Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Metal Archives
The 20 closest online music database alternatives to Metal Archives, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Metal Archives? The closest matches are setlist.fm, MyAnimeList and bandcamp.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Metal Archives
Metal Archives metal-archives.com
Home - Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives
Wikidata: website on heavy metal bands
Summary by Claude
A user-contributed online database of heavy metal bands, listing discographies, band members, lineups, labels, lyrics and album reviews, with a community forum.
- Who it’s for
- Heavy metal fans and collectors
- Business model
- Advertising and donations
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Metal Archives
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Metal Archives, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01 setlist.fm Top 10K
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 cos 0.914 - 02
MyAnimeList.net - Anime and Manga Database and Community
Welcome to MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. Join the online community, create your anime and manga list, read reviews, explore the forums, follow news, and so much more!
Very close cos 0.913 - 03
Client Challenge
American online music distributor
Very close cos 0.911 - 04
online database of board games, game designers and game publishers worldwide
Very close cos 0.909 - 05
online database of information related to films, television series, and video games
Very close cos 0.906 - 06
website and database about audio recordings
Very close cos 0.903 - 07
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 cos 0.902 - 08
free, collaborative database about films
Very close cos 0.903 - 09
Genius
American digital media company
Very close cos 0.899 - 10
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 cos 0.899 - 11
Statista - The Statistics Portal for Market Data, Market Research and Market Studies
Find statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22,500 sources on over 60,000 topics on the internet's leading statistics database
Very close cos 0.899 - 12
GameBanana | The Game Modding Community - Since 2001
Mods, Tutorials, Sprays, Works In Progress, Sound Mods and more for video games
Very close cos 0.898 - 13
Index -- Fur Affinity [dot] net
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Very close cos 0.897 - 14
Asian film and drama database
Very close cos 0.897 - 15
tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
Very close cos 0.898 - 16
DeviantArt - The Largest Online Art Gallery and Community
DeviantArt is where art and community thrive. Explore over 650 million pieces of art while connecting to fellow artists and art enthusiasts.
Very close cos 0.896 - 17
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close cos 0.896 - 18
Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
Very close cos 0.895 - 19
American online magazine and media company
Close cos 0.894 - 20
Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
Close cos 0.894
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to metal-archives.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Metal Archives uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Metal Archives is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Metal Archives adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace · not on metal-archives.com 15/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on metal-archives.com 9/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Atlassian · not on metal-archives.com 8/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on metal-archives.com 8/20
- Apple Business · not on metal-archives.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on metal-archives.com 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on metal-archives.com 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on metal-archives.com 6/20
- OneTrust · not on metal-archives.com 5/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on metal-archives.com 4/20
- Google Analytics 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on metal-archives.com 4/20
- Zendesk · not on metal-archives.com 4/20