Metal Empire (Metal Archives)

Kulcsár Tamás

About this app

Metal Empire is an unofficial Metal Archives (AKA Encyclopaedia Metallum) client for Android.

You can search for bands, albums, artists and browse their basic info, members, albums, reviews, similar bands and trivia. Lyrics are also reachable for the album tracks.

You can bookmark bands, albums and artists, your reading history also available.

You also can browse random bands/albums/reviews with this app. Metal Empire also has an experimental Youtube integration.

Full list of upcoming releases and latest reviews also available.

Dark mode is now also supported.

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Ratings and reviews

Much more user friendly than the old version, and now includes all information on bands. Load times are painfully slow though

The second of two Metal Archives mobile apps, and this one too is not what I was expecting. The highly unconventional UI is really off-putting. It desperately needs a Material design refresh. The alternative Metal Archives app has a very dated Gingerbread look, but at least it's not, dare I say it, outright ugly. Both ultimately get me to the desired info, which is what earns them 3 stars, but neither of them are satisfactory. This one seems more stable, hence I lean towards it , but the looks…

This app includes easy accessing the album reviews that all the other available apps lack. As this is central to my needs, that feature in itself is worth stars. I've seen nicer designs in other apps, but since I do not care about appearance, but I care about the usefulness, this is the app of choice for me.

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