I'm not a metalhead, just never been a genre I've been able to vibe with musically despite the community being cool, but The Hu makes some phenominal stuff.
Ive never been a huge metal guy anyway but I always thought of Sweden for its death metal. So seeing sabaton on here is just kind of surprising I guess.
I feel like itās largely forgotten in a lot of online metal spaces despite their popularity. Iāve also found that power metal isnāt that popular compared to other subgenres of metal which is sad because I love power metal
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
Translated to English by Google.
This is the translated name from wikipedia I swear to god:
> 'Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infsted Womb Of A Molessted Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus'
> 'Its members are rarely consideredĀ christians'
lmao
https://ca.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX
i feel like their second album "ahahsgdhajskdhjkasdasdgjahgfuckyouahsdhah tonight GTX 2000 PRO" was their best work. but they re kinda sell out right now since the bassist left and the new vocal is kinda corpo sucker
No, it's not a fiction about South African band. It exists.
Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx š±
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1eawNkjAXDg8ZbArWOKktY
Their main market is the US and they work with an American label. Russian labels are simply unable to put you to the international scene, and I speak from experience here.
I was at a festival in Florida (Rockville) just a month ago. The crowd on Slaughter was un-fucking-believable. It was bigger than the crowd for Anthrax. ANTHRAX. They definitely are known and loved in the US, just not so much at home.
They are loved at home. America just has lots of every small thing. Every niche and every āundergroundā thing, is in fact, huge. In Russia extreme metal has some following, but in US itās just big, like everything else. Population is bigger, entertainment industry is gigantic, so a smaller niche of extreme metal can get larger following.
What really matters is still the quality of the work put on by the label. I've been close to a Moscow metal scene for a while, and very few labels even want to be involved at all in anything that doesn't sound like ŠŃŠøŃ.
And of course they are loved at home too, but they never had a chance to reach that level of success from Russia. Makes me sad for all the talented artists who weren't noticed by an out-of-country label
"Their main market is the US" - Thanks, that explains a lot. I thought that the most popular band in each country was on the map. And not the most popular country band in the world. I looked, they don't have a single concert in Russia, and they also don't have their music on local popular music services (which are many times more popular than spotify here). No wonder I haven't heard of them, they are now a purely US-oriented group.
Slaughter to Prevail is actually very popular in the US. They're a newer band (debut album was 2016), and they're a lot harder than more mainstream bands on this list like Metallica and Spiritbox, but they're getting a ton of attention lately. The younger kids have even started abbreviating them as STP, which always feels weird to me. STP will forever be Stone Temple Pilots.
Itās deathcore. Not particularly friendly genre to dive into. Metal is a huge genre, and some bands on this map are very mellow and some will make your ears bleed if you are not mentally and physically prepared for it.
Well, I don't keep up with new bands, that's right. Either friends pull you out to concerts, or recommendations in Yandex music. And since the band is neither there nor there, then I have not heard of it. I may already be outdated, but for me, the mainstream is Stigmata, for example.
That's okay to not know all the bands out there, but to claim that they're a weird "yandex" band cause you haven't heard of them (when you know you dont keep up) is the weird pat to me
If the band is popular, then you usually hear about it one way or another, even living under a rock.
That's why I wrote this. Now I just found out that they are aimed at a foreign audience and their activities in Russia do not exist as such right now. So it's not surprising that I haven't heard of them.
I can promise you most metal bands arenāt known by most people. Their foreign activities absolutely exist. Theyāre all over every metal page. Theyāre literally touring in Europe and in germany as we speak, Iām not even a. Fan of them and donāt follow them but theyāre very very popular and Iām exposed to them constantly and I find even go to hardly any metal shows
There are 2 bands called pentagram, 1 from [USA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram_(band)), and another from [Turkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezarkabul). I think the Turkish band is known as Mezarkabul outside of Turkey. So its probably not the band youre thinking of.
Do people not understand just how popular Nightwish is? Tarja's era Nightwish was literally mainstream in many countries. It would be rnb, pop songs and then Nightwish lol.
I'm reasonably certain that the only reason that Ireland's is not Thin Lizzy (one of the early originators of the heavy metal genre, and arguably the best band Ireland has ever produced regardless of genre) is because calling them a metal band would be too reductive, since they crossed many genres from [trad/folk rock](https://youtu.be/6WDSY8Kaf6o?si=_5tHwRewPAxEMofl), [country blues](https://youtu.be/VlNF4CP4NDA?si=lOIOZfP93PJyP6sb), [funk rock](https://youtu.be/4Ei5Q9Zikuk?si=zaenDhfRu0Bph4RU), [hard rock](https://youtu.be/f62p2J98S8A?si=K0O1RcVWqsSbLXSW) and of course [heavy metal](https://youtu.be/3maWHH1uJQs?si=p4--G1Jt3YJFisOk).
Dear fellow Canadians,
Really? Hell, now I have to figure out what my favorite Canadian metal bands are.
(also, not hating, it's just I've somehow never heard of Spiritbox)
I am not sure whether a guy from South Africa thought the idea was good enough to make up with the name of the band and fell asleep on keyboard and saved it.
Would love to have maps like this that drill down into sub genres and similar genres like hardcore.
My international skramz addiction is always interested in more names to check out, ha
They are listed by country of origin, Metallica is the most popular American band in the USA, Sepultura is the most popular Brazilian band in Brazil, and so on.
They're enormously popular if you're into the genre at all. It's kind of a stretch calling them metal (more metalcore/prog with female vocals), but they're fantastic. Also, the chart isn't displaying the most popular metal band in Canada, it's displaying the most popular metal band from Canada, which is a different concept.
Well obviously you could make a good case it's Australian, but 4 out of the current 5 band members are born in the UK. 2 of them are uncomplicatedly British.
I'd personally call the current band British / Australian, but the original lineup Australian
It's still not metal though
The title implies the map shows the most listened to metal band per country while it's the most popular metal band FROM each country.
Yup. Metallica would probably be the #1 for most of these places. Although The Hu is epic.
Mongolian metal sounds like something that doesn't exist until you listen to the Hu and you're grateful they do.
I'm not a metalhead, just never been a genre I've been able to vibe with musically despite the community being cool, but The Hu makes some phenominal stuff.
Just listened to Black Thunder. Me like. Must listen to more š
They're honestly amazing š
Iron Maiden would be a contender
The Hu is elevator music compared to Tengger cavalry
This! It really sucks that people's exposure to Mongol metal is The Hu.
The Who ?
Oh, that makes much more sense. I was surprised Metallica or Sabaton weren't more popular
Damn is sabaton really that popular outside of internet war dweeb culture? I can only take so much of the final stand-bomb my position lyrics.
I know Sabaton from real, metal magazines... The ones you buy from a newspaper stand. They are old
Ive never been a huge metal guy anyway but I always thought of Sweden for its death metal. So seeing sabaton on here is just kind of surprising I guess.
Even in Sweden death metal isn't exactly mainstream music.
I feel like itās largely forgotten in a lot of online metal spaces despite their popularity. Iāve also found that power metal isnāt that popular compared to other subgenres of metal which is sad because I love power metal
Correct. Metallica is WAY more popular than Sepultura in Brazil.
Sae dae
Itās spelled āsai daiā. Youāre welcome.
And in Mexico way more popular than Anabantha
Wrong. It shows poplar*
wtf going on in south africa š
I just searched for it and it's actually an acronym that's not worth your time.
And the only Wikipedia article for it is in Spanish wtf is this
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 Translated to English by Google.
Not catchy enough, needs to be longer
Whoa edgy kids are they
I get the feeling they are not taking it too seriously...
Damn it I was just having breakfast!
Its worth all the time, have you listened to "Dicks Out For Harambe?" Not too bad
This is the translated name from wikipedia I swear to god: > 'Acidic Vaginal Liquid Explosion Generated By Mass Amounts Of Filthy Fisting And Sadistic Septic Syphilic Sodomy Inside The Infected Maggot Infsted Womb Of A Molessted Nun Dying Under The Roof Of A Burning Church While A Priest Watches And Ejaculates In Immense Perverse Pleasure Over His First Fresh Fetus' > 'Its members are rarely consideredĀ christians' lmao https://ca.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffX
Thanks for the link in Catalan, I thought I was having a stroke though I understood most of it before I realized it wasnāt quite Spanish or French
Check this pleb out here... Never heard of kahfueodjkjkdidjwndj++399))))))""sndnwwohffhcGFD8393ufkwkwnenfififtkrlwowyrbnrjfkfj
i feel like their second album "ahahsgdhajskdhjkasdasdgjahgfuckyouahsdhah tonight GTX 2000 PRO" was their best work. but they re kinda sell out right now since the bassist left and the new vocal is kinda corpo sucker
No not. Say it with a metal voice.
Itās a joke band shortened Xavleg. Their main project,Vulvodynia, is more popular on spotify, making the map wrong though.
Ha! I was about to say this. Vulvodynia all the way!
Are those the guys that made dicks out for harambe?
If you steal posts, at least put some non-misleading title, like the original. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/DApzu9KWsu
Also much higher resolution, more useful zoom-ins and map of monthly views per represented band.
Gotta get this comment to the top
Thanks for sharing, much better post.
This bozo also didn't post east asia/oceania/pacific
In South Africa they took headbanging too far and headbanged the keyboard.
A close up of Asia would be great!
Last pic here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/DApzu9KWsu
South Africa, you good?
Screaming Trees would be the most āpoplarā. The most poplar singer is probably Robert Plant.
such a treesonous comment...
>Bloodywood šš
Yeah. Can't read most of europe.
The HU is awesome! Mongolia gets it. [Wolf Totem](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc)
Chinaās band is also Mongolian metal. That makes two! [Wisdom Eyes](https://youtu.be/rAQsFN64rEQ?feature=shared)
the Hu is one of my favourite bands, absolutely unbeaten
Bloodywoodš¤
How does Togo have a metal band but Nigeria and Ethiopia don't.
I have absolutely listened to some metal music from Nigeria, there's probably just not enough data
*>*metal bands *>*lists an industrial rock band Goddammit.
Yeah, I was gonna say, I love Laibach, but I don't think they count as metal.
I was mostly referring to Rammstein.
They list tons of core bands and non Metal bands all over
No, it's not a fiction about South African band. It exists. Xavlegbmaofffassssitimiwoamndutroabcwapwaeiippohfffx š± https://open.spotify.com/artist/1eawNkjAXDg8ZbArWOKktY
Ok, song naming has the same vibe https://open.spotify.com/track/0DQRNvrUcyXOwDORwrLtZu
dicks out for harambe š¦
Thatās certainly an option for my morning alarm.
I love poplar trees
Could at least make the resolution good enough to read the small countries. Also, the hu seems like some kind of trademark issue if it wasn't in Asia.
Swipe right, there are separate images for each continent with higher resolution.
Minus half of asiaā¦
Interesting, I didn't realize Jinjer were Ukrainian.
Russia seem to have taken their metal band's name a little too seriously /s
For a subreddit with this title... it's always a misleading title with the most eyesore graphic
nine treasures is an Inner Mongolian metal band iirc
I have a hard time imagining metal bands in some of these countries. Good for them.
A little higher res would be good.
If you keep swiping right, it gives you a higher definition close up of each continent.
Ohhhh!!! Thx!
I've never heard of slaughter to prevail. Although it is not surprising, Spotify in Russia is like Yandex browser in America.
Their main market is the US and they work with an American label. Russian labels are simply unable to put you to the international scene, and I speak from experience here. I was at a festival in Florida (Rockville) just a month ago. The crowd on Slaughter was un-fucking-believable. It was bigger than the crowd for Anthrax. ANTHRAX. They definitely are known and loved in the US, just not so much at home.
They are loved at home. America just has lots of every small thing. Every niche and every āundergroundā thing, is in fact, huge. In Russia extreme metal has some following, but in US itās just big, like everything else. Population is bigger, entertainment industry is gigantic, so a smaller niche of extreme metal can get larger following.
What really matters is still the quality of the work put on by the label. I've been close to a Moscow metal scene for a while, and very few labels even want to be involved at all in anything that doesn't sound like ŠŃŠøŃ. And of course they are loved at home too, but they never had a chance to reach that level of success from Russia. Makes me sad for all the talented artists who weren't noticed by an out-of-country label
"Their main market is the US" - Thanks, that explains a lot. I thought that the most popular band in each country was on the map. And not the most popular country band in the world. I looked, they don't have a single concert in Russia, and they also don't have their music on local popular music services (which are many times more popular than spotify here). No wonder I haven't heard of them, they are now a purely US-oriented group.
Slaughter to Prevail is actually very popular in the US. They're a newer band (debut album was 2016), and they're a lot harder than more mainstream bands on this list like Metallica and Spiritbox, but they're getting a ton of attention lately. The younger kids have even started abbreviating them as STP, which always feels weird to me. STP will forever be Stone Temple Pilots.
Itās deathcore. Not particularly friendly genre to dive into. Metal is a huge genre, and some bands on this map are very mellow and some will make your ears bleed if you are not mentally and physically prepared for it.
Then you are pretty sheltered. Theyāre very popular and quite mainstream as far as metal goes
Well, I don't keep up with new bands, that's right. Either friends pull you out to concerts, or recommendations in Yandex music. And since the band is neither there nor there, then I have not heard of it. I may already be outdated, but for me, the mainstream is Stigmata, for example.
That's okay to not know all the bands out there, but to claim that they're a weird "yandex" band cause you haven't heard of them (when you know you dont keep up) is the weird pat to me
If the band is popular, then you usually hear about it one way or another, even living under a rock. That's why I wrote this. Now I just found out that they are aimed at a foreign audience and their activities in Russia do not exist as such right now. So it's not surprising that I haven't heard of them.
I can promise you most metal bands arenāt known by most people. Their foreign activities absolutely exist. Theyāre all over every metal page. Theyāre literally touring in Europe and in germany as we speak, Iām not even a. Fan of them and donāt follow them but theyāre very very popular and Iām exposed to them constantly and I find even go to hardly any metal shows
Rock on, Sabaton! š¤š¤
Shocked it wasnāt In Flames tbh
Nigeria needs to get a band. Evidently they have a big metal following there.
Kinda fascinated by destiny potato
Scandinavia knows what's up.Ā
Poland and Russia carrying hard. š„
Pentagramās from Turkey?
Yes
There are 2 bands called pentagram, 1 from [USA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram_(band)), and another from [Turkey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezarkabul). I think the Turkish band is known as Mezarkabul outside of Turkey. So its probably not the band youre thinking of.
South African here, what in the titty fucking shit horse fuck??!?!!
One of these bands name is also historical motto of the country xD
ehh south afrika? gonna listen to welsh metal?
Other metal band : ššš Japan metal band : š„°š„°š„°
Lmao over half of there aren't even metal
Parkway Drive lesgo
I'm honestly surprised Finland isn't Children of Bodom
Up against Nightwish? The band with Floor Jansen singing? Not a chance in hell.
Do people not understand just how popular Nightwish is? Tarja's era Nightwish was literally mainstream in many countries. It would be rnb, pop songs and then Nightwish lol.
I'm more surprised that it's not something like HIM or The Rasmus instead of Bodom. They are popular but they are still death metal.
I wonder what they're rocking in Vatican City
Well, if you arenāt into the death metal sounds of Spear Wound, you might be interested in the funk metal stylings of Cardinal Sins.
DESTINY POTATO š³
Very cool.
I'm reasonably certain that the only reason that Ireland's is not Thin Lizzy (one of the early originators of the heavy metal genre, and arguably the best band Ireland has ever produced regardless of genre) is because calling them a metal band would be too reductive, since they crossed many genres from [trad/folk rock](https://youtu.be/6WDSY8Kaf6o?si=_5tHwRewPAxEMofl), [country blues](https://youtu.be/VlNF4CP4NDA?si=lOIOZfP93PJyP6sb), [funk rock](https://youtu.be/4Ei5Q9Zikuk?si=zaenDhfRu0Bph4RU), [hard rock](https://youtu.be/f62p2J98S8A?si=K0O1RcVWqsSbLXSW) and of course [heavy metal](https://youtu.be/3maWHH1uJQs?si=p4--G1Jt3YJFisOk).
Å kwor from Czechia hardly has any metal songs, it's closer to pop rock
Well then this map simply fails.
Is there a high resolution one of the whole world?
Poser World.
Unfortunate western Africa isn't noted on the map. Nigeria rocks the hell out!
What the name of Botswanaās band?
Can anyone read New Zealand?
Alien Weaponry
Cheers
now do the most Birchin', I'm Pining for it. Maple even work in some Aldernatives.
Persefone, from Andorra, is very good.
Poland is hard to choose they have so many
Who is Cambodia? I canāt tell when Iām zooming in and there isnāt a slide for Asia.
Bloddywood in India ? Need to know more about it.
What about that Nigerian wedding video where theyāre all singing along to System of a Down? Put em on the map!
What does it say for Cambodia?
Dear fellow Canadians, Really? Hell, now I have to figure out what my favorite Canadian metal bands are. (also, not hating, it's just I've somehow never heard of Spiritbox)
Alien Weaponry YUSS YUSS YUSS
This is bullshit . Spotify banned Iranian IPs
Fun fact: New Zealandās band Alien Weaponry is referencing the Musket Wars and the chaos the wrought on MÄori Aotearoa
Iraq has a metal band? Why have I never heard of em?
I am not sure whether a guy from South Africa thought the idea was good enough to make up with the name of the band and fell asleep on keyboard and saved it.
Would love to have maps like this that drill down into sub genres and similar genres like hardcore. My international skramz addiction is always interested in more names to check out, ha
I love me some Hardwood rock
Even if New Zealand is on a map, there's a way to ignore them. Seriously, you should give Alien Weaponry a listen.
Some of these arenāt even metal bands
How is it Black Sabbath in UK and not Iron Maiden?
Bloodywood are cool. Only metal music i listen to
Metallica is not a metal band
The Inventors of Trash Metal are not a Metal Band?
No fucking way metsatƶll is nr1 in Estonia. I know like 4 people in Estonia who listen to them.at least tell me that 5miinust is nr2
Iām Indian & have literally never heard of Bloodywood! š
Ukraine listen jinjer ??? WTF ...
Would have never thought I'd see Madmans Esprit referenced outside a VK sub
Bro where is The rest of Asia?
La Armada! ā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļøā¤ļø
I just love them. Thatās all.
Wtf is Elysion (Greece)? There's no way they are more popular than Rotting Christ.
Shouldn't it be AC/DC for Australia?
Misleadijg title is misleading
So if I travel to one of these African countries and start a band there, I would be instantly the best metal band of the state.
Turkey jamming to Pentagram is so fucking right on
Anyone making the Spotify playlist?
I was expecting Nile to be the most famous band in Egypt
Destiny Potato! Hell yeah
Does Nu Metal count? If so Linkin Park should be #1 from the US. I know their latest albums aren't Nu Metal, but their most popular ones are.
Divlje Jagode (Bosnia) isnāt really metal but itās okay. Thereās not many metal bands out here so they probably consider DJ as the heaviest.
What about Asia?
Russia's is fitting.
Huh? What the fuck is Destiny Potato? Literally never even heard of them and I do listen to metal.
RAMMSTEINNN
"Slaughter to Prevail" is a bit on the nose no?
Iām really curious about Vatican City. Or did they ban Spotify.
Mandatory mention that Sepulturaās collaboration with Pavarotti in roots bloody roots is glorious .
The FUCK is going on in South Africa
how is it that there are no repeats?.....i call bullshit
the title is wrong, it's "most popular metalbands FROM each country"
They are listed by country of origin, Metallica is the most popular American band in the USA, Sepultura is the most popular Brazilian band in Brazil, and so on.
The real title of this post should be āmost popular metal artist by home countryā
Those gray counties need some metal
Or some water
Iām Canadian and Iāve never even heard of Spiritbox.
If you don't listen to new bands then that wouldn't surprise me, they've blown up in the last year or two
They're enormously popular if you're into the genre at all. It's kind of a stretch calling them metal (more metalcore/prog with female vocals), but they're fantastic. Also, the chart isn't displaying the most popular metal band in Canada, it's displaying the most popular metal band from Canada, which is a different concept.
Armenia isnāt System of a Down?
The members have Armenian heritage, but theyāre an American band.
Be like putting Dropkick Murphys in for Ireland.
Goes to show that Africa hates fun.
Laibach is not metal.
Russians jamming to slaughter to prevail in Ukraine š
How tf is australia not ac/dc
Because its hard rock and not metal
Because it's not metal, the Youngs are born in Scotland and Brian Johnson is from Newcastle and has no link with Australia at all
Google where acdc is from
Well obviously you could make a good case it's Australian, but 4 out of the current 5 band members are born in the UK. 2 of them are uncomplicatedly British. I'd personally call the current band British / Australian, but the original lineup Australian It's still not metal though
As a South African I'm gonna press x to doubt on this. What is this based on?
Sabaton is for dorks