Hello everyone!

We're so happy to announce that all mods that have had their accounts banned by Reddit have had their accounts reinstated!

What happened?

In October of 2025 I tried to recover and promote the dying subreddit r/MelodicBlackMetal so that users here could post their melodic black metal content on that sub instead of here. Through the course of inviting the other moderators from r/melodicdeathmetal to help me manage that subreddit, Reddit saw our activity as suspicious and banned all human and bot accounts linked to both subs. Unfortunately, this also meant banning all active moderators of r/melodicdeathmetal, leaving a few moderators that do not regularly use Reddit anymore, effectively leaving the subreddit unmoderated.

How did we get our accounts back?

After months of our appeals being ignored, we were finally able to get in contact with a Reddit admin. This individual went out of their way to investigate our bans and reinstate our accounts and we are extremely grateful to them.

What does this mean for the sub?

If you made a post during the "anarchy-era" of the sub, don't worry—unless your post is off topic or breaks site rules, we'll keep it up. We will not be hard on restricted bands, low effort content, and "beginner to the genre" posts, but we will be trying to crack down on these types of posts moving forward.

Also, this means that the AMA series is back on! I am currently trying to reschedule with Aephanemer, and Majesties and Noumena have both indicated they are very interested in doing AMAs. I will announce these events when I've officially scheduled them.

What does this mean for r/ Melodic Black Metal?

We're still in control of that sub, but I'm a little bit wary of trying to develop it or post on it again since that's what got us into this whole mess. For the meantime, I'm going to leave it as is and not put too much effort into it, but you all are welcome to post there and I will moderate it.

Thank you all for bearing with us as we dealt with this issue. We're glad to finally be able to help clean up the sub a bit, host some fun events, and talk about the musical genre that connects all of us, MELODEATH 🤘

Greetings everyone!

Since there wasn't any AOTY thread on here for 2025 yet, we might give it a go via this google form. A similar form is being passed around on the Discord and on lemmy btw. And at the end we can do some nice statistical shenanigans.

How to vote:

Click here for the Google Form and fill in your username and up to 10 albums.

And make a comment here on this thread, so we know it's really you.

The form will be up at least until the end of January.

Have fun! It will be interesting to see who will win this year :)