Metal and Hardcore Bands API
Use this API to add structured heavy music reference data to catalogs, editorial tools, playlist research, and niche music discovery products. It exposes normalized JSON endpoints for band profiles, practical filters, source category counts, and reference facets without requiring a custom category crawler.
Use Cases
- enrich music catalogs with country, origin, genre, label, and active-year facets
- build editorial discovery tools for heavy music scenes and subgenres
- seed internal review queues for band pages, playlists, and scene guides
Access
These endpoints are served through RapidAPI. The examples below are documentation examples, not direct browser links, because requests require RapidAPI authentication headers.
Open the RapidAPI listing to subscribe, test requests, and get your API key.
Endpoints
/api/metalhardcorebands/bandsList bands or filter by name, country, origin, genre, label, source category, active year, or keyword.
Query parameters: name, country, origin, genre, label, source_category, active_year, q, limit
/api/metalhardcorebands/bands?name=example&country=example
/api/metalhardcorebands/countriesList countries inferred from band origins and categories.
/api/metalhardcorebands/countries
/api/metalhardcorebands/genresList parsed band genres.
/api/metalhardcorebands/genres
/api/metalhardcorebands/labelsList parsed record labels.
/api/metalhardcorebands/labels
/api/metalhardcorebands/sourcesList Wikipedia categories used for collection.
/api/metalhardcorebands/sources
Pricing
- Basic: $0/day for 10 requests. Evaluation tier for prototypes and quick integration tests.
- Pro: $9/month for 10000 requests. Small production apps, internal tools, and niche content sites.
- Business: $29/month for 100000 requests. Higher-volume apps, catalog enrichment, and recurring data workflows.
Data Notes
Source: Wikipedia. Refresh cadence: 14d. Records include source attribution when exposed by the API response.
Primary table: metal_hardcore_bands