2.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 16K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.
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.
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
RIP Ozzy
Brent Hinds, co-founder of heavy metal band Mastodon, dies in Atlanta motorcycle crash
Ukrainian metal drummer Mykola Sostin aka Amorth dies in battle
Guitarist Alexi Laiho has died at 41.
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.
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) has died at age 52
"How I Got Banned from Photographing the Band Arch Enemy"
Vinnie Paul, Legendary Drummer for Pantera & Damageplan, Dead at 54
PSA: Adult Swim is streaming all seasons of Metalocalypse for free
Teenage Metalhead gets Guitar for His Birthday from Deceased Dad
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Start free →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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.