A corpus of 193,623 metal music lyrics filtered to English-language songs, with prepped lyrics and word-position annotations. Raw lyrics were collected from Genius, filtered to English using language detection, and prepped through transliteration, contraction expansion, lowercasing, punctuation and number removal, and section tag removal. Word-position annotations assign sequential position numbers to words, resetting at sentence boundaries.
Variables
song_number. Numeric song identifier
song_title. Song title
song_lyrics_url. URL to the lyrics source (Genius)
artist. Artist name
album. Album name
lyrics. Raw lyrics text (including section tags like [Verse], [Chorus])
year. Release year
score. Genius score
subgenre. Detailed subgenre labels
score_number. Number of raters
genre. Broad genre category (e.g., Alt Metal, Death Metal)
language. Detected language code
lyrics_prepped. Prepped lyrics: transliterated, lowercased, punctuation and numbers removed, contractions expanded, section tags removed
title_prepped. Prepped song title: transliterated and lowercased
word_position. Word-position indexed lyrics (sequential position numbers resetting at sentence boundaries)