The question of the day: can a computer learn to sound metal?
Thanks to HellBlazer of http://www.metal-archives.com/, who provided a dataset
of over 100,000 bands, subgenres, and countries of origin, I had an opportunity
to find out.
I gave the dataset to an open-source neural network
![Metal band names invented by neural network](/content/images/size/w795/image/fetch/w_256-c_limit-f_auto-q_auto:good-fl_progressive:steep/https-3A-2F-2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com-2Fpublic-2Fimages-2Fa2c7c912-2468-4adf-b37c-57d1339a2153_489x489.png)