Who carries the connections

The figures below are computed on this dataset and nothing else, and every rank and value in this document is generated by the build from the current data. The full graph measures the entire machine: people, studio credits, labels, festivals, tours, production, spawning and influence. Degree is the number of edges attached to a node, with every edge type weighted equally and parallel edges between the same pair counted separately; distinct is the number of different neighbors. Betweenness is the share of shortest paths between all other pairs of nodes that pass through the node, on the simple undirected graph; it rewards nodes that bridge otherwise separate parts of the map, which is a different thing from having many connections. On the full graph the leading four are 1. Death 0.178; 2. Nuclear Blast 0.151; 3. Morrisound Recording 0.150; 4. Morbid Angel 0.146. On the people and production graph they are 1. Scott Burns 0.169; 2. Napalm Death 0.088; 3. Carcass 0.086; 4. Jim Morris 0.071; 5. Death 0.071. People and production betweenness repeats the calculation on the subgraph of member, founder, moved to, spawned, became, side project, produced and worked at edges only: the family tree proper plus the people who transmitted production knowledge. Active and inactive nodes are treated alike, ambiguous affiliations were resolved to the band's own statement, and city nodes are excluded. High degree at a label means many bands on the map passed through it, not that it is important beyond the map.

People and production network

This version includes membership, founding, spawning, side project, production and documented institutional work edges; it measures the people who carry the working network, not musicians alone. Restricting the graph to those relations changes the ranking: Scott Burns is the highest betweenness node in this version of the dataset (0.169), and the people who moved between bands (Scott Burns, Jim Morris, Colin Richardson, Fredrik Nordström and Tomas Skogsberg) appear where the full graph hides them behind labels and festivals. Scott Burns is not a musician moving between bands; his role is production and studio infrastructure, and his full graph rank (19) is lower because the full graph includes the labels, studios, tours and institutional nodes that route around him.

Status as of 5 September 2026

Observed status is what the sources record as having happened by the cutoff date. Announced or scheduled activity is listed separately and has not been confirmed as having taken place.