History
The Encyclopaedia Metallum was founded in July 2002 by two Canadians from Montreal using the pseudonyms HellBlazer and Morrigan. They have been interviewed three times about their site. The first interview was given to the now defunct MetalGospel.com site. The second interview was given to the Finnish magazine Miasma during May and June 2005, and the issue was published in mid-October of the year. The last to date was given to the Québécois magazine Arsenic during December 2007, which was published in June 2008.
On 9 April 2011, version 2.0 went online. The site's layout and design received a major overhaul. New features included separate pages for artists and labels which can be edited similarly to regular band pages and a user-based voting system allowing registered users to vote for bands similar in sound to a specific entry.
On 1 April 2012, the site posted an FBI logo on the main page suggesting that the site was suspended by FBI as a result of promoting internet piracy. On the same day it was found out that it was just an April Fools' Day joke. The FBI logo could be bypassed by double-clicking on it, thereby redirecting visitors to the site's main page.
On 1 January 2013, the site announced that bands with entirely digital discographies could now be submitted to the Archives, changing the site's decade long policy of physical releases only.
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