[Auguste]

They exclude pretty much every industrial metal band because industrial metal is ostensibly not metal enough.

No Rob Zombie. No Rammstein.

Meanwhile, they added psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and their whole discography (now up to 24 albums) solely because their 15th album was metal.

I love King Gizz, but Metal Archives are disappointingly inconsistent.

[cthalupa]

I dunno. There's a lot of stuff I would put on EM that they have decided not to allow, but I think Rob Zombie and Rammstein very clearly fall into the 'not metal' camp. I like both, but neither of them sound anything like metal to me, or to anyone I know that listens to metal in significant quantities.

It's not like industrial is an instant deny, either - Fear Factory, Blut Aus Nord, Strapping Young Lad, etc etc etc are included.

As for King Gizz, their rules are quite clear that one predominantly metal album is enough for inclusion.

[Auguste]

That's weird, I don't know anyone who wouldn't call Rammstein and Rob Zombie metal. Are they really not considered metal in some circles?

Just curious, if they don't sound anything like metal to you, what kind of metal do you like to listen to? I mostly listen to doom metal, plus a little bit of death metal, industrial metal, and black metal.

[cthalupa]

Thrash, black, doom, death, power, nwobhm, a little bit of the various *cores, a billion permutations and fusions between all the above.