MusicMight (formerly RockDetector) was a

rock music Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and ...

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which provides artist and product information through a global website and an ongoing book series. Based in New Zealand, the site was founded by British writer Garry Sharpe-Young, and was backed by a small team of international writers who contribute to the site.

Database contents

The database covered many styles and ages of rock music, such as

thrash metal Thrash metal (or simply thrash) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its overall aggression and often fast tempo.Kahn-Harris, Keith, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'', pp. 2–3, 9. Oxford: Berg, 2007, . ...

black metal Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw ( lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an em ...

death metal Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted and low-tuned guitars, played with techniques such as palm muting and tremolo picking; deep growling vocals; aggressive, powerful drumming, fe ...

, radio rock and

nu metal Nu metal (sometimes stylized as nü-metal, sometimes called aggro-metal) is a subgenre of that combines elements of heavy metal music with elements of other music genres such as hip hop, alternative rock, funk, industrial, and grunge. Nu m ...

. As of December 2007, the database had over 59,400+ bands listed. The site included over 92,000 releases in the database and almost 659,000 songs. The site also had an international concert guide of over 300,000 concerts, archiving from 1965. The site also featured extensive and unique band biographies, many of which were the result of direct, first-hand interviews with band members conducted by Sharpe-Young during his many years as a heavy metal journalist. Additional features included extensive discographies, pictures of the bands, their logos and their albums covers, upcoming concerts and album reviews. The site went without updates for some time, bearing a message that a new expanded version of Rockdetector is on its way. On 1 September 2008 the site started after more than one year of re-programming and testing with an improved concept, layout and a re-designed database under the new name Musicmight.com with 60,000 artists and 144,000 persons included in the database. Sharpe-Young died in March 2010.Roadrunnerrecords.com
Site development, expansion and data additions have since halted, and the site was later taken down.

Growth

Books

*''Black Metal'' - September 2001 *''Death Metal'' - September 2001 *''Ozzy Osbourne'' - February 2002 *''Thrash Metal'' - October 2002 *''Power Metal'' - February 2003 *''Doom, Gothic & Stoner Metal'' - February 2003 *''80s Rock'' - July 2003 *''Black Sabbath - Never Say Die'' - 2004 *''New Wave of American Heavy Metal'' - November 2005 *''Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - The Battle For Black Sabbath'' - August 2006 *''Thrash Metal - Amended'' - October 2007 *''Death Metal - Amended'' - April 2008

References

External links

Official website
* * *{{cite web , url= http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/rockdetector_death.php, title= Rockdetector: A to Z of Death Metal; Garry Sharpe-Young, access-date= 2007-09-30, publisher= Cherry Red Books, archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070210162548/http://www.cherryred.co.uk/books/rockdetector_death.php, archive-date=2007-02-10 Heavy metal publications New Zealand music websites