Sometimes a statement may never be given, but context is important, and we'll have a better sense of the band's status at a later point in time. The remaining band members may choose to keep playing, or take a break, or quit, but give them time to grieve and figure that out first.
Just because a band member has died - even the frontman of the band - it does not necessarily mean the band is immediately over. Wait until the band has made a statement about their plans before doing so. When a band member dies, so long as there are other band members, and it's not just a solo project, do not change the band's status from "active".
The "disputed" status is for special cases involving band members claiming ownership of a band and deciding to take it in different directions - think Batushka or English Dogs. The "unknown" status is a placeholder, intended only to be used when there hasn't been activity from a band - even in the form of gigs and communication with fans - for a long time. there's an official statement from the band saying that they're taking a break (thus, on hold), have changed their name (self-explanatory), or have decided to call it quits (and therefore split-up)). Typically, it's our policy that a band is listed as "active" unless proven otherwise (i.e. 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.
#IAPETUS THE LONG ROAD HOME 2017 METAL FREE#
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.
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