Big Four Bands Thread Round 19: Gothic Rock

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

Why? It's one of the most informative music sites anywhere on the web, great for reviews, searching through bands entire discographies, similar artists, I use it regularly and very much appreciate it's database for what they have,

Yeah but you can just use RYM instead and not have to switch sites when you want to look at something besides metal. I used to use Metal Archives a lot, but probably when I started getting into metalcore heavily I dropped it for RYM, cause there are almost no metalcore bands allowed on Metal Archives.

[Terrapin_Station]

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Yeah but you can just use RYM instead and not have to switch sites when you want to look at something besides metal. I used to use Metal Archives a lot, but probably when I started getting into metalcore heavily I dropped it for RYM, cause there are almost no metalcore bands allowed on Metal Archives.

As a prog/fusion fan, I need to use progarchives to stay on top of new/obscure stuff instead of rym, because rym users are way too restrictive/uptight about genre labelling. It also doesn't help that rym disabled their pages that allow you to see every released tagged as a particular genre. Also, the more active users don't tend to be prog fans, so a lot of stuff gets missed, or at least there's a lag, and a lot of stuff doesn't get tagged at all. There are a lot of things I hate about rym, actually, including the personalities/attitudes of most of the dominant users, administrators, etc., but I still regularly use it to double-(and triple-etc.-)check discography info along with Wikipedia, discogs, progarchives, etc.