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…
60 Years of Metal Music Data, Visualized launched on February 24, 2026 with 5 votes, #1,882 of 16,627 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Interactive visualizations of global metal music production from Metal Archives data
Note: This site is not affiliated with the Metal Archives · Data visualization by oneyoudontknow · [email protected] Pick any country and get its whole metal scene at a glance — total output, top genres, peak years, first release, per-capita and regional ranking, and review activity, all on one page. 135,551 Metal Archives reviews from 2002 onwards — canon formation, rating distributions and reviewer behaviour, plus how review activity breaks down by genre, region and country. Choropleth maps of the metal world: pick a genre, drag through the years and watch each country heat up as its scene grows. Every region is now live — pick a genre and watch the world fill in. How the genres…from metal-archives-graphs.neocities.org
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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…
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