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Impressive work. I believe Encyclopaedia Metallum[0] would be a better source for the corpus, though the noise rate would be higher as there are many one-song/single/demo album bands, along with bands making music in multiple genres in different eras in their lifetime.

0. https://www.metal-archives.com/

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The ability to find lyrics on lyric sites would be a reasonable proxy for sufficient popularity, I’d imagine.

On a semi-related note, when talking about large genre-specific corpuses, https://vgmdb.net has a fascinating scope definition across all things game and animation adjacent, including both the massive doujin (fan-made) music scene and the full discographies of many j-pop artists and composers, all annotated by franchise adjacency with (often) full staff credits: https://vgmdb.net/forums/showthread.php?t=22321

It’s a fascinating corpus and one I’d love to analyze deeply one day.

For metal lyrics the go to used to be dark lyrics but it never shows in search results.

Encyclopaedia Metallum is an amazing resource, it's also quite scrapable. I managed to quickly throw thogether a set of small bash scripts to crossreference the midgard [0] leaks with metal artists.

[0] The midgard (Nazi online shop) sales record was leaked, including personal information, so I won't link it here

What did you find? We know there's plenty of far-right ideas in black metal but other sub-genres?

See my other comment below.

Is that cross-reference published anywhere?

I shared my findings of which artists I found on reddit, but because I indirectly linked to the leak my account got deleted.

TLDR:

A handful of people from shitty tiny bands, two prominent NSBM bands: Der Stürmer Vocalist and one Absurd guy

The most interesting find was a person, who is currently in the "anti-fascist" trash band Protector.

The matches where, same name, same birthday and same city. He ordered the following: in three separate orders directly from the ns shop: things from Pluton svea, Brutal Combat, Skrewdriver , Bunker 84, No Remorse, Ultima Thule

And also, for anybody wondering, this isn't a shop that also happens to sell Nazi stuff. The shop helps fund the Swedish Nazi party, and the first you seen when visiting the site are black suns and swastikas.

I suppose another thing I can share is a plot of the order locations of all orders in the leak:

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/792204238889287749/...

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