aleph, Just to be clear, these are the most popular metal bands from each country, according to worldwide listening stats, correct?
dylanmorgan, Oooooh, that explains why System of a Down didn’t show up in Armenia.
Tb0n3, Yeah. I agree it’s fairly confusing. Seems to be the most listened to band from each country according to Spotify.
Blaze, I edited the title
TeaHands, Somehow genuinely had no idea Gojira were French so, TIL!
Also wtf South Africa.
spacemanspiffy, yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=vSEmlNNFE_0
For anyone curious
Obi, Check out Benighted! The new-ish guitarist is my old high school friend.
Bourff, Benighted has always been my favorite franchement band, above Gojira. Living in Lyon, I see Julien (the leader & singer) at nearly every gig that happens in that city.
Obi, Super, moi je parlais de Manu le gratteux. Le mec était déjà un génie dans notre petit groupe de pre-ados/ados, tu lui mettais une track il l’écoutait une fois et ensuite on la remettait et il jouais pratiquement nickel avec le morceau, un monstre.
Bourff, N’étant pas musicien, j’ai jamais compris comment c’était possible ce genre de choses. Mais c’est sûr que ce ne sont pas des manchots, leur batteur est excellent aussi par exemple. Et nouvel album dans 2 semaines !!!
Obi, (edited ) Je suis musicien mais moi non plus je ne comprends pas, je te rassure ^-^’
Je n’écoute plus trop de métal mais j’irai regarder ça.
johsny, Speaking as a South African, never heard of them.
CanadaPlus, You have, it’s just that that name fits in nobody’s memory. /s
watersnipje, I’ve checked them out on Spotify and that is some dirty, filthy grindcore
NielsBohron, (edited ) So in other words, nothing you’d be able to find on Encyclopaedia Metallum (unless they also got classified as some genre without “core” in it)
Edit: just joking. Mostly. I am still pretty salty about the fact that their gatekeeping is denying Every Time I Die their rightful place among the metal greats
Nythos, They’re also declining Lorna Shore from being added as well.
voltaa, Looked up the site and it seems like they also don’t have Between the Buried and Me or Protest the Hero so it seems like it’s one of those “exclusionary to be pretentious and no other reason” kind of sites
NielsBohron, They’re great at finding new bands as long as the bands are properly “metal,” but they arbitrarily exclude any genre that includes the term “core” which seems like a miss to me.
Bourff, They have a pretty narrow definition of metal I don’t always agree with (like cocktail and ball torture missing), but I’m sure glad it’s not flooded with -core bands.
Soulg, That’s so stupid who the fuck can even begin to claim they’re not metal
NielsBohron, There are a few surprises here, tbf. I had no idea that Pentagram was Turkish (although, maybe it’s a different Pentagram). I kinda remembered that Sepultra that was Brazilian, but I’m not really a fan, so I had mostly forgotten.
GiantRobotTRex, You’re probably thinking of the Pentagram from Virginia.
NielsBohron, considered one of the “big four of doom metal,” alongside Candlemass, Saint Vitus and Trouble
Yep, I was thinking of the VA Pentagram.
tetris11, I was somehow thinking of Phantogram and wondering “huh, never knew they did heavy stuff.”
Track_Shovel, Check out Alcest. I’m obsessed with them
TeaHands, Actually will, cheers for the recommendation!
zalgotext, Also wtf South Africa.
Yeah, can someone help me out with a pronunciation guide on that one?
synae, Xavleg (zav-leg) is the accepted “short” name for when you need to say it out loud or write it and can’t be bothered to put the whole thing
The whole thing is an abbreviation for a bunch of gross shit with X’s on the front and end.
AnUnusualRelic, Good thing that it’s an abbreviation. It wouldn’t have fit on the record sleeve otherwise.
synae, Oh it fits just fine:
TheEEEdiot, It’s pronounced just like it’s spelled.
squirrel, South Africa wins best bandname.
sangriaferret, I don’t know, Bloodywood is a pretty fucking good name for an Indian metal band.
zalgotext, They go so fucking hard live too, absolute blast to watch
Saint_of_Illusion, Until you find out what it stands for. Lol
mraow_, ok well now i just have to know…
…oh my god
CanadaPlus, Best by character count.
It’s not even close.
Alter_Id, (edited ) Genuinely surprised to see that Eluveitie beats out Celtic Frost.
Edit: Just looked at the stats, and wow, it's not even close: 872,935 to 120,157. That's a real wtf. Insert Principal Skinner "...it's the children who are wrong."jpg
Black616Angel, Eluveitie did a song with Wigald Boning once for German 3sat. They are very well known.
teft, Of course The Hu are the mongolian one. Theyre awesome.
Chakravanti, Not bad but Yat-Kha is my choice that brought metal to Mongolian music first.
iamanurd, Their cover of enter sandman cracks me up. Super great band!
5714, Do you have a higher resolution picture?
ROLLORDIE, Click the HD button in the top right but even that won’t help you spell South Africa’s favourite metal band.
Blaze, Here we go "“XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX (abbreviated as Xavleg, aka Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fecal Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus) is a South African deathcore/ Christian music/ deathgrind/ death metal band. Its members rarely consider themselves Christians.”
Passerby6497, I am almost surprised that that’s actually the band’s name. Almost.
ArcaneSlime, Fucking THANK YOU! I’ve been wondering what the abbreviation was for since some dude offhandedly mentioned it in a comment above. I didn’t want to have to figure out how to google all that lol.
Side note, however:
Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infested Womb Of A Molested Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus
Christian music
Its members rarely consider themselves Christians
I am now even more confused.
MrFunnyMoustache, Light novel titles got nothing on South Africa’s favourite band.
AMDIsOurLord, … Ha?
CanadaPlus, That’s what the priest said.
uberdroog, Switched to HD and downloaded. It’s clear.
cosmicrookie, South Africa looks like a cat walked across the keyboard
DasGurke, Full name: Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated by Mass Amounts of Filthy Fecal Fisting and Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside the Infected Maggot Infested Womb of a Molested Nun Dying Under the Roof of a Burning Church While a Priest Watches and Ejaculates in Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus.
Zehzin, We get it, band. You’re edgy.
Enkrod, Yuck
Pronell, My friends are metalheads but I’m not. Popped this over to our discord to see what comes up.
First response: “Greenland is a country. What the fuck?”
MycelialMass, No one there has spotify though
rickyrigatoni, They are a vassal state of denmark
Blaze,
Faresh, Monthly views of what?
Blaze, Of each of the bands.
Enkrod, (edited ) This needs a per capita, otherwise just another map of population or Spotify Accounts
Blaze, It’s the number of views for each bands (as it is one band per country). It’s not a map population of Spotify accounts, otherwise you would see Mexico in much darker green for instance (and Australia less dark)
halykthered, Visions Of Atlantis in a land locked country.
CanadaPlus, That’s how they’re sure it wasn’t actually there, just a vision.
magikmw, Surprised to see New Zealand on the map.
livus, Why? Alien Weaponry is a solid band. Check them out.
magikmw, It’s a reference to the phenomenon where map makers tend to ommit including New Zealand.
rab, Surprised their band isn’t ulcerate
dumbass, All this proves to me is that the global takeover by Metal is nearly finished, soon the whole world will be metal!
shasta, Yeah, screw all the other trolls!
WldFyre, Let’s fucking go, so happy to see Spiritbox get the attention they deserve!
whoisearth, One day as a Canadian, Unleash The Archers will get their love too!
JustAnotherRando, UTA are awesome. I had never heard of them until their YouTube music put their version of Northwest Passage into my playlist, but I got hooked fast!
whoisearth, I’ll never not share my favourite song of them. Dreamcrusher is amazing.
I think I’m going to listen to them during my run today!
rab, Weird that both spiritbox and unleash the archers come from the same little city
rab, Devin Townsend is the true Canadian metal hero tho
callcc, Thanks for including small countries!
livus, Best aspect of this!
Dippy, Of course Japan has Baby Metal as their top Metal band.
And I’m a huge fan of Within Temptation. If I could only recommend one song for this entire graphic, its A Demons Fate by Within Temptation
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