60 Years of Metal Music Data, Visualized
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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.
HN · launched Feb 24, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: data and scientific visualization tools · 146 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
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- Media & entertainment
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes It is a static or standard web application rendering interactive data visualizations from a pre-compiled dataset using standard charting/mapping libraries.
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