Map of Metal

Didn't expect to see something I made on HN while my wife is trying to find something to watch on TV.

So about the site in case anyone is interested. I made it with a friend who was studying multimedia. He helped with the data and I did the coding. Took about a week or two.

The site was originally Flash (remember that). But I ported it to HTML5 a few years ago. It still has those Flash vibes I think. Posted the code to GitHub when I ported it. I did this mostly to keep it alive for old times sake.

So about the mobile support. I planned to do it but got sidetracked building a custom WebGL map renderer because phone performance was poor. However I never finished, life finds a way to get in the way and all that... I have some mobile designs lying around.

The other issue was when I first built the site YouTube didn't really play ads much at all, just those little text ads, and you could embed the player really tiny. So it worked better. In the original flash version I actually hid the video player. But that got the site blacklisted from YouTube, I asked a Google engineer on a dev forum to put a word in and they removed the block, very different times, this was back when Google was a different beast, and you could chat to real people online and the dev communities were much smaller.

I have a illustration of a much bigger map in my sketchbook. It has a lot more subgenres and interconnected things like historical events and so on. But it's huge unfolded, like 2x1.5m or something ridiculous.

I miss those days when the web was full of weird and experimental stuff. I grew up with Newgrounds and Geocities, I'm sure it's all still out there buried under a giant pile of SEO optimised refuse.

Reminds me very much of https://music.ishkur.com/ which is the same kind of thing but for electronic music.

Great map. There might be some categories missing, couldn't find any Katatonia, Agalloch, Alcest nor Tiamat. Alcest and some Deftones are considered blackgaze and Agalloch, Wolves in the Throne Room fall more into grey metal.

Not sure why there is Swedish death metal when Melodic Death exists.

Reminds me of the works of Ward Shelley. Especially his History of Science Fiction.

https://www.artsy.net/artwork/ward-shelley-history-of-scienc...

Love it. gonna be listening yardbirds all day today. The map also feels like a jeans.

Took awhile to figure out clicking the skull is the interactive element, I kept clicking the text label and nothing was happening

The song "Ten Ton Hammer" from Machine Head is not right: it's showing another song. Besides that, fun experience!

Very nice work of art. (I don't really like the bullets though, they don't seem very metal-y to me. Scythes maybe, or flensing knives.)

It might be fun to have a sort of gazetteer for the map so we can find bands.

Where would Mastodon be on this?

Seeing as this is HN, I was expecting something on chemical properties of iron etc, but was pleasantly surprised

To be excapt: This is a Mäp of Metäl, no hair was cut in making the map.

This is amazing! But I need SEARCH feature :)

Btw, the map interface is very well implemented, what is it based on?

Now that is a great map!