All I want you to do is to tell me what subgenre of rock/metal that you think the following bands would most likely be placed under.In FlamesToolKillswitch EngageDream TheaterAlice In ChainsSoundgardenThe OffspringNine Inch NailsFirewindBeastie BoysChildren of BodomRadiohead
The forums and reviews are full of elitist morons but the band pages are quite reliable, I use that site to look up Metal bands, I think the Metal Archives are ten times better than Wikiepdia in terms of Metal despite all the Genre Nazism and elitism that runs on that site. it's a decent site. I use that site to look up Metal bands and sometimes read reviews on albums but I don't bother going on the forums.
They don't have Botch or Between The Buried And Me anywhere. Not to mention hundreds of other great bands that have been deemed 'un-metal'. If you're looking for obscure death metal bands, it's a cool place. But it's full of a*sholes with quasi-Nazi rules on genres, so I don't ever use it.
I've been a member for about two years, but only participated in the forum for about 6 months. I just use it to look up album titles or spellings of band names now.
Metal fan. I think it's a good source for getting information on many metal bands but for the most part, I don't care for it at all. I think it's little more than the metal elitist capitol of the internet. The moderators that run it just love thinking that they're the ones who say what metal is and isn't and are some of the biggest metal elitists you'll find on the internet. They completely forbid genres like nu metal and glam metal (despite having M?tley Crüe and Twisted Sister archived under heavy metal lol) and yet according to them, Rush is officially a metal band. They don't even allow bands that have had major influences on heavy metal like Blue ?yster Cult and Van Halen. Not even Led Zeppelin is allowed in the archives. To me, to not allow those bands is very misleading. Especially not allowing Led Zeppelin; whether you see them as metal or not, there's no denying that they're one of the biggest pioneers of heavy metal. So yeah, I think the Metal-Archives are a joke and little more than a limited encyclopedia for metal elitists.
