Life & fun · February 24, 2026
60 Years of Metal Music Data, Visualized
I've been tracking Metal Archives data since 2010 — originally Excel screenshots, now a proper interactive site. The dataset (provided by MA admins, not scraped) covers genre trends from 1964 to present, with country-level breakdowns showing how genres evolved regionally. Some interesting bits: Finland is indeed the country with most releases per capita in most genres; clear difference between Asia and Western countries in terms of genre distribution. And those end-of-graph drops that sparked "metal is dying" debates? This is rather due to a lack of data completeness and they tend to fill in…
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I've been tracking Metal Archives data since 2010 — originally Excel screenshots, now a proper interactive site. The dataset (provided by MA admins, not scraped) covers genre trends from 1964 to present, with country-level breakdowns showing how genres evolved regionally. Some interesting bits: Finland is indeed the country with most releases per capita in most genres; clear difference between Asia and Western countries in terms of genre distribution. And those end-of-graph drops that sparked "metal is dying" debates? This is rather due to a lack of data completeness and they tend to fill in to a certain level over time. Frontend built with AI assistance; backend and all data work done by hand. Code and data release planned later this year. PHP, Html, CSS, JS were used. No building pipeline of any sort.
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