New Feature: Ability to add Non-Metal releases
A couple of members have commented how strange it is that certain non-metal albums are missing from band discographies. A good example of this is Megadeth's Risk album, which has been voted as a purely Hard Rock album on Rate Your Music. We simply had no way of adding an album like that as it doesn't fit into any of the clans or genres that the site is built around.
We now have the ability to add a release with no clan and a genre of non-metal. This results in these albums appearing in the bands discography and being searchable on the releases page, but they will never appear in a clan-based search or chart.
To see this in action, check out Megadeth's Risk, Opeth's Damnation and Tiamat's A Deeper Kind of Slumber.
NOTE: We will only add non-metal albums when they are an anomaly within an otherwise metal discography. When a band decides to stop playing metal and releases numerous non-metal releases (Anathema, The Gathering etc.), they will not be included.
Makes sense...keep the Clan pure but don't neglect the outputs from otherwise overwhelmingly metal bands. Good compromise.
Excellent compromise! Here are a few more non-metal albums each in the middle of an otherwise metal discography that I think should be added in sense of completion:
My Dying Bride's Evinta; Boris' Flood and New Album; Melvins' Bullhead, Prick, The Bootlicker, and Pinkus Abortion Technician; Soundgarden's Ultramega OK; Faith No More's We Care a Lot; Katatonia's Tonight's Decision and Last Fair Deal Gone Down; Helmet's Strap It On; Judas Priest's Rocka Rolla; Queensrÿche's Take Cover; Maudlin of the Well's Part the Second; Cynic's Kindly Bent to Free Us; Devin Townsend's Punky Brüster – Cooked on Phonics, Ki, and Ghost; Pain of Salvation's Road Salt One, Road Salt Two, and Falling Home; Ulver's Kveldssanger; Nokturnal Mortum's Мировоззрение; Wolves in the Throne Room's Celestite; Poison the Well's The Tropic Rot; Cave in's Final Transmission; Killing Joke's Democracy; Old's Formula; Kill the Thrill's Dig; KMFDM's Tohuvabohu.
Even if you don't end up including all of the non-metal albums mentioned above, I still really appreciate your effort to make the mostly metal parts of those band discographies complete. Please take some time to consider which of these albums are appropriate for this site. Thanks guys!
