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psychorhino:
I am interested in finding some new heavy metal music, but the websites I traditionally use to find new music (Pitchfork / Tiny Mix Tapes) have underwhelming metal sections, and the only metal websites I have found are kind of crappy.  Does anybody have the names of any good metal websites?

La Creme:
Just use a few good band as starting points and use 'similar artists' and peoples reviews on Amazon. That's how I've found out about 75% of what I listen to which is a lot.

Also good is finding a good label (such as Ipecac and Web Of Mimicry [sp?]) and using their website to find new stuff.

KharBevNor:
The Metal Archives

Lost Souls Domain

BNR Metal Pages

Satan Stole My Teddybear

Metal Review

Metal Rules!

Metal Crypt

American Nihilist Underground Society (ANUS).

Endless Grief

The Metal Archives is the best for getting a nice neutral spread of opinions, I think. You can search by genre, country, album titles, lyrical themes etc. through a pretty comprehensive register of every metal band ever. Lost Souls Domain is a similiar but less comprehensive service with slightly zippier dicography navigation (imo), and the BNR Metal Pages again offer a similiar service, but with more comprehensive band biographies. Satan Stole My Teddybear has a nice, comprehensive register of all sorts of alternative music reviews of the kind of stuff Pitchfork wouldn't touch with a barge pole. Metal Reviews is a straight metal review site with a slightly odd rating system. Metal Rules, Metal Crypt and ANUS are all decent review and editorial sites, but if you're new to metal take ANUS's editorials and views in particular with a pinch of salt: Anus is run by extremely pretentious black metal nihilists with a hint of nazism about them. Not that they don't say some valid stuff, but they are pretty quirky. They have a neo-classical section, but refuse to review the operatic Therion albums as sell-out, for example. Endless Grief is just a nice little post-script, little subjective descriptions of a great slew of metal bands, with a doom bias, which helps to give you a bit of flavour.

What kind of metal are you looking for anyway?

kikanjuuneko:
Also, Digitalmetal, Aversionline and Lambgoat. Aversionline is in particular a gem. He's stopped reviewing albums for the time being, but most of them are still available for viewing. He does however focus on his mp3 blog now, where he shows off all kinds of new and classic thrash, hardcore, noise and any other genre which is meant to be played loud.

psychorhino:
Thanks for the suggestions! To answer KharBevNor's question, I am really unfamilar with the metal scene right now, so I don't know what type of metal I am looking for.

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