | Mar 27th |
Moon Incarnate | Hymns to the Moon | Mar 27th |
Writhen Hilt | Ancient Sword Cult | Mar 27th |
Holysword | Era of the Dragonwar | Mar 27th |
Final Strike | Finding Pieces | Mar 27th |
Kyrie Eleison | ...in the Arms of... | Mar 27th |
Life Is Pain | Bloody Melancholy | Mar 27th |
Lilla Veneda | Primordial Movements | Mar 27th |
LVME | The Blazing Iniquity | Mar 27th |
Reign A.D. | The Dead, Great &... | March 28th |
Tulpa | Temple of Wounds | March 28th |
Witchgrinder | Nothing Stays Buried | March 28th |
Ethereal Dawn | As Mountains I'll... | March 28th |
Pornthegore | Wisdom Inside the... | March 28th |
Hour of Penance | Birthright Abolished | March 28th |
Mythraeum | Skies Torn Asunder | March 28th |
Rotpit | Rotfreak | March 28th |
Pentagram Chile | Icons of Decay | March 28th |
Cadaver Rite | Proscriptions of... | March 28th |
Wytch Hazel | Ride On /... | March 28th |
Ethereal Dawn | The Tales of the... | March 28th |
Spell | A Waxing Moon... | March 28th |
Amyr Abadawn | Nebula Lament | March 28th |
FreeHowling | Scars | March 28th |
Mortifying Deformity | Slabs of Beef | March 28th |
Rage | The Roots of Our... | March 28th |
Balance of Power | One More Time... | March 28th |
Dyaus | Siderale | March 28th |
Sons of Alpha Centauri | Pull | March 28th |
The results of the Album of the Year poll for 2023 are now available here.
Well, with December now upon us, it's time for the Album of the Year poll for 2023!
How does it work? Select your top ten metal albums of the year; they have to be metal, they have to be new, original material, they have to be on MA, and they have to have been released in 2023. Put your list in order, with #1 being the album you liked the most. Once you're certain you have your list, send it to BastardHead by private message (pm) on the forum. You have until 12:00AM EST on January 1st, 2024 to submit your list to him - once the year changes, the polls are closed!
You get one ballot, and your account on MA must've been registered before November 30th, 2023 in order to participate. Please read the first post here for more details on the way the poll works.
The results of the poll will (ideally) be announced on January 1st, 2024 or shortly thereafter. In the meantime, feel free to discuss the poll in the thread located here.
Have fun, and look forward to your participation. \m/
Greetings, all! It's almost that time of the year again - time for our classic reviews challenge!
This challenge is a time-honored tradition among our reviewers here. Every spring and autumn, reviewers are encouraged to spend a week writing and submitting as many quality reviews as possible. The challenge is focused on virgin albums: those with no reviews so far.
Every day, the reviews submitted and accepted are tallied, so that participants can see how they compare with one another and whether or not, altogether, we've been able to surpass previous challenges' totals. There's no prizes or rewards except knowing that you've given a review to an album that didn't previously have one. There's also bragging rights for the most reviews, if that matters to you. Please read this thread for the rules and to discuss the challenge!
The challenge is named in memory of our friend Diamhea, a long-time contributor to the challenge and staff member here at Metal Archives, who sadly passed away on May 21st, 2018. He was the first person to have ever written 100 reviews for a single challenge!
The challenge will start a week from now at 12:00AM EST on Monday November 27th and will run until 11:59PM EST on Sunday December 3rd.
Everyone is welcome to participate - all you have to do is submit reviews as usual during that week.
Looking forward to your participation! \m/
Harkening back to a news item from over 7 years ago, the band research thread now comes with a neat and shiny list in HTML table form. This list has already helped us tremendously in getting a better overview as well as resolving many entries from that gargantuan and ever-growing thread. If you know anything about any of the listed bands or you're just really into sleuthing work for old forgotten stuff, we'd be grateful for any help in thinning out the list and contributing to the Archives' completeness. Or who knows, maybe you are even so graciously inclined and willing to purchase a release in order to get our collective aural mitts on some crucial piece of music.
See the thread's opening post for more information. If you have any questions, requests or suggestions for the HTML list in particular, feel free to post in the thread or email me directly.
Cheers!
On March 31, 2023, a severe storm caused the roof to collapse on attendees at a metal gig in Belvidere, Illinois. One man was killed, while another 28 people were injured, including five with severe injuries.
If you would like to provide support, a GoFundMe has been set up for the family of the man who was killed, to help with the costs that come along with losing a family member:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/fred-livingston-jr
Donation pages were also created to help with financial relief for severely injured attendees:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/financial-relief-for-michelle-il-roof-collapse
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-paul-rojas-after-apollo-roof-collapse
https://www.gofundme.com/f/dylans-recover-from-the-apollo
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-metal-mark-apollo-theater-roof-collapse
https://www.gofundme.com/f/daniels-recovery-apollo-roof-collapse
https://www.gofundme.com/f/financial-relief-after-roof-collapse-for-victoria
https://www.gofundme.com/f/vmq5j6-medical-and-monthly-bills
If there are additional official donation pages, we will add them. Our thoughts are with the victims, their families, and all those affected by this tragedy. The metal community is here for you.
Hey gang,
I've got a couple bad news. Firstly, there is unfortunately no magic AI that will help us manage the band queue. That was just a bit of April Fools Day wishful thinking. Who knows, maybe one day!
Secondly, black metal will remain on the site.
The end of the year is nearly upon us, which means it's time for the Album of the Year poll for 2022!
How does it work? Select your top ten metal albums of the year; they have to be metal, they have to be new, original material, they have to be on MA, and they have to have been released in 2022. Put your list in order, with #1 being the album you liked the most. Once you're certain you have your list, send it to BastardHead by private message (pm) on the forum. You have until 12:00AM EST on January 1st, 2023 to submit your list to him - once the year changes, the polls are closed!
You get one ballot, and your account on MA must've been registered before November 30th, 2022 in order to participate. Please read the first post here for more details on the way the poll works.
The results of the poll will (ideally) be announced on January 1st, 2023 or shortly thereafter. This news post will be updated with a link to the results when available. In the meantime, feel free to discuss the poll in the thread located here.
EDIT: Results can be found here!
Have fun, and look forward to your participation. \m/
It's here!
20 years!
That's how long this site has been around. Do you feel old yet? Or are you among those of our users who were not even born then?
In early July of 2002, HellBlazer and I put this site online on the public Internet, but almost no one knew about it yet. With the help of a few friends (and some of their own friends), we went about to test the platform and started adding data, with the first band page being Amorphis, added on July 7th. Why Amorphis, we are often asked? I have no idea. I was probably listening to Elegy at the time or something. Or I looked around and saw an Amorphis CD lying around. Or maybe not, I honestly can't remember!
Then, on July 14th we bought the metal-archives.com domain name. Yes that's right, in the earliest, pre-launch days, the site ran on a... Tripod.co.uk URL, seeing as it was one of the rare web hosts that offered free PHP/MySQL hosting at the time. And a few days later - band addition records suggests this would be July 17th 2002 - one of our staff members decided to plug the site on a (sadly now defunct) public metal forum, and thus opened the floodgates. The contributions came pouring in quickly, the early “big push” needed towards building what quickly became the definitive heavy metal database on the Internet.
Never would I have imagined, two decades ago, that one day we would be hosting a staggering ~160k bands, or that there were even that many metal bands in existence. HellBlazer and I are constantly awed and humbled by the wealth of knowledge and information our community has gathered over the years, not to mention the wonderful attention to detail and work ethic of our tireless contributors and staff members. We could not have done it without you all, and we sincerely thank everyone who has contributed to this site, both in big and small ways.
Now, the 20 year anniversary of Metal Archiving ought to be celebrated and commemorated in some ways, and we do have some plans for that, which we will disclose shortly. Stay tuned…
For our users old and new, feel free to share your memories, anecdotes, thoughts, or other comments here or on social media.
Here’s to, I hope, several more decades!