Needs research. - Lesion
Location: High Prairie, Alberta, Canada
- their song "Life Is Shit" (previously unreleased) from 1999 was on a compilation tape from 2000, "Hymns of the Apocalypse". They're the only band of the 9 featured on it that aren't on the site. There's a song-by-song review of the comp here:
https://www.deathmetal.org/etc/larm/2400/2405.html
What is said here about the Lesion song: "Clear sound. If the drums were pumped up a wee bit in the mix, this would rival Unleashed. Deep vocals and smoking guitar solo."

For the Brazilian Rock Soldiers comps, I believe they're all on Discogs, and therefore, so are all the artists. I think it's then a matter if they have albums or just compilation appearances. Would it be ok if I went through and made a list of bands that just have a compilation appearance, and then have them removed from the list? Or is that too dismissive?

There were some bands from those compilations found for the site a while back. Sometimes Discogs is missing releases, but they can be found other places online. If the members are given, could you try typing the band name and a member or two's names in (less common names usually have better search results), and/or song title on google to see if there's a site out there with more info about a release or website that could be checked before clearing them off the list? It would be worth the extra 30 seconds to take that chance in my opinion.

No worries, just throwing ideas around!
Also, I messaged the creator of the Red Abyss demo on discogs, and he said that it's his band and the tapes are official and real. I can upload this correspondence when I get home.

Ashugi (Azerbaijan) = Ашуги = Aşıqlar - not metal.

Lucky Strike (Azerbaijan) - folk rock.

Krizis (Azerbaijan) = Кризис

They have a couple of releases which can be valid I reckon, but I'd say it's not metal enough? More hard rock...

Following Spooky's advice on those brazilian bands.
A Rua: Melodic Hardcore
https://soundcloud.com/aruaskate/tracks

Ágorah: Sounds like it's metal, but besides the compilation, the band seems to be live only. There's a link to a demo on the band's facebook page, but it's been wiped from youtube.
https://www.facebook.com/agorahband
https://www.youtube.com/@agorahband

Animal Core: Hardcore and no valid releases
https://www.youtube.com/@animalcorepunkhc/videos

Aracnus: Sounds metal and looks like they put out an EP/Demo/Something on CD. Asking the band member for more details.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaWlEM2 ... o6&index=2

Arma Zen: no apparent release besides the compilation. Sounds rock/noisey.
https://www.facebook.com/bandaArmaZenRS/videos

Através do Nada: Could find one track belonging to this band (I believe) and it sounds like rock. There's an entire album if someone wants to check it out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IWJBGfSBcE
https://www.pandora.com/artist/atraves- ... jtv9XkPn6Z

AziAguS: Sounds like acceptable black and roll! Full album and everything. I can submit this later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blNaI4IeGT0

mp3.com 2003 archive spreadsheet

Ok fellas, here's something for you to have some fun with. I've spent the last week writing a Python script and debugging constantly until it fully worked to parse a list of exactly 22067 artists from the mp3.com 2003 archive.

So, this list has all these artists that are tagged as either "metal", "grindcore" or "deathcore". It includes some basic info on them, namely the location, and a link to their page in the archive, which can often times hold extra information such as band members, and most importantly, a link to the band's defunct website. These are all bands active up until 2003. The majority had at least one song uploaded to their page, however, in order to access these songs you gotta do some magic (see below). Considering the era in which these bands existed, it's safe to assume that most of them released a CD, at least that is the case from my experience researching some of them.

The spreadsheet, linked below, has all these artists. I will need a few trustworthy volunteers that would like editing permissions on the spreadsheet in order to add notes, and color-coding to the artists. This is a huge amount of them and many are possibly not metal, in fact, my script also added any artists tagged as "nu-metal", or that had at least a single track tagged as "metal". Similarly, there are bands already on the site, or blacklisted, so there's a ton of work to be done here. Also, be aware that some artists had more than a single page on the website, and that mp3.com was basically Bandcamp before marketing music online was actually a thing, so you're bound to find at least some bedroom bullshit pseudo-music recorded on a potato on there as well.

Click here to see the spreadsheet.

Regarding color-coding:

• Band's already on the site.
• Band's on the research thread.
• Band's not metal, has no valid release and/or is blacklisted

Now, many of these artists still have at least one of their songs archived in the deepest reaches of the internet (so, like, a random link hosted in archive.org). While there's a 2TB-sized archive of possibly all the mp3.com songs, and a smaller rescue barge, there is also one huge-ass .txt file linked below, which has possibly all the links to download URLs stored in the archive:

Click here to see the huge-ass list.
I recommend downloading it.

Here's a quick tutorial on how to find any tracks you might want to find in that archive:


Please, feel free to DM me in case you've got any ideas, doubts or would like to help out with this entire thing. Also, notify me (or anyone who might take care of the spreadsheet, I'll add their names on this post later) about the ID of any artists already on the research thread so we can keep track of them and know what's already being researched.

Other people managing the spreadsheet:
- Azmodes
- PaganiusI

The listed band Warhead is the last one in the list. The thrash guide mentions a 2000 EP, and track title 'Wartorn'. Thanks to buriedunborn's new list. I was able to cross reference this EP's tracklist, the member (Nick Warhead), and the guide. The band's discography is largely lost at the moment, so it makes sense that this would be as well.

http://mp3-2003.computer-legacy.com/art ... _2000.html
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Warhead/101259
https://www.angelfire.com/mn/Interveining/index.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20000622010 ... _2000.html
http://thethrashmetalguide.com/W.html#W

What's the issue of World of Walls VR? Both albums were released on CD. The first album seems entirely original, though lacking in production. The second seems to be covers of Christmas songs. Some are copywritten, but a majority of them are public domain.
https://www.youtube.com/@worldofwalls5511
https://support.cdbaby.com/hc/en-us/art ... lic-Domain

World of Walls looks good to submit, G.O.M. It looks like he was waiting to hear back if it was an acceptable release because of being xmas cover songs. Excellent job put in here yesterday!

I got a reply from the band singer.... at least we know the Nemo albums (the first one of 1990 belongs to SAD) were released on cassette but he doesn't have them anymore...

https://imgur.com/WABan46

Good question! There is no tracklist for that youtube link and I couldn't find anything else. Could be. But the album on youtube lasts 24 minutes and the CD on Discogs has 12 tracks.... seems strange an average lenght of 2 minutes per track

Will be added. - Bad Omen

- Guitarist wrote back and confirmed tape release. Left a screenshot along with the rest of the info in 'to be submitted'.

Needs research. - Darklight
Location: Norway
Members: https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... %B8l/10005 (drums)
https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... uud/106408 (guitars)
Session bass: Stefan Stenbakk (of Cromatic Death)
Discography: "Sweet Dreams" demo (recorded in Autumn '89 - is an instrumental recording)
- another demo review from Street-Fighter #18 'zine, 1990. Distribution details would be helpful.
https://imgur.com/a/8lwBhRi
Translation:

Needs research. - Cromatic Death (this is how it's spelled in a 'zine. The word is more often spelled Chromatic, so might be worth looking for with that spelling also. This is the name of a well-known S.O.D. song, so filtering out that result should help.)
Location: Elverum, Innlandet, Norway
- their bassist, Stefan Stenbakk played session bass for the band listed above. Likely metal, active in 1989 and maybe also before/after that year. Discography unknown.

There's a lot of Canadian metal bands listed here. If anyone feels like it, this could be checked through to be sure that nothing is missing (Lethal Voltage just got added to the site today, and they're on here, for example):
https://ondeschocs.com/bands-heavy-du-reste-du-canada/
(may also have some Facebook links that aren't added to M.A. pages yet)

Needs research. - Secular
Location: Alnwick, Northumberland, England, UK
Genre: Thrash Metal
Band members: "Midge" (vocals, bass), https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/Ali_Lee/818077 (lead guitars - https://www.facebook.com/therootsrockriotshow ), Dave (guitars), https://www.metal-archives.com/artists/ ... ton/201508 (drums - https://www.facebook.com/Bryzin ).
- a 6-song live tape from August 1987 is reviewed in "Morbid Magazine #3" (1988). It's unclear whether or not it or anything else was released by them.
https://imgur.com/a/pMwycIO

High Bias (UK) can be removed. Read a review on their only known demo, and they're definitely not a metal band.

Shotgun Syndicate can also be removed. More gothic/alternative than metal based on a review in Iron Fist #18. Thanks.

LLR can go also. It's too vague of a term to search for with no title of the release or song names. Stands for a ton of different things.

181 bands remain after filtering out obviously non-metal genre tags and listed/blacklisted/research thread bands. I'll add them to the list, happy sleuthing (I didn't check any of them for samples or VR, so I'll input them with a "no" on both accounts for now).

I'll start poking around later.

A sight for sewn eyes: Hardcore/Alt rock
https://www.discogs.com/artist/4449123- ... -Sewn-Eyes

Abstract Asylum: Groovy Metalcore. Seems like the band had a lot of trouble and had an unreleased demo/EP. Not sure if two borderline singles are enough to add them.
https://abstractasylum.bandcamp.com/track/buried-live
https://www.facebook.com/AbstractAsylum

Achilles Last Stand: Changed their name to 'Eyes Over Sea'. They released an EP called 'Fallen' under their old name. If the material sounds anything like their current sound, it's deathcore on the hardcore side of things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjcNYc7 ... 7A&index=2
https://www.facebook.com/EyesOverSea.Official/

Aetherean: Black metal no doubt, but VR may be an issue. Not sure if reverbnation counts, but you can download the tracks. Facebook page is gone now.
https://www.reverbnation.com/aetherean/songs

American Hell: sounds like Disturbed alt/hard rock.
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ameri ... 1401004022
https://open.spotify.com/album/2qxkXViqA5DwgM5PZMtbmU

Amongst the Deceased: seems to be live only deathcore. Can't find anything mentioning a release.
https://www.facebook.com/AmongstTheDeceased
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9tDNEBivcM

Anatomist: Borderline metal/deathcore. Facebook link is dead, but they have a bandcamp
https://anatomistband.bandcamp.com/albu ... ckened-sun

Annex Theory: Dead facebook. More borderline core stuff.
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/annex ... /440951022
https://www.metalmusicarchives.com/artist/annex-theory

AQUESTRYA: Sounds like it could be acceptable symphonic metal/rock, borderline though
https://music.apple.com/us/album/perdition/438548900

Ashes of Descent: Dead facebook, can't find much besides live shows

Autobody: has a discogs and album, but genre tags aren't reassuring.
https://www.discogs.com/release/2451320 ... f-Daylight

Also, I contacted an owner of Rechteck's 'Leibhaftig auf der Bühne' tape on discogs. He provided me with a rip of the cassette which I can upload.

Edit: Listening to this, and it doesn't sound like metal. Will upload an unlisted vid regardless for proof.

Needs research. - Cair-Paravel (note: this is on the research list already, but can its location be moved to here? Ran out of room in the long NWOBHM post).
Location: Slough, Berkshire, England, UK
https://www.rootsvinylguide.com/ebay_it ... are-nwobhm
http://www.sloughhistoryonline.org.uk/i ... cid=CAT265
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=158 ... BNSCqKE7tw
Discography: "Wise Man" / "It's Okay" 7" ('80s)
Dave Clare vocals, Terry Reynolds Drums, Garry Ramton Guitars (last name spelled Rampton at the mini-bio on Slough History page), Darrell Smith (bass - briefly also played in Gamblers Widow, who are also on the research list.)

Needs research. - Corpus Christi
Location: UK
Genre: NWOBHM/Hard Rock
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php? ... 3443966256

The Rechteck tape: https://youtu.be/ZEXFFkv6Dd4
Hardcore/Rock/Wandering live stuff, not metal.

Brainfucker's Island Show / Brainfuckers' Island Show (apostrophe is usually after the 's' when referenced) can be removed. Nothing at all to do with metal.
https://soundcloud.com/bis_group

Menace (UK) and Siris (UK) can be removed.


By the way, good news regarding bands from The Thrash Metal Guide. Bayern responded back to the message that I sent the other day that contained a list of 25 bands (A-L) that nothing turned up easily on Google for, and said he'd try to help. Will post here with any follow-up information that is later received. Bands (M-Z) that nothing turns up about, a good option would be to ask him about them. Best to wait a while, though, at least until hearing back about the first 25 bands inquired about.

Needs research. - Etreum
Location: Mexico
Genre: ?
Notes: no info at all. They should not be the Etreum alreary listed as this demo looks much older (early 90's?)
Being posted by the same collector, no chance at all to get any info or reply

https://imgur.com/lkm3Od4

pre-Hell Tanner, the line-up is most likely the same. At some point in 1993 the name was changed.

Bear Mace: Described as "Stoner/Doom", but has a lot of hardcore in it. Borderline.
https://bearmacevancouver.bandcamp.com/ ... bo-gold-ep

Beastmode: Djenty deathcore. Doesn't sound metal.
https://beastmodeofficial.bandcamp.com/ ... our-demons

Before the Storm: Facebook... is not their facebook anymore. Could only find a live performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=guXtf0Oo9AA

Beyond the Unknown: Couldn't find anything. No facebook page. Going off other bands, probably not metal but could be wrong.

Bird Death: Looks to be live only. They apparently looked for a label for their first album, but nothing indicates they found one.
https://www.facebook.com/BirdDeath

Birdhouse on Lockdown: Chuggy, streaming only metalcore.
https://soundcloud.com/birdhouseonlockdown/tracks

Black Davidian: metal, but sounds very inconsistent, and is youtube only. Facebook is dead.
https://www.youtube.com/@BlackDavidianChannel/videos
https://myspace.com/blackdavidian

Black Out Hatred: Can't find anything. Facebook is dead.

Blackest Orchid: Metal... sometimes. Black metal riffing, and a lot of folk/electronic/ambient droning with singing on top. Probably wouldn't make the cut. Even the songs with black metal have non-metal passages.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/blacke ... 1084419295

Blind Race: Lots of groove, lots of chugs. Sounds more like Distrubed than anything metal.
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/blind-race/287256958
https://www.discogs.com/artist/8279963-Blind-Race

Bring the Fallen: The site calls this "death" but sounds like metalcore from the live show. i'm starting to doubt much is gonna come of this list. Facebook is dead and looks to only be streaming (myspace).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0msxjr6QG2c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5WvSh8G22k

Bulwark: The facebook... is a columbian band. Skip.
https://www.facebook.com/bulwarkband

Burning the Day: I think their later albums could be acceptable. Someone with more metalcore could weigh in, it would be helpful. Specifically 'Blacklisted' and 'Dawn of Thorns'. Don't bother with 'In Fall She Sleeps'.
https://www.discogs.com/artist/6395707-Burning-The-Day
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/burni ... /164106044

Bury Her Alive: more borderline, chuggy metalcore that's probably unacceptable.
https://soundcloud.com/buryheralive

Bushwacker: Wow, this band seems cool. Metal? Ehhh, groovy and experimental, but could pass muster. Worth submitting in my opinion which I can do later.
https://bushwhackeryukon.bandcamp.com/a ... -of-poison

Needs research. - Prometheus
Location: France
Genre: Melodic Heavy Metal (more or less)
Samples: Frozen Flames demo
Valid release? No

https://www.facebook.com/people/Prometh ... 719613933/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dcd0MEHMLc

Needs research. - Purple Haze
Location: Malta
Sample (1 song): https://soundcloud.com/daryl-ebejer/pur ... l-you-drop
A three-song demo tape is mentioned!

Discogs (Unofficial release/2 songs): https://www.discogs.com/release/1427719 ... -Haze-Demo (1 copy for sale!)
Valid release? More info needed as regards the authenticity/validity of the tape

This may not be very promising since the other songs on SoundCloud are rock.

- Going through it now. Posting so that no one else spends time doing this same work. A bit time-consuming. Should have a list of ones that the genre sounds worth looking into that aren't on the site or blacklisted later today.

From the already on MA tab, MP3 ID 2197 Avarice from Lubbock Texas does not appear to be on MA already. None of MA's American bands named Avarice are from Texas and none of them were active around the early 2000s.

MP3 ID 440, Detonator from Russia is already on MA. The MP3.com song is called Dead's Ball which appears on a few of their albums:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D ... ire/460488
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/D ... All/359382

MP3 ID 443, Druids from the US is probably this band that is already on MA. Timeline and genre match up. The location is not quite the same but it is within the same state. The MP3.com song also does not appear in the MA discography. BUT the logos on the MP3.com song and this album match.
http://mp3-2003.computer-legacy.com/art ... uids1.html
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Druids/Oak/70884

MP3 ID 518, Antipathy from the US are already on MA. One of the MP3.com songs is called Death is Near which appears on this album:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Antipathy/3518

(just going to add these in one letter at a time because there are so damn many.. All have been checked vs. the site and blacklist.)

Bands from this list that have a genre description worth looking into (letter A) from this list:
https://ondeschocs.com/repertoire-des-b ... du-quebec/

Aborgnon - (Black metal/rock crossover) Québec
(dead link)

Abort the Child– (Deathcore progressive) Montréal
https://www.facebook.com/AbortTheChild

About Sky and Earth– (Metalcore) Lévis
https://www.facebook.com/ASAE.band?ref=ts&fref=ts

Above the Grey– (Metalcore) Rimouski
https://www.facebook.com/abovethegreymusic

Absence of Truth– (Metalcore) Pintendre
https://www.facebook.com/AbsenceOfTruth

A Cascade Dream– (Metalcore/Thrash) Montréal
(dead link)

Aenator– (Métal électronique) Montréal
https://www.facebook.com/aenator

Aeons of Twilight– (Black métal mélodique) Rouyn-Noranda
(dead link)

Ages– (Blackened Death métal) Montréal
https://www.facebook.com/agesmetal/

AlanRise– (Metalcore) Laval
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069003543517

All In Pain– (Metal) Shawinigan

- Done.

All These Days– (Metal) Pont-Rouge
https://www.facebook.com/allthesedaysband
https://allthesedays.bandcamp.com/album/origins

Along the Wires– (Metalcore) -Mascouche/ Montréal/ Terrebonne (RIP)
https://www.facebook.com/AlongTheWires?fref=ts

Âmes Sanglantes– (Black) Montréal
https://www.bandmine.com/amessanglantes

Aeva– (Métal expérimental) Sherbrooke
https://www.facebook.com/AevaOfficial

Anal Easter– (Pornogoregrind) Saguenay
(dead link)

Angels Can Kill– (Metal) Saguenay
https://myspace.com/angelscankillofficial

Animals Ethics Inc.– (Industrial metal) Montréal
(dead link)

Arsenal of Empties– (Thrash/Grind/Hardcore) - Montréal/Windsor, Ontario
https://myspace.com/arsenalofempties

Ashtray– (Hardrock/Metal) Montréal
https://web.archive.org/web/20230000000 ... music.com/

A Thousand Years– (Metalcore) Sherbrooke
https://www.facebook.com/athousandyearsband/?fref=ts

Atma Sphacelus– (Black) Québec
https://myspace.com/atmasphacelus

Awaken All Men– (Metalcore) Québec
(dead link)

Away From Fate– (Metalcore) Sherbrooke RIP 2012
(dead link)

A World of Children– (Metal/Djent) Montréal
https://www.facebook.com/aworldofchildren

Axellion– (Symphonic Power metal) Montréal RIP 2013
https://www.reverbnation.com/axellion

Bands from this list that have a genre description worth looking into (letter B) from this list (checked against site and blacklist):
https://ondeschocs.com/repertoire-des-b ... du-quebec/

Banned From Heaven– (Melodic Death) Gatineau
https://www.facebook.com/bfhmetal

Behold the Nation– (Groove Metal) Québec RIP 2014
https://www.reverbnation.com/beholdthenation

Beneath a Crimson Sky– (Progressive Metalcore) Montréal
https://web.archive.org/web/20170118210 ... onsky.com/

Between Gates of Ivory– (Deathcore technique) -Saguenay
(dead link)

Beyond Deviation– (Deathcore) Gatineau
https://www.facebook.com/BEYONDDEVIATION/
https://linktr.ee/beyonddeviationoffici ... EFaI1fKfTs

Bierzeit– (Melodic Death) Québec
(dead link)

Bleeding Fury– (Groove Metal) St-Hubert
https://www.facebook.com/BleedingFury

Blind Reflexion– (Metalcore/Hardcore) Québec
(dead link)

Blind Suffering– (Métal progressif) St-Hyacynthe
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064094341042

Bonded By Strength– (Thrash Metal) Gatineau
https://www.facebook.com/bonded.by.strength

BornBroken– (Thrashcore) Montréal
https://www.facebook.com/BornBroken?fref=ts

Breaking the Cycle– (Death/Thrash mélodique) Beloeil
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064104696077

Bumper– (Southern Metalcore) Thetford Mines
(dead link)