Behold!

\m/ The Map of Metal \m/

Beavis, this is pretty cool!

It’s (yet another) attempt to trace the evolution and geneology of heavy metal music. I love the graphics and artwork and how they put it all together. I also like how they have interactive audio samples of each genre. I discovered some subgenres I didn’t know existed (Oriental Metal? Mathcore? Djent?), and also got to explore some bands I haven’t listened to in a long time, and listen to some new stuff.

There will be endless debates about classifications, and really in the end it doesn’t matter. But this is still pretty cool.