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Metal Archives
Who runs Metal Archives, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest online music database alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- AllMusic
Measured from Metal Archives’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Metal Archives01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Metal Archives
Metal Archives metal-archives.com
Wikidata: website on heavy metal bands
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Metal Archives tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
2 of the 11 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Metal Archives
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Metal Archives, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 AllMusic allmusic.com
American online music database
Very close - 02
MusicBrainz - the open music encyclopedia
online music metadata database
Very close - 03
Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...
Spirit of Metal webzine : bands, album's review, interviews, live reports, mp3, photos, biographies...
Very close - 04 Rate Your Music rateyourmusic.com
social music and film cataloging, rating and reviewing website
Very close - 05
website and database about audio recordings
Very close - 06
American digital media company
Very close - 07
AZLyrics - Song Lyrics from A to Z
music online lyrics database
Very close - 08
setlist.fm - the setlist wiki
Over 10,680,000 concert setlists of more than 481,400 artists including tour and song statistics, personal statistics, videos and much more.
Very close - 09 RPG Geek rpggeek.com
online database of Tabletop role-playing games worldwide
Very close - 10 Musixmatch musixmatch.com
online music lyrics database
Very close - 11
online database of information related to films, television series, and video games
Very close - 12
free, collaborative database about films
Very close - 13 JamBase jambase.com
jam band-focused database and news website
Very close - 14
Song Meanings at Songfacts
Songfacts - the stories and meanings behind the songs, with songwriter interviews and lyrics.
Close - 15
Lyrics.com
On Lyrics.com you can find all the lyrics you need. From oldies to the latest top40 music. ©2026 STANDS4 LLC
Very close - 16
World of Warcraft News and Guides
The largest World of Warcraft (WoW) information site, featuring guides, news, and information on classes, gearing, professions, raids, transmog, and more.
Very close - 17
Making sure you're not a bot!
Czech and Slovak web project providing a movie database
Very close - 18
Encyclopedia.com | Free Online Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia.com – Online dictionary and encyclopedia with pictures, facts, and videos. Get information and homework help with millions of articles in our FREE, online library.
Very close - 19
Шикимори — энциклопедия аниме и манги
Шикимори — онлайн энциклопедия аниме и манги. База с фильтрами и оценками, списки просмотренного, онгоинги, новости аниме, рекомендации и обсуждения.
Very close - 20
Internet Meme Database | Know Your Meme
Know Your Meme is a website dedicated to documenting Internet phenomena: viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, web celebs and more.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Metal Archives’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Metal Archives uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Metal Archives adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 5 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,195
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 26 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Metal Archives’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Analytics
- Google Analytics page source: google-analytics.com/ga.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a563229a5fda62bf-HAM
- Languages & backends
- PHP header x-powered-by: PHP/8.3.36
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS glen.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=n5HVZdWMCvAMNeBxSO1d83yz-OFHh-zP_p6Qyzk41Cw
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on metal-archives.com 15/20
- Cloudflare DNS 9/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Google Analytics 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metal-archives.com 7/20
- jQuery · not on metal-archives.com 5/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on metal-archives.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on metal-archives.com 4/20
- PHP 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on metal-archives.com 4/20
- nginx · not on metal-archives.com 4/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on metal-archives.com 4/20
- Bootstrap · not on metal-archives.com 3/20
- Font Awesome · not on metal-archives.com 3/20
- Apple Business · not on metal-archives.com 3/20