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Russian Circles is easily one of my favorite bands. I am sooooo excited for their new albums...I have the vinyl preordered

That's a great project, and not an easy feat. I wish you and everyone involved luck and endurance in pulling it all together, keep it up!
 
How extensive will the database end up being? Like, what kind of information will you cover? Also, will it involve user input etc. or will mods/specific people keep everything up to date and building the database? Users being able to input at least some things would be pretty effective in filling up the database with artists and info, even if it still required some level moderation...

Thank you all for the encouragements! You all bring up valid questions~
 
How extensive will the database end up being? Like, what kind of information will you cover?
When we start out, it'll be fairly small. It'll mainly comprise of a band profile consisting of a biography about the band - kinda how Last.FM is right now. We'll be building upon this though, adding new features and information blocks, including band member/artist profiles and complete discography information. This only touches the tip of the iceberg in what we want to do though. But, as Aion said - our goal is to cover as much as possible - especially when it comes to lesser known obscure/indie bands.
 
 
Also, will it involve user input etc. or will mods/specific people keep everything up to date and building the database?
In order to help maintain legitimate information, it'll be a sort of "closed" wiki type system. Basically, we'll have a set of trusted users to help maintain and build the database - there is really no limit to the number of people that can be in this trusted group. We'll have some sort of system to apply for this type of position after the site is launched.
 
 
How is it related to MH? I mean that I want to know in which ways the two sites will interact with each other. Maybe MH will be the future DS forum, or the community mentioned in OP?
It's roots are not related to MH in any way. DS was a project that Manda and I had been working on prior to us coming here (DS started around 2007, and Manda ran it by herself even before then). When TW was in shambles and had no hosting, we stepped up to offer to host the forum. At the time we had our own small forum on DS, which we got rid of in sight of striking up a sort of... partnership with everyone here. With that, the plan is to integrate the user accounts here into DS - meaning you can log into DS with your MH account. But yes, the community I spoke of was the current user base on MH as well as the new members that join us all through DS.
 
 
Is there anything decided in terms of criteria for artists visibility on the page? In the visual example Kai shows a Plastic Tree feature which is news related. I understand this probably a placeholder but it got me thinking about if the featured bands would be based on news, database updates or any other factor.
There will be many placeholders for different parts of the website on the home page. The screenshot shown in my original post is a very very small portion of the overall page, with the intention that the slider will be featured news items. There will be no preference to what type of band or style of music is shown on the front page (if you were worried that it would be centered around visual kei).
 
There are also planned sections showing the latest additions to the database, latest updates made in the database, blog and articles section, and more.

I won't speak for Kai, but as far as once was intendend (and so far as I know) it's meant to be an open platform.
Everyone can add and edit stuff, to a certain degree, like we can on Wikipedia, though there will be a team monitoring these changes.
 
And the purpose is of it being so complete as it can get. Biography, discography, member descriptions, past members, etc

Hellooo! My name is Andreas, I'm 22 and I live in a fabulous country called Finland (that's internet sarcasm there). I found this forum while looking for some jrock forums, and this looks like a pretty nice place so I thought I'd give it a shot!
 
I started listening to Japanese music sometime between 2004 and 2005 through some anime (Nana Kitade, Porno Graffiti... I was into Fullmetal Alchemist), but the band that really pulled me into this stuff was Plastic Tree, which I still consider one of the most important bands in my life (alongside Mucc) even though they haven't gotten as much listening lately as they'd deserve. Some of the stuff I like is Mucc, Plastic Tree, Deadman, the god and deathstars, Diru (Uroboros and Spiro Spero mainly), Munimuni, 9goats black out... X, Buck-Tick, the pillows, Midori, Yura Yura Teikoku, Shiina Ringo, Ogre You Asshole, Laruku etc. etc. the list could go on and on.
 
Other than Jrock, I like post-rock, atmospheric black metal, sludge, blackened death, shoegaze and blackgaze, folk, anything dark-ish, melancholic and/or atmospheric basically. But I also like some trip-hop, dream pop, chamber pop, electronic, blues, jazz, swing... whatever man. You name it, I probably will be pretty unbiased about it (doesn't mean I will like anything unconditionally, but you know). I play guitar and, as of recently, a bass, my dream is to create music and I'm into all kinds of visual stuff, above all, photography. That's about it?
 
I hope you don't mind having me around, I'll be looking forward to spending time here!

Sorry man I'm afraid I'll eat it all myself.
 
Other things I'd share but... some things I don't. Liquorice I won't.