Thank you for your continued contributions. Out of the digital release guidelines, the most visible is almost definitely the length requirement. Every spring and every autumn, reviewers are encouraged to spend a week writing and submitting as many quality reviews as possible, with the aim to focus on albums with no reviews so far (i.e. "[3] Terrorizer described the site as "a fully-exhaustive list of pretty much every metal band ever, with full discographies, an active forum and an interlinking members list that shows the ever-incestuous beauty of the metal scene". However, the projects we linked to in the previous post are very much real and doing actual valuable work you can contribute to. Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives (commonly known as Metal Archives per the URL or just MA) is a website which lists bands of predominantly heavy metal music. Everyone is welcome to participate - all you have to do is submit reviews as usual during that week. These were taken down the next day. Please don't upload logo collages (multiple logos in one image) to band pages. In that thread, people are free to (politely) make the case for why we should reverse our decision to reject/delete/blacklist that band.

A secondary prank involved the spontaneous deletion of controversial band Meshuggah (whose genre was listed on the site as "technical nu-metal/djent" and later changed to simply "djent"), leading to another series of arguments between moderators on the site's forum, although not to the extent of the 2009 prank. Likewise, we ask each user to limit the appeals they bring up to no more than a few per week. Once digitized, the images will be hosted in an online database on the American Craft Council Library & Archives website. This requirement was intended as a rough point of orientation, as a more concrete representation of a "proper" and "serious" album that mods could consistently apply when faced with hundreds of new bands in the queue. This challenge is a time-honored tradition among our reviewers here. In 2012 the site posted an FBI logo on the main page, suggesting that the site was suspended by the FBI as a result from the SOPA and PIPA bill, which was a much-talked about phenomenon in the media around this time. The "last" band to be added on the site was Michael Schenker Fest. He was the first person to have ever written 100 reviews for a single challenge!

We hope this new system will make appeals easier and more streamlined for everyone. [7] The site continues to grow at a rate of about 500 bands per month.[8]. Over the years, however, the length requirement has taken on an undue amount of significance and has essentially become the primary benchmark for bands, in many cases undermining the "spirit" behind its conception. virgin albums). Stay metal, safe and healthy! [6] In just over a year the site had amassed a database of over 10,000 bands. The core of the Library Collection is Julius Blum's personal collection of books and portfolios on architectural metalwork. If you want me to upload a specific album, let me know in the comment sections and I will try my best. Convergence in Gray & Green by Jamie Bennett, before and after color correction, These projects were made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services grant MA-30-15-0321-15, The 2007 Library Renovation was made possible through the generosity of hundreds of individuals and organizations, including, Paula and Jon Higdon and BCS Industries, LLC, National Ornamental & Miscellaneous Metals Association. Other significant collections within the Metal Museum Library include the Abe Sauer Collection (Museum founder and founder of Tennessee Fabricating) the J. G. Braun Collection (Chicago area metal fabrication company founded in 1886), the Bill Gichner Collection (owner of Iron Age Antiques and dealer in rare books), the Jack Hemenway Collection, and the Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America collection of books, video tapes and slides.

You have a little less than one week to prepare for it. There's no prizes or rewards except knowing that you've given a review to an album that didn't previously have one. There will be some downtime. The challenge is named in memory of our friend Diamhea, a long-time contributor to the challenge and staff member here at Metal Archives, who sadly passed away on May 21, 2018.