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now online is a snapshot of the last five minutes. But yes, right now that number is correct in that every single IP loading the site once counts as one "guest" for the next five minutes.

21:29 - corrupt

Most of that is Amazon's Claude bot coming from like a million different IPs

21:20 - F3ynman2000

huh I never really paid attention to the "now online" thing. There are really 800+ non-members looking at MS right now? crazy

21:16 - no one

I like it

21:16 - no one

I was notified that there was a new shout

Reviews Articles

	Verwoed The Mother
	Frail Body Artificial Bouquet
	The Vision Bleak Weird Tales
	Vulcano Epilogue
	Griefgod Deterioration
	Austere Beneath The Threshold
	High On Fire Cometh The Storm
	Ὁπλίτης Παραμαινομένη
	Castle Rat Into The Realm
	Týr Battle Ballads

	Wait A Minute! This Isn't Metal! March 2024
	Clandestine Cuts Vol. 14 Issue #3 Awesome New Demos and EPs
	Emperor Glasgow, Scotland, 22nd March 2024
	Wait A Minute! This Isn't Metal! February 2024
	Celestial Darkness Festival 2024
	MS Awards 2023 Staff Picks!!
	Clandestine Cuts Vol. 14 Issue #2 Awesome New Demos and EPs
	Shattering Xpectations Xentrix Live In Reading

Events Now online Today

07.08 - Czech Republic
Brutal Assault 2024 11

28.06 - Finland
Tuska Festival 2024 6

31.07 - Romania
Rockstadt Extreme Festival 2024 4

20.07 - Germany
Klash Of The Ruhrpott Festival 2024 3

17.05 - Germany
Rock Hard Festival 2024 3

24.05 - Serbia
Rammstein: European Stadium Tour 2024 2

05.06 - Poland
Mystic Festival 2024 2

Musicians' birthdays:

45 - Alexandre de Orio
58 - Alfred Koffler
40 - Arif Suhaimi
41 - Artyom Serdyuk
25 - Attila Dudás
36 - Brian Westbrook
61 - Claudio Alberto Castro
69 - Eddie Jobson
39 - Einar Solberg
54 - Fred Sablan
27 - Gabriel Puente
58 - Gary Nagy
46 - Gerit Lamm
68 - Göran Edman
37 - Gregory Massera
55 - Javier Navarro
31 - Jay Plested
59 - Karl Mojaleski
53 - Kræn Meier
52 - Leo Stivala
40 - Luis Fernando "Nando" de Moura Cagnin
59 - Martin Helmantel
51 - Matt Fox
51 - Matthew Ian "Matt" Fox
37 - Micke Hasselqvist
39 - Milan Kovačević
46 - Moisés Lugo
27 - Pablo Marina Real
47 - Pan Vogiatzis
55 - Pascal Cliche
49 - Pia Kristina Stjärnvind
55 - Sammy Pierre Duet
46 - Sergio Daniel Gómez
47 - Stephen "Steve" Maher

RIP:

2020 - Brian "Bob" Fouts
2021 - Frederick John Hinch
2021 - Helge Engelke
2015 - Ian Mason Maggard
1999 - Osvaldo Civile

Charts Top of 2024 Top 200

1.	Týr Battle Ballads
2.	My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding
3.	Ingested The Tide Of Death And Fractured Dreams
4.	Cistvaen At Light's Demise
5.	The Vision Bleak Weird Tales
6.	Accept Humanoid
7.	Judas Priest Invincible Shield
8.	Labyrinthus Stellarum Vortex Of The Worlds
9.	Hamferð Men Guðs Hond Er Sterk
10.	Belore Eastern Tales

1.	Death Symbolic
2.	Megadeth Rust In Peace
3.	Judas Priest Painkiller
4.	Metallica Master Of Puppets
5.	Opeth Blackwater Park
6.	Metallica Ride The Lightning
7.	Black Sabbath Paranoid
8.	Iron Maiden Powerslave
9.	Death The Sound Of Perseverance
10.	Agalloch The Mantle

1.	Judas Priest Invincible Shield
2.	Dödsrit Nocturnal Will
3.	Cistvaen At Light's Demise
4.	My Dying Bride A Mortal Binding
5.	In Vain Solemn
6.	Sgàile Traverse The Bealach
7.	Borknagar Fall
8.	Labyrinthus Stellarum Vortex Of The Worlds
9.	Eternal Storm A Giant Bound To Fall
10.	Necrophobic In The Twilight Grey

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301	Weedeater 1998-	Sludge metal Stoner metal	USA	1998	-	44
302	Weedpecker 2012-	Psychedelic stoner metal Grunge	Poland	2012	-	23
303	Weird Tales 2015-	Sludge metal Stoner metal	Poland	2015	-	1
304	Wheelfall 2009-	Stoner metal Sludge metal Industrial metal	France	2009	-	4
305	Windhand 2008-	Doom metal Stoner metal	USA	2008	-	61
306	Wino 2008-	Doom metal Stoner metal	USA	2008	-	7
307	Witch 2005-	Stoner metal Psychedelic rock	USA	2005	-	4
308	Witch Piss 2022-	Stoner metal Doom metal	Belgium	2022	-	0
309	Witchcraft 2000-	Stoner metal	Sweden	2000	-	137
310	Witchthroat Serpent 2011-	Doom metal Stoner metal	France	2011	-	0
311	With The Dead 2014-	Doom metal Stoner metal	United Kingdom	2014	-	20
312	Wizzo 2018-	Stoner metal Doom metal Psychedelic rock	USA	2018	-	0
313	Wölfhead 2008-	Stoner metal Doom metal	Spain	2008	-	0
314	Wolves Carry My Name 2011-	Stoner metal Sludge metal	Germany	2011	-	1
315	Wolves In Haze 2014-	Heavy metal Stoner metal	Sweden	2014	-	1
316	WyndRider 2022-	Stoner metal Doom metal	USA	2022	-	0
317	Yarnspinner 2015-2020	Stoner metal Sludge metal	New Zealand	2015	2020	0
318	Yob 1996-	Doom metal Stoner metal	USA	1996	-	145
319	Zintnieks 2018-	Psychedelic doom metal Stoner metal	Latvia	2018	-	1