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
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.
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
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.
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 !!!
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
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."
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
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.
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)
It's the most popular bands from each country, not the most popular bands in each country. So Maiden could have only been in the UK and Sabbath beat them out.
They've been doing less since the lead singer, Freddy, became a member of Parliament, but they've got some bangers. I used to listen to Supreme Pain for the Tyrant on repeat.
Holy shit, I read that back and I sound like an old man. What happened - I'm not even thirty.
Anyway, the stage/mp juxtaposition pics tend to be fun.
And u thought the scorpions were more popular in Germany. At least it's more in the direction of metal than Rammstein. In case of doubt: Kreator or Halloween
Ohhhh you're one of those guys. Have you ever considered that people, especially those who have made it into their mid-30s, especially women, make choices that have nothing to do with putting on a show for anyone else?
It'll change your world if you realise that once you're a certain age (the younger the better) you don't actually care whether people think you're 'cool' - an ever-changing something that's only meaningful to people in highschool.
Yo fuckin Elis, I haven't listened to them since... Well, since their original singer's brain went and popped (cerebral hemorrhage). They were pretty kick ass.
Nice map, but crazy how few (IMHO) good one are also the most famous.
There is so much good metal from Germany, but of course ramm- we hate women and love violence fkin -stein (who isnt even metal but "deutsche härte" and plays with nationalist pictures) is most famous.
List of ones I (personally) like:
Parkway drive, jinjer, the hu, bloodywood
Also respect for the ancients (metallica, etc.) just not my personal taste.
Edit: haha reddit users migrated to lemmy HM, you now get downvoted for sharing clearly subjektive things like music taste ^^
Definitely confused by some names. Looking at you South Africa. Also, Rata Blanca? Really? Parkway Drive? Baby Metal? 😂
Edit: I'm not a metal fan and not attempting to gate keep. As an outsider, it's definitely notable that almost all the bands have names that meet expectations and a couple certainly do not.
I'm not a metal fan and I'm not attempting to gate keep. As an outsider, it is interesting how many many many popular metal bands fit the expectation and yet a few do not fit that expectation.
Gotcha. There's a LOT of gatekeeping in the metal community, from band to band, and from genre to genre. Some of the names are pretty funny, yeah, and that's part of what some people use as an attempt to gatekeep.
No, gatekeepers suck. Let people enjoy their things, them enjoying it doesn't somehow rob your ability to enjoy it. Look at it this way, everyone was a new fan who didn't know but the band's 3 most popular songs. Maybe instead of shitting on them, recommend some cool songs based on what they already like? Explain some of the meaning in their music? Do literally anything but "NOT METAL!" or "NOT A REAL FAN!"
Cultures assimilate, grab ideas from each other, and split off into their own new things. It's how humans have always worked. There's no problem with it, if it's not done with malice or ignorance. This is how we get fun, new sounds, fun, new ideas, and it doesn't kill anything you love.
They're directly spun off from metal often. That's why they're called subgenres.
Cultures can't decide things, they aren't entities of themselves. They're collectives of people. By simply existing within the metal culture and literally any other culture, you are effectively assimilating, bringing in new ideas and perspectives. Unless your culture is literally only ever interacting with themselves. Which sounds pretty fucking bland.
What even is just "metal" anyway? It's kind of a useless term on its own. It's an umbrella, and all you're deciding at this point is what that umbrella does and doesn't include. Is Ozzy metal? Iron maiden? Metallica, slayer, Megadeth, anthrax? They all use metal in their name. They all sound distinctly metal, but they're also completely different sounds, from completely different subgenres that to say they're the same is ridiculous. And at the same time you show me one person who doesn't identify one of them as metal, and I'll show you someone who's wrong.
agree to disagree. good things half these bands arent even metal. People who know nothing about something speaking on it with authority sucks. doubt you guys even go to shows but you guys know lol
Do you feel better now? If you are going to shows for these bands you'll never see me, im at the metal and punk shows. Enjoy the butt rock I'm happy for u
It's a pretty common thing to say certain bands aren't metal, as an elitist gatekeeping thing. Baby Metal is one that often, people will say "isn't metal" because they're cute girls in Gothic Lolita fashion. It's a pretty common assumption that anyone laughing at baby Metal is just being an elitist.
I don’t care for baby metal but it’s because of their fans primarily.
Look, I love Nekrogoblikon so I am not one to hold my nose in derision over a shtick.
Babymetal are super talented, The music is pretty good too it’s just not for me.
It’s not MY type of metal but if I have that opinion around one of their fans I get the “oh you’re an elitist” speech when in reality every fan I’ve known of Baby Metal has been kinda icky and shitty about them not being in my top 5.
I mean, they're not my top choice either, but there's a HIGE difference in your approach, "not my cup of tea", and the gatekeeper approach of "it's not real reeee". Everyone has taste, but there's some kind of weird pride over something being metal, or not metal, and it's just super shitty to attack something someone loves, just because it's not your thing.
Oh shit I’m not gatekeeping or trying to, I was just conversing with ya. I say listen to whatever gets you off
I’ve seen what you’re saying for sure though but I argue it’s anyone who is passionate about something likes to walk their garden off and throw up a gate.
I do care for babymetal because gimme chocolate is a fucking banger, corporate as it is. I like genre-crossing stuff when it's done well, like that or any mix by Bill McClintock (especially his Motown or Soul mixed with classic metal/hard rock), even Run DMC and Aerosmith, just for another example. Or stuff like Billy Strings.
I mean, babymetal is nowhere near my top 5, I'm not even sure they're in my top 5 Japanese metal bands (Sete Star Sept is Ichiban), but I do like em.
But for real thanks for letting me know about Nekrogoblin, idk how I hadn't heard this before.
Oh, are you interpreting their comment as saying that these bands don't deserve to be popular?
I think, they're rather saying that the names themselves are humorous, like I don't speak any South African language, but I have to assume that band intentionally stringed together tons of letters.
Similarly, a drive on a parkway is rather mundane, whereas a metal band's music is usually quite the opposite...
It's all relative to popularity. If it was about Rock and said AC/DC for Australia who would go hahahah AC/DC what a stupid name lololol are they making music about rectifiers? Parkway Drive is just one example that I was personally rolling my eyes over hard, but how is White Rat not a suitable name for a metal band?! To me it's just being deliberately ignorant, that's the whole joke, I don't know these bands, such stupid names.
like I don’t speak any South African language, but I have to assume that band intentionally stringed together tons of letters.
Its even worse than that, as the OP posted above, its an acronym made to be as disgusting as they could come up with. Its honestly a bit impressive, but not that surprising considering the genre.
Just to be clear, these are the most popular metal bands from each country, according to worldwide listening stats, correct?
Oooooh, that explains why System of a Down didn’t show up in Armenia.
I edited the title
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
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:
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.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7gsFtN7XYg
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."
.......... 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:
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!
https://youtu.be/RWrbdhvHGaY
I was not disappointed when I zoomed in on France.
France and Ukraine rocking that home field advantage here.
Ignea too young to get that top 1 in Ukraine
I think you misspelled White Ward.
Anyone have a playlist with a song from each?
https://spotify.link/0EuZREdqoIb
here you go
Thank you!
Thanks for including small countries!
Best aspect of this!
I'm surprised by the lack of Iron Maiden
It's the most popular bands from each country, not the most popular bands in each country. So Maiden could have only been in the UK and Sabbath beat them out.
For some reason I thought they were huge in Brazil and the rest of South America too.
They very well might be, but they're not from Brazil or the rest of South America, so it's irrelevant.
Oh shoot, I completely misread the title. I thought it was each country's favorite metal band, not where they're from. Whoops!
No worries, looks like op changed the title at some point, so you may have just seen the old one.
Sabbath > Maiden any day of the week.
As someone who loves both, I have to agree.
Yeah, but Black Sabbath literally created (Heavy) Metal due to Tony Iommi's accident.
Brazil is as expected
So is Denmark, but as a F Dane, I'm still slightly disappointed.
Should be mercyful fate
I would call Volbeat rock, but are they really metal?
Good question!
Yeah that one was predictable
Divlje Jagode are not a metal band. They are good, but they don't play metal.
Destiny Potato with the Party Cannon energy.
As a Moroccan, I've never heard of Torpedo until today.
I'm pretty sure barely anyone here actually knows them.
That's not the most popular band in each country, but FROM each country.
After doing an internet search (it's not Google, I swear), I found out that Torpedo is Australian, not Moroccan.
I remember hearing about a Moroccan metal band before, but I definitely forgot what they're called. Spoiler alert: it's not Torpedo.
You'll find that there's a lot of redundancy in band names: https://www.metal-archives.com/search?searchString=torpedo&type=band_name
You're the best.
Jinjer is amazing. Her voice has such a range
Kinda surprised sabaton beats amon amarth
And in flames.. Opeth..
Yeah good point, I've been into metal since I'm 14 and sabaton was never a band I cared about for some reason haha, always amazed by their popularity
It's very palatable metal for people who migrated from Arctic Monkeys and like European history.
I'm not. They fucking rock.
They aren't very worshipped over here in western canada like the other mentioned bands here
Huh, I didn't expect to see Flesh Juicer on the map...
Cool.
I'd have expected Chthonic, but I'm fine with either.
Haven't heard of them. Definitely gonna have to check them out.
They've been doing less since the lead singer, Freddy, became a member of Parliament, but they've got some bangers. I used to listen to Supreme Pain for the Tyrant on repeat.
Holy shit, I read that back and I sound like an old man. What happened - I'm not even thirty.
Anyway, the stage/mp juxtaposition pics tend to be fun.
Holy shit, Goth2Boss is real
Can't recommend Moldova (Infected Rain) and Georgia (Psychonaut 4) enough! Great bands!
take a look at persefone, really good band from andorra
amerca rocking the dad metal also singapore are bad asses!
Australia knows what’s up.
Signed, an American.
Looking at the blank Sahara region:
May the Metalocalypse be upon you!
"Who the hell is Black labbath?" - my blind ass
Well, that is the risk of having just one eye.
Wormrot is the best on the list, hands down.
if It is be English language It without a doubt would be bedwetters (in Estonia)
Mexico's top metal band is 'los tucanes del norte'
Wait for real? I love Los Tigres Del Norte and Los Tucanes De Tijuana, that name is hilarious if true.
Vision of Atlantis? Never heard if, and I am Austrian.
Similar....I'm a Canadian never heard of Spiritbox. I thought it'd be Voivoid or Strapping Young Lad, maybe Anvil for the older crowd.
Voivod For The Fucking WIN! Dimension Hatross is (objectively) one of the greatest metal albums of all time.
Never heard of any of those, but I also don't listen to metal lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRD3vrSLPaw here try some from Vancouver island
WTF is Awakening Sun :D
None of that fake shit, WWE cuz you know we keep it real like the UFC...
UUHHH...
And u thought the scorpions were more popular in Germany. At least it's more in the direction of metal than Rammstein. In case of doubt: Kreator or Halloween
Yeah they are great if you are a 35 year old girl
I don't understand your comment
Parkway drive aka BMTH with an Aussie flavor. Music that white millennial girls bump too loud when they wanna look cool
Ohhhh you're one of those guys. Have you ever considered that people, especially those who have made it into their mid-30s, especially women, make choices that have nothing to do with putting on a show for anyone else?
It'll change your world if you realise that once you're a certain age (the younger the better) you don't actually care whether people think you're 'cool' - an ever-changing something that's only meaningful to people in highschool.
🍆
To scale?
Yep, round and bulbous
Yo fuckin Elis, I haven't listened to them since... Well, since their original singer's brain went and popped (cerebral hemorrhage). They were pretty kick ass.
You can really see where the Taint Nation boundaries lie. Once you're a Taint fan, you're never the same
"Then, everything changed when the Taint Nation attacked."
Kinda interesting to see, since Russia does not have Spotify afaik.
I believe this is the band with the most spotify listeners who originated in each country (not who is listened to most in each country).
Ah, I see. That makes more sense 😌
Something seems sus here...
No two countries have the same favorites?
the title was a little bit confusing. it's the map of popular bands by the country of origin.
That’s not what the map is showing.
Nice map, but crazy how few (IMHO) good one are also the most famous.
There is so much good metal from Germany, but of course ramm- we hate women and love violence fkin -stein (who isnt even metal but "deutsche härte" and plays with nationalist pictures) is most famous.
List of ones I (personally) like:
Parkway drive, jinjer, the hu, bloodywood
Also respect for the ancients (metallica, etc.) just not my personal taste.
Edit: haha reddit users migrated to lemmy HM, you now get downvoted for sharing clearly subjektive things like music taste ^^
Since when is pop music considered metal? Oh, you mean Ride the Lightning and such...
Tbf they aren't the poppy-est band on the list either.
(Btw I love this song.)
Definitely confused by some names. Looking at you South Africa. Also, Rata Blanca? Really? Parkway Drive? Baby Metal? 😂
Edit: I'm not a metal fan and not attempting to gate keep. As an outsider, it's definitely notable that almost all the bands have names that meet expectations and a couple certainly do not.
Babymetal is a Japanese heavy metal idol group, and they're awesome.
Have you ever left your house
Yes, I've just never listened to metal in South Africa.
We got a gatekeeper here folks!
I'm not a metal fan and I'm not attempting to gate keep. As an outsider, it is interesting how many many many popular metal bands fit the expectation and yet a few do not fit that expectation.
Gotcha. There's a LOT of gatekeeping in the metal community, from band to band, and from genre to genre. Some of the names are pretty funny, yeah, and that's part of what some people use as an attempt to gatekeep.
gatekeepers are good they protect that scenes culture from dumb ass "normies" who want to repurpose it.
No, gatekeepers suck. Let people enjoy their things, them enjoying it doesn't somehow rob your ability to enjoy it. Look at it this way, everyone was a new fan who didn't know but the band's 3 most popular songs. Maybe instead of shitting on them, recommend some cool songs based on what they already like? Explain some of the meaning in their music? Do literally anything but "NOT METAL!" or "NOT A REAL FAN!"
Cultures assimilate, grab ideas from each other, and split off into their own new things. It's how humans have always worked. There's no problem with it, if it's not done with malice or ignorance. This is how we get fun, new sounds, fun, new ideas, and it doesn't kill anything you love.
They're directly spun off from metal often. That's why they're called subgenres.
Cultures can't decide things, they aren't entities of themselves. They're collectives of people. By simply existing within the metal culture and literally any other culture, you are effectively assimilating, bringing in new ideas and perspectives. Unless your culture is literally only ever interacting with themselves. Which sounds pretty fucking bland.
What even is just "metal" anyway? It's kind of a useless term on its own. It's an umbrella, and all you're deciding at this point is what that umbrella does and doesn't include. Is Ozzy metal? Iron maiden? Metallica, slayer, Megadeth, anthrax? They all use metal in their name. They all sound distinctly metal, but they're also completely different sounds, from completely different subgenres that to say they're the same is ridiculous. And at the same time you show me one person who doesn't identify one of them as metal, and I'll show you someone who's wrong.
agree to disagree. good things half these bands arent even metal. People who know nothing about something speaking on it with authority sucks. doubt you guys even go to shows but you guys know lol
Glad I've never met anyone like you at a show rofl. You lot are miserable.
Do you feel better now? If you are going to shows for these bands you'll never see me, im at the metal and punk shows. Enjoy the butt rock I'm happy for u
Doesn't that imply every cultural collision, including the ones that created metal, are bad and should be reversed?
See you at lute practice, bro. I don't what to hear any of that Bach garbage. It's not even music.
Why the downvotes? These are funny names.
It's a pretty common thing to say certain bands aren't metal, as an elitist gatekeeping thing. Baby Metal is one that often, people will say "isn't metal" because they're cute girls in Gothic Lolita fashion. It's a pretty common assumption that anyone laughing at baby Metal is just being an elitist.
I don’t care for baby metal but it’s because of their fans primarily.
Look, I love Nekrogoblikon so I am not one to hold my nose in derision over a shtick.
Babymetal are super talented, The music is pretty good too it’s just not for me.
It’s not MY type of metal but if I have that opinion around one of their fans I get the “oh you’re an elitist” speech when in reality every fan I’ve known of Baby Metal has been kinda icky and shitty about them not being in my top 5.
While I accept that Baby metal is metal, it's also manufactured corpo rock.
Metallica is on the map too, so they’re in good company with a like group.
Baby Metal is an idol group which … yeah, that’s the genre
I'm not a fan of Metallica, but they did emerge from a grassroots music scene.
I mean, they're not my top choice either, but there's a HIGE difference in your approach, "not my cup of tea", and the gatekeeper approach of "it's not real reeee". Everyone has taste, but there's some kind of weird pride over something being metal, or not metal, and it's just super shitty to attack something someone loves, just because it's not your thing.
Heard.
My point was their fandom swings the other direction too.
I mean, that's fair. I don't think that's a valid reason to go gatekeeper, just live and let live, but I get it.
Oh shit I’m not gatekeeping or trying to, I was just conversing with ya. I say listen to whatever gets you off
I’ve seen what you’re saying for sure though but I argue it’s anyone who is passionate about something likes to walk their garden off and throw up a gate.
I do care for babymetal because gimme chocolate is a fucking banger, corporate as it is. I like genre-crossing stuff when it's done well, like that or any mix by Bill McClintock (especially his Motown or Soul mixed with classic metal/hard rock), even Run DMC and Aerosmith, just for another example. Or stuff like Billy Strings.
I mean, babymetal is nowhere near my top 5, I'm not even sure they're in my top 5 Japanese metal bands (Sete Star Sept is Ichiban), but I do like em.
But for real thanks for letting me know about Nekrogoblin, idk how I hadn't heard this before.
I'm not into metal. It's just interesting how 150 of them fit expectations and a handful don't. I'm not gate keeping.
I'm downvoting for specifically picking out Parkway Drive as if it's not clearly Australia's best metal band.
(this comment surely won't end up being controversial either lol)
That's a weird way to spell Caligula's Horse. Jkjk, I've never listened to parkway drive, they probably kick ass, I just have a soft spot for chorse.
Caligulas Horse is dope and I’m happy to see another person spreading their gospel in the wild.
Hell yeah brother! Best show I've been to to date.
Ne Obliviscaris is Australia's best metal band, hands down.
You mispelled Psycroptic. Or Faceless Burial.
Oh, are you interpreting their comment as saying that these bands don't deserve to be popular?
I think, they're rather saying that the names themselves are humorous, like I don't speak any South African language, but I have to assume that band intentionally stringed together tons of letters.
Similarly, a drive on a parkway is rather mundane, whereas a metal band's music is usually quite the opposite...
It's all relative to popularity. If it was about Rock and said AC/DC for Australia who would go hahahah AC/DC what a stupid name lololol are they making music about rectifiers? Parkway Drive is just one example that I was personally rolling my eyes over hard, but how is White Rat not a suitable name for a metal band?! To me it's just being deliberately ignorant, that's the whole joke, I don't know these bands, such stupid names.
Thank you for actually reading my comment
Its even worse than that, as the OP posted above, its an acronym made to be as disgusting as they could come up with. Its honestly a bit impressive, but not that surprising considering the genre.
Ok but Gojira are actually men and not Monsters, these are band names not descriptors of the band.
Well, yeah, for something to be humorous, it often works best to be the polar opposite...
King Parrot
Rata Blanca is p good tho 🔥
all these bands suck lol but thats what id expect from the most popular. half of them are barely even metal.