MusicMight, formerly Rockdetector is a rock music

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 website

Website

A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...

 which provides artist and product information through a global website and an ongoing book series. Currently based in New Zealand, the site was founded by the late British writer Garry Sharpe-Young, and is backed by a small team of international writers who contribute to the site.

Database contents

The database covers many styles and ages of rock music, such as thrash metal

Thrash metal

Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized usually by its fast tempo and aggression. Songs of the genre typically use fast percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work...

, black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

, death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

, radio rock and nu metal

Nu metal

Nu metal is a subgenre of heavy metal. It is a fusion genre which combines elements of heavy metal with other genres, including grunge and hip hop...

. As of December 2007, the database has over 59,400+ bands listed. The site includes over 92,000 releases in the database and almost 659,000 songs. The site also has an international concert guide of over 300,000 concerts, archiving from 1965. The site also features extensive and unique band biographies, many of which are the result of direct, first-hand interviews with band members conducted by Sharpe-Young during his many years as a Heavy Metal journalist.

Additional features include extensive discographies, pictures of the bands, their logos and their albums covers, upcoming concerts and album reviews.

The site was without updates for some time, bearing a message that a new expanded version of Rockdetector is on its way. On 1 September 2008 the site started after more than one year of re-programming and testing with an improved concept, layout and a re-designed database under the new name Musicmight.com with 60,000 artists and 144,000 persons included in the database.

Sharpe-Young died in March 2010.

Growth of MusicMight and Rockdetector

Date	Artists	Persons	Recordings	Songs
March 2005	30 000
26 October 2006	50 000
July 2007	56 500	-	89 500	638 500
December 2007	59 400	-	92 000	659 000
September 2008	60 000	144 012	-	-
4 October 2008	60 774	145 825	-	-
15 March 2009	67 186	156 205	-	-
9 June 2009	70 814		-	-
11 February 2010	208 562	216 645	-	-

Rockdetector books

• Black Metal - September 2001
• Death Metal - September 2001
• Ozzy Osbourne - February 2002
• Thrash Metal - October 2002
• Power Metal - February 2003
• Doom, Gothic & Stoner Metal - February 2003
• 80s Rock - July 2003
• Black Sabbath - Never Say Die - 2004
• New Wave of American Heavy Metal - November 2005
• Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - The Battle For Black Sabbath - August 2006
• Thrash Metal - Amended - October 2007
• Death Metal - Amended - April 2008