Just to be clear, these are the most popular metal bands from each country, according to worldwide listening stats, correct?
Yeah. I agree it’s fairly confusing. Seems to be the most listened to band from each country according to Spotify.
Oooooh, that explains why System of a Down didn’t show up in Armenia.
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Somehow genuinely had no idea Gojira were French so, TIL!
Also wtf South Africa.
I’ve checked them out on Spotify and that is some dirty, filthy grindcore
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
They’re also declining Lorna Shore from being added as well.
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
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.
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.
That’s so stupid who the fuck can even begin to claim they’re not metal
Also wtf South Africa.
Yeah, can someone help me out with a pronunciation guide on that one?
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.
Good thing that it’s an abbreviation. It wouldn’t have fit on the record sleeve otherwise.
Oh it fits just fine:
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English speakers most often use a Z sound for an X at the start of the word, like xenon and xylophone. I’m ignorant of how it would be pronounced by speakers of other languages, but all my conversations about the band (all three of them, lol) have been in English
But in Afrikaans it’d be a ks
In German x is pronounced ks or kz
It’s pronounced just like it’s spelled.
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.
You’re probably thinking of the Pentagram from Virginia.
considered one of the “big four of doom metal,” alongside Candlemass, Saint Vitus and Trouble
Yep, I was thinking of the VA Pentagram.
I was somehow thinking of Phantogram and wondering “huh, never knew they did heavy stuff.”
Check out Alcest. I’m obsessed with them
Actually will, cheers for the recommendation!
Speaking as a South African, never heard of them.
You have, it’s just that that name fits in nobody’s memory. /s
Check out Benighted! The new-ish guitarist is my old high school friend.
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.
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.
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 !!!
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.
https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=vSEmlNNFE_0
For anyone curious
South Africa wins best bandname.
I don’t know, Bloodywood is a pretty fucking good name for an Indian metal band.
They go so fucking hard live too, absolute blast to watch
Until you find out what it stands for. Lol
ok well now i just have to know…
…oh my god
Best by character count.
It’s not even close.
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
Eluveitie did a song with Wigald Boning once for German 3sat. They are very well known.
Do you have a higher resolution picture?
Click the HD button in the top right but even that won’t help you spell South Africa’s favourite metal band.
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.”
Light novel titles got nothing on South Africa’s favourite band.
… Ha?
That’s what the priest said.
I am almost surprised that that’s actually the band’s name. Almost.
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.
Switched to HD and downloaded. It’s clear.
Of course The Hu are the mongolian one. Theyre awesome.
Their cover of enter sandman cracks me up. Super great band!
Not bad but Yat-Kha is my choice that brought metal to Mongolian music first.
South Africa looks like a cat walked across the keyboard
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.
Yuck
We get it, band. You’re edgy.
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?”
They are a vassal state of denmark
No one there has spotify though
Visions Of Atlantis in a land locked country.
That’s how they’re sure it wasn’t actually there, just a vision.
Monthly views:
Monthly views of what?
Of each of the bands.
This needs a per capita, otherwise just another map of population or Spotify Accounts
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)
Surprised to see New Zealand on the map.
Surprised their band isn’t ulcerate
Why? Alien Weaponry is a solid band. Check them out.
It’s a reference to the phenomenon where map makers tend to ommit including New Zealand.
All this proves to me is that the global takeover by Metal is nearly finished, soon the whole world will be metal!
Yeah, screw all the other trolls!
Let’s fucking go, so happy to see Spiritbox get the attention they deserve!
Devin Townsend is the true Canadian metal hero tho
One day as a Canadian, Unleash The Archers will get their love too!
Weird that both spiritbox and unleash the archers come from the same little city
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!
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!
Anyone have a playlist with a song from each?
https://spotify.link/0EuZREdqoIb
here you go
Thank you!
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
