New Releases in Metal genre section is missing updates

[5113]

Hello

I am from switzerland, and since a few month in the section "Metal" there are no new albums available. In all other Sections i find week per week the newest released Albums. You now why i found no new Metal-Albums, or where i can find the newest Releases?

Thanks an many greetings from switzerland.

Dominik

[VLokkY]

@jcalerda, is the amount of metal the same?
I listen to a lot of small time bands, doom metal / sludge metal ... etc
Same for random metal folk bands.

[user-removed]

@vlokky deezer or tidal have a lot more choice than spotify

[user-removed]

@volkky today new realase by platform apple music, deezer, tidal… compare with spotify

[user-removed]

Apple

[Emjayr32]

Still the same for me but not a surprise. Will definitely look at Tidal now.

 

[user-removed]

apple music, deezer and tidal updated... spotify still in stone age!

[user-removed]

apple music, deezer and tidal updated... spotify still in stone age!

[Emjayr32]

Hi @jeremy, it's now over 3 weeks since your reply to this topic stating the 'right' people are looking into this issue. Is there an update to this ongoing and unacceptable issue? In the same post, another moderator 'Alex' mentioned that these new album sections are updated when there is sufficient content. Images included in the post recently clearly show more than sufficient content to warrant multiple updates over a number of months. It really is fast becoming an insult to spotify subscribers who pay the same as everyone else to listen to the latest music that they enjoy.

[Moonchild_no1]

Mine hasn't updated since Architects new album so yeah this is an issue that needs attention. If not I'll be looking into an new subscription service

[PhilKorz]

Hi all,

Seems there was a fix applied. I have around 5 new albums in the metal section today. I hope this will be a permanent fix 😊

Hope it's the same for you guys.

Br,

Phil

[grummelrocker]

 The two most important releases for me (Rage and Brainstorm) are there indeed. I'm not sure if there are only this few releases in the Metal world today (normally there are "a bit" more, but we'll see...

[Jeremy]

Hi there folks,

Thank you for your replies.

We're glad to see that it works as it should for you again 🙂

Let us know if we can help you with anything else.

Have a great continued weekend.

Take care!

[grummelrocker]

Thanks so far!

I'd say let's wait a couple of weeks to see if it REALLY works. Because my feeling says it is too less this week - still at least some. 

[Alex]

Hey @grummelrocker,

Thanks for the post.

Keep us in the loop on how you get on with this one.

Cheers.

[grummelrocker]

Ok, seem like this has not really been fixed!

The two albums marked red have been release around September 17th. Each week we see dozens of new releases in the Metal world.

According to the New Releases section in Spotify it was only around 8 from mid of September to end of October.

Just as an example: The new Album "Blood on Blood" by Running Wild has been released today and can be found on Spotify. When you look on the Artist page. But not in the New Releases section.

Sorry, but this is really embarassing!

[grummelrocker]

Ok, after my last post from Friday I did some research. Since mid of September (when Rage and Brainstorm were released and are showing up in "New Releases" section) we had a total of (at least!) 350 albums and EPs. Sure some are real underground and might not be released on Spotify in general, bust the vast majority are.

Of course I did not check all, but the ones I have checked are ALL available on Spotify when searching for them. They are simply not listed in the "New Releases" section.

Just on October 29th we had 67 releases! You show none.

We are talking about 10 - 15 releases you show since mid September versus over 350 being listed at metalstorm.net.

You can find them all here: https://metalstorm.net/events/new_releases.php

So, this issue is FAR from being fixed.

Maybe you can give us some insights? I, and I guess most of the other users as well, expect this list being auto-generated, isn't it? Or is there a staff member that needs to build/populate that list manually?

[Walkirias]

Surely the listener of Metal does not interest them as much **bleep** that is fashionable, which is listened to by millions of people.

[Steven5573]

As a heavy metal fan, I have recently found that this genre is no longer showing any new releases at all. Other genres have this feature still. 

My Question or Issue

Is this being rectified, as it is a nightmare trying to find new albums

[Yordan]

Hi @Steven5573!

Could you share a screenshot of how things look on your end? Also, does this persist when you log in to another device or on the Web Player?

Keep us posted on this. Cheers!

[brodz]

Yes I’m finding this aswell .

No new weekly album releases in the metal genre which is very annoying . I’m having to switch to Apple Music to find new releases and then generally switching back to Spotify to download . 
Not ideal . Same on every platform