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In the beginning

Because I know something about this music, I was invited around 2015 to start a blog about Rock and Metal music, on Pophistorie.nl, which is a website about 70+ years of pop music, and because I enjoy doing it, and to show and make it heard that there is more than just the music that they play on the radio. About professional musicians with an experience of often more than 40 years. These are the hard rock and metal bands. Often they are conservatory trained musicians.
I'm talking about people, like a Ronnie James Dio, with a vocal range of 3.5 octaves. About guitarists who have been playing guitar since they were only about six years old.

(for example Ritchie Blackmore) People with exactly the same passion, Rock and Metal music. Music with substance. In short, the best in the world. About the non-commercial branch of music, where it is mainly about the music and not about the money.

How does this website work?

The links of this website are next to each other at the top of the pages. (Menu for Mobile) Just like any website, this website also looks better on a computer, not all features are available on mobile.

Last page finished Kayak/Edward Reekers

New page to finish Mirko Sangrigoli

Kayak is a Dutch rock band formed by Ton Scherpenzeel and Pim Koopman in Hilversum in 1972. In 1973, their debut album See See the Sun was released, including three hit singles. Their popularity was mainly in the Netherlands, with their top hit "Ruthless Queen" reaching No. 6 on the Dutch charts in March 1979. They disbanded in 1982 after releasing nine albums.

Edward Reekers (Hengelo, 24 May 1957 – Soest, 7 October 2025) was a Dutch singer, dialogue director and voice actor.

 

Mirko Sangrigoli, born in 1992 in Santa Venerina, Italy, is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and songwriter. Mirko plays guitar, piano, keyboard, drums, Saxophone and bass, among other things. He grew up in Santa Venerina, a small village in Sicily, and began his musical journey with his father's drums. Over the years, he has explored a wide range of instruments and musical genres. Mirko is a versatile musician, at home in the genres of rock, jazz, soul, flamenco, pop, f-folk, and more.

 

Agenda

March 8, 2026 Updating the stories, checking playlists and creating video blocks

Updating the stories, checking, and making bigger and better playlists and creating video blocks, and putting the albums on the All Music pages. I'm currently at Timo Tolkki

Due to a small problem with the buttons, I first continued with the video blocks that were already finished. That's ready up to Turisas.

March 6, 2026 The website has been moved and we can continue

After more than a month of not being able to do anything, the time has finally come: the website has been moved and we can continue.

February 26, 2026 Impossible to do anything

At the moment I can't do much on the website as there is no more space, a solution is being worked on

December 25

New page online, Mirko Sangrigoli. Mirko plays 8 instruments.

December 23

The old website is offline

November 30, 2025 Adding videos to the Ballads and Heavy playlists & video blocks

The videos I find, I park them on the "New Videos" Playlists for a while, and divide the collected videos from the "New Videos" playlist over the Ballads and Heavy playlists and video blocks

November 23, 2025

The old website will be offline after December 23, 2025

November 22, 2025

For bands S through Z, there are still many links in the stories that link to the old website. I was changing all of that while updating the stories and applying the new design. But because I still have 58 bands to do, and a lot of people are still confused by the two websites, the old one and the new one, I think it's better to change all the links first so the old website goes offline faster. I'm currently at Zakk Wylde, Ready.

October 17, 2025

When I heard the terrible news in August that Edward Reekers was terminally ill, I wanted to create a page about him and his old band, Kayak. The illness progressed so quickly that he did not see it. But it's ready, Kayak and Edward Reekers.

I repaired and reorganized the playlists that were still on the old website, and of course, putting them on this site. If you click on Videos at the top, you'll see Ballads A/L, etc. For example, clicking on Ballads A/L takes you to the first Ballad video page. There you'll encounter the same thing again: clicking those buttons navigates you between the pages. Clicking the buttons below plays the playlists.

There is no advertising on this website, I don't earn anything from it. I do this alone and pay for everything myself. Just a real hobby. I just enjoy doing this. I hope I make something nice, and contribute something to the metal community. I hope you enjoy this website. I wanted to create a website where you can find everything about the bands you like. I hope that was successful.

I stopt with the commands, so if you want to mention something, just click on this link (Facebook)

I got most of the stories from Wikipedia, I'm always looking for the best story. That is why there are stories that have been translated from all kinds of Wikipedias. That's why I support Wikipedia every month. But every now and then bands also send their stories to me, the less known bands.

If you want to support the band you like, play the original video on YouTube instead of from someone else. This is becoming more and more important for the bands, because CDs are selling less and less. I didn't do it that way with the first bands I put on this website either, but I changed that.

I am sorry if I do not respond to the images and links sent to me via Twitter and Facebook, that is only due to the virus danger

There are 70 languages on this website, if you don't see your language, just tel me and I will add it (if it is available)

Start all over again

I have to tell you something, In the beginning there was 1 website, but because of the large number of pages (740) I couldn't get the website online anymore after changes. That took 2 weeks. The provider did not come up with a solution and did not give any advice, yes too many pages. Then I came up with the solution myself. A second website, where I moved all bands from M to Z. Then later with 2 websites and over 1000 pages I ran into trouble again, after an update.

The provider did give advice at the time, take a WordPress website, because then you have no limit. And when you're at the limit, you just take up more space. The reality is, I was at the limit with 60 pages and couldn't log in anymore. I then asked the provider to transfer the website to a virtual server. They refused. So there was only 1 option left, to another provider.

My good friend Henk, from HK Webs, was willing to transfer me to another server. At that moment he had an cerebral infarction. So nothing happened at all. In October, more than 4 months later, Henk is doing much better and he can do something again.
To make matters worse, I got testicular cancer, but I am now cleared after the operation. Henk was, in a roundabout way, busy transferring the website, which did not work because the database was damaged.

So Henk had created a new temporary web address, metalarchives.nl
With this new website I transferred everything manually.

Now all content of metalarchives.nl has been transferred to janemperadorsmetalarchives, and we can continue as normal

This is of course just a hobby, and I'm not a professional, so if I don't know it anymore, I get advice from Henk. He also introduced me to WordPress. He is a WordPress specialist with his own company, HK Webs.
Well I have to say that I like WordPress much more than Sitebuilder, there are many more options. In fact, everything is possible.

Magic O Metal Campagne Video

Magic-O-Metal.nl - Crowdfunding Campagne

Magic O Metal wants to encourage children to follow their dreams, to learn to play an instrument or to be creative in some other way. In addition, it would of course be fantastic to breathe new life into metal music and to enable a new generation of metal heroes.