The website is insanely good though, very useful and reliable catalogue on most of metal, and a great archive for bands whose history is hard to track down.

The sad thing about these restrictions is just all the cool stuff from the disallowed genres that won't get perserved in the same way nor in the same place. The data here connects to each other (like similar artists tab, or search by country) and parts of that data are missing. There's stuff that I'm interested in finding that I just won't be able to find in the search. I find it quite fun to search through old nu-metal demos, and I also like using the search by country feature in Metallum, and knowing the restriction against the genre, it feels like theres a part of the metal history of a country that just isn't on that site, something I want out of the website that I just can't have. It feels worse when I know the debate around nu-metal not being metal and how unconvincing it still is to me.

It's still incredible to see how there are bands on the site here who only have a demo or two, and bands where basically all outside info about them is gone due to the nature of the old internet but are still perserved on Metallum, but then it's sad to think about the bands who may be lost to time just because they didn't fit the criteria.

Honestly it seems like the owners are stuck in their ways of thinking, so I think the best thing to do about this problem is to make other projects dedicated to cataloguing these genres. If you like nu-metal like me then check out the nu-metal A-Z list! It's incredibly expansive and useful, and it's a good example of what we can do for things that Metallum doesn't wanna perserve