60 Years of Metal Music Data, Visualized
Details
- External ID
- 47136274
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- 60 Years of Metal Music Data, Visualized
- Website domain
- neocities.org
- Launched
- Feb. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive maps and geospatial visualizations
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- metal music data visualization
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
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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