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SHREDDIT. Shreddit: Heavy Metal Founded 2008 · 2.6M members · links only

2.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 16K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.6Mmembers
16Kbest post
920most comments
100posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

69% 19% 9%
Link 69% Text 19% Video 9% Image 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

[Article] 9 [Death] 2 [Death / Doom] 1 [/r/all] 1 [AMA VERIFIED] 1 [Ace of Spades] 1 6Y6M8D 1 r/all 1 [New Release] 1 OFFICIAL AMA 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

RIP Ozzy

↑ 16K 💬 920 link 2025

Brent Hinds, co-founder of heavy metal band Mastodon, dies in Atlanta motorcycle crash

↑ 5.7K 💬 554 link 2025

Ukrainian metal drummer Mykola Sostin aka Amorth dies in battle

↑ 4.9K 💬 304 link 2024

Guitarist Alexi Laiho has died at 41.

↑ 4.4K 💬 773 link 2021

Eddie Trunk on Twitter: Sorry to report that I have confirmed Lemmy has passed away just now at the age of 70. RIP to a true original icon of rock.

↑ 4.3K 💬 378 link 2015

Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) has died at age 52

↑ 3.9K 💬 349 link 2017

"How I Got Banned from Photographing the Band Arch Enemy"

↑ 3.6K 💬 916 link 2018

Vinnie Paul, Legendary Drummer for Pantera & Damageplan, Dead at 54

↑ 3.3K 💬 391 link 2018

PSA: Adult Swim is streaming all seasons of Metalocalypse for free

↑ 3.1K 💬 221 link 2020

Teenage Metalhead gets Guitar for His Birthday from Deceased Dad

↑ 3.1K 💬 91 link 2017

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Metal, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Metal?
r/Metal ("SHREDDIT") describes itself this way: Shreddit: Heavy Metal. It was founded in 2008 and has 2.6M members.
How many members does r/Metal have?
r/Metal has about 2.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 16K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Metal?
"RIP Ozzy" reached 16K upvotes and 920 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Metal.
What subreddits are similar to r/Metal?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/PcBuild, r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/mildyinteresting, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile.
What kind of posts do best on r/Metal?
Of the posts we hold, 69% are link posts and 19% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Metal?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 16:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Friday at 21:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 00:00 UTC (2.4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Metal?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Metal has 2.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Metal, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.