Several users left joke reviews praising the band's first self titled album. A series of staged arguments between moderators appeared throughout the day on the site's forum. Several more April Fool's pranks would follow in later years: 2012- The site posted an FBI logo on the main page suggesting that the site was suspended by the FBI for promoting internet piracy. Despite the ability to bypass this image just by clicking on it, many people took the prank seriously and thought that the Metal-Archives had shut down. 2013- Nickelback were added to the Metal Archives in a prank that was similar to the 2009 Korn prank, as it also had user submitted joke reviews praising various Nickelback albums. Staged arguments between moderators also broke out on the forums. 2014- An influx of reviews of an EP entitled Penis Metal by Chilean black metal band Hades Archer were summitted, mostly praising the album. As of 2022, it is the most reviewed album on the site. There was also a second prank involving the deletion of controversial band Meshuggah whose genre on the site is listed as djent, which are normally not allowed. This led to another series of staged arguments between moderators on the forums. Meshuggah were reinstated the following day. 2015- The website made an announcement introducing a paid premium membership service due to the site growing bigger and requiring more server space and bandwidth, causing it to be more expensive to maintain. For "basic users" without the membership, they are only limited to 15 page views a day, and would have to see advertisements on the site. There membership tiers were announced. "Metal Soldier", "Metal General", and "Metal Dictator". 2016- The site announced it would no longer be moderating user submitted reviews on albums, causing users to believe there would be a huge influx of poorly written reviews. 2017- An announcement was made that Metal Archives would be launching a section dedicated to metal news and commentary and described it as "social media friendly" Various joke articles were written parodying clickbait news websites. 2018- The site announced they were "100% complete" and would no longer be accepting new bands into the archives. 2019- An announcement was made that bands would now be filtered based on their subjective quality. 2020- The site would be dedicating it's servers computational resources to entirely to COVID-19 relief organizations for biomedical research until a