A Web-based guide is more or less free from those restrictions and can be even more flexible with its use of hypertext. There are now a lot of people publishing useful musical information on the Web, including some very impressive artist home pages, discographies, interviews, and such. The last thing I want to do is to duplicate any of that effort, so the Internet Links are a very important part of this database. For some artists, I may not even bother to list a discography here if an existing home page already has one. In fact, I think this database is a good complement to the ever-growing collection of home pages out there.
Home pages can go into great depth with discographies, sleeve scans, audio clips, etc.
This database is more concerned with breadth and the number of artists in the indices. This database also attempts to provide at least some information for all the artists that don't have any sort of home page. I also think that the more concise artist information here makes for better introductory browsing for people who may be unfamiliar with some of the artists listed. Obviously this database is a pretty direct reflection of my own musical tastes, which includes a lot of industrial , gothic , and atmospheric stuff. I'm more interested in coming up with fairly comprehensive lists of artists that fall within those general categories.