Non-metal Albums on the site
I don't know if we have covered this before, but I was wondering what the criteria for the inclusion of non-metal albums on the site is. The reason I ask is that the UK band Money who issued only one album, "First Investment" which is deemed as non-metal have it included, yet metal gods Judas Priest's debut Rocka Rolla is not. This just feels all kinds of wrong to me, so I have to ask if there is something I am missing.
The reason a release will be added to the site as Non-Metal is if there it's one that sits between other metal-tagged releases in a band's discography Sonny. That wasn't the case with "Rocka Rolla" as it preceded their metal albums & is well known as more of a hard rock record. In the case of the Money album, that was added to the site as heavy metal due to the NWOBHM tag on RYM at the time (Note: the majority tag was Hard Rock but, tellingly, Heavy Metal had been downvoted). I made the executive decision to alter the tagging after hearing the album because it's nothing like metal & the Hall of Judgement would never produce an outcome with such an obscure release. We don't generally delete releases like that, although we probably should.
The reason a release will be added to the site as Non-Metal is if there it's one that sits between other metal-tagged releases in a band's discography Sonny. That wasn't the case with "Rocka Rolla" as it preceded their metal albums & is well known as more of a hard rock record. In the case of the Money album, that was added to the site as heavy metal due to the NWOBHM tag on RYM at the time (Note: the majority tag was Hard Rock but, tellingly, Heavy Metal had been downvoted). I made the executive decision to alter the tagging after hearing the album because it's nothing like metal & the Hall of Judgement would never produce an outcome with such an obscure release. We don't generally delete releases like that, although we probably should.
Ah, ok. I get it now.
We don't generally delete releases like that, although we probably should.
That's kinda my feeling about bands that were added to the site as metal but then became deemed non-metal, like Sky Eats Airplane. That was at the time when nintendocore was thought to be a metal genre, until we made the consensus that it is not. Although there is the need for that band to be gone from the site, I know you don't generally delete such releases, and part of me feels it should at least stay for some historical value.
