There are six options: active, on hold, split-up, unknown, changed name, and disputed. You've probably noticed that on every band page we list the band's status. Stay tuned…įor our users old and new, feel free to share your memories, anecdotes, thoughts, or other comments here or on social media. 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. 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. 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. 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. The contributions came pouring in quickly, the early “big push” needed towards building what quickly became the definitive heavy metal database on the Internet. 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. uk URL, seeing as it was one of the rare web hosts that offered free PHP/MySQL hosting at the time. Yes that's right, in the earliest, pre-launch days, the site ran on a. Then, on July 14th we bought the domain name. Or I looked around and saw an Amorphis CD lying around. I was probably listening to Elegy at the time or something. Why Amorphis, we are often asked? I have no idea.

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. In early July of 2002, HellBlazer and I put this site online on the public Internet, but almost no one knew about it yet.

Do you feel old yet? Or are you among those of our users who were not even born then?

That's how long this site has been around. Link Metal Archives 20th Anniversary / 11:05

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